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Clinton Needs Record Margins, Turnout to Catch Obama (Update1)
Post Date: 2008-04-21 11:57:00 by christine
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April 21 (Bloomberg) -- To overtake Barack Obama in the nationwide popular vote, Hillary Clinton needs a bigger win in tomorrow's Pennsylvania primary than she has had in any major contest so far. And that's just for starters. After more than 40 Democratic primaries and caucuses, Obama, the Illinois senator, leads Clinton by more than 800,000 votes. Even if the New York senator wins by more than 20 percentage points tomorrow -- a landslide few experts expect -- she would still have a hard time catching him. Clinton needs ``blowout numbers,'' says Peter Fenn, a Democratic consultant who isn't affiliated with either campaign. ``The wheels would have to come off the Obama ...
New finance reports show Clinton campaign lacking funds
Post Date: 2008-04-21 11:55:13 by robin
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New finance reports show Clinton campaign lacking funds
Ewen MacAskill in Harrisburg and Daniel Nasaw in Washington guardian.co.uk, Monday April 21 2008Article historyAbout this articleThis article was first published on guardian.co.uk on Monday April 21 2008. It was last updated at 16:39 on April 21 2008.
Hillary Clinton's campaign began the month of April virtually broke, owing more money than it had in the bank, it emerged yesterday.
Federal campaign finance reports show her rival Barack Obama's campaign remains flush with cash even as he outspent Clinton by nearly a third in March
The divergent financial reports, came as relations between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama ...
Poll shows Clinton pulling away from Obama
Post Date: 2008-04-21 09:56:20 by christine
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Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is pulling away from her rival Sen. Barack Obama in a poll of likely voters in Tuesday's Pennsylvania Democratic presidential primary, a poll completed late Sunday shows. Mrs. Clinton of New York leads Mr. Obama of Illinois by 10 percentage points - the largest lead between the two candidates in any poll in Pennsylvania in the past week. The poll was conducted by David Paleologos, director of the Suffolk University Political Research Center. When asked whom they would vote for in November if their candidate - Mrs. Clinton or Mr. Obama - isn't the Democratic nominee, 20 percent of likely Pennsylvania Democratic primary voters in the poll said they ...
McCain questions Obama radical ties (or, Why McCain will win) [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2008-04-21 07:54:19 by Jethro Tull
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McCain questions Obama radical ties By RYAN GRIM & MIKE ALLEN | 4/20/08 10:59 AM EST Updated: 4/20/08 7:13 PM EST Text Size: Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) stoked debate over a ’60s radical’s ties to Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) on ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday, saying Obama’s defense “borders on the outrageous.” William Ayers — a former member of the Weather Underground, which embraced bombing in its effort to end the Vietnam War — became an issue in the Democratic nominating race at last week’s debate. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) said Obama’s past meetings with Ayers are part of a “larger set of concerns about ...
"Hero" John McCain as Phony and Collaborator
Post Date: 2008-04-21 02:52:48 by Zoroaster
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"Hero" John McCain as Phony and Collaborator By Alexander Cockburn – CounterPunch Diary April 19, 2008 John McCain's been getting kid-glove treatment from the press for years, ever since he wriggled free of the Keating scandal and his profitable association – another collaboration, you might say – with the nation's top bank swindler in the 1980s. But nothing equals the astounding tact with which his claque on the press bus avoids the topic of McCain's collaborating with his Vietnamese captors after he'd been shot down. McCain meets President Nixon How McCain behaved when he was a prisoner is key. McCain is probably the most unstable man ever ...
Attacks Fly Fast and Furious With Less Than 2 Days to Go to Pa. [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2008-04-20 22:23:50 by robin
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Sunday was no day of rest for either Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama, who each spent the day in Pennsylvania clamoring for any remaining votes as well as trying to dent their opponent’s image heading into Tuesday’s voting. And presumptive Republican nominee John McCain also came to the foreground as the candidates sought show they would be the best in November against the Arizona senator as well as to put a stop to any Democrats who might be thinking about voting for the other team. Speaking in Reading, Pa., Obama told an audience that “either Democrat would be better than John McCain. … And all three of us would be better than George Bush.” Seeing an opening, ...
