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GOP Florida primary promises to be a nail-biter ...
01.21.08 -- 8:44 AM
Per Rasmussen, Florida is promising to be a nailbiter in the Republican race ...
The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey finds Mitt Romney with a slight lead in Florida’s Republican Presidential Primary. John McCain and Rudy Giuliani are close behind in what may develop into a three-man race. It’s Romney at 25%, McCain at 20%, and Giuliani at 19%. Romney has picked up seven points over the past week while McCain and Giuliani each inched up a point.
Last week, before the Michigan and South Carolina Primaries, Rasmussen Reports polling found essentially a four-way tie for the lead in Florida. However, Mike Huckabee has slipped to 13% in the current poll. A week ago, he was the top choice for 17%.
One major wild card in the race may be Fred Thompson. The former Senator from Tennessee is considering dropping out of the race after a disappointing showing in South Carolina last Saturday. Twelve percent (12%) of Florida’s Likely Republican Primary Voters still support the actor turned politician.
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Rahm Emmanuel's Brother on Hillary's "Experience" ...
01.18.08 -- 8:42 AM
Ari Emmanuel, brother to Democratic Rahm Emmanuel, chairman of the Democratic Caucus and the fourth-highest ranking Democrat in the House, apparently doesn't think Hillary's much-touted "experience" is what it's cracked up to be ...
Hillary Clinton keeps talking about her 35 years of experience. "I am offering 35 years of experience making change," she said in New Hampshire. "I'm not just running on a promise of change, I'm running on 35 years of change." And she repeatedly mentioned the 35 years again in this week's debate in Las Vegas.
Well, Senator Clinton, I'm confused. I've done the math. You're 60, which means that 35 years ago you were 25. And I Googled your name, looking for all the change you were making as a 25 year old and, frankly, I'm not finding much.
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The Crack up ... [update]
01.15.08 -- 9:04 AM
The Democratic crack widens ...
Black voters have been deeply loyal to the Democratic Party and to the Clintons, but they are more devoted to the dream of having a black president for the first time.
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, who has been engaged in racially tinged political banter with Sen. Barack Obama since her win in New Hampshire, is losing ground in polls with black voters nationally and in South Carolina, where about half of Democratic primary voters will be black.
Morris Reid, a former Clinton administration staffer, said Mr. Obama's ascendancy in the campaign is the "worst-case scenario" for Mrs. Clinton, who is in "no-win situation" with black voters.
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Guantanamo: Was Huckabee Right After All ? ...
01.14.08 -- 9:12 AM
Former Arkansas governor and Republican presidential candidate, Mike Huckabee was blasted by the defense conservative wing of the party after he called for the closing of the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo. But it increasingly appears that Huckabee might be vindicated as there are indication that the Bush administration may be moving toward closing the facility. The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen has joined the list of high ranking officials who have publicly gone on record on wanting the closure of Guantanamo.
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The Economy Continues its Meltdown in an Election Year ...
01.14.08 -- 9:03 AM
As the nation heads towards elections more troubling signs of a recession. CNBC has more ...
Citigroup plans to announce a writedown of as much as $24 billion and layoffs that could total as much as 24,000 due to subprime and credit-related losses, CNBC has learned.
The plans will be unveiled Tuesday by Citigroup's new CEO, Vikram S. Pandit, after the banking giant reports fourth-quarter earnings. At the same time, Citigroup could also announce that it is cutting its dividend payment.
Citigroup is likely to cut between 17,000 and 24,000 positions over the course of the year through a combination of layoffs. attrition and selling off businesses, sources said, as part of Pandit's cost-cutting plan. Previously, it was estimated that the layoffs could reach 20,000.
Pandi is looking to avoid taking a charge to earnings that's usually associated with large-scale layoffs, which is one reason he's considering a number of staff-cutting initiatives besides outright layoffs.
A Citigroup spokesman had no immediate comment.
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The Crack Up ...
01.14.08 -- 8:35 AM
The Democratic crack up continues ...
In an interview Monday, President Clinton mounted a less-than-vigorous defense of comments a prominent supporter of Senator Clinton's presidential bid, Robert Johnson, made which many interpreted as a reference to Senator Obama's admission of drug use during his younger years.
The interviewer, Roland Martin of WVON-AM in Chicago, played Mr. Johnson's statement Sunday in which he praised the Clintons for having "been deepy and emotionally involved in black issues since Barack Obama was doing something in the neighborhood - and I won't say what he was doing, but he said it in the book…" Mr. Martin sounded incredulous about Mr. Johnson's subsequent denial, in a statement issued by the Clinton campaign, that he was referring to drug use by Mr. Obama. "When you listen to that tone and the inflection, he was not talking about community organizing. It seems to me very clear what he was implying," Mr. Martin said.
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Mike Huckabee May Well End up Outfoxing the MSM
01.02.08 -- 7:49 AM
The MSM obviously wants to tear down the Huckabee they built up. It's nothing but a sport to them. They do it to everyone, and it's one way a bunch of power-starved people who envy the real power of the people they cover try to prove they are powerful.
Huckabee supporters should never have been under any illusion that the massive support that Huckabee was receiving from the MSM during his transition from the second-tier to the first tier was anything enduring. It was pretty much obvious that, among other things, it was an ego fight between the liberal MSM (Time, Newsweek etc) and the anti-Huckabee conservative MSM (National Review, Fox News etc) as to which could prop him up and which could tear him down.
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Des Moines Register Last Pre-Iowa Caucuses Poll: Obama Widens Lead Over Clinton
12.31.07 -- 7:08 PM
The eagerly --- and anxiously --- awaited Des Moines Register last pre-Iowa caucuses poll is out. According to the poll Illinois Senator Barack Obama has widened his lead over New York Senator Hillary Clinton in the contest for the Democratic nomination.
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has widened his lead in Iowa over Hillary Clinton and John Edwards heading into Thursday's nominating caucuses, according to The Des Moines Register's final Iowa Poll before the 2008 nominating contests.
Obama's rise is the result in part of a dramatic influx of first-time caucusgoers, including a sizable bloc of political independents. Both groups prefer the Illinois senator in what has been a very competitive campaign.
Obama was the choice of 32 percent of likely Democratic caucusgoers, up from 28 percent in the Register's last poll in late November, while Clinton, a New York senator, held steady at 25 percent and Edwards, a former North Carolina senator, was virtually unchanged at 24 percent.
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Anti-war Protesters, Including Ron Paul Supporters Arrested Protesting Outside Huckabe Iowa Campaign Headquarters
12.31.07 -- 2:44 PM
CNN is reporting on its website that some people, including Ron Paul supporters, demonstrated in front of the Iowa campaign headquarters of Republican presidential candidate, former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee.
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Edward's Phony Populism Might Well Succeed in Conning Iowans
12.30.07 -- 9:38 PM
John Edward's phony angry populism might well con Iowans into handing him a caucus victory. Dan Balz of Washington Post has the goods .
The enemy he sees is corporate America and corporate greed. His message seeks not to unite America but to finish what he describes as "an epic struggle" against forces that are, literally, killing America -- destroying jobs, holding down wages, putting ordinary Americans out of work or denying them medical care.
"You need somebody in the arena who will never back down," he says.
His language is over the top. He casts the challenges facing America in terms of morality and immorality. Speaking of tax policies that have encouraged companies to send jobs overseas, he says, "This is insanity -- I mean complete insanity."
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