“Independent Democrats” for McCain
Following on the heels of the shocking (SHOCKING!) news that Holy Joe has been advising an anti-Obama swiftboat 527, the Washington Independent brings us word of more independent Joementum for McCain:
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The End? Will Clinton Face the Music (or the Math)?
Yesterday Ben Smith covered reports that Clinton was flying home for the final voting day of the primary season. Further reports would show that Clinton was shedding her advance staff as well, and while this got some talking that maybe this was the signal to the end, I remained skeptical, as did my colleague, Kathy.
But a Tom Edsall piece at HuffPo which outlines that not only is Clinton calling for her donors and supporters to join her on election night in New York, but that her campaign is also undergoing other changes that indicate a possible end to her primary run, have really ramped up the idea that Clinton’s about to finally cede.
I still remain skeptical.
Sphere: Related ContentClinton’s Thin Ice
Reconciliation and analysis have been the leading themes in my writing on the Democratic primaries lately. Once a severe sufferer of Clinton Derangement Syndrome, I have publicly and emotionally eased up on Senator Clinton, and for good reason.
The talk of the town when it comes to the primaries have now centered on two key items; Super Delegates who will decide the Democratic nominee, and a host of Clinton supporters whose true number strength is questionable who have vowed defections and actively working against Obama should he be the nominee.
The latter have come together to paint a precarious picture for the likely Democratic nominee, one in which he may win the nomination, but will lose an appreciable size of the Democratic vote. But I think it bears mentioning at this point that Clinton is standing on much thinner ice than one may recognize.
Sphere: Related ContentPresumptuous
The Obama campaign indeed would appear to be presumptuous if it was intending to declare “victory” in Iowa on Tuesday night. In the end, however, Larry Rohter strikes me as being just a little more presumptuous.
Sphere: Related ContentThe End is Nigh?
Dan Conley, who served as an aide to former Virginia Gov. L. Douglas Wilder, posted a must-read article at Salon this past Thursday (h/t jrootham @ BnR) detailing how any future concessions by the Clinton campaign might play out. Using Wilder’s departure from the 1994 Virginia senate race as an example, Conley calmly outlines what could potentially be involved in any backroom negotiations between the two prospective Democratic presidential nominees:
Sphere: Related ContentRetiring With Dignity
From the moment the news dropped that Bill Clinton was talking up North Carolina, the entire situation struck me as kind of odd. My colleague,Dustin, covered it during this weekend, but I wanted to take a second look at the situation because I happen to think that Dustin’s title is particularly accurate.
Sphere: Related ContentSay It Ain’t So
Seriously, over the past several weeks I could feel the Gravelmentum building up within the ranks of the Democratic grass roots. If only he’d waited till the convention. The superdelegates may have come to their senses and chosen the *ahem* most experienced candidate, the only one who had a chance of beating McCain at shuffleboard, the only white male Democrat left in the race!
Now we’ll never know what might have been.
Sigh.
Sphere: Related ContentRun Real Primaries in Michigan & Florida
Attempts by Hillary, Crist & Granholm to seat the delegates in Michigan and Florida without a full and fair primary is, in my view, undemocratic. On the other hand, excluding the people of Florida and Michigan from having their rightful say in this historic and close primary also strikes me as undemocratic.
The solution is simple — rerun these primaries in June giving both Clinton and Obama a full and fair opportunity to campaign for the votes of Floridians and Michiganders.
This is the simple and right thing to do.
(ed: Thanks to our readers for pointing out the mistake of suggesting Christ would support Hillary. We have no idea who Jesus would actually vote for, but I have a funny feeling that he would be a little to the left of all the candidates currently in the race. -K)
Sphere: Related ContentTime for Accountability: Dump Them All
canuckgal (via eRobin) notes that the furor over Obama’s chief economic advisor assuring a Canadian official that BO’s anti-NAFTA remarks lately weren’t serious but merely whimsical, light-hearted, unserious “campaign rhetoric” has heated up. The Obama advisor was named by CTV as Austin Goolsbee after Obama and his camp denied the report. canuckgal wastes no sympathy on them.
Sphere: Related ContentPigs on Parade: Our Corporate Democrats
It was perhaps inevitable that once our political system was captured by corporate interests, there would come a time when virtually all the candidates available to us were hypocrites. We’re looking at that time now on the national level. All three candidates still standing are corporate conservatives. Two of them have flip-flopped so many times they could be IHOP icons featuring pancakes instead of faces. The third is your standard political hypocrite, saying what people want to hear but voting and supporting very opposite policies to the ones he claims to be championing.
I shouldn’t have to tell you at this point which is which. The NYT helped today by breaking down the Democratic hypocrites, particularly Hillurary.
Sphere: Related ContentSo What About Those Issues?
Perhaps the greatest irony of the Democratic race this primary season comes from the charges that Obama lacks in substance, yet while the the Clinton camp is the greatest mouthpiece for this argument, the last things they seem to want to talk about are the issues at hand.
I had hoped that with Obama’s rise to prominence this election season would result in some great debates, some serious talk about the challenges that face our nation, but as his rise to the frontrunner solidified, the Clinton campaign claims to be the campaign of that oh so elusive substance, yet the attacks they launch upon the Obama campaign are not based upon the foundation of ideas and solutions, but instead upon the politics-of-old style attacks; attacks that have grown increasingly personal and deranged.
Sphere: Related ContentAbout Those Pesky Rules
If there’s one thing I hope comes out of this Democratic primary season (with, of course, the exception of Obama as the nominee), it is that the Democratic party will have a nice little sit down and review how it chooses a nominee.
Sphere: Related ContentOf Pledges And Super Delegates
Howard Wolfson, adding to the spin war about who’s in the lead and what delegate means what brings me to a point that I knew was coming.
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Sphere: Related ContentDemocratic Primary/Caucus Calendar
Given the dead heat, it is probably time to start analyzing the upcoming primaries and caucuses. Here’s the calendar:
Feb. 9 - Louisiana, Nebraska, Washington, Virgin Islands
Feb. 10 - Maine
Feb. 12 - DC, Maryland, Virginia (Kyle Votes)
Feb. 19 - Hawaii, Wisconsin
March 4 - Ohio, Rhode Island, Texas, Vermont
March 8 - Wyoming
March 11 - Mississippi
April 22 - Pennsylvania
May 3 - Guam
May 6 - Indiana, North Carolina
May 13 - West Virginia
May 20 - Kentucky, Oregon (Macswain picks our next President)
June 3 - Montana, South Dakota
June 7 - Puerto Rico
The New York Times has it purtier and with more details.
Sphere: Related ContentHillary and Obama: Change, Finally? Don’t Make Me Laugh
Glenn Greenwald drove the point home in his Salon blog this morning that the Democrats remain, under DLC leadership, tied to playing monkey-see/monkey-do with the GOP despite the fact that Republicans and their policies are reviled throughout the country.
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