Hey, Teddy! Been making some calls into SC for Edwards. If anyone wants to do remote phonebanking, let me know and I’ll hook you up.

hiya, Redshift! I’d like to help out with remote phonebanking, but I’m on a new never-talk cellphone plan, after a huge December bill. Hope SC is friendlier to Edwards than Nevada was; we really need his voice at the convention.

He speaks for so many who don’t have a voice.

Betcha Dick Cheney is enjoying his NSA intercept of this conversation:

When the former president called Kennedy, the Massachusetts Democrat gave Clinton an earful, telling him that he bore some blame for the injection of race into the contest. In any event, both Hillary and Obama made peace on the race issue at the Las Vegas debate. The Clinton camp now fears that Kennedy is leaning toward Obama, according to the Clinton source, though Kennedy’s office says he is making no endorsement “at this time.”

One thing that the horse race addicted media neglected to adequately report is that Obama has an anti-gambling record.
This record was one of the keys to today’s results in Nevada.

Hi, TSF!

I’m on a new never-talk cellphone plan

What is that, TSF? I’ve never heard of that….is it an emergency-only plan or something?

TSF!

TSF!

Suzanne!

Bravo, citizen journalist. This is news to me and I have been paying attention, rather obsessively. Why not report it to Talkleft and TPM for their post-primary debacle?

TSF!

Hi Prof, hi molly, hi Suzanne!

Hey oldgold!

Hello, BSRH and doc!

I do so want Edwards to be the nominee. He is the one I think will change things for the better. He is in my view the best Democratic presidential contender by far. Why must we have to settle for second and perhaps third best? We will continue to support Mr. Edwards as the next president.

When you say Obama is anti gambling, I assume you me casino gambling? Cause he was famous for participating in a regular poker night with other Chicago politicians and a bunch of lobbyist when he was a state senator. I think it was called the Committee Meeting or something like that. I wonder if the lobbyist lost more often than they won?

Hi Teddy and everyone. I’m glad Clinton beat Obama, but not happy about the poor Edwards showing.

Did you see the video of Bill Clinton explaining the Nevada lawsuit? I didn’t realize it meant that the votes in the casinos counted five times more than the votes in the rural districts. The Nevada democratic party rigged it up this way. He says the Clinton campaign had nothing to do with the lawsuit, but nobody knew about the 5/1 voting ratio.

I have been reading the Book Slaon book all day and didin’t have the TeeVee on. Are Edwards numbers still as bad as at the top of the last thread?

Video.

Thanks Kiddo
I feel the same way and it isnt over yet.

Nevada Democratic party estimating a huge caucus turnout, a great victory for Harry Reid:

Overall Turnout High for Nev. Caucuses

By Garance Franke-Ruta

While turnout at the nine at-large caucus locations on the fabled Las Vegas Strip may have been surprisingly low, given the amount of public attention focused on those sites, overall turnout for the Nevada caucuses surpassed even the best expectations of Democratic Party officials, who had earlier been predicting tens of thousands would show up for the Saturday political event.

With 88 percent of the precincts reporting, the Nevada Democratic Party said in a statement that it’s “seeing record turnout with more than 114,000 caucus attendees.”

Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (Nev.) was one of the only people to predict turnout around 100,000. Others had projected a more modest 45,000 tally.

Lahoma asks me, “kiddo can you imagine if the Republicans win the WH again?” I tell her, yes.

I didn’t realize it meant that the votes in the casinos counted five times more than the votes in the rural districts.

As I understand it, this would be the maximum possible ratio, only occurring were there to be some extraordinarily low turnout at the casino at-large caucuses. (I am not an expert on this stuff, so I could be wrong about this.)

This is ironic. Of the 9 at large casino caucus sites, Hillary won at least 6.
We must always remember to be careful for what we wish for or against.

My passport and my lady’s passport are newly renewed.

Think Progress:

With 84 percent of the precincts reporting across the state, state party officials said more than 107,000 Nevada voters attended the caucuses. It is the third state in the row to achieve record-setting turnout in the Democratic presidential nominating fight, which party strategists believe is a referendum on the Bush administration and a strong call for a new direction in Washington.

Just 9,000 voters participated in the state’s 2004 Democratic caucus.

