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In her victory speech last night, Hillary Clinton probably nailed the underlying reason for her remarkable comeback in New Hampshire. In the last three days, Clinton had changed her pattern, spending far more time taking questions and comments and less time delivering the same old stump speech. "I listened to you," she told the voters of New Hampshire, "and in the process, I found my own voice.
"Too many have been invisible for too long; you're not invisible to me. . . . There will be no more invisible Americans. . . .
"Now let's give the country the kind of comeback that New Hampshire has just given me."
On MSNBC last night, Katrina vanden Heuvel made the point that these candidates are learning from each other. Obama's speech borrowed populist themes from Edwards, she noted, adding that Clinton probably turned her campaign around when she said she rediscovered the progressive causes and reasons why she was running.
When Clinton castigated the oil companies, the insurance companies, the drug companies, the predatory loan companies, she was echoing Edward's speeches. "For seven years they've had a President who stood up for them. Now it's time you had someone stand up for you."
Edwards and Obama each delivered eloquent and gracious speeches, congratulating Hillary Clinton but also reaffirming their respective central themes. Obama's speech restated how important hope has become in this race. In the face of an unexpected second place, his rejection of the claim of "false hope" and his insistence that "yes, we can" seemed the right message for his supporters and the country. (And it will play well elsewhere as "si, se puede.")
There was something else new in Obama's speech -- at least since Iowa. It was the declaration of the new, emerging majority of Americans who are eager for change -- "something's happening in America" -- echoing the notion that last night again signaled a growing public repudiation of the Bush/Cheney regime. As in Iowa, the increase in votes for Democrats swamped those for Republicans. "We are ready to take this country in a fundamentally different direction," Obama declared, as he listed just some of the issues on which the current regime has been abysmal.
Edwards reminded us of the people he's met, the people who needed a helping hand but didn't get it. He vowed to keep fighting for them, so he's staying in the race through the nomination. Rejecting the media's annoying tendency to eliminate voices prematurely, Edwards reminded them it's important to hear from the 99 percent of the country that had not yet voted.
It was another great night for Democrats. We'll continue to have at least three strong voices, each articulating important pieces of the Democratic message -- hope, experience, competence, commitment, empathy, and passion -- plus a rejection of BushCheneyism. It's a winning progressive combination for whoever pulls it all together, and now they all see it.
In Iowa last week, Obama's youth roared; in New Hampshire last night, Hillary's women roared back. The Democrats are becoming lions. Be afraid, Bush Republicans; be very afraid.
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So, do you figure the rest of the party isn’t fighting like we are here on the Lake?
Good morning Scarecrow!
Good morning, Scarecrow. As usual, very good post.
Well, I think we are still trying to find our voice.
For me bottom line, any of the 3 Dems is so much better than the Repubs. I want a Democratic president to work with the Congress. Not paradise, but better than what we have now.
I can’t get past the fear that the machines are hackable and all the outrage and passion will be wiped away by a simple click of the button. And, now they have the 2004 election as a lesson that they have to tweak those machines a little more.
Good morning; I’ve added a link to Obama’s speech. We try to find Edwards.
Agreed. Any one of the three offers the country a chance to get out of this handbag.
there is no doubt that the clinton money machine has had to copy the Edwards’ positions but that tells us squat because if one thinks for one minute that she, or in fact obama, who are bought and paid for by the same corporations that Edwards castigates, can effect any change from the corporate owned world they are sadly mistaken.
Yeah, I wish the media would try to find him.
Seems like there are a good many (see how living in Georgia can make you say funny stuff) who think Hil and Obama are just as bad as the repubs. I’m just sayin.
Raven -
Comes of having been born at one end of the state and spending most of my adult life at the other end. Not so sweet when the tax/insurance/upkeep bills start pourin’ in….and it be that time of year. :-(
Hi, is BlueStateRedHead lurking? I’ve got some links to share. :)
Good Morning Scarecrow,
It’s a fine day
(except for the part where it’s raining)
A couple points about Hillary’s win. (always feel like putting an asterik after saying that). If the women did swing her way, I feel there were 2 reasons.
1)She’s better at answering questions than giving a speech. She seems warmer and of course, she’s well prepared to answer most questions.
2)The “Iron my shirt” guys ticked off the women voters. I was so p-o’ed when I heard that. Haven’t heard such open sexism at a public forum…well…ever. It’s akin to using a racial slur.
