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Clinton & Obama on same ticket?
02.07.08 -- 8:45 AM
CNN’s Jack Cafferty ...
Here is perhaps the most fascinating statistic coming out of Super Tuesday: Out of 14 and a half million votes cast in the Democratic race, only 53 thousand separated Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.
And in case you’re interested: There were 73% more Democratic voters than Republican voters – 14 plus million for Clinton and Obama to 8 plus million for John McCain, Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee.
First off, this shows how much more interest there is on the part of Democratic electorate than the Republicans. And it shows how incredibly close the race between Clinton and Obama continues to be.
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Obama, Clinton in a tight duel for delegates ...
02.06.08 -- 6:49 AM
The Democratic presidential nomination race is promising to be a nail-biter right to the very end. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton emerged from Super Tuesday virtually running neck and neck in delegate totals according to a report by Politico's Mike Allen ...
In a surprise twist after a chaotic Super Tuesday, Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) passed Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) in network tallies of the number of delegates the candidates racked up last night.
Clinton was portrayed in many news accounts as the night’s big winner, but Obama’s campaign says he wound up with a higher total where it really counts — the delegates who will choose the party’s nominee at this summer’s Democratic convention.
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Medved: Is McCain's success based on split Votes?
02.04.08 -- 5:45 PM
Conservative radio talk show host Michael Medved wades in on an issue that's increasingly becoming talking point in the Republican presidential nomination race...
To explain the startling success of Senator John McCain in the fight for the GOP presidential nomination, talk radio hosts and columnists who loathe the Arizona Senator cite an alleged split on the conservative side between Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee. According to this reasoning (explicitly advanced by Laura Ingraham, Hugh Hewitt and many others) if only Huckabee withdrew as a candidate, Mitt Romney could unite conservative cadres and pull out an upset victory on Super-Duper Tuesday.
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Karl Rove: Don't write off the GOP Yet ...
02.03.08 -- 12:02 PM
Former Bush top political strategist and the "architect" of his hard-fought 2004 re-election, Karl Rove, writing on his new perch at Newsweek doesn't think , as some have been opining, that the Reagan coalition is dead or that the GOP will be clobbered in November ...
"We are at the end of the Reagan era." Or, at least, that is the claim of voices as diverse as Newt Gingrich and Ed Rollins on the right and Sen. Chuck Schumer and pollster Stanley Greenberg on the left. It is true the Republican Party is having difficulty retooling its message for the 21st century. But so is the Democratic Party.
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Could Obama's life be in danger?...
01.29.08 -- 8:06 AM
Is Barack Obama's life in danger? Are there racist elements who hate the thought that a black man could be the next president of the United States? Mark Finkelstein of Newsbusters.com writes that some in the media are beginning to broach that possibility .
I'm measuring my words carefully. Harry Smith has raised the possibility that Barack Obama's life could be in danger.
The Early Show anchor interviewed Ted Kennedy this morning in the wake of his endorsement of Obama yesterday. Smith's initial broaching of the subject of danger to Obama was very cryptic.
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Why's the Dem liberal establishment turning against the Clintons? ...
01.29.08 -- 7:14 AM
Politico's John F. Harris provides some titillating insight on why some in the liberal establishment such as Senator Edward M. Kennedy are turning against the Clintons ...
In September 1998, Greg Craig, a lion of the Washington legal community, left a top job at the State Department to go to the White House to help Bill Clinton fight impeachment during the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
One of his first stops was to an old Democratic friend, Sen. Kent Conrad of North Dakota, who warned him what he was stepping into: “You’re about three days away from a delegation of senior Democrats coming up there to ask the president to resign.”
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McCain predicts: "There will be other wars"
01.27.08 -- 1:21 PM
From Sam Stein of Huffingtonpost.com we hear that Republican presidential candidate John McCain is predicting that the United States will be embroiled in other wars ...
The presidential candidate who sang "Bomb bomb Iran" is already looking towards the war after the war in Iraq.
Sen. John McCain told a crowd of supporters on Sunday, "It's a tough war we're in. It's not going to be over right away. There's going to be other wars." Offering more of his increasingly bleak "straight talk," he repeated the claim: "I'm sorry to tell you, there's going to be other wars. We will never surrender but there will be other wars."
McCain did not elaborate who the United States would be fighting. But he did warn the crowd to be ready for the ramifications of current and future battles.
"And right now - we're gonna have a lot of PTSD [post traumatic stress disorder] to treat, my friends," he said. "We're gonna have a lot of combat wounds that have to do with these terrible explosive IEDs that inflict such severe wounds. And my friends, it's gonna be tough, we're gonna have a lot to do."
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Big South Carolina win provides Obama the Big Mo'
01.27.08 -- 12:11 PM
Ben Smith and Carrie Budoff Brown of Politico report that Obama's huge South Carolina win and particularly his better-than-expected showing among white voters has swung the wind of momentum behind his back as the Democratic race heads towards Super Tuesday on Feb. 5 ...
Illinois Sen. Barack Obama's landslide South Carolina victory gave him renewed momentum on the road toward the Democratic presidential nomination, and offered him the outlines of a strategy as he heads into what is still an uphill battle on Feb. 5.
Obama's victory, with roughly double the votes of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, was driven by a stunning 81 percent of the African American vote, according to exit polls.
But Obama also won 25 percent of South Carolina's white vote, leaving his campaign in a position to make the case that he can build a new Democratic coalition.
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Florida is the place to stop McCain or else ...
01.24.08 -- 1:21 PM
NBC Political Director, Todd Chuck : If the other GOP candidates don't stop McCain now, they never will ...
The ever-shrinking Republican presidential field meets for potentially the last time as a 5-way contest on Thursday night here in Florida.
Broadcast live on MSNBC and streamed on msnbc.com from 9-10:30 p.m. EST, the debate will be moderated by NBC’s Brian Williams. He will be joined by Tim Russert, as well as St. Petersburg Times editor Paul Tash.
It is the only debate before the state’s crucial Jan. 29 primary. And there’s a do-or-die feel to it.
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Could Florida trigger a Huckabee comeback? ...
01.21.08 -- 9:25 AM
St. Petersburg's Wes Allison writes that the GOP closed primary in Florida on Jan. 29 could see former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee as the big winner ...
The big winner under Florida's system could be Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas and an ordained Southern Baptist minister. Social conservatives and evangelical voters, a large chunk of the Republican grass roots, have been gravitating to him, and he's likely to benefit from their strong get-out-the-vote operation, Smith said.
"I think Huckabee could make a really impressive play in Florida, largely because of the closed primary system," Smith said. "I see McCain and Giuliani facing some uphill battles in the next few days."
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