It occurs to me that this often repeated line that Joe Biden is going to have to be careful not to appear as a bully when debating Sarah Palin is a bit odd, given recent history. Biden debated Hillary Clinton something like 18 times during the primaries. People can’t seriously be suggesting he should be [...]
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Tags: Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, Sarah Palin
This Washington Post analysis by Jonathan Weisman, Shailagh Murray and Peter Slevin of the Obama Campaign path to victory is really top notch. One odd thing was the title, which was:
Strategy Was Based On Winning Delegates, Not Battlegrounds
It’s really quite the indictment of the controversy of week media coverage and oblivious and math challenged Clinton [...]
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Tags: Barack Obama, Delegates, Democatic Party, Democratic Nomination, Hillary Clinton, Politics
This post from the newly back to blogosphere Fafblog! is very informative. Here I had been saying Hillary couldn’t win, but they’ve thought of some really plausible scenarios for her victory. (Via Crooked Timber)
Here’s just a few of the many electoral scenarios that could make Hillary Clinton the next president of the United States.
Barack [...]
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Tags: Democratic Nomination, Hillary Clinton, Sarlacc
I guess it’s really surprising but Hillary Clinton’s cronies continues not make even the slightest bit of sense. Harold Ickes and Howard Wolfson quoted in the Washington Post discussing the DNC Rules and Bylaws Committee decision
“This motion will hijack — hijack — remove four delegates won by Hillary Clinton,” said Harold Ickes, who oversees [...]
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Tags: Barack Obama, Democratic Nomination, Florida Delegates, Hillary Clinton, Michigan Delegates
I was at the Dr’s office yesterday for a check up and while I was in the waiting room there was little girl watching the television with her mother. The news show turned to the presidential primaries and showed the primary results from Tuesday’s Kentucky and Oregon primaries.
When they showed Hillary Clinton with more [...]
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Tags: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Kentucky Primary, Oregon Primary
Generally speaking running for President costs a lot of money right? In fact two months ago I would have assumed that running president always cost more then not running president. However
Clinton loaned her struggling campaign $11 million in recent months. A little-known provision of a 2002 campaign- finance law cosponsored by McCain prevents candidates [...]
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Tags: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton Campaign Loan
Here is an excerpt from an article about Barack Obama picking up a few more super delegates. Via the AP
The developments left the former first lady with 272.5 superdelegates, to 271 for Obama. Little more than four months ago, on the eve of the primary season, she held a lead of 169-63.
Superdelegates are party leaders [...]
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Tags: Barack Obama, Democratic Nomination, Democratic Primaries, Gaum Delegates, Gaum Super Delegates, Hillary Clinton, super delegates
Prestigious film maker and recent commenter, Derek writes in via e-mail with an observation about the Democratic primaries he wanted to get off his chest.
Why is it that everyone for Clinton talks about how she is the stronger candidate because she has won important states? And, that Obama is somehow discredited for winning states [...]
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Tags: Barack Obama, Democratic Nomination, Hillary Clinton, Obama Electability, Race Card, Red States, The Race Card
So it’s no longer cutting edge to say Obama’s the all but certain nominee, but I figured I’d present you with some delegate math on the subject. According to the Associated Press Obama now needs 178.5 more delegates, 217 delegates are to be decided in upcoming election, and 265 super delegates are uncommitted.
Assuming Hillary [...]
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Tags: Add new tag, Barack Obama, Delegate Math, Democratic Nomination, Democratic Primaries, Hillary Clinton, super delegates
I noticed yesterday that Liberal blog types Matthew Ygelesias, Robert Farley, and Chris Bowers had all predicted that Hillary Clinton would do better then the pre-election polls suggested in North Carolina, and Indiana. This is odd because I believe all 3 of them wanted Obama to do well, and yet they picked against their [...]
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Tags: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Indiania Primary Results, North Carolina primary results
So I’m not a huge fan of Bill Clinton (although I did stay up all night get a signed copy of his biography), I had been meaning to say that the idea that Bill Clinton is bad for Hillary Clinton’s campaign is a bit absurd. The mistakes Bill Clinton has made are real and [...]
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Tags: Bill Clinton, Democratic Nomination, Democratic Primaries, Hillary Clinton
I linked to this Washington Post editorial praising Barack Obama’s position on the gas tax holiday
We do not underestimate the impact of high fuel prices on families that need their cars to get to work and school. But the gas tax is one component of the per-gallon price that comes back to benefit the [...]
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Tags: Barack Obama, Gas Tax, Gas Tax Holiday, Hillary Clinton
The other day when I wrote about the case for Barack Obama’s electability I wrote Hillary Clinton was benefiting from the perception that there are 3 chooses for President and she’s that the “middle” option between Obama and McCain.
On NPR last night I heard none other then Hillary Clinton herself say she was the [...]
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Tags: Barack Obama, Gas Tax, Gas Tax Holiday, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton Goldilocks, John McCain
Yesterday the AP came out with a poll showing Hillary Clinton beating McCain by a greater margin then Barack Obama would. Below, I would like to present the case that Barack Obama is more electable then Hillary Clinton.
3 way race
It’s been observed that the current campaign dynamics are Hillary and McCain vs. Obama. Indeed, [...]
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Tags: Barack Obama, Democratic Nomination, Democratic Primaries, Electability, Hillary Clinton
I wanted to make a few basic points about the Democratic nomination process that I think has been missing from the conversation.
1) It will have a resolution, and 2) the party convention is designed to heal wounds.
On point one, I know it seems like this thing will never end. Sure it’s really close, Hillary doesn’t [...]
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Tags: Barack Obama, Democratic Convention, Democratic Nomination, Hillary Clinton
Glad I got that explanation because here I was foolishly thinking Hillary had no chance of winning.
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Tags: Democratic Primaries, Hillary Clinton
Here is an except from an article about Nash McCabe who boasts a pretty tragic life, is a Hillary Clinton supporter in the upcoming Pennsylvania Democratic Primary, and asked Barack Obama, ““I want to know if you believe in the American flag.” Who is known to not always wear a American flag label pin.
“But [...]
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Tags: American Flag Label Pins, Barack Obama, Bitter, Democratic Primaries, Hillary Clinton, Label Pins, Pennsylvania Primary
So I’d like to present my one part method for finding political stories that I don’t think have the slightest chance of influencing the outcome of either the primary or general elections:
Turn on the television and find a channel reporting on the Democratic Primary
That’s it, that’s all you have do. Turning on “Meet The Press” [...]
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Tags: Barack Obama, Democratic Primaries, Hillary Clinton, Presidential Politics
So clearly Hillary Clinton has been reading my blog and has come on board with my plan* to boycott the opening ceremony of the Olympics.
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton on Monday called on President Bush to boycott the opening ceremonies for the Olympic games in Beijing, a fresh sign that politics, not sports, may take [...]
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Tags: Beijing 2008, China, Hillary Clinton, Olympics, Politics, Summer Olympics, Tibet
I know it’s obvious that Fox News is highly bias against Democrats, but it’s really breathtaking how little time you have to watch to see them say something wrong. I watched the morning show for about 1 minute before they called the Clintons “public servants” in regard to their tax returns showing they’ve made over [...]
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Tags: Bill Clinton, Clinton Tax Returns, Fox News, Hillary Clinton
