Manipulated, as it may be, by the mainstream media.
The Partisan Prism of Authenticity
There’s nothing shocking or scandalous about candidates, during the course of a presidential campaign, adjusting their message as they go along. The double standard that mainstream media outlets apply in reporting on these changes, though, can be pretty outrageous [...]
Tags: 2008 Election
Categories: 2008 Election
Yes, my friends, yet another poll. This one goes pretty much against the grain of every other Nevada poll. What’s up with that?
Nevada Poll: Clinton, Romney With Silver State Leads
Report: Survey from Review-Journal shows her up 9 over Obama; Romney leading by 15. More [... ]
Tags: 2008 Election, Nevada Caucuses
Categories: 2008 Election
It was wrong. The apology is late. At least it happened.
Clinton supporter apologizes for Obama comments
High-profile Hillary Clinton supporter Bob Johnson is apologizing to Barack Obama for comments he made last week regarding the Illinois senator’s acknowledged drug use as a teenager. Johnson said he sent a letter to Obama Thursday morning and said he was [...]
Tags: 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Bob Johnson
Categories: 2008 Election · Clinton · Obama
They’d better stop using the backup guy!
Fratto: ‘We Have Absolutely No Reason To Believe Any E-mails Are Missing’
The White House is currently under fire for allegations that it violated the Presidential Records Act by failing to archive official e-mails. Facing a court order, the White House yesterday acknowledged that it recycled its “backup computer tapes of e-mail before October 2003,” raising the possibility that many messages “have been taped over and are [...]
Categories: Bush Administration
They’re doing that recount in New Hampshire. If you’re looking for easily spotted smoking guns, they’re not there. However, if a bothersome string of smaller errors still spells “trouble” to you, read on…
I’m sure you’ve heard that Kucinich paid for a recount in New Hampshire and it’s just started. Greg Mitchell has the link to the government site that is tracking the figures and while they’re not dramatic, they are telling in terms of the validity of the tally. While there aren’t any huge discrepancies in any single venue, there are repeated mistakes throughout the spread sheet. Interestingly, they are almost all undercounts but [...]
Tags: 2008 Election, New Hampshire, Recount
Categories: 2008 Election
Bill and Chelsea, campaigning for Hillary today. And somebody in the audience got Chelsea to do something she’s not been known to do at these events – talk!
A Rare Chelsea Comment … And Plea
At Legacy High School today, a questionner interrupted a 90-minute ‘Q and A’ with former President Bill Clinton to ask his daughter to comment about the election. Chelsea Clinton almost never remarks publicly about Hillary Clinton or the campaign, but [...]
Tags: 2008 Election, Chelsea Clinton
Categories: 2008 Election · Clinton
It’s Romney vs the Reporter. And the entire blowup is on tape!
Oh, Baby … Romney Fights With Reporter Over Lobbyist Influence On His Campaign
FEUD!!!!! Mitt Romney and AP scribe Glen Johnson go toe-to-toe over influence of lobbyist Ron Kaufman on Romney’s campaign. Romney declares that he doesn’t have lobbyists running his campaign, and Johnson, uh, begs to differ [...]
Tags: 2008 Election, Romney
Categories: 2008 Election · Romney
Obama got a real boost in Nevada today.
Decision Helps Obama in Nevada
A federal judge on allowed Nevada’s Democratic Party “to conduct voting to choose a U.S. presidential nominee in casino hotels on the Las Vegas Strip, a decision likely to boost Sen. Barack Obama,” Reuters reports. “For the first time, Nevada Democrats planned to [...]
Tags: 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Nevada Caucuses
Categories: 2008 Election · Obama
I’m just flat out amazed. It seems the man can say pretty much anything he wants and nobody shows up with the tough questions.
Huckabee equates homosexuality with polygamy, bestiality
About a month ago, David Corn took a closer look at a book Mike Huckabee wrote as governor in 1998, called “Kids Who Kill: Confronting Our Culture of Violence,” and found a “fierce culture warrior.” The Arkansan was especially pointed in his criticism of gays. At one point in the book, Huckabee argues, “It is now [...]
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Categories: Huckabee
More hits today. The Dow Industrials fell more than 300 points…
Merril Lynch: Merrill Lynch on Thursday reported a $9.8 billion loss for the fourth quarter, the largest quarterly loss in its 93-year-history, as troubles in the subprime mortgage market took another big bite out of its balance sheet. Merrill, one of the Wall Street firms that has been hardest hit by the subprime hurricane, said Thursday that [...]
Tags: Economy
Categories: Economy
The Huckabee campaign is doing another round of automated phone calls – push polls – in South Carolina. I know politics is a dirty business, but one part of the call seems to cross the line into cras ugliness.
Huck Pollsters: McCain Supports “Experiments on Unborn Children”
This is certainly the nastiest line we’ve heard in the push polls going out to about a million South Carolinians. Respondents who say that they’re supporting John McCain are told “Fact: McCain voted to allow scientific experiments to be done on unborn children.” (Thanks to TPM Reader NC for flagging this for us.) Patrick Davis, the executive director of [...]
So, does the following indicate the robocalls just might be working? Or is it all the extended “Morning Joe” appearances?
SC Poll: GOP Tie, Obama Extends Lead
Rasmussen is out with a new survey in South Carolina showing a swing toward Huckabee on the Republican side (Jan 16, 895 GOP LV): Republicans McCain 24 (-4 vs. last poll Jan 13) Huckabee 24 (+5) [...]
McClatchy-MSNBC Poll: McCain and Huckabee Deadlocked
A new McClatchy-MSNBC poll in South Carolina finds Sen. John McCain and Mike Huckabee are “neck and neck heading into Saturday’s Republican primary.” McCain leads with [...]
Tags: 2008 Election, Huckabee, John McCain, Stem Cells
Categories: 2008 Election · Huckabee · McCain · Stem Cell Research
Took a few hours off to accomodate some family needs. I’ve come to the revelation that daytime television is, for the most part, truly a wasteland. When I had a television set in my office, it was usually locked on a cable news or sports channel. This morning, I had the set on while we were doing some work in the kitchen and I realized that the doggone “Today Show” on NBC now runs from 7:00 am until 11:00 AM! I read somewhere that they were adding an hour, but the darn thing slugs along with rotating anchors a full four hours now! I’m now seriously glad that I’m not around the house during the morning hours! I can live without a recipe for sweet potato soup with peppers.
Earlier, the bedroom set was delivering news. Again today, the prime topic (beyond politics) was the economy. The Fed chairman had some pretty ugly predictions for the rest of the year.
And bloggers with some thoughts focused right where they should be: on folks in the once-prosperous “Middle Class”.
Middle class squeeze – perception or reality?
Republicans can talk all they want about how the economy grew in recent years, which is documented and true. However, this completely misses the point that for middle class Americans, the growth has been nonexistent. Growth has been for the select few such as [...]
Tags: Economy
Categories: Economy
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