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It's the Priests vs. the Nuns -- Again
The Census and Me -- Life in 10-Year Chunks
Michelle Obama Rejects Demonizing Twinkies In Her Anti-Obesity Crusade
Massachusetts Study: Health Care Reform Reduced Abortions
Women's Vote Will Likely Decide British Elections
Can the 'Bush Lied' Deniers Handle the Truth?
Democrats' Dilemma: Health Care Vote and the 'Enthusiasm Gap'
North Carolina GOP to McCain: Ad Will Air
By Faye AndersonJohn McCain, the titular head of the Republican Party, is having trouble getting North Carolina Republicans to toe the line. McCain told NBC's "Today" show that an ad featuring Jeremiah Wright's incendiary comments "is unacceptable."North Carolina GOP Chair Linda Daves remains defiant. Daves says the ad will air:Contrary to any media reports, the 'Extreme' ad will run as scheduled next week. There has never been any intention to pull the ad and it will air. The 'Extreme' ad has garnered attention around the country. I want to thank the people across North Carolina and across the country who ...
Top Dems to Superdelegates: Decide Already!
By Faye AndersonDemocratic congressional leaders reportedly want uncommitted superdelegates to make up their minds by July 1.The New York Post reports:Democratic Party bigwigs are preparing to push superdelegates to get off the fence once state primary elections end in June, officials said yesterday. The leaders, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean, might pen a joint letter to the party insiders. The letter would send a clear message to about 300 insiders who have stayed on the sidelines while Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack ...
Thrill Is Gone in Democratic Race
By Faye AndersonThe American people have had enough of the election drama between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. A Pew Research Center poll found: Interest in what the public perceives as an excessively negative presidential campaign declined in the days leading up to the Pennsylvania primary. Just 29% of Americans say they paid very close attention to news about the presidential campaign last week, the lowest percentage recorded since December 2007. By comparison, 43% said they were following campaign news very closely during the weekend leading up to the March primaries in Texas and Ohio. Interest in the ...
The Wright Stuff
By Faye AndersonThe Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. is starring in numerous YouTube videos. He's also featured in an attack ad that the North Carolina Republican Party is threatening to air in the run-up to the May 6 primary election. On Friday, Wright will take a star turn in his first interview since he burst on the nation's TV screens and computer monitors. The show has released excerpts from his interview with Bill Moyers:REVEREND WRIGHT:The persons who have heard the entire sermon understand the communication perfectly.When something is taken like a sound bite for a political purpose and put constantly over and ...
Top Ten Reasons Obama Can't Win
By Faye AndersonThe ubiquitous Lanny Davis, a Hillary Clinton supporter, has put together a top ten list of "undisputed facts" showing Barack Obama's weakness against John McCain:1. Hillary Clinton won by 10%, 220,000 votes, despite after most of the polls in the last several weeks on RealClearPolitics, including its RCP all-poll average, showed her ahead by single digits and dropping. The exit polls showed her winning by +5. (It's easy to forget that she won if you listen to the Obama spinners last night and today. Believe it or not, Pennsylvania's Rep. Murphy, a freshman congressman who supported Barack ...
Clinton's In the Money
By Faye AndersonHillary Clinton is banking on her impressive victory in the Pennsylvania primary to convince superdelegates that she's more electable in November. In a memo to "Interested Parties," the Clinton campaign says:The voters in Pennsylvania have spoken. America is listening. And the tide is turning.By providing fresh evidence that Hillary is the candidate best positioned to beat John McCain in the fall, the Pennsylvania primary is a turning point in the nominating contest. Despite making an unprecedented financial investment in his Pennsylvania campaign, including millions on negative ads in the ...
Ballot Trouble?
By Faye Anderson
In the 2000 presidential election, voters in Palm Beach County, Fla., were flummoxed by the butterfly ballot. The confusing ballot design caused thousands of voters, including some Holocaust survivors, to vote for Pat Buchanan when they intended to vote for Al Gore. Eight years later, it's happening in Palmer Township, Penn., where the absentee ballot design places the name of the candidate below the matching bubble or between two bubbles. One confused voter said:I'm not a stupid person, and I was very distressed, because here we are; Pennsylvanians -- us, Pennsylvanians! -- could determine ...
Obama's Low Expectations
By Faye Anderson
Voting is underway in the crucial Pennsylvania primary, but the Obama camp is already spinning the election outcome. In a memo to "Interested Parties," the Obama campaign writes:There has been much speculation about what each campaign needs coming out of tonight. The facts, however, are simple.Behind in delegates and sporting a 14-30 primary record (not good enough even to make the playoffs in the NBA Eastern Conference), the Clinton campaign needs a blowout victory in Pennsylvania to get any closer to winning the nomination. Even President Clinton said that only a "big, big victory" will give ...
Michael Moore Wants Your Vote
By Faye Anderson
Michael Moore wants you. While Hillary Clinton fights to have the Michigan delegation seated at the Democratic convention, the pugilistic filmmaker wants to have his voice heard in Pennsylvania:I don't get to vote for President this primary season. I live in Michigan. The party leaders (both here and in D.C.) couldn't get their act together, and thus our votes will not be counted. So, if you live in Pennsylvania, can you do me a favor? Will you please cast my vote -- and yours -- on Tuesday for Senator Barack Obama? I haven't spoken publicly 'til now as to who I would vote for, primarily for ...
Novak Asks: What's Up with Obama?
By Faye AndersonThe old-media "Prince of Darkness," Bob Novak, asks: "What's the matter with Obama?" Novak thinks Obama's recent missteps, including his bitter remarks about small town Americans and poor debate performance, will limit his appeal to Republican and independent voters:These apostate Republicans never were deluded into considering him anything other than a doctrinaire liberal who wants a more intrusive government with higher taxation and tougher regulation. But they have leaned toward him as an exceptional candidate in the mold of John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan, a post-partisan leader and a ...
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