Look, I like John Edwards very much. However, his political record, his actual votes, are almost exact the same as Hillary Clintons. For some reason, you accept his change from a moderate democrat to what you consider to be the only progress, but no one else. Those of us who believe it is essential to root out all vestigas of the Bush Administration and it’s lockstep supporters aren’t Mary Poppinses and didn’t fall off the turnip truck yesterday. I helped beat Barry Goldwater, for God’s sake. So lighten up on the inferences and hold out the slim possiblility that you might be wrong on a thing or two.
Don’t knock the rain, darlin’…… we in the SE will take every drop you don’t want. ;-)
No, but you’ve heard a decorated combat veteran called a traitor, coward and a liar and not many people seemed moved to vote for him because of it.
We’ll have to see how Hillary pushes her re-discovered progressive ideas in the coming months. Si, se puede is a call for action from the downtrodden and I’m interested in seeing how these corporate-sponsored politicians deal with the real issues facing those whose call is “Yes, we can.” A comment I saw a few days ago stated that a hard turn to the left by Obama is a turn to the center. I think that’s true but is not limited to Obama. I’m suspicious of anything the Clinton’s do and would never vote for Hillary for anything but it’s going to be fun to watch.
It’s as bad in NC as it is anywhere.
It was an exciting night last night - I could hardly sleep!
Good morning, all - coffee is almost ready.
Hillary might want to thank those two ironing buttheads for so openingly doing what the MSM had been doing in their own snide and cheapshot way. Anyone with a wife, daughter, sister or niece should have been pissed. Those two turkeys will need to find some Stepfords Republicans to date.
Ooooh, you nail it, Scarecrow!
Republican levee, meet Democratic tsunami….
I am so proud to be a Democrat this morning.
Tell it, brother! Is your water table looking any better in GA?
Does anyone think that Obama’s and Hillary’s new found populism will translate into supporting Dodd and his FISA fight? That would cement it for me….that they mean what they say. I can see Hillary fighting. I can’t see Obama doing it.
The smaller lakes are better but Lanier is still wayyyyy down.
I think the Iowa and NH results — the turnouts, the motivations are showing a lot of folks are ready to take on the Bushies. I find this very encouraging. I wonder what the Dem leadership is hearing.
By copying Edwards populist approach, Sen Clinton and Obama are validating it. It is freaking big business out and we will have to see who goes after our two frontrunners because of it. Edwards still does populism best, and it is interesting to see the other two copy it. We will see if the change mantra morphs into populism. By validating Edwards they are risking interest being redirected back to him.
Footsteps
http://tpmelectioncentral.com/.....s_race.php
edwards
seems unlikely…
Who lost last night?
The media. NH delivered a severe rebuke that we’re not listening to them anymore. If I were Tweety, I’d take a day or two off and examine my conscience.
Re:
Do we have any information on those two hecklers at the Clinton event? The reason that I ask is that (can you believe it?) there is occasionally some fraud involved in politics.
Here’s a recent example. Fox News Caught Rigging Their Focus Groups
With the polls indicating that Hillary was cratering in New Hampshire, how difficult do you think it would be for the Clinton team to work on “ideas” about how they might manipulate the public’s mind? How likely do you think that that tear in Hillary’s eye was created just in the same way that stage and movie actresses can well up with emotion when they get into a role? What do you think are the possibilities that the pasty faced boys who were acting like absolutely no sane protestor would might have been confederates of the Clinton machine who were perpetrating a fraud? They sure seemed to give up without a fight, and the security personnel seemed to have little trouble with the boys who exited in a very orderly fashion after staging their outburst.
Think along the lines of really much bigger political frauds. Are you familiary with Operation Gladio? For political advatage, the right wing secret police in Italy murdered multiple dozens of ordinary citizens in egregious attacks that were blamed on the Left. Could Hillary have been trying to arouse her feminist friends and other sympathizers by staging a blatantly sexist and totally stupid “event”? I sure wouldn’t put it past her. She’s a professional politician, after all. And her husband has had two terms worth of full access to every dirty trick that our duplicious and immoral intelligence community could cook up. Watch out for this woman.
The public has tuned out the media especially the pundits and the reporters who pretend to be. The regular non political junkies look at the press and see George Bush and Iraq. They have to get information from the press but they don’t really believe them. This is why the big corporate press is slowly dying. Instead of information they sell punditry and entertainment which is being ignored more and more by the public.
Actions speak louder than words. Her votes over her tenure as a Senator, along with her actions apart from her role as a Senator, have said enough for me. Ditto for the rest of the candidates.