Edwards is still the only one who polls ahead of the Repugs
Mitt will turn DC “inside out”

Thanks for the passport reminder. That is a January 2008 task in our household.

AP – President Bush said Saturday “the kind of spending projects that would have little immediate impact on our economy” should not be part of any stimulus package, setting the stage for a possible clash with Democrats.

Hiya, all! I am still trying to get into Charlie Savage’s “Imperial Presidency,” and have a couple others stacked up, including KO’s. No telling if or when I will get to the Book Salon book, so I think I’m gonna stick to this thread.

That DKos diary about Clinton campaign cheating is mucho disturbing, even if it’s not verified by other sources just yet.

Here’s the problem with Obama (from Howie Klein)
“But even if Lieberman will be campaigning against Obama if he wins the Democratic primary, the most reactionary Democrat in the whole Senate, the only Democrat who votes with Republicans more than with Democrats on substantive matters, Nebraska’s arch-conservative Ben Nelson came out and endorsed Obama. He says he likes his bipartisan approach. But if anyone cares to compare their voting records, Obama’s is considerably to the right of Hillary’s. She’s the Senate’s 29th most progressive voter. He’s #43– worse even than reactionaries like Max Baucus (MT), Ken Salazar (CO) and Blanche Lincoln (AR). Only 6 Democrats (+ Lieberman) vote more frequently with the GOP than Obama. So anyone– usually between the ages of 18 and 25– who has sipped the Obama Kool-Aid and think he’s more progressive than Hillary, let alone Edwards… look at the facts.”

http://downwithtyranny.blogspo…..t-for.html

Hi All.

The Media and the caucus system make it easier for Rethugs to win. Squeezing out and blacking out Edwards – and crowning Hills and Obama the defacto candidates really sucks ass, IMHO. It is not a democracy by any stretch of the imagination.

I am very sad about the Edwards numbers. I am sticking with him.

Gender Gap Benefits Clinton
By Jon Cohen

In her Nevada caucus win today, Hillary Rodham Clinton benefited from a sizable gender gap and big turnout from mainline Democrats.

According to the network’s entrance poll , women made up 59 percent of all caucusgoers, and went for Clinton over Illinois senator Barack Obama by a wide margin (51 percent to 38 percent).

Independents, a backbone of Obama’s support in other states, made up just 15 percent of the Nevada electorate, a lower percentage than in either Iowa or New Hampshire. And while they went for the Illinois senator by a 14-point margin, Clinton had the initial support of 51 percent of self-identified Democrats, a much larger group.

(The entrance poll, conducted by Edison/Mitofsky, did not include ad hoc caucus locations on the Las Vegas Strip.)

Obama beat Clinton by a large margin among those under 30 (59 percent to 33 percent), but Clinton outdistanced him by 2 to 1 among those aged 60 and up, and more than twice as many caucusgoers were in the older age category.

About three in 10 caucusgoers were from union households, with 45 percent going for Clinton, 44 percent for Obama.

Race was also a factor for the first time in the Democratic contest. White caucusgoers went for Clinton 52 percent to 34 percent for Obama, while African Americans broke heavily for Obama, 83 percent to 14 percent for Clinton. Nearly two-thirds of Latinos opted for Clinton.

Both Latinos and blacks accounted for 15 percent of the electorate.

Thanks for the passport reminder. That is a January 2008 task in our household.

yes, I have to get my papers in order, too

I am very sad about the Edwards numbers. I am sticking with him.

Me too, bgrothus. I just sent him some $$ yesterday, and hope he hangs tough.

Yes, but it’s over. . OVER.

Will Edwards possible get enough delegates so as to become the “kingmaker” at the convention?

Chris Matthews snorts off-camera when Olbermann announces Ron Paul’s second-place finish.

I think that is the conventional wisdom but can you make a king out of chicken shit?

Snorts what? Bolivian marching powder mayhaps?

Translation: “If I can’t have my permanent tax cuts that will have no effect at all until two years from now, I’ll smear any sensible spending that any credible economist would agree is the appropriate stimulus as having ‘little immediate impact’.”

The GOP wants to restrict the stimulus only to people who pay taxes, which tells you all you need to know about whether they’re sincere about accepting reality rather than ideology.

