All Posts Tagged With: "Huckabee"
McCain Rolls
Huck hangs in
The Politico
by Jonathan Martin
Despite taking Virginia by ten points and running as the de facto nominee, the Arizona senator lost to Mike Huckabee in county after county in the rural southern and western part of the commonwealth.
The GOP contest was comprised mostly of self-identified conservatives, as the Democratic race appeared to attract many [...]
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Is Obama A Winning Bet?
Obama’s Odds
Fox News Embeds
by Bonney Kapp
People bet on everything these days - including American politics. According to one online trading company, it’s a safe bet that Senator Barack Obama will win the Democratic nomination. The Irish company has given the once underdog a 69.8% chance of winning the nomination versus Senator Hillary Clinton’s 30% [...]
Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia
RealClearPolitics Politics Nation Blog
By Reid Wilson
– Maryland and Washington are the two forgone conclusions today, or so everyone believes. On the Democratic side, Barack Obama leads the RCP Maryland Average by 22 points. No polls have come out of the District yet, but given that 56% of the population in Washington is black, a demographic [...]
Secret Money Floods Campaigns
Big Count of Small Gifts Is Opaque to the Public
By Josh Gerstein
New York Sun
The money is coming from hundreds of thousands of donations of $200 or less, which have been widely praised for democratizing the system for funding White House bids. However, the surge in low-dollar gifts has come at the cost of transparency, since [...]
Reality Would Bite Democratic President
When Reality Bites
New Times
By David Brooks
There’s a big difference between the Republican and Democratic campaigns: The Republicans have split on policy grounds; the Democrats haven’t. There’s been a Republican divide between center and right, yet no Democratic divide between center and left.
But when you think about it, the Democratic policy unity is a mirage. If [...]
McCain Looks To Unify GOP
McCain plans to meet with Romney
Fox News Embeds
by Mosheh Oinounou
Seattle, WA – One day after his chief rival for the GOP nomination dropped out, Sen. John McCain said among his priorities is now unifying a divided Republican party.
“We are very aware that there is some unification of the party that has to take place,” McCain [...]
Huckabee win called in Kansas
Huckabee win’s
USA Today
by Sergio Non
Fox News has called the Kansas GOP caucus for former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee. He took 61% of the vote even though national front-runner Sen. John McCain was endorsed by Kansas’ conservative stalwart, Sen. Sam Brownback, himself an ex-candidate for the presidential nomination.
3:46 p.m. update: The Associated Press confirms that [...]
Voting Commences In Louisiana
Voting Commences In Louisiana
USA TODAY
By Rick Jervis
NEW ORLEANS — Louisiana voters began hitting the polls Saturday morning in a state that has become suddenly important in the race to choose Democratic and Republican presidential candidates.
Just four days after the Super Tuesday primaries and caucuses yielded no clear winners, Louisiana Democrats have a say in a [...]
