2008 Primaries Thread

or while escaping from a furlough program

no wait - while fathering an illegitimate black child

on a swift boat

I’m thinking most of you are unaware of the Harry and Louise commercials because this is an obvious attempt to recreate them.

lol

the post-2/5 calendar looks pretty Obama-friendly to me, and he's already up in the air in many of these states

Mr Goodman is actually Krugman, btw

Harry and Louise are more contemporary than Jesse Jackson

xp, lol

Reading the Corner is so satisfying this week.

wow @ 20 points to 3 in under two weeks!

yea that's amazing

How will superdelegates play out if this is going to go the distance in Dem primary?

theres no way theyll be allowed to swing the election

MN is tightening up.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/mn/minnesota_democratic_primary-447.html

This poll was taken before Edwards dropped out.

guys, I think we are forgetting that Harry : Louise :: Hitler : Eva Braun

the post-2/5 calendar looks pretty Obama-friendly to me

what are you saying, gabbneb?

that it consists of states in which he might be expected to do better than hillary

why would you think that?

damn, thinking about last night's debate, and watching some footage from other ones, i think wolf blitzer is possibly the shittiest debate moderator i've ever seen

gabbneb i sincerely hope you're not saying what i think you're saying

if Obama is the nominee, don't be surprised if Bloomie gets in.

Why Obama over HRC?

Mayor Bloomberg/Senator Hagel is the dream ticket that keeps me up at night.

Bloomberg/Hagel sounds like something you need to get inoculated against.

ET TU, GABBNEB? ET TU?

Hil's probably got ME and LA we'll see about - AR is upstairs - and I think O's KS purchase is to be seen as far as NE goes, but I think he's gonna do well or more than well in the VIs, WA, MD, VA, HI and WI, and then it's 2 weeks to Ohio. If we get there, it might decide the nom, but I'm not sure we'll get there.

I have no idea what you think i'm saying

wolf really was awful -- his thirst for bloodsport was not slaked, alas, and his symbiotic beard is thirsty still

Daniel, NYT story a few weeks ago said B was more likely to enter if the D/R candidates were 'ideologues' or 'polar extremes' and used Obama and Huckabee as examples, in contrast to Hil v McCain. Now I don't find Obama to be much of an ideologue, but I bet Mr Slashing the School Budget thinks so.

gabby i'm just curious why you think the states ned mentioned -- before you went and looked up all the other ones -- will lean obama

I found Wolf a lot less objectionable as a modertor than, say, Tim Russert.

xpost

the non-entities from politico were miles better than anybody else i've seen so far at the debates

True.

... but who will win American Samoa?

gabby i'm just curious why you think the states ned mentioned -- before you went and looked up all the other ones -- will lean obama

i still don't understand what you're saying. the only state ned mentioned was virginia, but i knew of most of the other states in the rounds shortly following.

do you mean why do i think the states i mentioned will lean obama?

xxpost haha yea. the woman was a little awkward last night though, no? but i'll take russert over wolf any day. wolf has absolutely no control of the debate.

xxxxpost or something. this gets complicated

wolf "did you hear that? he just dissed you! are you seriously gonna sit there and take that!?" blitzer

Last night's Democratic debate on CNN drew 8,324,000 million total viewers, making it the most-watched primary debate in cable news history, and the second-most watched on TV this election cycle (ABC's Democratic debate on Jan. 5 drew 9,360,000)

I don't think Russert's "gotcha" style of journalism translates well to the debate moderator role. I think he makes everyone more tense than they need to be. Wolf's a lot more mellow, and I think that improved the tone of the debate.

MD/VA/VI - black people
WA - lots of hippie liberals and well-off youthful post-partisan independents
WI - farm-state peaceniks
HI - duh
NE - O's sorta from next door and has Ben Nelson's endorsement

yea, maybe it was the no-time-limits thing last night. maybe wolf would've been better if there were time limits on responses. i think it's better when candidates are forced to be concise. (well, if only because obama tends to give more concise responses and clinton tends to go on and on and on)

MD/VA/VI - black people
WA - lots of hippie liberals and well-off youthful post-partisan independents
WI - farm-state peaceniks
HI - duh
NE - O's sorta from next door and has Ben Nelson's endorsement

Wow

McCain perhaps to secure nomination on Super Tuesday. Also helping him is the fact that Romney -- until today -- hadn't bought any ad time in the February 5 states. Even now, the only state where it's confirmed that he will be buying ads is California, where McCain just picked up the Gov.'s endorsement.

if the moderators had any balls (metaphorically speaking) or really just skills they'd let the candidates go on as long as they wanted but guide them back if they went off the subject

it was like blitzer wanted to do a bernard shaw and "test" hillary with some kind of "whaddya made of huh" taunt

there gabbneb that wasn't so hard was it

it was no thing; i just couldn't figure out what you were saying

ok, slick willie

it was like blitzer wanted to do a bernard shaw and "test" hillary with some kind of "whaddya made of huh" taunt

When was this? I must have missed that part.

LA's hard to call with the Southern Arkansans vs the New New Orlineans. Bobby Jindal could suggest the former hold sway, but he could also suggest that people are looking for new and youthful.

actually, Hillary's got a decent chance in VA. more white people, fewer smartypants.

man i hate bobby jindal

(compared to MD)

piyush posh

saw him on hannity & colmes explaining that we live in a post-racism america but liberals keep making everything about race!