Obama: McCain better than Bush
Post Date: 2008-04-20 18:12:52 by Rupert_Pupkin
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Obama says McCain would be better than Bush By LIZ SIDOTI, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 3 minutes ago Democrat Barack Obama, who often argues that John McCain is the same as President Bush, said Sunday that the Republican presidential candidate would be better for the country than Bush has been. "You have a real choice in this election. Either Democrat would be better than John McCain," Obama said to cheers from a rowdy crowd in central Pennsylvania. Then he said: "And all three of us would be better than George Bush." "But what you have to ask yourself is who has the chance to actually really change things in a fundamental way so that 10 years from now or 20 ...
General Election Polls Suggest Possibility of Electoral College Tie
Post Date: 2008-04-20 17:35:39 by graindrops
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The webpage www.electoral-vote.com tracks individual state polls for the general election for president. Professor Andrew Tanenbaum, who runs this site, suggests that if the major party nominees are Barack Obama and John McCain, a likely electoral vote result (based on polls released on April 19 and preceding days) is 269 electoral votes for each candidate. The tie comes about if Obama carries California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, D.C., Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington and Wisconsin; and if McCain carries the other 29 states. Defenders of the Electoral ...
John McCain, Charles Grassley Physical Altercation Confirmed By Washington Post
Post Date: 2008-04-20 17:34:36 by robin
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Sunday's Washington Post features a front-page story examining the notorious temper of Sen. John McCain, including a first-hand account of McCain's physical altercation with fellow GOP Sen. Chuck Grassley. It was early 1992, and the occasion was an informal gathering of a select committee investigating lingering issues about Vietnam War prisoners and those missing in action, most notably whether any American servicemen were still being held by the Vietnamese. It is unclear precisely what issue set off McCain that day. But at some point, he mocked Grassley to his face and used a profanity to describe him. Grassley stood and, according to two participants at the meeting, told ...
Audio: Hillary Privately Blasted "The Activist Base Of The Democratic Party" For Caucus Defeats
Post Date: 2008-04-20 15:40:34 by robin
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Well, this should get anti-war voters angry with Hillary Clinton -- and be a real political headache for the home stretch in Pennsylvania. The Huffington Post has gotten their hands on a secret tape from a closed-door fundraiser held just after Super Tuesday, in which Hillary lambastes "the activist base of the Democratic Party" and their views on national security: "We have been less successful in caucuses because it brings out the activist base of the Democratic Party. MoveOn didn't even want us to go into Afghanistan. I mean, that's what we're dealing with. And you know they turn out in great numbers. And they are very driven by their view of our positions, ...
Shoddy! Tawdry! A televised train wreck!
Post Date: 2008-04-20 12:17:13 by a vast rightwing conspirator
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NEW YORK: 'The crowd is turning on me," said Charles Gibson, the ABC anchor, when the audience jeered him in the final moments of Wednesday night's face-off between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. I can't remember a debate in which the only memorable moment was the audience's heckling of a moderator. Then again, I can't remember a debate that became such an instant national gag, earning reviews more appropriate to a slasher movie like "Prom Night" than a civic event held in Philadelphia's National Constitution Center: "Shoddy, despicable!" - The Washington Post "A tawdry affair!" - The Boston Globe "A televised train ...
The political leanings of white-skinned mutants
Post Date: 2008-04-20 11:21:09 by robin
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Elections & VotingThe political leanings of white-skinned mutantsBy Kerry TomasiOnline Journal Contributing Writer Apr 18, 2008, 00:14 One of the more interesting books I've read recently is "Survival of the Sickest" by Dr. Sharon Moalem. The book explores various maladies and adaptations that exist within modern humans, and proposes various hypotheses, based on scientific studies, to explain what evolutionary pressures may have led to things like diabetes, hemochromatosis, and high blood pressure. The mechanism by which evolutionary pressure becomes adaptation is through the hypermutation of genes known as transposons, or "jumping genes," which scientists ...
The 2008 Election Will Be Stolen [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2008-04-20 03:14:28 by nolu_chan
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The 2008 Election Will Be Stolen Posted by davidswanson in General Discussion Sat Apr 19th 2008, 04:32 PM A new collection of essays edited by Mark Crispin Miller called "Loser Take All: Election Fraud and the Subversion of Democracy, 2000 - 2008," tells the story better than any single source I've seen yet. The Supreme Court stopped a recount in Florida in 2000 that would have made Al Gore president. This is not speculation. The recount was later done. Numerous elections were stolen in 2002, in Colorado, New Hampshire, Minnesota, and elsewhere, including Senate, Governor, and House races in Georgia that were practically openly swiped by Diebold's elections unit ...
