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EXIT POLLS: The Race Factor in West Virginia - One-Third of Whites Citing Race in Vote Would Support Obama Over McCain
Post Date: 2008-05-14 16:31:03 by Jethro Tull
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A confluence of groups inclined toward Hillary Clinton gave her an easy victory in the West Virginia primary, with less-educated, lower-income whites predominating in this Southern state. Preliminary exit polls in West Virginia show race is a factor in the Democratic presidential contest, prompting a fresh review of Sen. Barack Obama's, D-Ill., difficulties winning support from working-class white voters. (ABCNEWS) In a trouble sign for delegate-leader Barack Obama, barely more than half said they would vote for him in November if he is the party's nominee. The Race Factor Racially motivated voting ran somewhat higher than elsewhere: Two in 10 whites said the race of the ...
Obama's Obeisance to the Lobby Concerns Me Not (PHILIP WEISS)
Post Date: 2008-05-14 15:37:45 by aristeides
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Obama's Obeisance to the Lobby Concerns Me Not A friend is disturbed by Marty Peretz's renewed endorsement of Obama--"What Obama Said to Me About Israel", and by Obama's obeisance to Jeffrey Goldberg of the Atlantic, who my friend points out served in the Israeli army in the 80s at a prison where Palestinians were tortured. How can you have such faith in Obama to change U.S. policy? Well I have faith. First off, it's interesting that this shidduch, to use the Yiddish phrase for marriage or a deal, is happening right now. Obama has clearly won, and now he is getting a laying on of hands by a prince of the Israel lobby, actually two princes, who pronounce that ...
Go Away You Horrible Human Being: Democratic Angst
Post Date: 2008-05-14 14:40:18 by ghostdogtxn
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Matthews: Racist West Virginians Decided in 1957 to Oppose Obama
Post Date: 2008-05-14 13:20:54 by Jethro Tull
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Matthews: Racist West Virginians Decided in 1957 to Oppose Obama Guest hosting on Tuesday's Morning Joe, MSNBC anchor Chris Matthews assigned deleterious motives to the voters of West Virginia and repeatedly reaffirmed that nobody should be surprised if Barack Obama loses the May 13 primary to Hillary Clinton. According to Matthews: "You could have predicted West Virginia 20 years ago on this one." Making his racial overtones more clear, Matthews derided: "These people made up their mind in '57." This was all too much for fellow guest host Pat Buchanan. One of the few conservatives on MSNBC, he first laughed and then alluded to the fact that West Virginia has ...
Raspberry for Barry (Obama)
Post Date: 2008-05-14 09:23:57 by Jethro Tull
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writePost(); By MAUREEN DOWDPublished: May 14, 2008 WASHINGTON Skip to next paragraph Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times Maureen Dowd Go to Columnist Page » In grim times, a bitter Hillary clings to bitter voters who in grim times supposedly cling to guns, religion and antipathy to people who aren57;t like them. Mining that antipathy, the New York senator has been working hard to get the hard-working white voters of hardscrabble Appalachia so she can show that a black man can57;t yet be elected president. Obama breezed through West Virginia, the state he couldn57;t charm even wearing a flag pin and promising to invest in 60;clean coal.61; Fast Barry shot some ...
Obama vs. The Lobby
Post Date: 2008-05-14 06:04:13 by Ada
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No matter how much he grovels, it's never enough Poor Obama. No matter how much he tries to placate the Israel lobby, they just won't take yes for an answer. The Lobby has been after him for months, trying to dig up "evidence" that someone with the middle name of "Hussein" is necessarily an enemy of Israel. The best they could come up with so far were the Rev. Jeremiah Wright's jeremiads, which didn't have much of an effect at the polls, as the North Carolina and Indiana primary results – and subsequent national polls – attest. Yet Obama still keeps trying to appease the Lobby. He's purged staff members who so much as looked cross-eyed at ...
CNN: Democrat will win GOP-friendly Mississippi seat
Post Date: 2008-05-13 22:59:59 by mirage
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(CNN) — Democrat Travis Childers has defeated Republican Greg Davis in the special election for an open congressional seat in northern Mississippi, CNN projected Tuesday night, based on early returns. Republicans have held the seat since 1994.
West Virginia Primary May 13, 2008 [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2008-05-13 19:35:48 by TwentyTwelve
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West Virginia Republican Primary 13-May-08 Delegates: 30 7:28pm EST County Results --- 1% Reporting 1 Huckabee 567 52% 2 Romney 521 47% 3 McCain 12 1% 4 Giulliani 0 5 Ron Paul 0
Obama’s Change: More War and Premeditated Mass Murder [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2008-05-13 19:18:55 by christine
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In the video here, Barack Obama tells us he believes George Bush Senior “did an excellent job when it came to the Gulf War” and this serves as a “model for how we should be operating.” In addition to Obama’s praise for slaughter and untold suffering, the presidential candidate told his audience the first Bush administration had engaged in “incredible and hard diplomatic negotiation,” a declaration that is completely at odds with reality. In fact, the United States had long planned to attack Iraq, years before Saddam invaded Kuwait for stealing its oil by way of slant drilling and violating OPEC oil production agreements, thus undercutting the price of oil ...
