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May 12, 2008 05:04 PM
Democratic Senator Barack Obama now shows a spike in his polling against rival Senator Hillary Clinton in his battle for the Democratic nomination opening up a 7 percent lead, the latest Gallup Daily tracking poll shows. Polls particularly this tempestuous and fickle primary season are see-saws, but this poll is significant coming as it does amid news of a steady trickle (if not stream) of news of convention superdelegates pledging their support to Obama, plus news cycles carrying stories about how Obama is now turning his campaign to focus on presumptive GOP nominee Senator John McCain. It's all part of a gathering consensus among Democrats and apparently superdelegates that barring some major event or mega toe-stubbing, Obama...
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May 12, 2008 03:09 PM
The late comedian Joe Besser, the second Three Stooges Curley replacement and also known as on the classic 1950s Abbott Costello Show, used to have a catchphrase: No so faaaaaaast! And that, according to a new ABC News/Washington Post poll is the attitude of six out of 10 Democratic voters to calls for Senator Hillary Clinton to leave the race for the Democratic Presidential nomination: Pushing back against political punditry, more than six in 10 Democrats say there's no rush for Hillary Clinton to leave the presidential race – even as Barack Obama consolidates his support for the nomination and scores solidly in general-election tests. Despite Obama's advantage in delegates and popular vote, 64 percent of Democrats in the latest...
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May 12, 2008 03:00 PM
The NY Times caught the same thing that I noticed the night of the Indiana/NC primary and front paged this story about their absolute hubris . The moment came shortly after midnight Eastern time, captured in a devastatingly declarative statement from Tim Russert of NBC News: “We now know who the Democratic nominee’s going to be, and no one’s going to dispute it,” he said on MSNBC. “Those closest to her will give her a hard-headed analysis, and if they lay it all out, they’ll say: ‘What is the rationale? What do we say to the undeclared super delegates tomorrow? Why do we tell them you’re staying in the race?’ And tonight, there’s no good answer for that.” It was not exactly Walter Cronkite declaring that the Vietnam War would end...
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May 12, 2008 01:47 PM
and Two of my favorite songs from the Vietnam protest days. A third is below the fold. For those of you too young to remember the war in Vietnam, this BBC series is excellent. At the bottom of the first page are links to the next segments. If you weren't around here earlier today, this and this is what tonight's late post relates to....
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May 12, 2008 11:30 AM
Many people have e-mailed Jeffrey Goldberg's fascinating interview with Barack Obama on the subject of Israel, noting that he used the term and in reference to the Israeli-Palestinian situation...
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May 12, 2008 11:18 AM
Will the candidates for the U.S. presidency get ever beyond pandering and demagoguery and deal with the real issues? According to Eric Le Boucher of France's Le Monde newspaper , the rhetoric from both Democrats and Republicans has been disappointing. Boucher writes : The American presidential election campaign is disappointing. Not because of the people running. On the contrary, they are rich, impressive and truth be told, they are far more thoughtful than those who have run in Europe lately. And not because Mrs. Clinton herself will have to withdraw. We’re sorry, but seen from France, it's hard to see the difference between the two Democratic candidates. It's disappointing because it's nowhere near over and given the way things...
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May 12, 2008 11:05 AM
A new Survey USA Poll in Kentucky came out today. It's Hillary 62%, Barack Obama 30% . If West Virginia is a convincing win tomorrow and Kentucky goes big for Hillary, the media says it won't matter. I'm hoping they are wrong. So are millions of other Democrats who believe Hillary Clinton is the best candidate. While Big Tent Democrat has been sold on a unity ticket for months, I am not, regardless of who is on top of the ticket. I don't think they have a better chance of retaking the White House in November together. I think together they will drive Republicans and conservatives out in force. It's not a balanced ticket. I also don't want to see a joint ticket because I think Hillary Clinton would make a great President, and I don't...
