49. Wednesday Muse; Obama Outperforms Expectations, Clinton Stays in
May 7th, 2008 The "Rocky Balboa" Candidate Starting to Look Like Sylvester Stallone, Gets Pounded By Mason Dixon Barack Obama outperformed all expectations yesterday, winning North Carolina 56% to 42% while losing Indiana by only 2 points. He gained a net of 10-15 delegates and 210,000 votes, putting him ahead in every possible count of the popular vote, and giving him a prohibitive 800,000 ...
50. The Tuesday Muse; Deciphering Tuesday’s Exit Polls
May 6th, 2008 Obama wins NC, Clinton wins Indiana While we've seen a variety of results thus far in this nomination process, one thing we have not seen is Demographic blocs breaking. Perhaps the most surprising outcome of the primaries in the two largest remaining states is that some of these blocs are beginning to be less steadfast. First of all, there seems ...
51. The Monday Muse; What Could Happen as a Result of Tuesday’s Primaries
May 5, 2008 Psuedo-Super Tuesday…Four? New Hampshire, California, Texas and Ohio, Pennsylvania, and now North Carolina and Indiana. That is the list of contests that have been “must-wins” for the Clinton campaign, and the final states on that list will vote tomorrow. If she loses North Carolina and wins Indiana, the race might go on, but Clinton’s chances will hinge entirely on ...
52. The Weekend Muse; Guam is voting…Yes, Guam
May 3, 2008 Near the top of the list of "things that let you know when an election is close" is when Guam's caucus matters. Yes, for those of you that don't know, residents of Guam are US citizens, and about 4000 of them will vote today to choose (drumroll) four delegates. While neither candidate actually went to Guam, they did each ...
53. The Thursday Muse; Superdelegates Start Making Their Voices Heard
May 1, 2008 Smoke Filled Rooms Across The Nation Open Their Windows For the weeks leading up to the Pennsylvania primary, superdelegate endorsements to senator Obama had been glacial and endorsements to Clinton had been nearly nonexistent. One could expect only 1-2 endorsements per day, and before Pennsylania, 311 supers hadn't announced their endorsement. Now that the vast majority of voters' voices ...
54. The Monday Muse; Is Obama Unelectable?
April 28th, 2008 Yes He Can't? There have been thousands of words spent by pundits and columnists over the last week about whether or not Barack Obama could actually win a general election if he can't win big states, finish off Clinton, or prevent skeletons from coming out of his closet. There have been those wondering whether he's actually closer to an Adlai ...
55. The Weekend Muse; Republicans Keeping Clinton’s Bid Alive
April 26, 2008 Clinton, the Republicans’ Democrat? It has been long speculated upon by everybody from pro-Obama MSNBC to the pro-Clinton NY Times that Hillary Clinton is attacking Obama on the exact same points McCain is, that she has damaged the Democrats’ presumptive nominee enough to move him from prohibitive favorite to underdog against the Republicans, that her ads are out of ...
56. Thursday Muse; The Road Map From Here
April 24, 2008 Road Map to the Nomination Two months ago, I wrote an article putting things in perspective about what margins Clinton needed to win by through Pennsylvania to have a decent chance down the road. Here is what that best case scenario was for Clinton: Hawaii: Best Scenario for Clinton: Lose 14-6, what happened: Lost 14-6 Wisconsin: Best Scenario for Clinton: split ...
57. Wednesday Muse; Clinton Wins Pennsylvania By Enough…But Not By Enough
April 23, 2008 Groundhog Day Punxsutawney Phil has just informed us that we have at least two more weeks of this race. On Tuesday, Hillary Clinton won Pennsylvania by a little over 9 points, putting her effectively in the same position she was in after Ohio. Prior to the Texas and Ohio primaries, Clinton was perceived dead in the water, trailing by ...
58. The Monday Muse; Is Pennsylvania truly finally here?
April 21, 2008 Finally something that matters to talk about Not Wearing Flag Pins (Clinton, Obama, McCain), Lying about Bosnia (Clinton), association with Reverend Wright (Obama and Clinton), Association with Weather Underground (Obama and Clinton), and "Bitter-gate" (Obama). These meaningless stories have been filling the airwaves ever since Mississippi voted and we became condemned to over a month of no real political ...
59. Monday Muse; Presidential Race Takes a Temporary Backseat
March 24th, 2008 A Lull in the [Endless] Conversation? Now that we're more than two weeks removed, forward or backwards, from any significant primaries or caucuses, the presidential candidates are finding themselves in a strange place: Out of the spotlight. Now that's not to say the story of the campaign has receded into the aether, it's actually still getting the most press ...
60. Tuesday Muse; Obama Wins Back Friendly Media With Speech
March 18, 2008 The Speech It had been getting old. It was becoming mocked. Barack Obama's most notable attribute, being one of the country's greatest inspirational speakers, had been turned into a negative. It was becoming vogue to refer to him as "the chosen one," and the majority of the media was relentlessly tearing apart even the most minor transgressions. Then he ...