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Campaign Updates and Media Headlines 8/16/08

by: Caro

Sat Aug 16, 2008 at 19:16:29 PM EDT


 
Stolen Nomination? You bet. (MakeThemAccountable)
The 2008 Democratic Party nomination for the presidency was stolen from Hillary Clinton and given to Barack Obama by certain members of the party leadership.
Click through to read the deep, dark secret that the party leaders want to keep the public from knowing.-Caro

Barack Obama Has Learned: The Clintons Will Never Go Away (by Michael Barone, U.S. News & World Report)
They have to let Hillary have her say [at the convention], given how many delegates she has. And they can hardly ignore the only politically successful Democratic president of the last 40 years. That means there's a risk that the convention will not be an ideal television extravaganza for the Obama campaign. But that's the price they pay for not sweeping the primaries. Hillary Clinton won more popular votes and more delegates in the primaries than Barack Obama. Obama won the nomination because of the big delegate margins he won in caucuses and because superdelegates went along with him. [Emphasis added.]

Gallup Daily: McCain, Obama Tied at 44%
John McCain and Barack Obama are tied at 44% in the latest Gallup Poll Daily tracking report of registered voters' presidential preferences. These numbers reflect a slight drop in Obama's support compared with what it has been thus far in August.

But he's a great fundraiser, right?

$52 million in June

$51 million in July

Bumps from Clinton donors in June and July, and he's starting downhill again.  How about that $300 million by mid-October, Barack?

How Super Are the SuperDelegates? (by madamab at The Confluence)
If you look at Obama's performance against McCain objectively, the Senator from Illinois is tanking in the polls. In states where he had a double-digit lead, he's hemorrhaging support. In swing states, McCain is starting to edge him out. In a Democratic year, this lack of enthusiasm is unheard of. And yet, it's happening... If the SuperDelegates really ARE super, they will pick the person most likely to beat McCain in November, and that person, according to the best information we have, is Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton. Now that Hillary will be on the roll call vote, will the superdelegates insist on doing their jobs?

Click here for more political and media news headlines.

Carolyn Kay
MakeThemAccountable.com

Caro :: Campaign Updates and Media Headlines 8/16/08
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Excellent lead article, Carolyn. (0.00 / 0)
We know this, but it can't be pointed out often enough, or on too many blogs, and you wrote it up/summed it up very well indeed.

Recommended. :-)

(Btw, the other articles are good, too.  I especially question the "super" in "superdelegate" when it comes to little, pipsqueak delegates like Jason Rae, a DNC delegate since he turned 17 who's only voted once -- this year, in the WI primary election.  What does he know about anything?  And why on Earth is he allowed to help decide this election in any way?  As I've said before, I'm a Wisconsin voter, and Jason Rae does not speak for me!)

There's no excuse for this, DNC.  None.


you're from Wisconsin? (0.00 / 0)
This is one of my favorite daily posts. informative, up to date, well written and much appreciated.  

Hillary - alternative energy

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Yup. (0.00 / 0)
And Jason Rae decidedly does not speak for me.  (See my earlier diary, "Debra Bartoshevich Ousted by WisDems," for further examples of why I feel this way.  http://alegrescorner.soapblox....

There's no excuse for this, DNC.  None.

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Sorry, link didn't come through well. (0.00 / 0)
http://alegrescorner.soapblox....

That's the link.

There's no excuse for this, DNC.  None.


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The photo (0.00 / 0)
were was this photo taken? The man known as Obama looks like a complete dweeb.  

Alice left me in Wonderland.  

I got it from Bag News Notes. (0.00 / 0)
Back in May, a week before the RBC meeting.  BNN had a different take on it than I did.
http://bagnewsnotes.typepad.co...

Carolyn Kay
MakeThemAccountable.com


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"Always aim high, work hard, and care deeply about what you believe in. When you stumble, keep faith. When you?re knocked down, get right back up. And NEVER listen to anyone who says you can't or shouldn't go on."
Hillary Clinton - June 7, 2008

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