Polling Firm to Quit Asking Clinton Questions

Friday, May 9, 2008

National polling firm Rasmussen Reports announced on Friday that it will stop polling people about the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton because her opponent, Barack Obama, will win the Democratic nomination.

The company’s vice president of finance and operations, Michael Boniello, distributed an e-mail stating:

However, while Senator Clinton has remained close and competitive in every meaningful measure, she is a close second and the race is over. It has become clear that Barack Obama will be the Democratic nominee.

With this in mind, Rasmussen Reports will soon end our daily tracking of the Democratic race and focus exclusively on the general election competition between Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama.

Obama Moves Ahead of Clinton in Superdelegates

Friday, May 9, 2008

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has surged ahead of rival Hillary Clinton in superdelegates and erased her once commanding lead.

The NYT’s reports:

Obama racked up seven new endorsements in the last 24 hours from superdelegates.

The tally shows Barack Obama with 266 superdelegates against 263 for Hillary Clinton, based on telephone polls conducted with CBS News as well as public endorsements.

Obama picked up the support of New Jersey Rep. Donald Payne, Oregon Congressman Peter DeFazio, Ed Espinoza, a California member of the Democratic party’s national committee, John Gage, president of the largest union of Federal employees, and Wilber Lee Jeffcoat, a Democratic party official from South Carolina.

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Friday, May 9, 2008

As of today, Friday, May 9, 2008, there are 179 days until the presidential election. The 2008 election will take place on November 4, 2008.  Hang in there!

Heiress Cindy McCain: “I’ll Never Release My Tax Returns”

Friday, May 9, 2008

Who’s the “elitist” now?

Looks like Cindy McCain has more in common with Hillary Clinton than anatomical features. Hillary Clinton, as you might recall, initially refused to release her tax returns too.

Only on-going pressure by the Obama campaign forced her to disclose her earnings but not until the 20th Democratic presidential debate. Cindy McCain has some ’splainin’ to do.

Hillary Clinton Says Only Whites Matter

Thursday, May 8, 2008

Hillary Rodham Clinton vowed Wednesday to continue her quest for the Democratic nomination, arguing she would be the stronger nominee because she appeals to whites who won’t support Barack Obama for president.

From USAToday:

“I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on. Sen. Barack 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.”

Clinton rejected any idea that her emphasis on white voters could be interpreted as racially divisive.

“These are the people you have to win if you’re a Democrat in sufficient numbers to actually win the election. Everybody knows that.”

Clinton can take comfort in the knowledge she enjoys the support of the Ku Klux Klan.

Hillary Clinton in Deep Denial

Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Hillary Clinton is behind in the popular vote, behind in the delegate count, out of money and out of political momentum. But none of this matters.

Today she told a crowd of fawning loyalists in West Virginia that she isn’t going anywhere.

From the Politico:

At a Q&A in Shepherdstown, WV, Hillary Clinton continues to make the case that her base, working class whites, women, and Hispanics are the key swing voters.

“The base I’ve put together in this primary is a stronger place to start from,” she says. She’ll run, she says, “until there’s a nominee.”

ALSO: In an email to supporters, she writes to express “my personal determination to keep forging forward in this campaign.”

After our come-from-behind victory in Indiana, there are just 28 days of voting left. But we’ve never campaigned with the stakes as high or the time as short as they will be over the next four weeks.
As we enter the final 28 days of voting, I know you’ll give it everything you’ve got. And you know I will do the same.

The time has come for party elders and superdelegates; Jimmy Carter, Al Gore, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid to step-up and put an end to Hillary’s madness.

We Have a Nominee

Wednesday, May 7, 2008

2,025 Delegates Needed to Secure the Nomination

OBAMA	1,844
CLINTON	1,688
EDWARDS	18

In what’s been described as a routing, Barack Obama swept the great state of North Carolina, winning 56% to 42% over rival Hillary Clinton. Obama won 60 additional delegates.

Meanwhile, the much ballyhooed Clinton victory in Indiana never materialized. Clinton had a tepid victory in Indiana 51% to 49%.

Obama’s stunning performance in North Carolina moves him to within 181 delegates of securing the Democratic nomination. It’s clear, we have our nominee.

Congratulations Senator Obama!

Showdown in North Carolina and Indiana

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Today is the last of the remaining “big state” Democratic primaries. Voters in North Carolina and Indiana will go to the polls. After today, there are more undecided superdelegates than state delegates to win.

Call it, showdown in North Carolina and Indiana.

What’s at stake:

North Carolina has 134 delegates up for grabs.
Indiana has 85 delegates up for grabs.

Where the delegate count stands today:

OBAMA	1,748
CLINTON	1,609
EDWARDS	18

2,025 delegates are needed to secure the Democratic nomination.

To cinch the nomination, Barack Obama will need 277 additional delegates. Hillary Clinton will need 416 additional delegates. Barack Obama has a 139 delegate advantage.

