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Oy. I have no idea who won the piss-fight between Clinton and Obama…although I suspect that it did neither of them much good. Edwards did well to remain above the fray–when he went after the others, it was as an equal opportunity opponent, usually on matters of substance. So good for him.
My personal focus group–apolitical …
Excellent embed and all-round team player Shushannah Walshe files this report:
Jacksonville, FL
Governor Romney paid tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr. when speaking to a group of employees at Gate Petroleum today and then shook hands and posed for photos with African-American families at a parade.
The presidential hopeful met a
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Also today Obama began running national ads on CNN and MSNBC, a buy that includes Florida. The Clinton campaign held an outraged conference call with reporters saying this violated the pledge not to campaign in Florida. “This calls into question whether or not Senator Obama meant the pledge when he signed it or if losing three …
Hilary will skip South Carolina most of the week, according to this nice scoop from the New York Observer, in order to campaign in California, Arizona, New Mexico, New Jersey and New York, all February 5th states.
The campaign isn’t totally abandoning the South Carolina, apparently Bill and Chelsea will be here tomorrow. But, clearly, …
His critics say Rudy Giuliani has just one message, which is to remind voters incessantly of 9/11 and his role on that horrible day. Which brings us to the latest missive from Rudy’s campaign, this notice of a union endorsement…..
International Brotherhood of Police Officers Local 911
Endorses Giuliani for President
Daytona
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Eleven and a half months ago – and God, I can’t believe it’s been that long – I watched Barack Obama rally a crowd of nearly 3,000 at Columbia, South Carolina’s convention center. It was the week after he’d entered the race and pundits were still amazed at the size of the audiences he could draw, and their diversity: more …
A brief written account here.
And here’s a video of McCain telling Phil Gramm about how he came to ask for ABBA’s “Take a Chance on Me” as his exit music. (He mentions “Johnny B. Goode” as the usual number; they also, for the record — and as my piece reports — used the theme from “Rocky.”)
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The Washington Post has a lengthy oped today from Frederick Kagan, General Jack Kean and Michael O’Hanlon about the “success” of the surge. And while it’s more nuanced than the simplistic–We’re Succeeding!–line that John McCain is peddling on the campaign trail, it is still blindly and deceptively optimistic, given the staggering …
Politico.com has a behind-the-scenes look at the Clinton ground game by Las Vegas Sun reporters J. Patrick Coolican and Michael J. Mishak.
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Barack Obama at Ebeneezer Baptist Church. Rather than merely linking to it, I thought it would be appropriate to publish every word. I do this in memory of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the greatest moral leader of my lifetime:
The Scripture tells us that when Joshua and the Israelites arrived at the gates of Jericho, they could not
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In the beginning, Hillary Clinton told no stories. She was all policy, all the time. And, as I traveled about Nevada with her on Friday, her stump speech was still a hearty meal of mind-numbing programs and proposals–but it was far more compelling now, leavened, as it has been, increasingly, since Iowa, with stories about actual human …
Widespread electronic voting machines problems hit South Carolina’s seaside towns Saturday, causing election officials to enlist sheriff’s deputies to rush additional paper ballots to polling places, according to Horry County Republican Party officials.
The officials said they were confident that nearly every person who wanted to vote …
It’s raining really hard this morning here in Columbia, and snow is expected in the socially conservative northern part of the state. All of this could put a damper on turnout, which has already shown signs of being pretty lackluster, with absentee balloting being no better than average in two of the three largest South Carolina …
