Clearly, it’s all part of a master plan. It’s just that they sound so much … lamer when you call them “talking points.” But, hey, at least they’re honest!

TALKING POINTS
February 5, 2008
OKLAHOMA / TENNESSEE TALKING POINTS

OKLAHOMA / TENNESSEE

We’re very excited by our strong victories in Oklahoma and Tennessee.

These are the first

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This might be just a super subtle framing tactic to make reporters think they’re getting the inside scoop, but the Clinton campaign just sent this out to their media mailing list. Alternate theory: cutting out the middle man! Brand new spin for less!:

Date: Tuesday, February 5, 2008 7:27 PM
Subject: Surrogate Points

SUPER TUESDAY

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• Exits that I take no responsibility for but present simply as data that exists out there: Dems, Rs.

• They’re not going to Disney World. Unless that means something different for them: “We have a lot of mail,” he said to reporters as his wife Ann stood at his side. “And you know, a hot bath, what do you think Ann?” …

Earlier, I posted about the response of the Hillary Clinton campaign to a question about why they were accepting an invitation to a Fox News debate, having “led” a high-profile boycott last year.

I was typing up another part of my post when the Q&A occured, and, clearly, wasn’t paying sufficient attention:

Josh Gerstein, NY Sun: Hey

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• “Vote vote vote, Like a baby stoat, stoat stoat stoat, cast a leetle vote! DO EET!” [Cute Overload]

• Toll-free number to report election fraud: 1-866-OUR-VOTE (1-866-687-8683). [Threat Level]

• Blog posts titles we have loved: “Pop music = crap.” I mean, why go on? Like haiku for culture war alarmists. [Michelle Malkin]

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The Governator introduced him as the man who would “say hasta la vista to wasteful spending.”

Then he said the Reagan era “will be back.”

And then he said that McCain would “crush his enemies, see them driven before him, and to hear the lamentation of the women!”

Only one of these* the things above is true.

* Damn you, unmarx! Damn …

If you have some eyewitness accounts of doings in Super Tuesday states, please send your comments to supertuesday08 -at- gmail -dot- com

From Mass.:

On Sunday, a large pickup truck circled our neighborhood playing pro-Hillary messages over a loudspeaker in English and Spanish. I was impressed with the tactic, but didn’t really see how

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So, here’s the “4:10PM EST HILLARY WIRE UPDATE”:

• False reports about voting problems in LA are being drudged up – Everything is going smoothly in LA.

• Although the weather in NM is terrible, all caucus sites are open so we’re offering to help voters get out to caucus. We have a hotline set up for those in NM …

I guess since it’s still an hour before we get any official exits, MSNBC is trying to gin up a “controversy” over Huckabee’s West Virginia caucuses win, based on the Romney campaign’s statement that blames their loss on… John McCain. As posted below, the Romney people are spinning the decision of McCain voters to throw their votes to …

First round of voting in today’s W.V. caucuses:

Romney: 42%
Huckabee: 33%
McCain: 15%
Paul: 10%

There was no candidate with a clear majority. Paul was knocked out and voting went to a second round:

Huckabee: 51.5%
Romney: 47.4%

Hm.

UPDATE: Gonna take their ball and go home:

The delegate switch didn’t sit well with Romney

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