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Whiner of the Year
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyThere's no shortage of contenders for this award, but I've narrowed it down to these finalists, who will be given a choice of cheddar or gruyere: Harriet Christian (and PUMA): The heroine of the PUMA movement to make Hillary Clinton supporters look as foolish as possible, Harriet made whining history with her racially tinged diatribe at the DNC's Rules and Bylaws Committee meeting. With a voice that's equal parts Edith Bunker and latter-day Lucille Ball, the deck was already stacked against her. Joe the Plumber: Joe gets points for the breadth and stamina of his whining. First, he whines to ...
Post's Ruth Marcus: Larry Summers Was Right, Girls Suck at Science
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyI'm paraphrasing, of course. (h/t Murphy) Was Larry Summers right about women and science, after all? As the mother of two girls, I hope not. Summers himself said in his infamous comments about intrinsic differences between the genders, "I would like nothing better than to be proved wrong." But Summers may have been on to something, recent research suggests. Math and science test data...show gender differences at each end of the performance spectrum... men are overrepresented at the very top and bottom. This small but significant variance, he hypothesized, suggested differences in innate ...
The Cult of Barack Obama's Birth Certificate
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyThe story of a group calling themselves the "We the People Foundation," who are questioning the authenticity of Barack Obama's natural-bornedness, has gotten a lot of attention this week due to their purchase of a full-page ad demanding access to the original birth certificate. On a related note, I am taking out a full-page ad demanding access to Jessica Alba's sock drawer. As it happens, my Unusable Signal co-host, Christina Cedeno, is also the proprietor of YestoDemocracy.com, a website that has been following this story since the dawn of time. If you have the inclination, you can click here ...
'How Obama Got Elected' Releases New Poll
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyWilson Research has released a poll conducted on behalf of John Ziegler, the filmmaker who brought you "How Obama Got Elected," a post-election interview with 12 real, live Obama supporters. (Previous coverage on Political Machine here and here)From their press release: Washington, DC-A new Wilson Research Strategies poll of 2008 presidential election voters on behalf of documentary filmmaker John Ziegler shows startling differences in political and issue awareness. The survey, a follow-up study to an earlier controversial poll conducted by Zogby International of Obama voters, finds that ...
Barack Obama/George Bush 'Co-Presidency' a Bad Precedent
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyThere has been a lot of loose talk lately about the notion of an Obama/Bush "co-presidency," as the President-Elect prepares to take over from a deeply unpopular George W. Bush. Our own David Knowles wonders who the boss is. One writer, New York Times Op Ed columnist Gail Collins, even suggests an early baton-pass: Putting Barack Obama in charge immediately isn't impossible. Dick Cheney, obviously, would have to quit as well as Bush. In fact, just to be on the safe side, the vice president ought to turn in his resignation first. (We're desperate, but not crazy.) Then House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ...
Take Summers Off T-Sec Shortlist
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyAccording to numerous reports, former Clinton administration Treasury Secretary Larry Summers is on a very shortlist to occupy that same post in the Obama administration. I guess it's a good thing Jimmy The Greek isn't available.This is one of those occasions, rare indeed, where I will not only agree with Darragh Murphy, but turn the dial on said agreement to 11:"So, I think, while I would prefer to believe otherwise, I guess my experience with my two and a half year old twin daughters who were not given dolls and who were given trucks, and found themselves saying to each other, look, daddy ...
10 Steps to PUMA Victory
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyIt's the day before the election. Everyone waits anxiously to find out if Barack Obama will be our next President, or just the next black guy to have an "Effect" named after him. John McCain's supporters while away the hours working on their "times tables." And I am trying to get the word out to my friends, the PUMAs. PUMA, for the uninitiated, stands for "Party Unity My Ass," and it's the umbrella term for former Hillary Clinton supporters who absolutely will not vote for Barack Obama. They are a group that I have done a lot of reporting on, so it's only natural that they would choose me for ...
Polling Site: PUMAs Near Extinction?
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyThe polling website FiveThirtyEight.com has pronounced the PUMA movement DOA: Sorry, Jim, the PUMAs are Dead ...Among Democrats, Barack Obama is now winning 88 percent support, comparable to John Kerry in 2004 or Al Gore in 2000. And there are a couple of points' worth of undecideds left in there, so it's possible that Obama could scrape up against the 90 percent number on election day. By contrast, John McCain is winning the support of just 85.3 percent of Republicans, well down from Bush's 93 percent in 2004 and 91 percent in 2000. There are some undecideds in there as well, so his numbers ...
Hillary Supporters Raise $8M for McCain/Palin
By Dave - Politics DailyA veritable who's who of the PUMA wing. The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com The reception for former Clinton supporters, which also was attended by Rick Davis, the McCain campaign manager, was spearheaded by Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild, a former telecommunications entrepreneur and "Hillraiser" who brought in more than $100,000 for Mrs. Clinton's campaign; Calvin Fayard, also a former Hillraiser and longtime Democratic donor from Louisiana, and Miguel Lausell, a former senior political adviser to the Clinton campaign from Puerto Rico. Hmmm... I was pretty sure I was told that somewhere along ...
PUMA Attacks!
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyFilmmaker Brad Mays, director of the upcoming documentary "The Audacity of Democracy," has posted more footage online, this time of a confrontation at PUMAPAC headquarters in Denver. This is the clip that PUMAPAC is using on its website to pimp pre-orders of the film.For the uninitiated, PUMAPAC is the political wing of PUMA, an umbrella group comprised of former Hillary Clinton supporters who now support the election of John McCain. I've done a lot of reporting on PUMA, both here and at YestoDemocracy.com. In this video, I go to PUMAPAC headquarters for a prearranged interview with Brad and ...
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