CNN is projecting a big win for Hillary Clinton in today’s Puerto Rico primary. With 57% reporting, Clinton has 68% of the vote to Barack Obama’s 32%. Out of 55 delegates up for grabs, CNN has so far assigned 10 to Clinton and 4 to Obama.
CNN also reports that a landslide victory in Puerto Rico […]

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The Rules and Bylaws Committee of the Democratic National Committee in a long and drawn out process which was belabored by the tensions of this entire campaign, granted 1/2 vote to ever member of the Florida and Michigan delegations to the Democratic National Convention which will be held in Denver, Colorado during late August.
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Saturday evening Senator Obama announced that he will no longer be attending church service at Trinity United Church of Christ.
Sen. Obama told reporters at a news conference in Aberdeen, S.D. that the church had been notified via a letter the day before that the senator and his wife, Michelle, would no longer be members […]

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Sometimes I wonder why politicians choose to speak out when they do. Because if John McCain wanted his comments he made yesterday to fade from the minds of those in the media, then why respond to Barack Obama. The hole only gets deeper when you give the media something to blog, talk, and write about. […]

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It’s often the media that shapes the landscape of an election, and their level of criticism can shift a candidate’s popularity from one pole to the other; often in a very short time.
Howard Dean saw this firsthand in the 2004 election. And Hillary Clinton said the same thing happened to her, complaining that Barack Obama’s […]

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You don’t even have to know what he’s saying to know what he’s after: the Puerto Rican vote.

Hillary Clinton may have the advantage in Puerto Rico due to her popularity with Latinos, but Barack Obama does have one thing on his side: a killer accent. Whether he’s taken Spanish classes in the past or just […]

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There are only three Democratic primaries left: Puerto Rico on June 1 and Montana and South Dakota on June 3. With 55 delegates up for grabs, Puerto Rico should not be ignored.
The archipelago’s political system is confusing, and Time does a great job of explaining some of its facets. Here are some facts I’ve pulled […]

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Over the course of this primary season we’ve all been a little on edge, working at a level that usually calms down around Super-Tuesday. But with a hotly contested race in the Democratic Primary, everyone has been working to the edge.
So, we can understand when comments or jokes are made that offend some people. However, […]

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The Federal Election Commission has been having a difficult time keeping up with the massive fundraising and expense efforts by the major candidates in this primary season.
According to CNN Clinton and Obama have now collected $195 and $240 millions respectively, collectively the two almost have reached half a billion dollars, just in the primary.
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Senator Clinton has often touted now that she is the candidate who can win in November, that she, not Senator Obama, will be the one to make it a Democrat in the White House, because she is the Democratic candidate who can attract the working, middle-class, white American vote.
It has been the mostly unstated, and […]

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