Hillary Clinton On Southern Working Class Whites In 1995: "Screw 'Em"
Post Date: 2008-04-19 23:26:42 by robin
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During the past week, Sen. Hillary Clinton has presented herself as a working class populist, the politician in touch with small town sentiments, compared to the elitism of her opponent, Sen. Barack Obama. But a telling anecdote from her husband's administration shows Hillary Clinton's attitudes about the "lunch-bucket Democrats" are not exactly pristine. In January 1995, as the Clintons were licking their wounds from the 1994 congressional elections, a debate emerged at a retreat at Camp David. Should the administration make overtures to working class white southerners who had all but forsaken the Democratic Party? The then-first lady took a less than inclusive ...
Facing Obama Fund-Raising Juggernaut, Clinton Seeks New Sources of Cash
Post Date: 2008-04-19 22:28:06 by robin
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April 20, 2008 Facing Obama Fund-Raising Juggernaut, Clinton Seeks New Sources of Cash By MICHAEL LUO Senator Barack Obama is swamping Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton with television advertising in their prolonged battle for the Democratic nomination, putting fresh pressure on Mrs. Clinton’s fund-raising machine to find new sources of money to help her keep pace. But her big-dollar fund-raising apparatus that was once the envy of the political world is encountering obstacles as many of those in its regular networks of donors have reached the maximum on their personal contributions or grown tired of the relentless press for donations. The campaign is actively hunting for new ...
Gallup Daily: Clinton 46%, Obama 45%
Post Date: 2008-04-19 14:53:20 by RickyJ
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PRINCETON, NJ -- Gallup Poll Daily tracking shows that Hillary Clinton now receives 46% of the support of Democrats nationally, compared to 45% for Barack Obama, marking the first time Obama has not led in Gallup's daily tracking since March 18-20. These results are based on interviewing conducted April 16-18, including two days of interviewing after the contentious Wednesday night debate in Philadelphia and the media focus that followed. Support for Hillary Clinton has been significantly higher in both of these post-debate nights of interviewing than in recent weeks. The two Democratic candidates are now engaged in intensive campaigning leading up to Tuesday's Pennsylvania primary ...
Webster Tarpley: Zbignew Brzienzki leading Obama campaign (Videos)
Post Date: 2008-04-19 13:08:39 by TwentyTwelve
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yfip0k2Oit8&feature=related www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvozpwYKuJs&feature=related www.youtube.com/watch?v=nu_t9UkLobA Click for Full Text!
The Flag Pin Question...Who Asked it and How Did ABC Pick Her?
Post Date: 2008-04-19 09:52:47 by a vast rightwing conspirator
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The Flag Pin Question...Who Asked it and How Did ABC Pick Her? Posted 4/19/2008 6:56 AM CDT After several days of Charlie & George lying about ABC's questions and format in probably the most disastrous TV debate in history, an interesting little tidbit came to light yesterday. To distance themselves from the trivia and stupidity of the flag pin issue, they played the question on videotape "raised by a voter in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, a woman by the name of Nash McCabe." They then played the tape of her. It looked like a real issue raised in interviews with Pennsylvanians. But that's not what really happened. McCabe was actually interviewed in the New York Times on ...
Obama to Hamas: No thanks
Post Date: 2008-04-18 22:50:09 by _______
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PHILADELPHIA — Front-runner status brings unexpected headaches, and Sen. Barack Obama continues to show he's not immune. Mr. Obama's campaign yesterday was forced to reject an unsolicited endorsement by the Islamist terror group Hamas as the candidate worked to reassure leery Jewish voters, and his supporters derided Wednesday's debate as unfair. In Pennsylvania, Mr. Obama's prodigious fundraising is allowing him to flood the airwaves with ads to cut away rival Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's lead here, but voters say they can't click the remote control without seeing the Democratic aspirant's face — and even supporters think it's too much. ...
