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Entries Tagged ‘primaries’

What does ‘participate’ mean?

As I mentioned last night, the meeting of the RBC today is meaningless. Harold Ickes, in high dudgeon, dramatically reserved Senator Clinton’s right to ‘take the Michigan compromise to the credentials committee.”
Clinton supporters, in addition to being incredibly rude and unruly, are unhappy that Obama was given ANY delegates in Michigan, just as I suspected. [...]

The Facts about Puerto Rico

No matter what you might hear, the Puerto Rico popular vote does not count, particularly when applied to the specious argument that one candidate or the other is ‘winning the general election’ that we haven’t had yet.

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The RBC meeting will be irrelevant

…Because the Clinton campaign has drawn a deep line in the sand, a line which can only be resolved with the intervention of the credentials committee.
However, there is another way. The pledged delegates and superdelegates, with the press, can make her irrelevant. It’s time to start doing that.
There will be some sort of resolution [...]

Worthy of attention

Jeffrey Toobin: In McCain’s Court
Might he really be a “maverick” when it comes to the Supreme Court? The answer, almost certainly, is no. The Senator has long touted his opposition to Roe, and has voted for every one of Bush’s judicial appointments; the rhetoric of his speech shows that he is getting his advice on [...]

Larry Johnson is an Anti-Intellectual, Fearmongering, Lying Pig

Photo: Larry C. Johnson’s self portrait, as published on the Huffington Post

If this guy is a friend of Hillary Clinton’s, she really doesn’t need any enemies. With screeds like this where imaginary terrorists named William Ayers become arguments against Barack Obama 5 days ahead of the West Virginia and Kentucky primaries, the excrable Larry [...]

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We will end it by telling the truth…

Just in case there’s any doubt whatsoever, here is a reasonable prediction of the remaining primaries; indeed, almost a best-case prediction, including Florida and Michigan with no penalty. Obama has 259 Superdelegates right now. The math is inevitable.

[edited to give Senator Clinton the correct FL/MI delegates and reset remaining to 50/50 for more accurate forecast]
So [...]

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