Lieberman — remember him? I haven’t forgotten him. A couple of tears didn’t shake that memory.
And speaking of the dems/dims……when does Washington get back to work?
goldberry @ 32 -
What freakin’ “conscience”? Just like scar this morning….it ain’t *my* fault. :-( And speaking of tweety, he’s coming up on scar.
Nothing has changed, in my opinion. Clinton remains the old-guard, heavily processed, shrink-wrapped democratic offering. Obama and Edwards are as close as the Democratic party can come to a truly different course. True, fundamental change–including drastic reductions in military spending, a reaffirmation of constitutional principles, and a rejection of american empire–will not be offered to american voters.
Re:
You know, I may have been born at night, but it waan’t last night. I would touch that bet with an eleven foot Lithuanian.
I agree — wonderful night when the media/pundrity class (gosh, am I one of them?) get’s a comeupance. And who better than Rachel Maddow to deliver the message to Chris Matthews. Any one find a video of that?
It’s now called “the tweety effect.”
“she noted, adding that Clinton probably turned her campaign around when she said she rediscovered the progressive causes and reasons why she was running. “
Hilary and Obama you say have moved Left. Cool once the GOP notices I expect them to start attacking all the Democrats as too Left for America or Dems will hurt the economy.
When the truth is the Dems are still to the Right of 70% of America, but I like the direction they are going.
And as far as the economy goes as long as gas is over $2.50 a gallon the GOP has problems.
The only way to win this election is to out Left your opponents!
Tweety on Joe this morning saying NH voters are a bunch of racists and liars…
Yes. But I think it was important that all three candidates chose to speak from a more progressive position in their speeches last night.
Ray Duray–
I read that the iron my shirt guys were doing a Boston shock jock stunt.
And you’re absolutely right. The media deserves a pummeling, as do establishment pundits.
NH — half the population of Iowa, yet the numbers in NH are supposed to be representative of the entire population’s opinion.
NH — nearly 97% WHITE, compared to Iowa’s 91%. (Does not take into account what percentage of this white vote is Hispanic.)
NH — in a media market overlapping or adjoining New York state’s market, so that any news about HRC has had a residual, cumulative effect during her tenure. Let’s not forget that NH is within easy driving distance of NYC, and has an international border if small. These things shape opinion.
Haven’t even begun to look at age. College towns clearly leaned towards Obama; one went for him at 58%.
This is so not over, and we haven’t even put the Southern factor into play yet; there was no way that Edwards and Huckabee were going to do well in NH.
Tweety “logic”: If there’s a black man running for office and you don’t vote for him, you’re a racist.
Whatever.
Tweety - “the reason Hillary is a senator is because her husband messed around”….
this guy won’t give it up.
At one point, Matthews cut off an Obermann-Mitchell discussion of HRC and went into a long incoherent diatribe concerning some Macchiavellian manipuliations of the Clintons that he didn’t understand, he was going to stay up and get to the bottom of it, although most people would go to bed. They needed to bring a net out. I think somebody finally told him to get a grip. Rachel’s statement came later.
Actions are what we need from the Democrats to see if they really are moving Left or just talking a good game. With the Primary season kicking in the average American is now paying attention.
Any attack of Spinelessness now could be fatal.
Who were the speeches for? That’s the tricky part. Were they thank-yous, or were they advance notice on their next target?
Whatever the case, I still look to their “resume”; I don’t hire on the interview alone. One of the chits I can put in HRC’s file is the screw-up that is Michigan’s primary. Her “girls” in this state have jacked it up so badly in their efforts to curry favor with her, win her the primary, and earn themselves a slot in the next administration, that they made the entire state look like fools while giving Republicans a leg up.
She could have done the right thing and followed party discipline — but as we saw with Lieberman, it’s not about the party, it’s about her and winning.
Rayne, can you explain please, how did she help screw up Michigan’s primary?
Damm Tweety is angry I wonder if he is trying to prove the Tweety effect.
Great post…..the only thing that needs to be discussed is the following;
New Hampshire voted for 2 candidates who want MORE war.
THey voted for 2 candidates who would not get rid of DOMA,
while Hillary and McCain are both different candidates, they BOTH used the 911 scare tactics in their final stump speeches. I hope the progressive sphere wakes up to the reality of this , especially concerning Hillary.
Yeah tweety and the press suck……but I hope we can all move beyond that, and get back to what is a big problem with Hillary!
