Everyone has assumed, quite correctly, that Hillary will take Pennsylvania in the next primary. She’s enjoyed double digits leads in every poll for months. Even the Obama campaign isn’t cmapaigning hard there, choosing instead to focus on later states like North Carolina and Indiana. But whoa there. Rassmusson just came out with a poll showing that the Hillary stronghold on … Read More
Obama Cutting Into Hillary’s Superdel Advantage
WSJ: WASHINGTON — Slowly but steadily, a string of Democratic Party figures is taking Barack Obama’s side in the presidential nominating race and raising the pressure on Hillary Clinton to give up. Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota is expected to endorse Sen. Obama Monday, according to a Democrat familiar with her plans. Meanwhile, North Carolina’s seven Democratic House members are … Read More
Obama Leads Big In North Carolina
He came into town (well, Greensboro) on Wednesday, and packed the house. Hillary made three stops in North Carolina yesterday, including one in Winston-Salem, and Bill is hanging around today. (In fact, as I look out my window, he’s on the streetcorner just standing there, talking to a hot dog vendor. Nobody is even paying attention. Now he’s trying to … Read More
Hillary On The Front Lines
I’d have to say that it really looks like Hillary was caught in a gross exaggeration: Hillary made the above statements in a speech where she was trying to taut her bonafides for that "3 a.m." call. The Washington Post has given her statements "four pinocchios". Sinbad (the comedian), who was there, also had a different recollection of the events. … Read More
The Obama Doctrine
Good article in TAP about "The Obama Doctrine". While both Obama and Clinton appear to be similar on the Iraq War (they both want out), Obama seems to be going the extra mile in arguing that he wants to change the mindset that got us into Iraq in the first place. The article looks at the Obama mindset on foreign … Read More
McCain’s Tax Plan
I know discussions about tax policy are boring, but Hilzoy’s readable post is an eye-opener. Most of it can be explained in this chart: This chart explains who benefits from McCain’s tax plan. The third line is most important. If you are in the bottom quintile (your income is in the bottom 20% of the country), only 1% of the … Read More
Richardson Backs Obama
(1) Former candidate Bill Richardson backs Obama (2) James Carville calls the Richardson endorsement "an act of betrayal" and compares Richardson to Judas. (3) At AmericaBlog, Aravosis quips: I’m gonna go on a limb here and say that Jesus did not die on the cross for Hillary’s superdelegates. Sounds right to me.
Obama To Be In GSO on Wednesday
Barack Obama will return to North Carolina on Wednesday to host a town hall meeting in Greensboro. Mayor Yvonne Johnson of Greensboro made the announcement at the Guilford County Democrats this morning, after declaring her endorsement of Senator Obama’s campaign. "Senator Obama has outlined a broad agenda for change and shown his unique ability to bring people of all backgrounds, … Read More
Shorter Hindrocket
Shorter John Hinderaker: Sure, for years Bush as been polling in the low 30’s, but I prefer a more realistic and balanced approach to public opinion — such as this poll, which asks only questions about those few things that Bush did right, conducted by a Republican research firm.
The Youtube Election
The funny thing about this presidential election, that was present in even the 2004 election, is that people are making up their own advertisements for the candidates, and these ads get seen by millions. Here is an ad for John McCain whicih, I’m guessing, is actually done by Obama or Clinton supporters, because after you see it, you’ll never even … Read More
The Speech
Here it is: I thought it was amazing (although it reads better than his actual delivery — although, then again, his delivery was better than any other candidates’ could have been). Obama managed to distance himself from the rhetoric of Wright (not a hard trick — in fact he’s been doing that for a couple of weeks now). But then … Read More
War And Romance
Bush laments that his advanced age doesn’t let him participate in his own screw-ups: "I must say, I’m a little envious," Bush said. "If I were slightly younger and not employed here, I think it would be a fantastic experience to be on the front lines of helping this young democracy succeed." "It must be exciting for you … in … Read More
13% Of Americans Are Really Stupid
The latest Wall Street Journal/NBC poll asked respondents what Barack Obama’s religion is. Among registered voters, 37 percent said Protestant. Two percent said Catholic, two percent said "other," two percent said "none." Forty-four percent said they weren’t sure or refused to answer. Thirteen percent answered "Muslim."
Clinton Has An Edge?
Can someone explain to me why Rick Klein had ABC News thinks that "Clinton Might Have An Edge"? Obama won the last two primaries. He trounced Clinton in Mississsippi last night, getting six to seven more delegates than Clinton. And before yesterday, he was 600,000 votes ahead of Clinton in the national popular vote. That has since expanded to 700,000. … Read More
Obama’s Week From Hell
Well, Clinton can’t complain anymore about media bias. It seems they have swallowed, and are parroting, her narrative — hook, line and sinker. Everybody is saying how the Obama campaign went off track, how he’s losing, etc. But Kos explains: Let’s see just how horrible the week was: Per Obama’s count (if Clinton had a similar count, I’ll happily link … Read More