Source: Huckabee Tops McCain VP List
Post Date: 2008-05-13 18:17:59 by RickyJ
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Former Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee is at the top of the list of John McCain’s possible running mates, according to a top McCain fundraiser with ties to his inner circle. Economic conservatives are likely to oppose the choice of Huckabee as McCain’s vice presidential candidate, given the populist tone of his campaign and his tax record as governor of Arkansas. But in his “Capital Commerce” column for U.S. News & World Report, James Pethokoukis points to the fundraiser’s disclosure and cites several factors that could make Huckabee a strong asset for McCain. For one thing, the former Baptist minister is a great campaigner who could garner ...
McGovern Urges Obama, Clinton To Unite
Post Date: 2008-05-13 18:00:38 by Ferret Mike
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In this Oct. 6, 2007, file photo former Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern stands backstage before introducing Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., at the Johnson County Democrats' annual barbecue in Iowa City, Iowa. (AP (file)) (AP) Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton should stop beating up on each other in the remaining Democratic contests and focus their ire on the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, George McGovern said Tuesday. In a letter published in the New York Times and at a news conference in Sioux Falls, the former Democratic senator from South Dakota and 1972 presidential nominee outlined what he called a ...
The Cult of the Presidency
Post Date: 2008-05-13 14:44:31 by christine
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Who can we blame for the radical expansion of executive power? Look no further than you and me. “I ain’t running for preacher,” Republican presidential candidate Phil Gramm snarled to religious right activists in 1995 when they urged him to run a campaign stressing moral themes. Several months later, despite Gramm’s fund raising prowess, the Texas conservative finished a desultory fifth place in the Iowa caucuses and quickly dropped out of the race. Since then, few candidates have made Gramm’s mistake. Serious contenders for the office recognize that the role and scope of the modern presidency cannot be so narrowly confined. Today’s candidates are running ...
Obama's appeal to working-class whites faltering, polls show
Post Date: 2008-05-13 14:25:40 by Jethro Tull
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Obama's appeal to working-class whites faltering, polls show From:AP OnlineDate:May 4, 2008Author:ALAN FRAMMore results for:obama's racism Barack Obama's problem winning votes from working-class whites is showing no sign of going away, and their impression of him is getting worse. Those are ominous signals as he hopes for strong performances in the coming week in Indiana and North Carolina primaries that would derail the candidacy of Hillary Rodham Clinton, his rival for the Democratic presidential nomination. Those contests come as his candidacy has been rocked by renewed attention to his volatile former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, and by his defeat in last month's ...
‘The Train Wreck Called Obama - The Great Uniter?’
Post Date: 2008-05-13 13:10:39 by RickyJ
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How did a freshman nobody senator from Chicago, with little more on his résumé than a 20 year membership in an anti-American church of racism, derail the Clinton juggernaut to become the undeniable front-runner for the Democrat Party Presidential nomination? Who is funding Obama? - Who is voting for him and why? – What does he really believe in? - And why do Hillary Clinton supporters swear they will never support him in a general election? Is Obama an unstoppable locomotive or a train wreck barely clinging to its track? Answers to all of these questions exist. But do any of his supporters care about the facts? To understand what Obama really believes in, one need only ...
Racist Incidents Give Some Obama Campaigners Pause
Post Date: 2008-05-13 11:33:18 by PoliticallyIncorrect
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Danielle Ross was alone in an empty room at the Obama campaign headquarters in Kokomo, Ind., a cellphone in one hand, a voter call list in the other. She was stretched out on the carpeted floor wearing laceless sky-blue Converses, stories from the trail on her mind. It was the day before Indiana's primary, and she had just been chased by dogs while canvassing in a Kokomo suburb. But that was not the worst thing to occur since she postponed her sophomore year at Middle Tennessee State University, in part to hopscotch America stumping for Barack Obama. Here's the worst: In Muncie, a factory town in the east-central part of Indiana, Ross and her cohorts were soliciting support for ...
West Virginia and the presidency
Post Date: 2008-05-13 06:54:42 by Jethro Tull
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THE WASHINGTON TIMES EDITORIAL May 13, 2008 Since Democratic President Woodrow Wilson won re-election in 1916 despite narrowly losing West Virginia, no Democratic candidate has ever been elected president without winning West Virginia. Prevailing in West Virginia, however, has not guaranteed Democratic success. In the post-World War II period, for example, West Virginia was won by Democratic candidates Adlai Stevenson in 1952, Jimmy Carter in 1980 and Michael Dukakis in 1988, none of whom won the presidency in those years. Thus, winning the state has proved to be a necessary, but not a sufficient, condition for Democratic presidential success. After Mr. Dukakis narrowly won ...
Dear Barack Obama...