I think the first part of post-vote speeches is a thank you; the second is directed towards the next audience.
I saw your links on the Michigan court decision — no TRO, but the issue is still open. Where is the DNC on this?
Solai - good points - esp the “iron my shirt” guys.
I am so grateful for the way Edwards is helping move the dialog towards the people. I hope he continues.
My fear is that Hill will win and McCain and Bush will start another war.
Morning, all!
While I was in the gym this morning, I listened to some show on MSNBC called something like “Cup of Joe”, with an announcer named Joe Scarboro, and there was also a blond female announcer, and two pundit “election expert” type dudes. It was absolutely staggering how inane the drivel was pouring out of their mouths concerning the NH primaries. It reminded me of why I never watch anything on TV except sports.
You just nailed the things Edwards has to hit and Hilary and Obama have to change if they want to win.
I also wonder whether the Florida mess (the move to move their primary earlier) wasn’t at the behest of Hillary so that they would be early and play a part in the “steam rolling” that was part of her campaign strategy. One of my problems with Hillary is how readily her supporters seem willing to break the rules (serving sandwiches at the Iowa caucuses, tearing down signs of opponents, replacing campaign literature of others). Michigan is part of this as well.
There you go again.
Well I did and as I was falling I distinctly saw hill and obama taking money from big corps and I did not see Edwards take a dime. Was I on the wrong truck?
This post is full of good stuff, including these discussions in the comments
why not digg it?
If either HRC or Obama are the nominated, what is the recommended action for those who consider themselves Progressive?
Stay home in November?
Vote Republican?
Write in a name?
Erect barricades
What?
Give money to act blue candidates.
She’s talking Edwards’s talk. She’ll never walk the walk. Let’s see if the Dems/voters understand that.
BTW, I just read MoDo’s column which from the last post has people seething. I liked it. What did she say wrong? Ecept that she said HRC had been “playing the victim.” I hope by that she doesn’t measn she was faking. Her column suggests otherwise. I assume MoDo meant the subsequent spin. I like it.
Sorry Blue America candidates
good one. he’s there. they really wouldn’t have to loom too hard,w ould they. Lazy.
Writ in a name as the other choices are all goopers
I’ll take your word for it. Although some dislike trial lawyers equally. I think they’re out to lunch, and he believes he needs the support in order to have a chance at getting elected and putting into effect what he believes in. It’s a problem in our system that you have to get elected to do anything. Other examples are Harry Trumans’ particpation in the Prendergast Machine, before he did them in, and Lyndon Johnson’s cosistent southern conservative votes, until he got the Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed.
Well, it might have been the “crying her way to the White House” thing. The title of the column is “Can Hillary Cry Her Way Back to the White House?” Puh-leeeze…
Me. I like a trial lawyer that takes on big business and wins. If the lawyer makes money at the same time so be it.
As a disclaimer some of my friends are lawyers.
Excellent post to start the day, Scarecrow.
Matthews repeatedly told NH how to vote & they, in turn, collectively blew him off. To top it, he was called out by Rachel Maddow on the constant Hillary bashing.
Ego trip punctured = tantrum from Tweety.
I’m for John Edwards, but will work like hell to elect whichever candidate the Dems finally put forward- Edwards, Obama, or Clinton. We need a Dem president & veto proof majorities in both houses of Congress to even attempt putting the brakes on the BushCo trainwreck. Bottom line for me.
Didn’t FL: used to be in the SE or did we get kicked out. I could understand. First they take away our delegates then they kick us out of the region for loing to a Big Ten team. been rainin’ more than usual this winter. But it’s OK. Clear now but that’ll probably change.
I would like to see a post on what kinds of cases Edwards took on, and his win-loss ratio analysed by type of case & adversary. This is something I don’t know enough about. An R in the lodge bar last night asserted that Edwards made all his money by winning cases of women who delivered birth defect babies because they didn’t have C-sections. I don’t know whether that is accurate or not, but I did point out what a shame it would be if these women & their lawyer took over the country. He understood the snark.
Scarecrow, I don’t think she borrowed Edwards’ themes; I think she stole them. Now that she sees they work, she has no intention of returning them.
Thanks for the “leadership” display, Hillary.
Welcome to the understanding that the corporate government of which you have been such a willing partner, is the problem, not the solution.
Now that you’ve changed colors for the umpteenth time, get ready; South Carolina is another leaf. :o)
The “Iron My Shirt” Hoax Fools Many in Media
(Snip)
“…Then from the folks over at HotAir.com, we get some further sleuthing. After some speculating that it might have been a Hillary plant, the tipseters at HotAir tracked down the truth. It’s a simple radio stunt.
