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The Reality of Campaign Life

Everyone knows this has been a long, difficult primary season. We know we are tired of some of the repetition and constant newsmaking. But have you thought of the impact on both staff and both candidates?
From today’s WaPo:
“After nearly six months on the road, sleeping in hotels, herding an unruly press corps onto buses, and […]

Hillary Challenges Obama To A ‘Mano a Mano’ Debate: No Moderators

In one of the best moves of the campaign, AP reports that Hillary Clinton , in just the last hour, while in South Bend, Indiana, challenged Barack Obama to a open ‘mano a mano’ debate. Styled after the most substantive debates of all time, the Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858 between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas, […]

Drop Out? Why Even Ask? And The Nasty Word: Electability

Hillary Drop Out?
Why Even Ask?
Why are Olberman [video] and others even asking the question? This is as tight a race as we’ve seen in years.
From Jerome Armstrong at MYDD, the Political Blogfather of us all, this morning: The Popular Vote & MI:

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Updates on Today’s Primaries

DemDaily shall attempt to bring you news periodically throughout the evening. Time willing the updates will be more frequent starting around 6PM PST.
More as time permits. Of course it’ll be a late evening. Hang in there!
A question: Why the hell are CNN and others calling states which can impact voting in other states yet to […]

Undecideds: Why I’m Doing a 180 and Voting For Hillary

(If you are still undecided today then here’s a thought: If you want ‘change’, and we all do, then you have to have a change agent that knows the system and has the contacts to create that change. Perhaps my thoughts as I did a 180 degree turn to support Hillary Clinton will be helpful.)
So […]

Clinton-Obama State Polls Feb.4, 2008

Since not every state in the Union is voting tomorrow, national polls have little or no immediate validity. It is the state races that will determine the delegate count after the Feb. 5. voting.
In that spirit, Political Wire has these state poll percentages for this morning, Feb. 4:

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Hillary Leading:Confirmed by Gallup, WaPo and Fox-Opinion Dynamics

WaPo-ABC’s latest national poll shows Hillary Clinton still leading, as she has for the last three weeks, by 4 points with undecideds at 5 points. Today’s WaPo headline, “Obama, Clinton Are Even In Poll”, however, is wrong in substance and tone. While the Clinton lead in this poll is within the margin of error, two […]

Edwards To Quit Presidential Race

According to reports by AP and CNN, John Edwards will drop out of the 2008 Presidential race where he began it at an appearance in New Orleans. Originally scheduled as a speech on poverty it will instead be used to announce his withdrawal.
According to the story, he informed his senior advisor’s last night of his […]

In Florida Rudy Trusts

The title says it all (h/t Huffington Post)… But it’s doubtful his prayers will be answered.

And speaking of Rudy, see what Fox News has to say about “America’s Mayor” (via Media Matters):

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Congresswoman Maxine Waters Endorses Hillary Clinton (Video)

In a conference call this morning, California Congresswoman Maxine Waters, strongly endorsed Hillary Clinton.
Summarizing Ms. Waters, she said that HRC had traveled the country listening to the problems of the people. She knew the problems of the urban population and the small towns as well.
It was a strongly worded endorsement. (I have not found a transcript […]

Obama and Another Great Communicator and Teflon Man: RR

Ronald Reagan being a man of deeper parts than we thought at the time, had three great public talents. Barrack Obama has only two.
1. RR was a great speaker. He was eloquent when needed and direct when required. He would decide what to say and do it, mostly with grace.
2. RR had the ability to […]

Lastest Leadership Poll

It should be noted that the American public seems more aware than usual of the importance of governance.
Governance is far different than ‘change’. It’s implementing programs, concepts and ideas effectively.
Just a thought….

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