For anyone who thinks this race might be a tie, and yes, David Axelrod, that includes you, there’s a lot of evidence today that Obama is now the frontrunner. He leads in number of states won, he leads by his own campaign’s tally in pledged delegates, he is so far ahead in the money race [...]
That Mark Halperin has good instincts — or good sources. Or both.This morning, he floated the idea that the Clintons might have reached the point of having to begin financing her campaign themselves. This afternoon, spokesman Howard Wolfson confirms it: “Late last month, Senator Clinton loaned her campaign $5 million. The loan illustrates Sen. Clinton’s [...]
Clinton campaign confirms that she’s given her campaign a loan of $5m. Not Romney money, but, still, money: “Late last month, Senator Clinton loaned her campaign $5 million. The loan illustrates Sen. Clinton’s commitment to this effort and to ensuring that our campaign has the resources it needs to compete and win across this nation. [...]
Democrats looking for some cold comfort this unseasonably warm day might consider visiting the blogs that are hospices for sufferers of McCain Derangement Syndrome: Hugh Hewitt, The Corner and Riehl World View. See! An argument that Romney could broker a veep position! Marvel! At electoral math that proves McCain is not the legitimate nominee! Wonder! [...]
Words you need to be familiar with to understand the post-Super Tuesday landscape.
I’m up in NYC, where we are struggling to get dead-tree TIME out the door. As is so often the case, our own numbers wizard Jackson Dykman has come up with the most fascinating bit of data within all these mountains of numbers coming out of Super Tuesday: TOTAL VOTES CAST Clinton: 50.2% (7,347,971) Obama: [...]
In an airport hanger in Phoenix just now, I asked Senator McCain whether he thought Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity could harm his chances in November if they keep up their anti-McCain crusade beyond the point that he secures the GOP nomination. “I don’t know the answer to that,” Mccain said. “I hope at some [...]
As our colleague Daniel Eisenberg noted, the new line is, “On second thought, we have decided that Missouri is not really that important a toss up state.” (The original Hillary email was sent “Tuesday, February 5, 2008 11:41 PM.”) From: Obama Press Shop Sent: Wed 2/6/2008 12:44 AM Subject: a press release the clinton campaign [...]