SOURCE: Real Clear Politics

What the experts say to look for in North Carolina.

What the experts say to look for in Indiana.

Most political strategists and experts expect Barack Obama to win North Carolina by 7 points to as many as 15 points, depending on the size of the African American turnout. Indiana is seen as a toss-up, with Hillary Clinton expected to win by as many as 6 points.

Polls in North Carolina close at 7:30pm. Polls in Indiana close at 6:00pm.

ChicagoTribune: “Indiana, Go to Obama”

Monday, May 5, 2008

Not since Robert F. Kennedy’s short-lived presidential campaign has the first Tuesday in May mattered so much. That’s cause for excitement in Indiana, a state that is typically an afterthought in presidential primary politics. With the race between Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton threatening to last until August’s national convention, and the candidates running neck-and-neck in Indiana, Hoosiers have a big role to play in picking the 2008 Democratic nominee.

At times, the historic contest between the first viable female presidential candidate and the first viable African-American has threatened to devolve into just another ugly race between ordinary pols whose positions on the issues are largely the same. But in recent weeks, Obama’s personal and political mettle have been sorely tested— and have been proven.

By contrast, look what we’ve seen from Hillary Clinton’s campaign in recent weeks. Her embellishments about the purported danger of a 1996 trip to Bosnia. Bill Clinton’s statement that the Obama campaign “played the race card on me,” and Clinton’s later, laughable denial that he had used those words. We’ve seen a campaign that has sought to tear down its opponent and pander to voters. The Clinton campaign is playing just the kind of politics that Americans say they detest.

We need a president who can forge consensus and compromise among ideological foes. Barack Obama is that kind of Democrat; Hillary Clinton is not.

Indiana Democrats, your choice should be clear: Barack Obama.

Read the entire re-endorsement HERE.

Hillary Clinton: Fairy Princess

Sunday, May 4, 2008

“Give me a break. This whole thing is the biggest fairy tale I’ve ever seen.”

—former President Bill Clinton, Jan. 11, 2008 criticizing Barack Obama’s claim he opposed the Iraq war.

Slate is correct when they say the real “fairy tale” is the pretense that Hillary Clinton has a chance of winning the nomination.

“So, please, let’s stop pretending there’s much suspense about who the nominee will be. As an arithmecrat, I will not consider anyone the winner until a candidate achieves 2,025 delegates. But neither am I obliged to believe Hillary Clinton has a plausible shot. She doesn’t.”

If Obama’s rival were anyone other than Hillary Clinton, would the professional punditry and the eastcoast media elites even give her the time of day? I think not.

Hillary’s Pigheadedness “Doing More Harm than Good”

Saturday, May 3, 2008

A growing number of Democrats believe that the continuing contest between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton is “doing more harm than good” for the Democratic Party.

Six in ten - 62 percent - of the Democrats surveyed by the Gallup Poll over the last weekend said so. That’s up from 56 percent in late March.

This is particularly true among Democrats who support Obama, Gallup’s Frank Newport reports - “this is no doubt because Obama is the current leader in both the popular vote… and the overall delegate count. Continuing to campaign has very little upside potential for Obama and a lot of downside potential — as may be occurring now, with Obama having to deal with continuing controversies surrounding his relationship with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

Fewer Clinton supports believe so.

“Given that Clinton’s only realistic chance of winning the nomination is to continue to campaign and hope events will help convince superdelegates to switch and vote for her, this pattern is not surprising,” notes Newport, editor-in-chief of the Gallup Poll.

SOURCE: The Swamp

Obama May Levy $15 Billion Tax on Oil Company Profit

Friday, May 2, 2008

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s proposal for a windfall profits tax on oil companies could cost $15 billion a year at last year’s profit levels, a campaign adviser said.

The plan would target profit from the biggest oil companies by taxing each barrel of oil costing more than $80, according to a fact sheet on the proposal. The tax would help pay for a $1,000 tax cut for working families, an expansion of the earned- income tax credit and assistance for people who can’t afford their energy bills.

“The profits right now are so remarkable that one could trim them 10 percent or so, which would turn out to be somewhere in the $15 billion range,” said Jason Grumet, an adviser to the Obama campaign.

Obama’s plan may be three times larger than the $50 billion, 10-year plan contemplated by his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton.

Oil companies would still have ample reason to “continue to pursue production, while at the same time providing relief to consumers,” Grumet said.

A flurry of energy proposals from presidential candidates and lawmakers has come after crude oil futures prices reached $119.93 a barrel on April 28. Retail gasoline prices hit a record $3.603 a gallon this week, according to the U.S. Energy Department.

USA Has Nelson Mandela on Terrorist Watch List

Thursday, May 1, 2008

As if we needed more proof of just how fucked up the United States is after 8 years of the Bush/Cheney junta, comes news that Nobel Peace prize winner, Nelson Mandela, is flagged on the U.S. terrorist watch list and requires special permission to visit the USA.

