If you were expecting anything other than a big win for Obama in South Carolina today, you weren’t paying attention:
Senator Barack Obama won a commanding victory over Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton in the South Carolina Democratic primary on Saturday, forging a coalition of support among black and white voters in a contest that sets the [...]
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Race has become a topic for direct voter appeals from Barrack Obama in today’s South Carolina primary where turnout is predicted to be a record high. Inevitable but sad situation.
From a longer, frontpage AP story:
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Cleveland, Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich anounced today that he is “dropping out of the Democratic race for president.”
Kucinich will make the announcement Friday at a news conference in Cleveland. [...]
“I want to continue to serve in Congress,” he said.
Kucinich said he will not endorse another Democrat in the primary.
The bottom-line for Dennis is he’s “facing four challengers [...]
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The L.A. Times has a piece today about Barack Obama pushing the wrong button on state Senate votes while in the Illinois Senate. Obama’s explanation: “He goofed.” Well, we all make mistakes:
During his eight years in state office, Obama cast more than 4,000 votes. Of those, according to transcripts of the proceedings in Springfield, he [...]
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Bill Clinton slammed the media today for twisting the election into a focus on campaign attacks rather than the issues. Watch the clip:
Bill Clinton is right in what he told CNN’s Jessica Yellin:
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Barrack Obama sent out an email this week to his California supporters with an announcement that Republicans could now vote in the Democratic Primary. It was an outright request for them to do so. As relayed to me by phone, the letter was inaccurate and poorly timed.
The reality of California Primary voting is quite simple:
A. [...]
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With all of the talk about the economy being in the toilet, I was surprised earlier today when I read that Barack Obama to South Carolina’s The State what the “three most important issues of his administration” would be:
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Donna Brazile said a mouthful today with this one statement in reference to the back and forth happening between Barack Obama and Bill Clinton. In referring to Bill Clinton, Brazile said, “He’s “a beloved figure in the Democratic party.””
Just how beloved is Bill? As of last summer, his “approval rating stood at 79 percent among Democrats [...]
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From “Clinton’s Successful Wager” Newsweek. Worth the time to see how the race shaped up:
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Bill Clinton spoke to Tom Brokaw today on the eve of Martin Luther King Day. Clinton told Brokaw that both Obama and Clinton could make history in this election and he said that King would be ‘deeply pleased.’
Awesome interview — Watch it:
“This is America”… Let’s not lose sight of this because the follow up [...]
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Following up on my earlier post about Hillary Clinton’s ground team in Nevada, the Las Vegas Sun also had a very good piece on the subject today: How Clinton hit pay dirt.
In Nevada, Mook looked at the landscape and found the following: Democrats, despite the predictions of naysayers, had taken a real interest in [...]
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Building on Pam Leavey’s post about the Clinton year long organizational effort in Nevada, I know that as an experienced, and older, field general for smaller elections, that today’s organizer is more disciplined, data based and results orientated with real-time data reporting. Here is a tool that I don’t believe is in wide [...]
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