It turns out the guys who the Daily News named work for Boston station WBCN 104.1 FM, and are members of the Toucher and Rich Show.
So much for real political protesting, eh? But it amuses me that few news outlets bothered to do the leg work to find all this out and went ahead to report this incident like it was legitimate. It did give the MSM a chance to show Hillary looking PC by claiming she was being confronted by examples of “sexism” run wild, though. So, maybe that is why they didn’t want to look into it too hard. It would destroy the illusion of Hillary’s “strength” and place the focus on a radio stunt…..”
For the most part, I like them too. I even favor John Edwards. But I take exception to the name calling and absolute prounoucement of debatable issues. I think yesterday’s primary suggests that it is counterproductive.
“…remarkable comeback”?!?!
Don’t believe the hype. I’m now quite suspect of these magical polls that swung 10 points to Obama in two days, and now were apparently 10 points or more wrong.
First, The Clintons try to steal the “Change” theme. Now they’re trying to steal the “Underdog” theme.
Please…the Conglomerate Media has been drilling the “unbeatable” and “inevitable” memes regarding Hillary for nearly 10 years. Change and Underdog are exactly the opposite of what Hillary truly represents.
Let’s not buy into and repeat the lies for them.
You might want to read MoDo again. As Mrs. Cheney would say, Modo is not a nice person.
The Repuiblican Legislature set the elction date in FL.
DNC is where it always has been: the committee, comprised of representatives from state parties across the entire country, voted a year ago on the primary schedule, and the repercussions of not adhering to that schedule were part and parcel of that decision.
Florida and Michigan chose NOT to honor a democratic (little d) vote and broke ranks, and the DNC is enforcing what it voted upon. No change in position.
What I am also riled up about is that Democrats have forgotten a fundamental learning from the Republican Party: they obtained a majority in Congress, the White House and now the SCOTUS because of party discipline. The actions of Florida and Michigan are completely rogue and outside party discipline; in Michigan, I have yet to run into ANY Democratic Party member or Dem voter who is happy with the current primary. This tells you a LOT about the respect that the Clinton machine, which set this in motion, has for party discipline, let alone the larger issue of respecting voters and their rights.
I was taling about teh article. the headline is supposwed to be an eye-grabber I think. i don’t count it for much. It was kinda stupid.
But her Edwards-esque speech was after she won. She hadn’t been sounding those themes as much prior to winning. But i guess she’s gonna co-opt more of teh Edwards language now. Again. talk the talk. won’t walk the walk.
Modo in a nutshell.
I read it carefully and parts more than once. I don’t like her, personally.
yeah kinda
From her column:
Where should I begin? “Misty dread,” “tremulously,” followed immediately by “smack her rival.” Some may call it good writing, I call it being a bitch. And believe you me, I know bitches. (I probably are one…)
I just took another look at the Hillary speech from last night. what I (finally) noticed was the crowd behind her. Gone, of course, were Wes Clarke and Madeline Albright.
Look at the tape - those who were directly behind Hillary and cheering in the frontal camera shot looked like they’d been bussed in from a local high school. Young, young, young.
I meant the headline. As I said teice, I like the article. What did she say that was wrong? I mean, it’s an opinion piece but I think it’s at least on target.
And in Michigan, the date of the primary must be agreed to and voted upon by the state legislature. We have a majority Dem state house and a majority Rep state senate here, and we were in the middle of budget wangling because of a multi-billion dollar deficit at the time the primary was negotiated. I don’t know based on the limited info we’ve been able to get whether the primary was a negotiating chit in the budget war here.
And I also don’t think that the party machine that demanded this early and rogue primary gave any thought to the benefits that the Republicans in this state gained. They can now compete against each other without any noise from Democratic candidates cluttering the airwaves; there are enough Reagan Democrats in this state, particularly union members, who are sooooo pissed off about this primary that they are going to cross party lines and may do so for good.
The unions are very upset. VERY. I can’t stress this enough. A long-time party activist with some of the greatest clout and on first name basis with the governor has already said they are crossing over and voting for McCain, and they are going to tell a lot of their union brethren why they are doing it. How good is that for the Democratic Party?
Many of us have been saying this same shit since the early 90s. Clintons stick their finger in the wind and go whichever direction the wind is blowing. They stand for nothing other than political gain.
