John McCain’s social conservative base is falling apart. He has a double-pastor problem. All the while, Barack Obama continues to reach out for thier votes.
It’s no secret that the evangelical voters are an important demographic to the GOP. And McCain has been wooing this group of voters for months. In his effort to court the […]
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McCain’s Double-Pastor Problem & Obama Reaches Out to Social Conservatives
May 23rd, 2008 · 6 Comments
Tags: Barack Obama · John McCain
Barack’s Hanford moment
May 21st, 2008 · 1 Comment
Sen. Barack Obama got stumped while stumping in Oregon this past Monday; as reported in The Tri-City Herald:
Obama spent nearly half of his hour in Pendleton taking questions from the audience.
Just one stumped him.
What was he going to do to address the roller coaster of budget promises for cleanup of the Hanford nuclear reservation […]
Tags: Barack Obama · Oregon
More talk about the “dream ticket”
May 21st, 2008 · 2 Comments
Last night, a few big names chatted about the possible “dream ticket” of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
Former White House Chief of Staff and U.S. Secretary of State James Baker, a Republican, and former President Jimmy Carter, a Democrat, agreed that Obama’s best chance at winning the White House is with Clinton alongside him.
We’ve mentioned […]
Tags: Barack Obama · Democrat · Hillary Clinton
Clinton and Obama turn attention to Florida
May 21st, 2008 · 5 Comments
The day after Hillary Clinton’s win in Kentucky and Barack Obama’s projected win in Oregon, both candidates have traveled to Florida to let Democratic voters know they haven’t been forgotten. Neither candidate has campaigned in the state since it was announced that it would be punished for moving its primary up - a move that […]
Tags: Barack Obama · Democrat · Florida · Hillary Clinton
Oregon Victory for Obama Tonight
May 20th, 2008 · No Comments
Barack Obama won the Oregon primary tonight. And although it may not be a big surprise, it’s still an important victory. The results of the Kentucky and Oregon primaries have made him the majority leader in pledged delegates. He will now continue his argument with super-delegates, and the results of tonights primaries only solidify his […]
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Clinton wins Kentucky
May 20th, 2008 · No Comments
According to CNN, Hillary Clinton will win today’s Kentucky primary by a wide margin, no doubt bolstering her argument that she has received more votes for the Democratic presidential nomination. With 71% of precincts reporting, the Kentucky numbers stand at 65% of the vote and 22 delegates for Clinton, and 31% of the vote and […]
Tags: Barack Obama · Democrat · Hillary Clinton · Primary
Barack Black Eagle
May 19th, 2008 · 1 Comment
The New York Times reported that Senator Barack Obama was officially adopted by the Crow Nation as an honorary member.
As Senator Barack Obama campaigned for the presidential primary in Montana – one of two states that closes out the Democratic nominating process on June 3 – he was welcomed here by a few thousand people. […]
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Obama/Clinton math still fuzzy
May 19th, 2008 · 4 Comments
I was flying on Frontier Airlines today, coming back from my conference in Stillwater, Oklahoma, when I decided that watching CNN on the plane was a great idea.
Wolf Blitzer was speaking to a correspondent, whose name I didn’t catch, who said that the Clinton camp is still working strongly under the assumption that they have […]
Tags: Barack Obama · Democrat · Hillary Clinton
Largest Crowd Yet: OR Obama Rally
May 18th, 2008 · No Comments
“Wow, wow, wow,” said Senator Barack Obama as he stepped on stage to address a crowd of 75,000 at a waterfront park in Portland, Oregon today. I knew he would draw a big crowd in Portland, but this is more than I guessed, and it’s only the primary. This is clearly the movement that Oregon […]
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Obama, McCain & the Foreign Policy “Dust Up”
May 16th, 2008 · 7 Comments
The “appeasement” comments made by President George W. Bush in Knessett Thursday, have generated a foreign policy debate between Senator Obama and Senator McCain today. Obama responded at a Town Hall in South Dakota.
“If George Bush and John McCain want to have a debate about protecting the United States of America, that is a debate […]
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