From Arianna Huffington’s Memo to Obama: Moving to the Middle is for Losers: “I can unequivocally say: the Obama campaign is making a very serious mistake. Tacking to the center is a losing strategy… Running to the middle in an attempt to attract undecided swing voters didnt work for Al Gore in 2000. It didnt [...]
From NY Times’s Democrats in Delicate Talks to Unify Party: “With the help of one of Washington’s best-connected lawyers, Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton are negotiating a thicket of complicated issues, like how to repay Mrs. Clinton’s campaign debt and her role at the Democratic convention.”
From Senator Dodd’s Speech in Opposition to FISA Bill on Floor of U.S. Senate: “And let me make clear, at the outset of this debate, that this is not about domestic surveillance itself. We all recognize the importance of domestic surveillance – in an age of unprecedented threats. This is about illegal, unwarranted, unchecked domestic [...]
From the Democractic National Committee’s Press Release, Democratic Party Will No Longer Accept Washington Lobbyist Donations: “Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean and the Obama for America Campaign today announced that the DNC will no longer accept Washington lobbyist donations, making the same commitment as Barack Obama, the presumptive Democratic nominee for president.”
From Slate’s Hillary Clinton didn’t lose the race for the nomination. Barack Obama won it.: “Here’s my two cents, idiosyncratic as they may be: According to the chart, Clinton’s national poll average was basically unchanged between the beginning of October and the middle of May, starting at about 41 percent and ending at about 42 [...]
From an insightful article in the Washington Post, entitled, On the Fence and in the Spotlight: “The visual I kept coming back to was a moving truck pulling up in front of the White House. When I would think of Barack, Michelle and their kids jumping out of the moving truck, it excited me. It [...]
From Progress Illinois’s Obama Over The Top: How New Voters Could Redraw The Electoral Map: “These projections illustrate the extraordinary level of flexibility enjoyed by the Obama campaign as they head towards the general election. Rather than focusing on simply winning Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Michigan, they have a big enough war chest and a broad [...]
March 31, 2008 – 04:22 pm
From the Huffington Post’s Obama Win Appears Big In Texas Delegate Battle: “Barrack Obama appeared to have scored a clear victory over Hillary Clinton on Saturday in the second step of Texas’ multi-tiered process for selecting its delegates to the Democratic National Convention. With results available from about half of the district conventions held statewide, [...]
March 27, 2008 – 12:22 pm
In his Washington Post elections blog, Dan Balz writes:
Long before wrapping up the Republican nomination, McCain made clear that against either Clinton or Obama, he would cast the campaign as a contest between liberalism and conservatism. He has strayed from Republican orthodoxy at times in his career, and has irritated his own party repeatedly by [...]
March 12, 2008 – 12:09 pm
From Alternet’s Looming Threat for Dems: People Against the War Prefer McCain as President: “the polling numbers from late February and early March already show a less logical, more disturbing trend. A clear majority still think the war was a mistake. But when the question is which candidate will do best handling the war, McCain [...]
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