I am very sad about the Edwards numbers. I am sticking with him.

bummed
*heavy sigh*

MSNBC boyz fluffing some serious McCain.

Russert finally admits: Romney won more delegates in Nevada than are up for grabs in South Carolina, so Romney can call himself the front-runner. “Ron Paul will trumpet his second-place finish on his internet.”

TPM:

Another big story out of today’s showing on the Democratic side is the very disappointing showing for John Edwards. With 73% reporting, he was 4%.

Is the Republican turnout simply the sum of the votes being shown (about 41,700)?

I’m bummed about Edwards also. Is the Nevada caucus like the Iowa one, when a candidate is below a certain percentage, that person’s supporters have to switch to another candidate? That’s the only was his small result makes sense.

Yes.

Thanks.

Have you no decency?

HOUSTON, Texas (AP) — A mailer from a congressional candidate’s campaign contains a photo of his head attached to an image of a different body that makes him look thinner.

The photo is presented as a true image of Dean Hrbacek, a Republican former mayor of Sugar Land, Texas. In reality, it is a computerized composite of Hrbacek’s face and someone else’s slimmer figure, in suit and tie, from neck to knee.

King George. QED.

Betcha the MSNBC folks have exit poll results that will lead to a quick South Carolina prediction. They are being very careful, and Noron just looked down and away from the camera when she talked about the evangelical turnout. But they can’t call it until the polls close.

Oh, yay, Mrs Greenspan!

There is a great post up at Agonist by Stirling Newberry that explains in great detail what sorts of stimuli are likely to be effective, and what are not. Highly recommended.

Stimuli, snorting, what is this blog turning into?

Edwards is THE fighting progressive left in this race (sorry Dennis), and is all but ignored. Painful to watch Dems shoot themselves in their collective feet. Again.

And WTF is kos doing ripping into him?

Bravo, John, for being an ass and dishonestly distorting what Obama said!

Kelly O’Donnell is telling us how John McCain is feeling.

Do not peek.

At least she got her voice back.

Washington Post Presidential LeaderBoard, includes SuperDelegates:

Clinton: 237
Obama: 135
Edwards: 50

Romney: 59
Huckabee: 34
McCain: 17

Includes today’s Nevada results

ha! Loo Hoo

The stimuli will be something Keynesian and not something trickle-down. Trickle-down (all tax cuts all the time for the rich) doesn’t work – not the way they say its supposed to work, at least. (they say that the rich will invest, create jobs, etc – when in fact they do nothing of the kind. They simply hoard the money.

A Keynesian stimulus will put real money in the hands of people who will spend it immediately. (The Media won’t dare call either economic principle by its true name.) Dubya wants to give everyone a check for $400 in the same way he did to get people to vote for him (or vote Republican, whatever)in 2000. Every sucker is gonna get another check from Dubya as thanks for letting him shit the bed. Its a Karl Rove production. See – Republicans give you free money.

****!

Can Hillary beat Mitt?

Did you see the video of Bill Clinton explaining the Nevada lawsuit? I didn’t realize it meant that the votes in the casinos counted five times more than the votes in the rural districts. The Nevada democratic party rigged it up this way. He says the Clinton campaign had nothing to do with the lawsuit, but nobody knew about the 5/1 voting ratio.

Actually they didn’t. That was bullshit from Bill. There was no 5/1 voting ratio. He was spinning and spinning wildely. However in all of the 14 caucuses having nothing to do with the federal district lawsuit in Nevada that allowed casinos to caucus, there are byzantine rules that make sure that often rurla caucuses have votes that count considerably more than urban ones. In Iowa, for example some votes in rural caucuses counted 100/1 over votes in urban caucuses. Caucuses are a bizarre, dispproportionate way to misrepresent votes.

LOL ole Billster suckering people into thinking actually instead of a narrow victory, the Hillary Girl won by 5 X the number of votes. That was pure crap out of Bill’s mouth. It’s not the first time he’s lied though. There have been many.

Tweety: Thompson is a slow, steady, Clydsdale with big hooves…
Re: Edwards….five years of campaigning to no effect.

There you have it.

23

Sure, they can play the mormon’s are boggie men card.

Can Hillary beat Mitt?

jeez, does that have to be the question?

