Following up on Karen’s post.
The program at Westerville Central High began an hour late, due, in part to Obama’s tardiness from this morning and to the time it took for him to greet inside and outside overflow supporters here. Yesterday, the campaign ran out of the 1,700 tickets they allotted for this “smaller” town hall …
So that last stop in Westerville was not an aberration. With less than 48 hours to go before two primaries in which her campaign’s survival is very much at stake, Hillary Clinton is indeed much more combative than I have seen her before in this race–and so are her audiences.
The crowd in a high school gym here went wild as Clinton …
This is an unbelievable (and not in a good sense) editorial by Charlotte Allen in the Washington Post today.
The basic gist: women are silly for liking Obama and expressing it (or expressing enthusiasm in general for anything). Hillary Clinton is a terrible candidate and women on the whole are dumb. Two excepts:
Take Sen. Hillary
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By a weird scheduling fluke, both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama will be appearing in this small town outside of the Columbus today, at separate high schools and just a few hours apart. I’m with Clinton; Jay Newton-Small is with Obama. So that gives us a chance to give our Swampland readers the kind of on-the-ground comparison we …
It’s like 12 news cycles ago, but… if you want to hear the “they’re going to fail miserably” conference call: Here it is.
UPDATE: Well that was a Freudian slip of the keyboard if anything ever was. (Please keep to yourselves what it might mean… was actually forwarding it to another reporter friend… but, yes, a pungent counterpoint
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The Clinton campaign announces the endorsements of actresses Melanie Griffith and Eva Longoria Parker, who will be campaigning with her Monday in Texas. We’ve argued back and forth here in the Swamp over whether endorsements make any difference, but I can’t help thinking HRC would pick up a few votes (at least in my home town) if she …
Note: As has happened before, Joe Klein posted on this as I was writing. Don’t miss his take below.
In the course of 24-hours, the McCain campaign has gone from coasting towards the GOP nomination to readopting a defensive crouch. The reason: His endorsement yesterday by Texas pastor John Hagee, an influential televangelist with some …
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John McCain just issued this statement about being endorsed by the extremist nutball preacher John Hagee:
“Yesterday, Pastor John Hagee endorsed my candidacy for president in San Antonio, Texas. However, in no way did I intend for his endorsement to suggest that I in turn agree with all of Pastor Hagee’s views, which I obviously do
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Waco, Texas
Some signs that things aren’t going so well:
1. The Red Phone Ad As Karen recounts below, a 24-year-old ad? From Walter Mondale? And easily refutable by Obama–who said, in response, earlier today: “We’ve had a red phone moment in Iraq.” And Clinton voted the wrong way. But the more substantive question is this: What has …
We’re assuming that Hillary Clinton’s campaign got a discount on this new ad:
Considering she got it used and all. This is the one her media consultant Roy Spence did for the Mondale campaign in 1984 (please bear with the intro):
The New York Observer’s Steve Kornacki fills us in:
The Mondale ad began airing after Hart stunned
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On the road in Ohio.
It’s a Hollywood maxim: If you’ve got a hit, do a sequel. So will.i.am, fresh off his blockbuster “Yes We Can” video for Barack Obama, is back with another. This time he calls it “We Are The Ones.”
Like most sequels, it fails to capture the full magic of the original. It has more Hollywood stars (Ryan Phillippe, Jon Leguizamo, …
