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Obama's Ayers evasions don't hold up

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: April 28, 2008 · Comments (5)

Barack Obama has dealt with the exposure of his association with radical terrorist bomber William Ayers by asserting Ayers was just some eccentric English professor from the 'hood and, since Ayers' terrorist acts had taken place some forty years ago, when Obama was a mere child, it is unfair to... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (6 votes cast)

Hillary moving up in Gallup tracking poll

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: April 25, 2008 · Comments (3)

Hillary Clinton's campaign is already reaping the fruit of her 10-point victory in the Pennsylvania primary. She raised $2.5 million in the day after her big win, and now the trend in Gallup's daily tracking poll has reversed: The Democratic nomination race is now tied, with Barack Obama favored by... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (2 votes cast)

Pennsylvania will answer some questions, or raise more

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: April 22, 2008 · Comments (1)

Today's Pennsylvania Democratic Presidential Primary could answer some open questions about the race, and possibly clarify its future course. Or not, writes Dan Balz for the Washington Post. Read his entire article at the link provided. It's long, but asks a lot of the right questions. I'll briefly describe the... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (4 votes cast)

Chelsea a hit on gay pub crawl

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: April 20, 2008 · Comments (2)

Chelsea Clinton was a huge attraction Friday night as she toured some of Philadelphia's most famous gay nightclubs, reports Mathew Berger for MSNBC's First Read: Chelsea Clinton stopped traffic Friday night as she wandered the streets of Philadelphia on a gay bar crawl, winning rave reviews for both her politics... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (2 votes cast)

Gallup: Clinton retakes lead

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: April 20, 2008 · Comments (5)

Gallup's daily tracking poll shows Hillary Clinton moving into the lead nationally 46-45%, a statistically insignificant margin, but the first time she has led in this poll in a month. The trend for Obama is down while the trend for Clinton is up over the last few days. Full results... [Full Story]

Rating: 4/5 (5 votes cast)

Democratic showdown in Philly: Hillary by TKO

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: April 17, 2008 · Comments (8)

The (presumably) final debate of the Democratic Primary season was held in Philadelphia, and the City of Brotherly Love saw some Sisterly Toughness. ABC News' Charlie Gibson and George Stephanopolous did a great job with the questions, easily within the top three or four (including both parties) of the election... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.9/5 (7 votes cast)

Hamas endorses Obama

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: April 17, 2008 · Comments (3)

Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh's chief political adviser, Ahmed Yousef, was interviewed on WABC Radio on Sunday, and revealed Hamas hopes Obama will win. Why hasn't this key international endorsement made the "mainstream" US media, wonders John Hinderaker at Power Line: The interview produced a scoop which, for some reason,... [Full Story]

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Obama opens up 23% lead in North Carolina: poll

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: April 7, 2008 · Comments (3)

After Hillary Clinton had closed the gap in North Carolina to single digits a few weeks ago, Barack Obama has rebounded strongly to take a large lead in the state, according to Rasmussen Reports: In North Carolina, Barack Obama has opened up a twenty-three percentage point lead over Hillary Clinton.... [Full Story]

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Hillary's top strategist resigns over free trade

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: April 7, 2008 · Comments (4)

Mark Penn, long-time Clinton adviser and pollster, has resigned as Hillary's "chief strategist" after his PR firm met with their client, the government of Columbia, to discuss lobbying efforts for the free trade treaty pending before the Senate, which Hillary opposes. David Wiessler reports for Reuters: Democratic presidential candidate Hillary... [Full Story]

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Hillary still could win popular vote

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: April 4, 2008 · Comments (2)

The conventional wisdom holds that Hillary can't take the lead in total popular votes cast before the convention, because she would need to win nearly 60% of the remaining vote to do it. However, due to the demographics involved, it is still at least conceivable she might achieve it. This... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (1 votes cast)

Obama's "popular vote lead" comes from Chicago

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: April 4, 2008 · Comments (0)

Due to the Democratic Party's policies of "proportional representation" in primaries, which provides losing candidates with delegates in rough relation to their share of the vote, it is now mathematically impossible for Hillary Clinton to overcome Barack Obama's lead in "pledged" delegates won through primaries and caucuses. Since most counts... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (3 votes cast)

Cong. Rob Andrews to challenge Sen. Frank Lautenberg

Posted by Bill Jempty · Published: April 3, 2008 · Comments (2)

The Democratic primary takes place in June. From AP- Bucking party leaders who urged him not to run, U.S. Rep. Rob Andrews has decided to challenge Frank Lautenberg for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate. Andrews told Democratic officials of his intentions Wednesday, 48 hours after his conspicuous absence from... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (1 votes cast)

Bill Clinton "meltdown" with super delegates?