It’s gonna be a long, hot summer….

http://www.commondreams.org/ar…..1/05/6189/

Here’s a link with a quick explanation of what is a super-delegate. Super delegates subvert the democratic process. Our system is little better that Venezuela’s if it is any better at all.

Looks like it to me, but what do I know?

Oh hell yes, when they start swifting Mc Cain you know it’s gonna be ugly. And wait until the terrist attack.

Yeah, and the attack on Iran…

I’m pretty convinced that Mitt is the “chosen” one to continue Bushco…

Ooooo but them Baptists. . .they won’t go for it.

More about Nevada results and delegate totals:

The Nevada Democratic Party is not reporting votes for its Jan. 19 caucuses. Instead, the party will only release the number of county delegates won by each presidential candidate (or “Uncommitted”). This is the data being collected by the Associated Press and displayed on washingtonpost.com. There will be at least 10,446 delegates to the county conventions in the state’s 17 counties. (More information here.)

Also, these delegates are unpledged.

What a process!

The superdelegates were an overreaction to a couple of times when elected officials didn’t get the “opportunity” to be delegates to the national convention. I’m thinking from the McGovern and Carter years specifically.

Oooh. Peggy Noonan on MSNBC. How do they manage to bring in such great talent? blech

Where is Rachel Maddow?

Mom had a fine young woman doctor treat her at the ER recently. The doctor was very kind and compassionate. Mom asked her what is her native country. The young woman replied that she is from Iran. At that moment, I felt much empathy for her.

I sure hope not, but if he picks Huck as a running mate…

I am proud to be part of the reason for that superdelegate “overreaction” as a McGovern organizer and state party delegate in 1972 — in Virginia! What a bunch of sore losers those establishment types were.

How does an average citizen get to be a delegate? (It seems that being a delegate is the only way to truly participate in the so-called “democratic process”.)

Become active with your local party group is the easiest way to get started.

LS, Frank Rich says either Obama or Clinton can beat the republicans. It’s theirs to lose!

Wow. And that page also explains that the Republican count is actual votes. So we have roughly a 114,000 Dem to 43,000 Rep voter turnout ratio!

In 2004, Nevada went 418,690 to 397,190 for Bush.

See there, LS?

In NYS an average citizen calls up the campaign and asks if the campaign will accept petition signature carried by that would be delagate. If the campaign says “yes” you have to gather signatures for your chosesn candidate.

If your candidate wins your state they send you convention credentials and you’re good to go.

So if 50 people carry for Edwards in NYS and he only wins 5 delegates, his campaign must chose 5 of his would be delegates to get the credentials.

Oh, yay, Rudi’s on with Chris Matthews. My two favorite people.

The numbers I saw looked like considerably more participated on the Republican side than on the Democratic side. This was unlike Iowa and New Hampshire and didn’t seem to bode well for Democrats in the general election. Thankfully, Nevada only has, I think, three electors.

Rachel Maddow coming up on MSNBC after the commercial break.

I think you are looking at the Delegate numbers on the Dem side, which is what is officially reported by the Dems. Harry Reid says about 114,000 Dem votes in the Nevada caucus this year.

That makes me feel better…

BTW…Ghouliani is a bigger Ghoul than ever…spit! Even Tweety and KO both raised their eyebrows after he said how he’d fix the economy…

I was looking at the MSN website, which shows a total of less that 10,000 Dem votes vs about 42,000 Repub. votes. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21229219/?GT1=10755

Those are delegate counts on the Dem side. :)

They do everything to make it all as confusing as possible, apparently.

Lots o’ gamblers and high rollers in Nevada who want to keep all their booty. Republicanism sounds good to them, even if they don’t have a pot to piss in. : )

I feel worse again.

I heard David “Axis-of-Evil” Frum yesterday and he’s working on the Giuliani campaign. Confirms worst fears about Rudi’s foreign policy concepts.

Now, I feel better again. I’m gonna have a beer.

Apparently Obama won MORE delegates than Clinton in Nevada, despite numbers difference. http://www.dailykos.com/storyo…..679/439684

If you contributed to John Edwards yesterday, Campaign Manager David Bonior has a special thank-you here.

