Hillary
Did Obama “Diss” Hillary After The West Virginia Primary?
Hot Air
FOX News reported:
Hillary Clinton has beaten Barack Obama by a decisive margin in the West Virginia Democratic primary, FOX News projects.
Exit polls indicate that Clinton is winning by roughly 2-to-1. She is capturing almost every demographic group, doing particularly well among the large group of white, working-class voters in the state.
West Virginia offers just [...]
Voters: Racism Is Not the Problem
National Journal Magazine
by Stuart Taylor Jr.
Wright aside, if Obama’s race were a net liability with voters, he would have had no chance of winning the nomination.
Is Barack Obama–now closer than ever to winning the Democratic nomination–nonetheless at a political disadvantage because of white racism, or “racial fears,” or “race-baiting,” or racial “double standards,” as some [...]
The Widening Gap
By Andrew Kohut
Generation that is
By 1984 baby boomers were not so young and their ideas were not so different. And until very recently, a political generation gap between younger and older voters was not so great.
The national elections in 2004 and 2006 saw younger people casting more votes for Democratic candidates than did older voters. [...]
Ted Kennedy’s Divisive Rhetoric
Talk Left
By Big Tent Democrat
Ted Kennedy:
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama isn’t likely to pick rival Hillary Clinton as a running mate, according to one of his most prominent supporters. “I don’t think it’s possible,” Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy said in an interview on Bloomberg Television’s “Political Capital With Al Hunt,” airing this weekend.
Kennedy, 76, without [...]
The Clinton Divorce
Op-Ed
No, we don’t mean Bill and Hillary. We mean the separation now under way between the Clintons and the Democratic Party. Like all divorces after lengthy unions, this one is painful and has had its moments of reconciliation, but after Tuesday a split looks inevitable. The long co-dependency is over.
Truth be told, this was always [...]
Can Democrats Learn To Talk About Race?
Salon
by Joan Walsh
The new Democratic coalition is younger.
The debate between Donna Brazile and Paul Begala I highlighted Tuesday night was also illuminating, and alarming. I like and admire Donna Brazile. We used to get fan mail from her, here at Salon, when we were virtually alone trying to strengthen the Democrats’ spines during the Florida [...]
Rasmussen To Stop Polling Hillary in Daily Tracking Poll
Talk Left
By Jeralyn
Rasmussen polling says Hillary can’t win, they are going to stop polling her and poll only Obama and McCain.
With this in mind, Rasmussen Reports will soon end our daily tracking of the Democratic race and focus exclusively on the general election competition between Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama. Barring something totally [...]
Obama Takes An Early Victory Lap
By Cerl Hulse and David M. Herszenhorn
Jeff Zeleny contributed reporting
Senator Barack Obama went to the Capitol, trying to rally Democrats around him
Even as Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton persisted with her campaign for the nomination, Mr. Obama made a celebratory return to the Capitol, where he received an enthusiastic reception on the House floor in an [...]
9May2008 | Jeremiah | 0 comments | Continued
Hillary’s Death Star Strategy
Politico
By Roger Simon
Rats don’t swim toward sinking ships, and pols don’t back no losers, and this is why Hillary Clinton is in such trouble.
In a relatively short amount of time, Clinton has gone from being the inevitable winner to being the underdog to being a dead woman walking.
She needs superdelegates to win the nomination, but [...]