Clinton trashes "activists" and MoveOn at closed-door fundraiser
Post Date: 2008-04-18 20:52:29 by nolu_chan
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www.dailykos.com/storyonl.../18/194131/837/720/498621 Clinton trashes "activists" and MoveOn at closed-door fundraiser by kos Fri Apr 18, 2008 at 04:53:43 PM PDT And the battle of the tape recordings of closed-door fundraisers escalates. In short, Clinton doesn't like us and doesn't agree with us. "Moveon.org endorsed [Sen. Barack Obama] -- which is like a gusher of money that never seems to slow down," Clinton said to a meeting of donors. "We have been less successful in caucuses because it brings out the activist base of the Democratic Party. MoveOn didn't even want us to go into Afghanistan. I mean, that's what we're dealing with. And ...
Hillary Drops Back [54-35]
Post Date: 2008-04-18 19:35:22 by nolu_chan
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www.newsweek.com/id/132721 Hillary Drops Back A new Newsweek poll shows Obama pulling away. By Michael Hirsh | Newsweek Web Exclusive Apr 18, 2008 | Updated: 3:08 p.m. ET Apr 18, 2008 Despite her campaign's relentless attacks on Barack Obama's qualifications and electability, Hillary Clinton has lost a lot of ground with Democratic voters nationwide going into Tuesday's critical primary in Pennsylvania, a new NEWSWEEK poll shows. The survey of 1,209 registered voters found that Obama now leads Clinton by nearly 20 points, or 54 percent to 35 percent, among registered Democrats and those who lean Democratic nationwide. The previous Newsweek poll, conducted in March after ...
US academic Samantha Power predicts an Obama victory in the US
Post Date: 2008-04-18 17:19:52 by Ferret Mike
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Sen Barack Obama will not just receive the Democratic nomination, he will become the 44th President of the United States, so says Samantha Power, the Pulitzer prize winning author, journalist, and academic, who is coming to Galway to read at the Cúirt International Festival of Literature. Samantha Power is the Anna Lindh Professor of Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy, at the Carr Centre for Human Rights Policy at the John F Kennedy School of Government, Harvard. In 2005 and 2006 she worked in the office of Sen Barak Obama and later served for a time as a voluntary foreign policy advisor to him in his campaign to become the Democratic candidate for the US presidency. ...
Gallup Daily: Clinton Moves Within 3 Points of Obama
Post Date: 2008-04-18 17:13:19 by nolu_chan
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tinyurl.com/6j8zqj April 18, 2008 Gallup Daily: Clinton Moves Within 3 Points of Obama Thursday night interviewing suggests Obama may have been hurt by debate PRINCETON, NJ -- Gallup Poll Daily tracking shows a tightening of the national Democratic race, with Barack Obama now holding just a 3-percentage point advantage over Hillary Clinton, 47% to 44%. These results are based on interviewing conducted April 15-17, with Thursday night's interviewing the first conducted following the April 16 debate in Philadelphia. The initial indications are that Obama may have been hurt by the debate, which was noted for its negative tone and focus on the candidates' recent "gaffes" ...
Hillary And The Commies
Post Date: 2008-04-18 16:40:06 by nolu_chan
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tinyurl.com/6yxop8 Hillary And The Commies Marc Cooper Posted April 16, 2008 | 11:06 PM (EST) During Wednesday night's Pennsylvania debate, George Stephanopoulos didn't flinch from trying to smear Barack Obama by association with former 60's radical Bill Ayers. Too bad George didn't ask Hillary about her own summer spent working for a law firm run by Communists. The facts: Obama met with former Weather Underground radical Ayers and his wife, former 60's SDS leader Bernardine Dohrn, at a 1995 Chicago meeting. From 1999-2002, Obama served on the board of a charity organization with Ayers that gave out a couple of grants. Now, I knew these Weathermen folks back in the ...
Obama keeps rolling as Clinton running out of time
Post Date: 2008-04-18 16:19:21 by a vast rightwing conspirator
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By John Whitesides, Political Correspondent WASHINGTON (Reuters) - After a tough six-week stretch of campaign gaffes, roaring controversies and heightened scrutiny, Barack Obama's presidential bid appears as strong as ever -- and rival Hillary Clinton is running out of time to change the script. Obama has expanded his lead on Clinton in many national polls and gained ground on her in the next battleground of Pennsylvania ahead of Tuesday's vote, despite furors over his remarks on small-town residents and inflammatory comments by his former pastor. Clinton's image appeared to take a heavier hit after wrongly claiming she faced sniper fire in Bosnia in 1996. A Washington Post ...
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