Thank you! On behalf of John and Elizabeth Edwards and our entire campaign, I want to thank everyone who made a contribution on Friday, January 18th. In particular, I want to thank all those from the netroots community for rallying to our side at a time when we need it most. Thanks to you, we received several thousand contributions on Friday – and more than half of those contributions were from folks who had never before made a donation to our campaign.

more

He just said America needs to stay on the offense.

Rachel Maddow coming up on MSNBC after the commercial break.

She was already on just a minute ago, but I missed how she was introduced. Is she now being considered an MSNBC political analyst? Because Tweety said, “Wow, I didn’t know about that? If I knew about that, I might have gotten involved!” So, what I’m getting at is, does anybody know what he meant by that?

Yeah, I’ve lived in Texas most of my life. I’m familiar with that kind of “rugged individualism”.

Hmmmm. O….K…aaaaa…y.

Romney and Huckleberry tying for third in South Carolina, with McCain and Thompson tying for first according to Keith.

If that DKos diary is true — that Obama won 13 national delegates to Hillary’s 12 — the media hasn’t picked it up yet. But it’ll be interesting if they do. I wonder if Keith, who posts on DK nowadays, has seen that diary.

Polls closed in South Carolina now.

Andrea is saying Barack did well with delegates.

Now Andrea Mitchell and Keith seem to be talking about the possible discrepancy in Nevada’s national delegates.

It’s either 12 or 13 for Obama/Clinton. Could go either way.

Yes, and Obama won more counties than Hillary, apparently state wide there was a 500 or so vote difference between them (if I have it correctly) see my earlier link. And, the places Obama won were the rural areas that usually go Republican.

KO pointed out Mitt taking off his coat and rolling up his sleeves, stagecratft!

Caucuses are goofy, byzantine non-representative situations that should be discontinued. They distort the true wishes of voters, and a small percentage of potential voters are willing to participate. The reason they exist is simply because the states don’t have to pay for them The party pays for caucuses; states pay for primaries.

Ok, I’m stupid, what is the appeal of this punk Romney?

Romney campaign: The Homeland is not secure until the hometown is secure.

Your papers please???

More on the delegate count, from The Nation via Digby:

OBAMA WINS MOST NEVADA DELEGATES… Barack Obama may have won the most delegates in Saturday’s Nevada Caucus, even though Hillary Clinton bested his statewide turnout by about six points.
A source with knowledge of the Nevada Democratic Party’s projections told The Nation that under the arcane weighting system, Obama would win 13 national convention delegates and Clinton would win 12 delegates. The state party has not released an official count yet.

Barack Obama released an official statement celebrating a delegate victory. “We came from over twenty-five points behind to win more national convention delegates than Hillary Clinton because we performed well all across the state, including rural areas where Democrats have traditionally struggled,” he said.

A current estimate of the national convention delegate count is below, though not all precincts have fully reported.

District 1 Clinton 3, Obama 3

District 2 (Washoe) Clinton 1, Obama 2

District 2 (Rural) Clinton 0, Obama 1

District 2 (Clark) Clinton 1, Obama 1

District 3 (Clark) Clinton 2, Obama 2

At-Large Clinton 2, Obama 1

PLEO Clinton 3, Obama 3

UPDATE: The Obama Campaign is now pushing hard to promote this delegate victory. The campaign is convening a post-caucus conference call for reporters — something that only winning campaigns usually do — and circulating numerous Clinton quotes about how delegates are the only thing that matter. From the new press release:

Senator Obama was awarded 13 delegates to Senator Clinton’s 12. As Clinton Communications Director Howard Wolfson said, “This is a race for delegates…It is not a battle for individual states. As David knows, we are well past the time when any state will have a disproportionate influence on the nominating process.” [Washington Post, 1/16/08]

Discussion of the Nevada delegates on Hullabaloo, not as cut and dried as Obama would have you believe.

dday says:
P.S.S.S. OK, I just spoke with Jill Derby, the head of the Nevada State Democratic Party. Regarding the Obama claim that he’ll actually get more delegates out of this, essentially that’s spin. Derby said that the caucuses are an “expression of the support of Nevadans today.” Around 11,000 delegates were elected today. That will be winnowed down at county conventions and eventually at the state convention in May to the 25 that will go to Denver for the DNC. In 2004, Kerry didn’t win every delegate on Election Day, but most of the delegates that eventually went to the DNC were his. Once there’s a presumptive nominee, the delegate numbers are subject to change. It’s non-binding.
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com…..n-las.html

Such rugged types seem inclined to vote in a manner consistent with what they perceive might benefit them if they hit the lottery rather than what applies to their current life circumstances in reality. IOW, they are f*cking delusional.

