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Lot of stories covering this, but this one spells it out nicely: They said the first was an outlier. The second, a fluke. But after losing their third seat this year in a special election, House Republicans faced the possibility on Wednesday that if they don’t repair their image with voters, they could be in for another rough November. A … Read More

NYT: At a rally in Grand Rapids, Mich., on Wednesday evening, John Edwards endorsed Barack Obama, who was on the stage with him, to be the Democratic nominee for president. Sounding a theme of a nation divided into parts by walls, Mr. Edwards said, “The reason I am here tonight is that Democratic voters in America have made their choice … Read More

Monty Python meets Hillary Clinton Here’s the sad part: 2:57 p.m., Yeager Airport, Charleston, W.Va.: A steep descent brings Clinton’s plane to Charleston’s hilltop airport. After an appropriate wait, she steps from the plane and pretends to wave to a crowd of supporters; in fact, she is waving to 10 photographers underneath the airplane’s wing. She pretends to spot an … Read More

Hmmmm.  The Jimmy Smits character on The West Wing, who ran for president against a moderate Republican, was based on a then-unknown young charismatic minority soon-to-be Senator from Illinois named…. Barack Obama: Devotees of the West Wing have been talking about it for weeks: the uncanny similarity between the fictional presidential contest that dominated the final seasons of the acclaimed … Read More

Here’s why: Speaking to voters in the Appalachian state, she said: “All the kitchen table issues that everybody talks to me about are ones that the next president can actually do something about, if he actually cares about it.” Realising her faux pas, she added: “More likely if she cares about it!”

The GOP has unveiled a new slogan.  They are branding their party can candidates as offering "THE CHANGE YOU DESERVE". Nice going, morons.  Your campaign slogan is already copyrighted as an advertisement for an anti-depressant: What the GOP doesn’t seem to realize, because they are idiots, is that "the change you deserve" is the registered advertising slogan of Effexor XR, … Read More

From First Read: Barack Obama has overtaken Hillary Clinton in the NBC NEWS superdelegate count with the endorsement of Hawaii’s Dolly Strazar. This is his second of the day and puts him now officially over the top, 277-276.5. Obama has now picked up 21 superdelegates since last Tuesday’s contests in North Carolina and Indiana. Clinton has picked up 1.5 The … Read More

Bugs Bunny The Polio Vaccine Both of Obama’s Parents Mount Rushmore McDonalds Alaska From thingsyoungerthanmccain.com UPDATE:

The Hillary-Obama feud is, in my opinion, overplayed.  Hillary will drop out, and the party will unite.  Most think McCain has has a gift by not having opposition all this time. But there are clouds on the horizon. Ron Paul Supporters Plan To Disrupt McCain’s GOP Nominating Convention Coronation Is Arizona Senator John McCain facing an opposition-free Republican convention where … Read More

First Read: The Obama campaign announced three superdelegates — Jeanette Council (NC); Jerry Meek (NC) and Inola Henry (CA) — have pledged support. AP is reporting one more, a switch from Clinton in Virginia, Jennifer McClellan. (We’re working to confirm that and will update.) The Delegate Counts:PLEDGED: Obama 1,588-1,422SUPERDELEGATES: Clinton 273.5-259OVERALL: 1,847-1.695.5 * Obama is 178 from the Magic Number … Read More

Says an insider to the Clinton campaign (sort of).  Larry O’Donnell writes: A senior campaign official and Clinton confidante has told me that there will be a Democratic nominee by June 15. He could not bring himself to say the words “Hillary will drop out by June 15,” but that is clearly what he meant. I kept saying, “So, Hillary … Read More

TO:   Superdelegates FROM:   David Plouffe, Campaign Manager RE:   An Update on the Race for Delegates DA:   May 7, 2008 There are only six contests remaining in the Democratic primary calendar and only 217 pledged delegates left to be awarded. Only 7 percent of the pledged delegates remain on the table. There are 260 remaining undeclared superdelegates, for a total of … Read More

1,593,395 votes were cast for Democrat Presidential Nominee Statewide voter turnout was %36.42 897,107 for Obama (56.3%), 660,747 for Clinton (41.47%), 12,448 for Mike Gravel (0.78%), statewide In my district (Lewisville Elementary), there are 3,099 registered voters.  300 voted for Clinton; 369 for Obama; 3 for Mike Gravel; and 3 for "no preference" 404,599 votes in the Dem Pres Nominee … Read More

It was clear to me that Hillary lacked a clear path to victory even before Pennsylvania.  Now, in the wake of the North Carolina blowout and the Indiana squeaker, I don’t see how she has a path at all, clear or otherwise. She’s behind in the popular vote.  Even if you "give" her the votes in Florida and Michigan (the … Read More

Gotta love this. Get home from rehearsal, and I see Obama has won NC by 14%.  A lot bigger than polls predicted.  And Clinton barely squeaked a victory in IN, by only 2%, a lot lower than polls predicted. UPDATE:  MSNBC is saying Indiana is too close to call.  Obama might win.  They’re saying that Hillary is cancelling her morning … Read More