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Hillary's SuperDelegate Junk Mail
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyThe Clinton campaign sent out a press release yesterday, along with 16 pages of attachments, announcing that they had sent their best pitch to all of the superdelegates. WHY HILLARY IS THE STRONGEST CANDIDATE *In a letter and memo sent to superdelegates today, Hillary lays out the case for why she is the strongest candidate to put together a winning coalition and beat John McCain in the Fall. I took a thorough look at the documents, which included a letter to the Supes, an 11 page presentation, and a map key. I have to say, this packet makes some good points, but none of them has a lot to do ...
Liberals Want a Divorce (From the Clintons)
By Dave - Politics DailyDaily Kos has had it: By now, we now that Hillary Clinton will do or say anything in her mad pursuit of power. It's her only motivation at this point, trumping concerns about party unity, this fall's elections, and even her family's legacy. It's sad, no doubt. Stop right there. The fun thing is that the liberals have arrived at the point Rush Limbaugh was at. Only he got there in 1992. But as much attention and outrage has been generated by the RFK references, I'm still ultimately more bothered by her willful and repeated distortions of truth. If one is so inclined, the RFK thing can be ...
Rove Maps Show Hillary Most Electable
By Dave - Politics DailyKarl Rove (Super Genius, aka The Architect) has been dabbling in maps. Courtesy Jake Tapper who says: The big differences between Clinton and Obama, beyond the her larger number:Clinton would make competitive some states that Obama would lose -- such as Missouri and New Hampshire -- and she would win others outright, such as Arkansas, Florida, Ohio and West Virginia.On the other hand, McCain would handily win beat Clinton in some states that Obama made competitive, such as Colorado, North Dakota, and Virginia. Some states that Obama would win, such as Minnesota and Nebraska -- Clinton would ...
Gut Check Time for Hillary
By Dave - Politics DailyOver or not over? I'm going to say... not over, but by any rights it should be. Final count in IN shows a Clinton victory, barely. And of course the dreadful drubbing she took in Indiana. Which means that Obama beat the line. According to the analysis by Jay Cost, Clinton did as well in IN as she did in OH with her constituent groups, but Obama has solidified his hold on the black vote and college educated whites. Theres good news, but mostly bad news in there for Hillary. She has an argument that she can make that no Democrat can win on the strength only of the black vote and suburban ...
GOP Hits Obama for Downticket Races
By Dave - Politics DailyI remember quite distinctly a time when the GOP was hopeful that Hillary would win, as they were gleeful about using her for the general election prospects of congressional and senate campaigns. My how times have changed. But those concerns aren't deterring a collection of groups from testing the waters with anti-Obama ads in Mississippi and Louisiana. The NRCC, the conservative advocacy group Freedom's Watch and the campaign of Mississippi candidate Greg Davis combined have put up about $500,000 in advertising explicitly connecting Cazayoux and Childers to Obama. The NRCC is up with a new ...
McCain Wins Pennsylvania's Democratic Primary
By Justin Paulette - Politics DailyWith 99% of PA precincts having reported, Hillary Clinton seems to have beaten Barack Obama by double digits: Clinton: 55% (1,238,803) Obama: 45% (1, 023,350) Which, of course, is a tremendous victory for John McCain. Clinton's double digit victory injects her campaign with hope and adrenaline - it would be nearly impossible to overstate the significance of this primary success. Clinton has won the past three contests, she has carried nearly all of the general election swing states by heavy margins, and she has done all of this while facing a hostile media, an unsupportive party and a dramatic ...
Obama Dismisses Bitter Foes
By Faye Anderson - Politics DailyBarack Obama has been on the defensive over his remarks that Americans who live in small towns are "bitter" and "...cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."Obama has since expressed regret:Obviously, if I worded things in a way that made people offended, I deeply regret that.But the sniping continues. John McCain and Hillary Clinton are piling on. Rick Davis, McCain's campaign manager, wrote in an email to supporters:These words are revealing on a number of levels, and ...
Turnabout is Fair Play
By David Knowles - Politics DailyThe latest "dust-up" on the campaign trail is providing us with yet another example of why Barack Obama is not your run-of-the-mill, Democratic punching bag. Specifically, it is his ability to turn a negative into a positive that distinguishes him from such political casualties as Mike Dukakis, Al Gore, and John Kerry. Who else could survive such controversies as Reverend Wright and a truly regrettable choice of words used to describe the working poor, and somehow turn these gaffes into opportunities?Mind you, not everyone will see it this way. Hillary Clinton's argument -- that the GOP will ...
Hillary's Electability Chance
By Dave - Politics DailyRebuilding the electability story is the only way that Hillary can possibly salvage her campaign, and the latest AP poll will help a bit: Republican Sen. John McCain has erased Sen. Barack Obama's 10-point advantage in a head-to-head matchup, leaving him essentially tied with both Democratic candidates in an Associated Press-Ipsos national poll released Thursday. As I said earlier, what really started to tank her campaign was McCain clinching the nomination, and then a subsequent comparison of Clinton and Obama vs. McCain head to head. For much of the time since McCain's clinch, Obama looks ...
The Turning Point
By Dave - Politics DailyRoger Simon has an article out today where he asks the question, "Where did it all go wrong for Hillary." And he answers the question with Iowa: Iowa is where Clinton needed to strangle the Barack Obama campaign in its crib. She needed to do him in at the very beginning, while her inevitability argument still had credibility. True, some in the Clinton campaign were worried about Iowa. Mike Henry, her deputy campaign manager, wrote a 1,500-word internal memo saying Clinton should skip the state entirely and spend her time and money elsewhere. And as we now know, she came in an embarrassing ...
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