Doggonnit.
Dunkin dropped out.

Caucuses are goofy, byzantine non-representative situations that should be discontinued. They distort the true wishes of voters, and a small percentage of potential voters are willing to participate. The reason they exist is simply because the states don’t have to pay for them. The party pays for caucuses; states pay for primaries.

If Romney were to win the general, you will be welcoming Blackwater to your town….it will be all over and the country will officially become “The Homeland”. Heil Mitt.

It makes me sick.

I feel your pain.

Never believe that a politician’s public stand on an issue alters in any way his/her own behavior.

First returns are in from South Carolina. McCain has 8 votes, Paul 7, and so on. They have .0000002% of the precincts reporting.

hiya Bob!

Duncan Donuthole Hunter – first he drops out of the human race and now he drops out of the race to the bottom of the Repuglican Nominating circle jerk. Too bad. He would have made a good pivot man.

Bill Clinton causes problems inside Caucus rooms. This guy is really over the top. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…..82327.html

In the end, I can’t help but think he will hurt Hillary, as people realize they do not want him as “first spouse.”

Hi Demi!! How the heck are you, girl? I’m volunteer coordinator, you’ll be happy to know, for Bob Hamilton who is running against Issa.

Who knows? Maybe the times have changed enough, and the military thinking, that he might possibly have a chance.

Except that Dunkin Donuthole Jr. is running for pappy’s seat…

I have no idea what possible appeal he has, but if he is the candidate and he wins the Presidency, I cannot be responsible for what I’ll do next. I can’t bear to exist under another Rethug President.

Hi back atcha, TeddySF!

Loo Hoo!
Good on ya, girl! So proud of you.
Go get that s(f)ucker.
I’m good. Busy.
(20 yr.old son moving in with us this w/e.)
Working long hours, and just took a little break to check on the old FDL.
I will lift you up in my thoughts.

Loo Hoo, I’m so excited you are taking a role in the campaign to unseat the odious Issa!

When you say Obama is anti gambling, I assume you me casino gambling? Cause he was famous for participating in a regular poker night with other Chicago politicians and a bunch of lobbyist when he was a state senator. I think it was called the Committee Meeting or something like that. I wonder if the lobbyist lost more often than they won?

The lobbyists always win. They’re the ones who pay the biggest bribes at the state and federal levels. Ask Jack Abramoff and the bus of his homeboys on the way to the BOP.

My biggest smile of the afternoon, by far. Thanks LHP. You know with all the issues pending, with all the hiding of/or destroying of RNC servers, White House servers and emails, and backups, with all of the DOJ performance as the facilitating consigliere of obstructing the prosecution of rapes by state department employees, and murders by state department contractors, destroyed CIA tapes, torture memos by former Deputy AGs, and the engineering of political prosecutions by a DOJ that has become a puppet of Addington, Fielding, and Gillespie and formerly of Rove, I get up in the morning saying “That damn five card stud. Those egregious state flushes.” They’re the cause for the recession and they cause Dover coffins. How can we go after those poker bandits that are destroying this country at the core?

When on when will Jeralyn get onto the poker streak in Barach that makes him evil?

Chicago Tribune: No Evidence of Rezco Loans or Mentoring but Obama could be Betting on the Giants

Me too!! You go!!!!

Teddy is anyone running against Nancy?? I hope so! The no impeachment thing would be a good wedge issue used against her.

Thanks, Teddy. We do what we can, huh?

Rove.

Partial results with 11 of 2,259 precincts reporting in the South Carolina GOP primary:

McCain , John 2,130 38%
Huckabee , Mike 1,290 23%
Romney , Mitt 1,073 19%
Thompson , Fred 653 12%
Giuliani , Rudy 276 5%

Cindy Sheehan

When you say Obama is anti gambling, I assume you me casino gambling? Cause he was famous for participating in a regular poker night with other Chicago politicians and a bunch of lobbyist when he was a state senator. I think it was called the Committee Meeting or something like that. I wonder if the lobbyist lost more often than they won?