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May 12, 2008 10:20 AM
Pat Buchanan interviewed Joe Lieberman, the latter from a John McCain campaign office, and demanded an answer as to why we haven't started singing McCain's version of Barbara Ann...
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May 12, 2008 10:18 AM
John Edwards was just on Larry King and let me tell you I am so impressed with the way he is handling himself. Here is a Democrat that realizes how important having a unified Democratic Party is for November. He has been gracious and complimentary to both candidates. Just what all the Party Elders should be doing. But Edwards said something that really struck me - Hillary Clinton has become a terrific candidate, just about the time that her chances for winning the nomination are dimming. The irony hurts, especially for Clinton supporters I imagine. A candidate is responsible for his or her campaign of course and Hillary Clinton is responsible for hiring Mark Penn, clearly her biggest mistake. But there can be no doubt that Hillary Clinton...
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May 12, 2008 10:04 AM
Now that the question is coming front and center, Barack Obama may want to turn to his backer Ted Sorensen for advice about putting Hillary Clinton on the ticket with him, as John F. Kennedy did with his chief rival for the nomination, Lyndon Johnson. Carl Bernstein, of Watergate fame, reports today that she is probably going to fight to be the vice presidential nominee on an Obama-for-president ticket. After a bitter campaign, it won't be easy. Obama supporters, notably his wife Michelle, are reportedly opposed , but as Sorensen notes in his new memoirs , so was JFK's brother Robert. Yet Kennedy offered Johnson a place on the ticket, mostly to help win Texas and other Southern states in what would turn out to be a close election....
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May 12, 2008 09:43 AM
n order to rise from a relative unknown who lost to Chicago legend Bobby Rush in 2000 to the cusp of a Presidential nomination today, Barack Obama did not only have to court all elements of the varied coalitions that rule over politics in Chicago, he had to build the pie of voters large enough to be someone all those coalitions wanted to rally behind. In 1992, Obama, working as a community organizer, registered 150,000 residents throughout Chicago to vote in what ended up being a landmark election, as Carol Moseley Braun became the first female African-American ever elected to the US Senate.
This weekend I attended an Obama Vote for Change rally in South LA which ended up registering 615 new voters. It was one of over 100 events all over...
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May 12, 2008 09:15 AM
In the category of great ironies, I trust you'll enjoy this one as much as I did. And I hope this particular irony helps us mitigate our national tendency to define Presidents and potential Presidents by the people they know. (H/t RCP .)...
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May 12, 2008 09:00 AM
Since Friday, McCain has lost two advisors because of their firm's work in Myanmar. Well, it turns out that's just the tip of the iceberg. McCain's campaign is loaded with people who have worked on behalf of some of the nastiest dictators on Earth . Reform Watchdog Group, dedicated to campaign reform, is asking McCain to fire those lobbyists . You can sign their petition here...
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May 12, 2008 08:07 AM
A new ABC News/Washington Post poll finds: Pushing back against political punditry, more than six in 10 Democrats say there's no rush for Hillary Clinton to leave the presidential race even as Barack Obama consolidates his support for the nomination and scores solidly in general-election tests. Despite Obama's advantage in delegates and popular vote, 64 percent of Democrats in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll say Clinton should remain in the race. Even among Obama's supporters, 42 percent say so. Full poll results are here (pdf). Big Tent Democrat's take on the poll is here...
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May 12, 2008 08:04 AM
This is a wonderful finding from an ABC/WaPo poll : Clinton continues as the preferred choice as Obama's running mate, with 39 percent of Democrats saying they'd like him to pick her if he's the nominee. That peaks at 59 percent of African-Americans, 47 percent of Clinton supporters and 42 percent of women (vs. 34 percent of men). There's also an indication that Clinton on the ticket would be a slight net plus in the general election: Among all Americans, more say having her run with Obama would make them more likely to vote Democratic (25 percent) than to vote Republican (18 percent) . The rest (54 percent) say it wouldn't make a difference in their choice. (Emphasis supplied.) It turns out that the only people against a Unity...
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