I hope everyone is enjoying their Thanksgiving break. While not a particularly political post, Meteor Blades, one of the best writers over at Daily Kos, posted his personal reflection on Thanksgiving. It’s an interesting read worth checking out.
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Election 2007 Roundup
November 14, 2007 – 6:28 pm
With apologies for posting this entry a week after elections, I wanted to do a quick roundup of the results of the 2007 elections. There were three gubernatorial races, along with legislative races in Maine, Mississippi, New Jersey, and Virginia:
Statewide races
Kentucky: Ever since Ernie Fletcher got himself into trouble with the law by pardoning everyone [...]
“The Politics of Parsing”
November 2, 2007 – 5:24 pm
While I don’t have a candidate I am supporting this presidential race, I will admit that I am biased against Hillary Clinton. I think she’s done a generally good job representing my home state (New York) in the Senate, but I have reservations about her policy beliefs, along with the fact that her campaign reeks [...]
Does the DCCC support Hillary Clinton?
October 26, 2007 – 4:48 pm
Today is Hillary Clinton’s 60th birthday. While Bill Clinton had already sent out an email asking for birthday wishes (and contributions) via the campaign, it was strange to see that today, the exact same email went out - but from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC). Via The Politico, the text of the email is [...]
Profiling Joe Trippi
October 23, 2007 – 8:28 pm
In today’s Washington Post, there is a profile of Joe Trippi, best known for his work as Howard Dean’s campaign manager during the 2004 election cycle. Trippi is widely credited for being the first person to recognize and utilize the power of the Internet in electoral politics. That being said, he did preside over Dean’s [...]
Penn College Republicans associate with hate group…to inform about terrorism? Yeah, right.
October 22, 2007 – 3:59 pm
Even though the Republican Party did its best to try and move voters away from supporting Democrats in the 2006 midterm elections, Americans finally saw through the thin veneer of scare tactics and voted them out of power almost a year ago. Given that it didn’t work then, the far right wing has resorted to [...]
Obama taking harder tack against Clinton
October 16, 2007 – 11:12 pm
Barack Obama’s campaign finally seems to be directing more focus towards the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination, Hillary Clinton, after months of refusing to directly engage her. After new fundraising numbers showed that Clinton had a cash-on-hand advantage of roughly $2.1 million after 3rd quarter numbers were released, the Obama camp rolls out this fundraising strategy to [...]
Them and Us
October 9, 2007 – 8:27 pm
One of the things I’m struck by during the primary race for the presidential nominations for both Democrats and the GOP is the disparity in what is being discussed. Democrats spend their debates speaking about serious issues in a serious way - whether it’s Iraq or health care, foreign policy or domestic policy - there [...]
Latest Iowa poll shows Clinton with a marginal lead
October 7, 2007 – 9:09 pm
In the latest poll from Iowa’s Des Moines Register, Hillary Clinton leads the Democratic presidential candidates with 29% of the vote. Some details from the poll:
The Iowa Poll shows 29 percent of likely caucusgoers preferring Clinton, a New York senator, an improvement from the Register’s most recent poll in May.
Edwards, a former North Carolina [...]
Fred Thompson: a little behind the times
October 3, 2007 – 9:10 pm
Ever since former senator Fred Thompson (R-TN) declared he was running for the GOP presidential nomination, there have been rumors (or more accurately, plenty of evidence) that he is (and was) lazy and had an extremely undistinguished record in his 8 years in Congress. But it may appear that he simply isn’t up to date [...]