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: April 3, 2008 · Comments (4)

Former President Bill Clinton reportedly lost his temper while meeting with super delegates in California when the subject of Bill Richardson's endorsement of Barack Obama came up, according to Phillip Matier and Andrew Ross of the San Francisco Chronicle: According to those at the meeting, Clinton - who flew in... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (1 votes cast)

NBC-WSJ Poll shows new lows for Hillary

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: March 26, 2008 · Comments (2)

A new NBC-WSJ Poll shows Barack Obama bouncing back a bit from his pastor problem, moving back to a dead heat nationally - and Hillary Clinton's positives have never been lower. From NBC's Chuck Todd: As expected, one of the two major Democratic candidates saw a downturn in the latest... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (1 votes cast)

Clinton "misspoke" about Bosnia trip

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: March 24, 2008 · Comments (8)

After several eyewitness accounts and still photos contradicted her claim to have landed "under sniper fire" on a trip to Bosnia, Hillary Clinton admits "misspeaking" now that a video of the landing is making the rounds. Ann Sanner reports for the Associated Press: Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign said she "misspoke"... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (4 votes cast)

Measuring the Obama-Wright scandal

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: March 23, 2008 · Comments (2)

One of the great aspects of advancing computer and internet technology is that the new tools it brings to bear can be used in new and innovating ways by very different people for very different tasks. A recent "cool tool" is an internet measure of blog posts on Obama and... [Full Story]

Rating: 0/5 (0 votes cast)

Clinton quietly pushing Obama/Wright story to super-delegates

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: March 20, 2008 · Comments (4)

Hillary Clinton and her campaign have - wisely - kept a very low public profile on the controversy over Barack Obama's racist, radical, America-hating "pastor," but it seems they may be singing the tune rather differently in private, reports Eloise Harper for ABC News: Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign has... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (2 votes cast)

Another Obama delegate seeks racial . . . harmony?

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: March 20, 2008 · Comments (2)

Confederate Yankee has found another pledged Obama delegate with access to a pulpit who spreads love and harmony: Read the whole post at the link above. It's all about the Hope and the Change and the Change and the Hope and other audacious stuff . . . ... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (2 votes cast)

Obama removes New Black Panther endorsement from website

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: March 20, 2008 · Comments (2)

Proving that he can, in fact, unequivocally reject some support, Barack Obama's campaign website has removed an endorsement from the New Black Panther Party, reports Fox News: Barack Obama's campaign has rejected the support of the New Black Panther Party, after removing an endorsement by the group from its Web... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.8/5 (4 votes cast)

Democrats fear protracted nomination battle

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: March 16, 2008 · Comments (2)

As John McCain embarks on a visit to foreign leaders ("Gravitas Tour 2008"), Democrats Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are fighting hard over the remaining delegates to the Democratic Convention in August, but neither of them can claim a majority now with "pledged" delegates won in primaries and caucuses; either... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (3 votes cast)

Clinton backs Michigan "re-vote" plan

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: March 15, 2008 · Comments (5)

Hillary Clinton is agreeing to the proposal being floated for a full "do over" of the Michigan primary in June, according to Beth Fouhy of the Associated Press: "It needs to get resolved and hopefully Michigan by the end of this week will have done that," Clinton told reporters on... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (3 votes cast)

Florida "do-over" won't get done

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: March 13, 2008 · Comments (6)

One of the leading proposals for "re-vote" in Florida's Democratic Primary, a second primary by mail ballot, which had apparently been picking up steam, has begun to fizzle, reports Martin Merzer, Lesley Clark, and Mary Ellen Klas for the Miami Herald: Florida law prohibits election officials from authenticating votes cast... [Full Story]

Rating: 0/5 (0 votes cast)

Celebrities to choose new Obama ad

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: March 13, 2008

MoveOn.org is having another political ad contest - you may remember the 2004 edition, where some entries referred to Bush as Hitler. The rules have been changed - no personal attacks, and no mention at all of other Democratic candidates, and the ad must be for MoveOn's Chosen One: Barack... [Full Story]

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Hillary scares her way back into contention

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: March 13, 2008 · Comments (1)

After seeing her campaign nearly torpedoed by Obama's strong run of primary wins, Hillary Clinton has managed to scrap her way back into position where her winning the nomination is at least a possibility worth examining. She seized the initiative and the momentum in the race by striking at Obama's... [Full Story]

Rating: 4/5 (4 votes cast)

Powers resigns from Obama campaign

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: March 7, 2008 · Comments (3)

Harvard professor Samantha Powers has resigned from the Obama campaign after calling Hillary Clinton a "monster" while promoting her new book in Europe, reports Nedra Pickler of the Associated Press: A Barack Obama adviser resigned Friday after calling rival Hillary Rodham Clinton "a monster." Samantha Power, an unpaid foreign policy... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (1 votes cast)

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