R.I.P. the Mac and Biff dream… you were fun to imagine running against. And, just for old times sake…
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Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are campaigning together publicly for the first time right now. They picked a small, appropriately named town – Unity, New Hampshire – which incidentally cast 107 votes in the NH primary for Obama and 107 votes for Clinton.
I’m telling you, this campaign couldn’t have a better script if it had [...]
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Posted in 2008 Primary, Elitism, Politics, Populism, tagged Appalachia, Hillary Clinton, Mark Penn, Norma Rae, Rocky, William Jennings Bryan, working class on June 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Over at Huffington Post, Bill Curry writes about the success of Act Two for Hillary in the Democratic Primary:
In Ohio and then Pennsylvania she channeled a surprisingly convincing blend of Rocky Balboa and Norma Rae in courting America’s least visible, least fashionable, constituency: hard scrabble, small town whites…
…As was said of Julia Roberts in [...]
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Posted in 2008 General Election, 2008 Primary, Politics, tagged Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Democratic Party, Elijah Cummings, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton suspends campaign, Republican Party, Scranton, Wellesley on June 7, 2008 | 4 Comments »
When Hillary Clinton was introduced to the country, she was for better or worse, the Wellesley alum, the anti-cookie baking child of the ’60s. Her supporters saw her as smart, tough, self-contained, and progressive while her detractors saw calculation, coldness, and elitism. Obviously, a lot of the detraction had roots in sexism (ambition being viewed [...]
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Posted in 2008 Primary, Politics, tagged Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Bill Richardson, change vs. experience, Chris Dodd, Democratic Primary, Hillary Clinton, inevitability, Mark Penn on June 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
In less than an hour, Hillary Clinton will officially concede the Democratic nomination to Barack Obama. Obama is now not only the presumptive Democratic nominee, but equally important, the new head of the Democratic Party. But for yesterday and today, the most interesting coverage has focused on the Hillary Clinton post-mortems, and a [...]
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Is it just me, or does the audience response Hillary gets during her post-primary speeches sound strangely like the feedback contestants get on The Price is Right? They’ve been replaying that clip all morning of Hillary beginning her sentence: “As for where we go from here…” and then a bunch of people screaming back answers. [...]
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Posted in 2008 Primary, Politics, tagged Andrew Jackson, Barack Obama, Bobby Jindal, Democratic Party, Democratic Primary, Franklin Roosevelt, Hillary Clinton, John Kennedy, John McCain, Republican Primary, Thomas Jefferson on June 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The 2008 Primary Season (voting portion), January 3, 2008 – June 3, 2008
So tough to know where to begin the analysis…
Is the big story the news? Obama wins nomination; Hillary makes “no decision” about future regarding official concession; Jimmy Carter officially endorses Obama; McCain (introduced by Bobby Jindal) speaks in New Orleans.
Is the big [...]
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Posted in 2008 Primary, Politics, tagged Barack Obama, Democratic Primary, Hillary Clinton, Keith Olbermann, primary season, Robert Byrd, Ted Kennedy, West Virginia on June 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
1. Looks likely that tonight really really is the final night of the 2008 Primary season. Following the polls closing in South Dakota and Montana (the last two states to vote), Clinton will deliver a “major speech” from New York. Undeclared superdelegates (gotta love the fact that spellcheck picks up that [...]
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MSNBC is running day-long complete coverage of the DNC Rules Committee to solve the Florida/Michigan problem. First, how surreal is it that this Primary season has generated so much attention, that even the DNC rules committee meeting is being televised nationally, with the “A” list of MSNBC commentators working it?
Some are suggesting that if [...]
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Posted in 2008 Primary, History, Politics, Top, tagged 1968, Abraham Lincoln, Barack Obama, Caroline Kennedy, Dwight Eisenhower, Edmund Muskie, Harry Truman, Hillary Clinton, Hubert Humphrey, Jane Fonda, John Kennedy, John Kerry, Lyndon Johnson, Patrick Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Robert Kennedy, Ted Kennedy, Vietnam on May 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Four years ago, John Kerry “reported for duty” at the Democratic National Convention; a not-so-subtle reference to his years of military service in Vietnam, and Bush’s, well… that little Air National Guard thingie that he didn’t even complete. That election sure had the feel of a Vietnam era election – ‘68,or maybe ‘72 – [...]
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