2008 Primaries Thread

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NY Times front-page story today about Obama lying his ass off about nuclear-regulatory bill that never got passed, despite his trumpeting it as a success in Iowa.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/03/us/politics/03exelon.html

From a NYT story:

"Looking to Tuesday, Mr. Romney has concentrated his efforts in states that award delegates by caucuses and conventions, where His organization efforts can help offset the pull of Mr. McCain’s higher name recognition."

Whoa, God really is on the Mormons' side.

haha

there's still 10% unaccounted for in that gallup chart -- and if the upward trend of obama's numbers suggests anything, it's that those undecided will probably break more towards obama. here's hoping.

BILL KRISTOL: Look, the only people for Hillary Clinton are the Democratic establishment and white women. The Democratic establishment -- it would be crazy for the Democratic Party to follow an establishment that's led it to defeat year after year. White women are a problem, that's, you know -- we all live with that.

(laughter)

JUAN WILLIAMS (National Public Radio correspondent and Fox News contributor): Not me!

HUME: Bill, for the record, I like white women.

KRISTOL: I know, I shouldn't have said that.

LOL

Brit Hume loves all women of the world.

Thanks to the wonders of my booth tv here at the bar, i get to flip back & forth between Michelle Obama on cspan and the puppy bowl.

Obama is doing a good job at hoovering up the Kennedys...

wau Bill Kristol

superbowl sunday obama girlfest rally with michelle obama, caroline kennedy, oprah & maria shriver in california is a pretty daring headline grab for monday morning

Five points for whoever finds this advanced somewhere as a serious comparison:

"A Massachusetts powerhouse comes to grief in Arizona. The Patriots? No, Mitt Romney, up against John McCain."

^^^ it was the analogy that had to be made

just looking at how the campaigns are being run -- with all the analysts pondering whether endorsements turn into votes, i think an endorsement is what a campaign can make of it, and i give credit to obama's for knowing how to stage-manage and sell the significance of those endorsements to the press.

Tomorrow:

Hillary in New York, Woostah and New Haven, CT
Barack in Hartford, Boston, and... E. Rutherford, NJ

NRO lolz spotted by the Balloon Juice guys:

Boasting in Boston [Michael Graham]

I am so confident of both a Patriots win today and a Romney win in Massachusetts on Tuesday that I made this pledge on the air Friday: "If the NY Giants beat the Patriots in the Super Bowl, I will vote cast my Super Duper Tuesday primary vote for (shudder) John McCain."

So when I say "Go, Pats!" I really, REALLY mean it.

I also think they are even more of a lead-pipe cinch to win the Super Bowl than McCain is to win the GOP nomination. Either way, I'm putting my money..er vote where my mouth is.

02/03 05:45 PM

Right on time... Obama's first national lead. CNN has Obama at 49 and Clinton at 45.

Zogby has him up by 5 in MO and 6 in CA

I haven't trusted Zogby since 2004.

Obama 'responds' to the NYT story on Exelon:

The "fact check" did not address Obama's remark about the bill having "passed." It also did not respond to the article's reporting that Exelon executives and employees have contributed $227,000 to Obama's campaign.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/02/03/obama-defends-record-on-nuclear-leak-bill/

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Well Suffolk and Rasmussen have him up in California too, but only by 1%.

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$227,000 to Obama's campaigns. That includes a US Senate race, a failed US House race, and several Illinois State Senate races.

thats like nothing

lying about watering down nuke legislation, that's nothing too I'm sure.

lol so I guess the concerns about a parade conflicting with primary voting in Boston were unfounded lol lol lol lol lol

The Washington Post:

Obama's not the only candidate wading deep in a pool of contributions from the nuclear energy industry.

Clinton has received $68,650 in 34 contributions from NRG Energy, and the company's chief executive, David Crane, is listed as one of her Hillraisers -- meaning he has brought more than $100,000 in contributions into the campaign. The Clintons' ties to the New Jersey-based power giant run deeper than that, though. The company committed $5 million to the Clinton Global Initiative in 2007, according to the web site of the charity run by former president Bill Clinton. The company's six-year commitment is $175 million.

Stanley Fish enters the strange self-perpetuating world of Hillary-haters:

http://fish.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/03/all-you-need-is-hate/

Horowitz observes that there is an "inexhaustible fertile market of Clinton hostility," but that "the search for a unifying theory of what drives Hillary's most fanatical opponents is a futile one." The reason is that nothing drives it; it is that most sought-after thing, a self-replenishing, perpetual-energy machine.

so Alex Cockburn is right, manmade global warming is just a cover story for the nuclear-power revival. Bring on Candidate Gore!

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IT IS HAPPENING... AGAIN

http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2008/02/clinton_crys_in_connecticut.html

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oh god

Obama 2 to 1 in Utah

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,695249479,00.html

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I want to see Obama break down and sob like a baby before he gets my vote.

haha, if they ever have a 'Barack Obama Cries' moment on the campaign trail, it will be stage-managed to evoke Jesus in the garden of Gethsemane

I think someone on Fox yesterday noted that Santorum had endorsed McCain...? I lolled.

no, Romney

that makes more sense... I just laughed that anyone still cares what that loser thinks.

http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=12682

Shakey, doncha know that Santorum is A REAL conservative who lost Pennsylvania because the voters of his state weren't ready for the truth about Iraq and male-male bestiality?

Hillary's trail of tears.

she's gonna kill in Oklahoma

The Obama rally was a blast. The Target Center sold out in 18 hours. Tonight, Kal Penn and Scarlett Johansson are going to teach me how to caucus.

Travis Bickle endorses Obama:

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"I am the candidate for change! There is no red America or blue America. We will unite and come together for our country! Also, I will wash the scum off of the streets."