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Friday, July 18th, 2008Dave at Race 4 ‘08 has an interesting perspective on the McCain campaign thus far.
A couple of “must reads” today, for those who missed them. First, Charles Krauthammer has a good take on Obama’s “audacity of vanity.” I typically don’t get into these op-ed pieces, but Krauthammer makes some good points.
And the second is the [...]
The battle for 60
Thursday, July 17th, 2008A Barack Obama win in November would put Democrats in hog heaven. Gaining enough Senate seats to control the chamber would be purely paradise.
The 60-seat majority is, as the Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza puts it, the “holy grail” of the Senate. Obtain it, and the opposing party is virtually powerless. Filibusters are useless. There’s [...]
Fundraising revisited
Thursday, July 17th, 2008Remember that speculation about Barack Obama’s fundraising? Forget about it.
After a lackluster May that saw Obama raise just $22 million — which was just $1 million higher than John McCain — Obama rebounded in a big way, netting $52 million in June. McCain raised $22 million in June. That’s his best of the year, [...]
Throwing the election for sake of party
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008The Wall Street Journal blogs today about North Carolina congressional candidate Carl Mumpower, a Republican challenger who has stopped campaigning and says he won’t resume until the GOP committees in half his district’s counties sign off on the party’s “core principles.” And, he says, the Republican Party must agree to work against GOP’ers who are [...]
Speculation theory ain’t fickle
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008Apart from the new liberal (and OPEC) mantra that it is speculators — not supply & demand or other factors — that are responsible for driving up the cost of oil, there is a much more right-minded faction who believe that if the U.S. were to announce an aggressive energy policy, that alone could drive [...]
The thin-skinned Obama
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008Right-minded comedian Dennis Miller has Barack Obama pegged: “I don’t ever notice the color of [Obama's] skin,” Miller said in an appearance with Bill O’Reilly on Fox News, “But I do notice the thinness of it.”
Throughout the 2008 campaign, Barack Obama has taken exceptional offense to, well, just about everything. While partisans on the left [...]
Obama: McCain flip-flops more
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008Politico’s Jonathan Martin has this exerpt from an Obama appearance scheduled for PBS tonight:
[I]f you compare sort of my shift in emphasis on issues that I’ve been proposing for years, like say, faith-based initiatives, which have raised questions in the press, … if you compare that to John McCain’s complete reversal on oil drilling, complete [...]
Jackson remarks: Calculated or crazy?
Thursday, July 10th, 2008Did Jesse Jackson make a major blunder earlier this week when he made some off-color comments about Barack Obama that were caught on tape? Or was the entire thing carefully calculated; a fabricated spoof to help Obama among undecideds?
While waiting to go on air at Fox News Channel, Jackson whispered to another guest that [...]
Pawlenty not being vetted
Thursday, July 10th, 2008Contrary to a report by Mark Ambinder earlier this week, Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty is not being vetted by the McCain campaign as McCain’s possible running mate.
So says the governor himself, according to a Minnesota newspaper.
Ambinder’s report quoted sources close to the McCain camp as saying that 8 to 10 candidates, including Pawlenty and [...]
Barack Obama: A fund-raising problem?!
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008After the millions of dollars raised by Barack Obama, Superstar during the primary season, who would’ve thought that we’d be sitting here in early July discussing a lackluster fundraising campaign by the Democratic nominee-presumptive.
Yet, that’s exactly where we are. Kavon Nikrad at Race 4 2008 points out that there is a distinct possibility that [...]