In 1990, Mandela was freed after 27 years in prison for crimes committed during the struggle against the apartheid regime of institutionalized racism that subjugated Black South Africans to second-class status.

In 1994, he was elected South Africa’s first black president.

Even Bush apologist, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called the situation “embarrassing,” and some members of Congress have vowed to fix this inequity.

Hillary to O’Reilly: “Rich people, God bless us”

Thursday, May 1, 2008

If you can stomach it, here’s a small portion of Hillary Clinton’s sit down with Bill O’Reilly. The most stunning comment was when Hillary said, “Rich people, God bless us.”

Former Democratic Leader Switches to Obama

Thursday, May 1, 2008

Proving that it will take more than slime and the kitchen sink to stop Barack Obama, the leader of the Democratic Party under former president Bill Clinton has switched his allegiance and endorsed Barack Obam aand is encouraging his fellow Democrats to “heal the rift in our party” and unite behind the Illinois senator.

Joe Andrew, who was the Democratic National Committee chairman from 1999-2001. A news conference is planned for Thursday in his hometown of Indianapolis to urge other Hoosiers to support Obama in Tuesday’s primary. He also has written a lengthy letter explaining his decision that he plans to send to other superdelegates.

“I am convinced that the primary process has devolved to the point that it’s now bad for the Democratic Party,” Andrew said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press.

Hillary Clinton’s Lesbian Lover

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Meet Huma Abedin.

Bill Clinton allegedly told his lover, Gennifer Flowers: “Hillary’s a lesbian. She’s probably eaten more pussy than me.”

Jeremiah Wright Doesn’t Matter

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

The cable news media has engaged in a virtual 24/7 orgy of coverage about the words of Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Wright, if you recall, is Barack Obama’s controversial former pastor. I have received a number of emails from readers asking me why I am avoiding the subject of Jeremiah Wright. While I appreciate the inquiries, please know that I am not avoiding the subject. I haven’t written about the subject because in the immortal words of Gertrude Stein, there is no there, there.

Consider:

Jeremiah Wright or, $3.70 a gallon gas
Jeremiah Wright or, the mortgage meltdown mess
Jeremiah Wright or, the falling value of the U.S. dollar
Jeremiah Wright or, rising urban crime
Jeremiah Wright or, the $9 trillion National debt
Jeremiah Wright or, off-shoring of good American jobs
Jeremiah Wright or, rising U.S. unemployment
Jeremiah Wright or, rising healthcare costs
Jeremiah Wright or, 47 million American without health insurance
Jeremiah Wright or, national security, securing our ports and borders
Jeremiah Wright or, ending Bush and Hillary’s Iraq war
Jeremiah Wright or, stopping Bush and Hillary Iran war fantasy
Jeremiah Wright or, passing the GI bill
Jeremiah Wright or, repealing all of DOMA
Jeremiah Wright or, LGBT marriage equity
Jeremiah Wright or, restoring our standing with the rest of the world

My point is, ask yourselves what is more important? Jeremiah Wright or the issues next to his name.

I think, and I believe, that for the majority of American people who see their jobs shipped to Mexico or Honduras, or a woman who ignores a lump in her breast because she doesn’t have health insurance but works 40 hours a week, or young people and the retired who now are forced to carry fuel charges on credit cards because they can’t pay cash anymore for $3.70 gas, or LGBT Americans who are in longterm, monogamous relationships but thanks to Bill Clinton’s DOMA, are treated like 5th class citizens, then outside media circles in New York City and inside the Washington DC Beltway, the bloviating of Jeremiah Wright just doesn’t resonate.

I could be wrong. I hope I’m not but, if I am wrong, then the goal of dumbing down the American people that got underway back in the 1970’s is now complete.

North Carolina: Obama 51%, Clinton 37%

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Despite throwing everything at Barack Obama, including the kitchen sink, Hillary Clinton still trails the Illinois senator by 14 points in North Carolina.

According to the latest Rasmussen Reports poll:

North Carolina’s Presidential Primary finds Barack Obama leading Hillary Clinton 51% to 37%. Earlier this month, Obama led by twenty-three percentage points.

Nationally, Obama has the edge over Clinton in the Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll.

The demographic results in North Carolina are similar to the dynamics seen nationally and in most primaries—Clinton leads by fifteen points among White voters while Obama leads 80% to 11% among African-Americans. Clinton does well among White Women and older voters while Obama leads among those under 65.

Among White voters who earn less than $60,000 annually, Clinton leads by a 2-to-1 margin. Obama leads among White voters who earn more than $75,000 a year.

Obama is viewed favorably by 71% of the state’s Likely Primary Voters, down four points from the previous survey. Clinton is viewed favorably by 62%, down four since earlier this month.