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It’s really interesting not paying attention to the political news for several days, and then paying attention. When I last looked, sometime late last week, the Hillary juggernaut was in full steam.  The uphill climb was Obama’s to make. But he killed in the primaries over the weekend, and killed in the Potomac primaries.  Hillary sacked her campaign manager.  A … Read More

It’s true. On the GOP side, they already have their nominee.  Huckabee is still in the race, but short of a miracle or the death of McCain, he simply cannot muster enough delegates to overtake McCain. On the Dem side, it’s over for a different reason: Here’s the math. There are 3,253 pledged delegates, those doled out based on actual … Read More

Andy Brorowitz explains the problem: My biggest mistake was, in 2004, I supported John Kerry – which was not a mistake, I’m proud of supporting John Kerry, but the mistake I made was that I gave John Kerry my email address. As a result, like many John Kerry supporters, I still receive emails periodically from JohnKerry.com. And I sort of … Read More

UPDATE:  Romney’s out, which makes what I say below only more relevant. (P.S.  The reason he’s dropping out of the race?  Because if he stays in, the terrorists win.  Video of his exit speech here) Man, it’s everywhere.  Everyone on the political right is telling McCain what he HAS to do now to win over the conservative base.  He needs … Read More

Now, I’ve seen it all (although I’ve yet to actually see it) — a "Web-only film that uses the real words of the Illinois senator and Democratic presidential hopeful to tell a fictional tale of Obama battling vampires at Harvard Law School." With a running time of ten minutes, it’s been described as a cross between Michael Jackson’s Thriller and … Read More

From an anti-Obama letter to the editor in a Kansas newspaper: But to even consider turning over the reins of government to a Muslim fundamentalist would be, as my grandmother used to say, throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Oh, Kansas.  We’re so lucky fo have you in this country.

Hillary writes her campaign a check for $5 million dollars from her personal funds.  Her senior campaign staffers have agreed to work without pay.  That’s a bad sign. Especially since Obama raised over $7 million since Super Tuesday. By the way, they still don’t know the results in New Mexico.  When they went to bed last night, Hillary was up … Read More

Strangeness in Chicago: Chicago election officials Tuesday afternoon were trying to unravel the mystery of the incredible invisible ink. It’s no Agatha Christie novel but a real case for election investigators sent to the 49th Ward’s 42nd precinct Tuesday morning, after 20 ballots were cast with "magic" invisible ink pens. Election officials just smirked, shook their heads in disbelief and … Read More

The actual numbers are to be determined (New Mexico is still a question mark), but it looks like — no matter how you slice it — Obama won more delegates than Clinton yesterday.  MSNBC says he picked up 840 to 849 delegates versus 829-838 for Clinton.  They add: Yet with Clinton’s overall superdelegate lead (259-170, based on the lists they’ve … Read More

A handy dandy chart from Open Left: Super Tuesday Results, Democrats State Reporting C % O % Delegates Clinton Obama Delegates — — — 1,681 579 501 Alabama 99% 42% 56% 52 17 18 Alaska 98% 25% 75% 13 4 9 Am. Samoa 100% 66% 33% 3 2 1 Arizona 93% 51% 42% 56 22 13 Arkansas 89% 69% 27% … Read More

From Barack Obama’s speech last night: "Change will not come if we wait for some other person or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we’ve been looking for." Wow.  That resonates — "We are the ones we’ve been looking for."  Populist.  Reminiscent of "Ask not what your country can do for you…" On television, it … Read More

This Goggle gadget purports to track the progress of the candidates in each of the 24 states in today’s primaries.  (If it ain’t working, it’s probably because there are no results) Or you can watch this Google map and see people twitter in their Super Tuesday doings in real time. UPDATE:  I haven’t been following the news, but I had … Read More

Somewhere in Kenya there is a small village named Nyangoma Kogalo.  It is accessible only by a dirt road.  Women work the fields of maize and sugar, as have thay have done for centuries. And somewhere in that town is an 86 year old woman named Sarah, living in a modest house with a corrugated tin roof. Many years ago, … Read More