Post Date: 2008-05-13 04:33:51 by mirage
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I am writing to complain about an interruption of my privacy. Recently I sat down to watch "Saturday Night Live." I figured that after a long day of studying I might be able to lay back on my couch and laugh a little bit. There's just one problem: every 10 minutes, the show was interrupted by one of your grandstanding political ads. My free time was disturbed by your babbling about change and your claims about fixing Washington, D.C. A majority of my peers might accept intrusions of this nature, as they are captivated by you like toddlers listening to a Tickle-Me-Elmo. I, however, cannot stand people trying to snow me over. Your advertisements are thread-bare of any ...
Missouri takes voters’ rights battle to new level
Post Date: 2008-05-13 02:41:18 by Ferret Mike
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The battle over voting rights will expand this week when lawmakers in Missouri are expected to support a proposed constitutional amendment that would allow elections officials to require proof of citizenship from anyone registering to vote. The measure is a far more rigorous demand than the voter ID requirement recently upheld by the Supreme Court, in which Indiana voters had to prove their identity with a government-issued card. Sponsors of the amendment — which would then require the approval of voters to go into effect, possibly in an August referendum — say it would prevent illegal immigrants from affecting the political process, but critics say it could disenfranchise tens ...
BIRDS OF A FEATHER
Post Date: 2008-05-12 23:54:05 by christine
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There is an old adage that, for the most part, has proven itself to be true: "Birds of a feather flock together." In other words, one can discern much about a person by the company he or she keeps. Accordingly, here is a sample of the quirky company of Senator John McCain. As Jerome Corsi recently reported, John McCain has long enjoyed sizeable funding from the ultraliberal gazillionaire George Soros, and from liberal Massachusetts Senator John Kerry's wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry. (See the report here) Question: Why would ultraliberals such as Soros and Kerry give so much money to a "conservative" Republican? Answer: They know that McCain is anything but a ...
The Hillary Democrats
Post Date: 2008-05-12 23:37:46 by mirage
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"I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on" than Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton has told USA TODAY. She cited an Associated Press article "that found how Sen. Obama's support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me." "There's a pattern emerging here," said Hillary. "These are the people you have to win if you're a Democrat in sufficient numbers to actually win the election. Everybody knows that." The Democratic Party can't win with just "eggheads and African-Americans," Paul Begala added ...
Facts Trump Charm [Pubbie strategy to nail Obama]
Post Date: 2008-05-12 21:48:09 by mirage
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Election '08: The way Republicans will beat Sen. Barack Obama is by making the election a referendum on him — by exposing his dangerous agenda and radical record. There are signs that the GOP intends to do exactly that. At times in the course of wowing his adoring audiences with soaring rhetoric, likely Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama has used some over-the-top lines. Addressing any possible undecideds present, he has said "a light will shine through that window, a beam of light will come down on you, you will experience an epiphany." When that happens, "you will suddenly realize that you must go to the polls and vote for Obama." On paper, the ...
Obama and the Values Question Mark
Post Date: 2008-05-12 20:32:42 by mirage
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With the Democratic nomination all but decided, it's time for Barack Obama to start defining himself in the context of the general election -- before the Republicans define him. Most importantly, he must answer this question once and for all: What are his values? Mr. Obama began to do so last Tuesday night, by speaking more generally about who he is and how he defines himself. But this is just a first step. Exit polls in Indiana and North Carolina show clearly that fewer than 60% of white voters believe Mr. Obama shares their values. In a recent NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, only 45% of the American electorate said they can identify with Mr. Obama's values, compared to 54% ...
11-year-old boy gives $440 to Clinton campaign
Post Date: 2008-05-12 15:36:21 by aristeides
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11-year-old boy gives $440 to Clinton campaign by The Associated Press WILLIAMSON -- Everyone who knows 11-year-old Dalton Hatfield sees it. There's something special about the young man. His mother Vickie says all who come in contact with the Kentucky elementary student look at him and say "He's going to be something'' when he grows up. Apparently that goes for former presidents, too. When Hatfield presented former President Bill Clinton with a check for $440 after Friday's rally at the Williamson Fire Station, the man who was once the leader of the free world seemed to nearly come to tears. "You sold your bike to get this?'' Clinton asked the ...
Koch's audition (ED KOCH SAYS OBAMA IS SOFT ON ISRAEL)
Post Date: 2008-05-12 14:18:19 by aristeides
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Koch's audition Former New York Mayor Ed Koch, a Democrat who backed Bush in 2004, and supports Hillary this year, emailed out a commentary over the weekend that probably means he'll be coming to an RNC media buy in Florida at some point this year. He attacks Obama, in particular, for criticizing Hillary's threat to "obliterate" Iran. "We now know just how far Senator Obama is prepared to go to defend our friends and allies. It is not far enough," Koch writes. Ed Koch Commentary May 10, 2008 Senator Barack Obama won the North Carolina primary by 14 percentage points. Senator Hillary Clinton won the Indiana primary by a narrower margin of two ...
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