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Media Cannot Move On From Race Politics
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyThe Associated Press reports on a smattering of racially motivated incidents that have occurred in the weeks after President-elect Barack Obama's victory in the general election. The report focuses on reports of 200 "hate-related incidents" collected by the Southern Poverty Law Center. The AP story terms this collection of fringe actions by fringe elements in American society a "white backlash." It is, of course, no such thing. The AP admits as much in its report, characterizing most post-election incidents as, "little more than juvenile pranks." But the sensationalism with which the AP ...
The Victimization of Barack Obama Begins
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyOne of the legitimate reasons for hope in the potential of the incoming Obama administration is what the election of an African-American president could mean for race relations in the United States. Obama's race is of course not in itself a qualification for office. But his election does symbolize how far America has come from its discriminatory past. Truth be told, America has been ready to elect a black man to high office for a much longer time than the left will admit. Until Obama, there simply have not been African-American candidates that have proved acceptable to the broad middle of the ...
Did Emanuel Help Hush Mahoney Affair?
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyPresident-elect Obama's pick for White House Chief of Staff, Illinois Congressman Rahm Emanuel, is known on Capitol Hill as a fierce partisan. Emanuel served as the Chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in 2006, leading the effort that resulted in the Democratic take over of the House. In that role, Emanuel earned a reputation for being relentlessly focused on winning at all costs. That mindset may have governed Emanuel's decision making in the events surrounding the revelation of Democratic Congressman Tim Mahoney's extramarital affairs.Mahoney, who defeated disgraced ...
VA Judge: Preserve Military Ballots
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyBreaking right now is a decision from a federal judge in Virginia that absentee military ballots in the Old Dominion must be preserved until a court hearing on the ballots' legitimacy can be held on November 10th. The campaign of Sen. John McCain filed suit in federal district court in Virginia yesterday seeking to compel county boards of election across the state to count absentee ballots from military members serving overseas. At least one Virginia county, Fairfax County in Northern Virginia, has been refusing to count military absentee ballots, claiming that the ballots required an address ...
Predictions from Mark
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyThrow out the polls. All of them. Throw out the ones that show Sen. Barack Obama cruising to a Reaganesque landslide over Sen. John McCain. Throw out the ones that show Sen. McCain making a Trumanesque comeback. Throw out the state polls. Throw out the exit polls, when they are conducted. Throw them all out. The fact is that no pollster truly knows what is going on this election cycle, because this election is unlike any other in the nation's recent history.Never before has there been such a disparity in experience between the two candidates. Sen. John McCain has been in Congress for ...
Obama in Racially Charged 1995 Interview
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyA 1995 interview with Barack Obama has surfaced and contains what could become some pitfalls for the Democratic nominee for president in the final days of the campaign. In the interview, conducted by Bill Thompson for his radio show, Eye On Books, Obama discusses the first of his two books, Dreams from My Father. Obama reveals some racially charged language and ideas in answering some of the questions that sound less like they come from the moderate politician he portrays on the campaign trail and more like lines from a sermon at Obama's former church, Trinity United Church of Christ in ...
Obama's Message Getting Out
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyAll political campaigns fret from time to time that their central message is not getting out. So candidates often repeat their proposals and promises numerous times in an attempt to make sure that voters connect with the campaign's purpose and the candidate's vision. If the following supporter of Sen. Obama is any indication, however, the Obama campaign has no reason to worry. This supporter, interviewed at a Florida Obama rally, understands clearly what Sen. Obama and his campaign have been trying to communicate. And she has a perfectly clear idea of what she expects from an Obama ...
Obama Says Tax Foes 'Selfish'
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailySen. Barack Obama told a crowd in Florida yesterday that those who don't want to pay higher taxes to help fund his redistributionist policies are "selfish." In a long defense of his tax policies, which have come under withering criticism in recent days, Obama blamed Sen. John McCain, Gov. Sarah Palin, and the McCain campaign for lauding those who resist higher taxes. Obama said that McCain and Palin were, "making a virtue out of selfishness.""The reason that we want to do this, change our tax code, is not because I have anything against the rich. I love rich people! I want all of you to be ...
Obama's Tax Threshold Slips, Again
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailySpeaking for the Obama campaign today on KOA-AM in New Mexico, former presidential candidate and Obama surrogate Governor Bill Richardson (D-NM) said that people making under $120,000 could expect a tax cut under Sen. Obama's tax plan. This is the fourth number to come out of the Obama campaign just this week, each one successively lower, pegging the income level at which Americans can expect to see tax cuts under a potential Obama administration. Sen. Obama has been pledging that no one making under $250,000 a year would have their taxes increased under his plan. But the campaign released an ...
Big Early Vote Leads for McCain in Florida
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyDemocrats are touting early leads in turnout for early voting in Florida. But a new poll that counts actual votes cast in the early balloting gives Sen. John McCain a four point lead among those who have already voted in the Sunshine State. The Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll of early voters shows McCain ahead 49-45%.Democrats outnumber Republicans by 54-30% in the party identification of early voters, according to figures released by the Democratic Party of Florida. Those numbers are not showing up in the voting this far.More good news for McCain can be found in the the absentee vote tally. ...
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