White House '08
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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 [...]
Running from Iraq
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008Ever since Barack Obama confounded reporters last week with vacillating statements on his Iraq policy, the anti-war candidate has been struggling to silence his critics on both side of the political spectrum.
During a press conference last Thursday in Fargo, North Dakota, Obama said, “I am going to do a thorough assessment when I’m there. [...]
A veep for Johnny Mac (episode no. 2)
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008Marc Ambinder reports that the McCain campaign has begun to vet its VP finalists:
Republicans close to the McCain campaign say that veepstakes supervisor A.B. Culvahouse has begun to vet between eight and ten candidates, including Gov. Tim Pawlenty of MN and Ex-Gov. Mitt Romney of MA.
You may remember that it was only 10 days ago [...]
McCain promises balanced budget (more or less)
Monday, July 7th, 2008John McCain today more or less promised to balance the budget during his first term in office, if elected president.
In a speech in Colorado, McCain said, “American workers and families pay their bills and balance their budgets, and I will demand the same of the government.” His campaign was a little more specific, releasing [...]
Who’s smearing whom?
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008Revisiting this issue of which party is doing the smearing, James Kirchick made some good points in a piece he wrote for Politico earlier this week.
Addressing the numerous accusations from the media, key Democrats, and candidate Obama himself that McCain and the GOP would resort to smear tactics in the general election, Kirchick points out: [...]
Battleground: Ohio
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008Note: The first in a series of profiles of key battleground states in the 2008 election
Ohio. It is the state that is so similar to other key swing states in the Rust Belt of the nation’s midsection. And, yet, it has been so different as of late. In 2000, when Michigan and Pennsylvania were voting [...]
Racism to doom Obama in South?
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008In an op-ed in today’s New York Times, University of Maryland professor Thomas Schaller opines that Barack Obama’s strategy to turn a few red states blue is fatally flawed by bad math.
I agree with Schaller’s general premise — Obama will have a hard time wresting control of the South away from the GOP. But [...]
Electorally speaking
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008For all the campaigning, stumping and mud-slinging that goes into the presidential elections, races for the White House in the modern era of American politics tend to come down to a few key states: The swing states in the nation’s midsection (Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan), the electoral prize to which those Midwesterners retire (Florida), and few [...]
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