The lobbyists win exponentially more than they lose. Ask the Abramoff gang on the prison buses.

I knew I would find out the source of so many problems confronting this country. The Obama poker games.

Chicago Tribune 4/24/07: No evidence of Rezco Mentoring or Loans but Obama Could be Betting on the Giants

I love the Rudy number! Guy’s on FIRE!

Broke too.

Good for her! Are her numbers doing Ok?

Which the Democrats will undoubtedly pussy out of.

I love the Rudy number! Guy’s on FIRE!

just wait until Florida!
lol

Matthews calls Nevada second-place for Ron Paul

When you say Obama is anti gambling, I assume you me casino gambling? Cause he was famous for participating in a regular poker night with other Chicago politicians and a bunch of lobbyist when he was a state senator. I think it was called the Committee Meeting or something like that. I wonder if the lobbyist lost more often than they won?

The lobbyists win exponentially more than they lose. Ask the Abramoff gang on the prison buses.
I knew I would find out the source of so many problems confronting this country. The Obama poker games.

Chicago Tribune 4/24/07: No evidence of Rezco Mentoring or Loans but Obama Could be Betting on the Giants

Almost 60% of SCarolina GOP voters today were evangelicals.

Two-thirds of GOP voters in SCarolina are satisfied with Bush.

Rachel and Pat on now.

I totally believe that.

Wasn’t SC going to welcome all the Christianists with open arms, like New Hampshire was going to welcome the Libertarians? Looks like it’s filling up already.

I’m sticking with Edwards.

His numbers are so low. What is up with that? Have you guys been keeping an eye on the voting machines? Cuz there’s no question he’s the one candidate rethugs don’t want us to nominate.

The papers down here have described Rudy’s poll numbers two ways: “sagging” and “plunging”. He could win and it;s winner take all. But he’s spending a ton of money.

based on the exit poll gender distribution, SC will wind up 31.4% McCain, 27.9% Huckabee.

Note that because we’re looking at whole number percentages from the exit polls (and adding in the margin of error) that these numbers are not really predictive of the final results. (I mean, Huckabee could squeak out a win, or McCain’s victory could be much larger, and the exit poll still be accurate because of ’rounding’)

And he gets left out of the debate by FOX. An outrage. Hell hath no fury like a Paultard scorned.

If I had to choose between being described as sagging or plunging, not sure which I’d pick. Sagging doesn’t sound quite as dramatically negative, but it sounds so…baggy.

This sounds like a concession speech from Fred, and the endgame.

Warm up those cots! Fred might be comin’!

Here’s what I wanna see: the look on Rudy’s face if he loses. Priceless. And I’ll be yelling at my TV: “You fucking loser!!” I just dislike the guy, ya know? Wanna see him get his comeuppance ass handed to him.

This primary season is feeling very – paid for, and orchestrated. Brought to you by Friendly corporations who are looking out for your best interests.

Maybe that’s why Katherine Harris showed up at one of his events.

Fred’s talking about frederalism — uh, federalism.

Oh, this is sad. No one wanted you to be preznit, Fred, cut it short please.

I guess the defense contractor network will be airing full speeches from each of the GOP players, since they go on so well about freedom, the market, and conservatism.

Wonder who he’ll tell all his supporters to support now. This could be some boost to sagging Rudy, huh?

Keith and Chris, and the crew offstage, are pissssssssed at Fred for snoookering them with his announcement earlier that he would “endorse McCain or withdraw” in order to get airtime for his “stand strong” speech.

Thompson will stay in…he’s neck and neck with Romney in SC.

I think he might slooooooowly gain popularity and peak later….Heh.

Jane’s upstairs with some more results thread.

If faced with it….I could easier live with Thompson than Romney/Blackwater.
Although we are likely to get Romney/Thompson/Blackwater…then I’m going into hibernation…hermitation…joining a commune…Gawd.

Teddy, thank you for all the news and elections results!

Bottom line. She kicked as*. Pure. Simple. Sweet. And then to top it off Obama slunk outta town and left all his obamazoids hangin. Real class act.