This is disturbing. I can’t believe people are still falling for their crap. Are people voting for her because they want to see woman President? If so, it’s too bad so many people are so sexist and would based solely on gender.
Wikipedia has a brief writeup of some of Edwards’ more visible cases. One fo the cases was described like this:
All the footnotes are over at wiki.
You don’t make “comebacks” in a state that has been pronounced “safe” for you since you got into the race, and in which a short time before the election, you led by 22 percentage points.
I’ve never seen an election in which the polls seem to be more easily manipulated.
I think the voters of NH were punk’f by footage of a couple of Iranian speedboats that looked like they should be pulling a tuber on Lake Winnepesuakee not harrassing a couple of US destroyers.
Suddenly the steady hand meme loomed large.
-G
G’morning, everyone. Huzzah, Scarecrow!
I believe as you do, tanbark, that HRC pirated Edwards’ themes. Found her voice? Nah, found Edwards’ voice. And in so doing, he will be even more marginalized than before — which is hard to imagine, really. Talk about the Invisible Man.
Do we know/have a sense of how many people cross party lines to skew primary results? I know, I know. Tinfoil hat. I think I trend toward dirty tricks explanations because I so desperately want to believe Americans aren’t dumb as doorknobs. (sigh)
g’morning firdogs and thanx for the post crow
I haven’t read akk the comments so I don’t know if this is mentioned or addressed;
I’m sorry, edwards remained at 17 percent throught the entire night, I think he went to 16.5 for a while but rounded out he remained at 17 percent
that is simply not possible and I am quite confident this election was fixed
Noticed that instantly.
Not the establishment Mt. Rushmore of old greaybeards(apologies to Mrs. Albright).
-G
Appreciate your tracking that down, and wasn’t interesting to see the mea culpa at the end about the redblogosphere’s mistakes, but it would have been fairer to the reporters who actually did some of that rare leg work to have cited them directly.
I would have also avoided giving someone who hates my guts traffic.
so if anyone has the Daily News link, I’d appreciate it. In fact, why don’t we inundate them with LTE thanking them for doing such excellent investigative reporting and if they want to look into more dirty tricks there was some Anti-Mormon pushpolling in NH traced back to a Republican outfit with connections to Romney. Now there’s a plant for you.
Actually, for all its awfulness, the Daily News keeps up the great tradition of brilliant punning headlines. i.e. after the Red Sox beat the Yankees in 2004 after going 0 and 3 and won the ALCS, “The chokes on you.”
Please mods, do not excise this message because it contains sports content. It’s relevant to a discussion of what’s alive and dead in the MSM.
Rayne, I missed some of the background of this story. Are the Mich Dems pissed of the DNC/Howard Dean, or was someone else within the Dem Party pushing for this primary change?
It would be interested to see the modeling.
-G
Same bottom line for me. I am just trying to push all our candidates Left. I am trying to create the impression that going Left is the way to win elections.
That and the huge voter turnout that we have seen so far in Iowa and New Hampshire can only be explained by voters wanting “Change”.
The damm MSM however refuses to explain that “Change ” means Left.
I wonder how many states will have to have huge voter turnouts in their Primary elections before the MSM catches on.
If the GOP is getting out voted almost? 2 to 1 in very White States like Iowa and New Hampshire then I wonder what the numbers will be in big Minority population states.
This trend must be giving Karl nightmares. Remember the Permanent GOP majority Karl was trying to create? The GOP needs voters to be happy and apathetic about the issues not angry, paying attention to the issues and polarized with 70% on our side and 30% on their side.
Vote fraud and martial law are my only worries.
…and some may call it the self-referential parody of what was once a good writing style. What style MoDo once could claim has been going south for a while now IMO.
“Never give being called a bitch a 2nd thought, dear. It just means you finally got their attention. Maybe not in a happy way, but you got it” (thanks, Mom, I’ve always remembered that one).
My primary isn’t until May and I’m still voting Edwards. No chance he was winning NH so I was glad to see Hillary win last night. She’s much more moderate than I am but still she’s got substance. What turned me off about Obama has nothing to do with his personality, race or style. It’s the fact that when the votes were counted this last year, he wasn’t there. At least Hillary showed up.
Missed votes
Obama:
2007-Q1 126 3
2007-Q2 112 20
2007-Q3 119 67
2007-Q4 85 76
Clinton:
2007-Q1 126 3
2007-Q2 112 3
2007-Q3 119 26
2007-Q4 85 71