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Clinton Goes for Broke in Attacks on Obama
2008-02-26 08:55:00
Hillary Clinton (center) Photo by: SEIU International/ FlickrSenator Clinton is apparently no longer looking at a future run for the White House as she continues to pile on attacks at Barack Obama . Clinton?s recent barrage of attacks seem to indicate her determination at trying to destroy a party favorite for her own personal gain. At a campaign appearance in Rhode Island , Senator Clinton mocked Obama for wanting to bring people together. Barack Obama, whether or not he even wins the nomination, is still a major star in the Democratic Party. Senator Clinton?s attacks, which are aimed at destroying him politically and personally, will breed resentment within the party that may not be forgotten. Who is paying the most attention right now to Clinton?s attack lines? Senator John McCain . McCain will be the Republican nominee who will likely be facing Barack Obama in the general election and he is paying close attention. What better line of attack do you have as a candidate than when you ...
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Ted Kennedy Woos Voters With Famous Mexican Song
2008-02-26 07:01:00
Senator Kennedy can not only command legislation on the floor of the Senate, he can apparently sing too. At a Barack Obama rally in Texas, Senator Kennedy belted out an a cappella version of ?Jalisco No te Rajes.?
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Round 19: The Final Two Candidates Square Off
2008-02-22 07:38:00
On Thursday night, CNN aired the long awaited head-to-head match up between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton . The debate was held in Austin, Texas and was hosted by Univision and CNN. Many, including myself, had expected to see Clinton come out with all guns blazing ready to attack Obama with all she had. Instead we saw a civil discussion between Clinton and Obama during most of the debate with only a few Clinton digs at her opponent. Despite the hosts attempts to cut debate short on the issue of health care, the candidates demanded that the issue be discussed further. Clinton and Obama argued back and forth over the merits and downfalls of mandatory enrollment in health care. Obama?s plan does not force adults to buy into the plan but rather makes it affordable so that they will want to buy it. Clinton argued that this plan would not work and that her plan would cover everyone. We have heard this health care debate many times but the length and depth at wh...
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McCain to Obama: I Can?t Raise Obama Kinds of Money
2008-02-21 08:29:00
Photo by Marc Nozell used under a Creative Commons License McCain is crying foul saying that Barack Obama has gone against his word on agreeing to take public financing for the general election. According to Reuters , Obama agreed last February to accept public financing for his campaign and therefore agree to the limitations on spending. Obama said he would agree to this as long as the Republican candidate agreed to do the same. The limitations would mean only $84.1 million dollars could be spent per candidate in the general election. These limitations would certainly be more of a limitation to Barack Obama than to John McCain. John McCain, the once bankrupt candidate early in the Republican primary, may end up facing the fundraising champion of this presidential race, Barack Obama in November. Barack Obama has received donations from almost 1 million people from the beginning of his campaign. In the month of January, Obama raised $36 million dollars. Th...
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Obama Wins 9th In a Row; Clinton Will Continue Scorched Earth Campaign
2008-02-20 07:34:00
Barack Obama on the campaign trail. Photo by Allison Harger/Flickr The results from the Wisconsin primary gave Barack Obama his 9th straight victory over Hillary Clinton . Obama won by 17 percent in Wisconsin with 97 percent of the precincts reporting. The Clinton campaign had hoped to keep the margin close between the two. After strong negative campaigning from Senator Clinton against Barack Obama, the Clinton campaign supposedly sees 17 percent as an improvement. 17 percent is a smaller margin than the 37 percent in Washington, smaller than the 51 percent in Washington, D.C., and smaller than 29 percent in Maryland. The Clinton campaign sees the negative ads has having an impact on reducing this margin. Hillary Clinton has been running a campaign of win at all costs. Today a senior campaign official threw out a test balloon to the press suggesting that campaigns may start going after pledged delegates. Pledged delegates are the ones that are supposed t...
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Borrowed Words, Heated Exchanges, and a Tight Race
2008-02-19 06:31:00
Photo by Brett Weinstein/Flickr A night before the ?Cheesehead/L??au? primary, both candidates in the Democratic race are trying to reduce expectations. Wisconsin and Hawaii will vote tomorrow but the state both candidates are looking at is Wisconsin. The race is turning out to be a dead heat. Obama had been the favorite in Wisconsin following his huge wins in the Potomac primary last Tuesday, but it now seems that Hillary Clinton could leave the state smiling. Bad weather in the Midwest has amended the campaign schedules of both Clinton and Obama in Wisconsin. Due to the weather, Clinton will end up spending more time in the state during the last 48 hours than Obama will. The Obama campaign worked to lower expectations on Monday. David Plouffe, the campaign manager for Obama talked about the opposition?s campaign in Wisconsin. "[Hillary] is competing very heavily here. They have had some amusing and creative reason for why they have not won states so ...
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Clinton?s Keeps Negative Attacks Rolling
2008-02-18 06:58:00
After Clinton attacked Obama for not debating her in Wisconsin, she has gone after Obama even harder. Clinton has aired another new ad attacking Obama?s health care plan. Hillary released a new attack ad going after Obama on health care, social security, and once again saying he is afraid to debate her in Wisconsin. Hillary was not the only Clinton making attacks on Obama over the past week. Over the weekend, former President Bill Clinton accused Obama of knocking the other Democratic candidates out of the race because of his attacks on experience. While campaigning in Texas, Bill said that, "if you fought you made somebody mad, and you got cut up.? He went on to say, ?we just have to turn over a new leaf. And it is actually an advantage not to have any experience because then you never made anybody mad." Bill Clinton blames Obama for destroying the other candidates with his attacks on experience which have been very affective. The ad Hillary released,...
More About: Ohio , Barack Obama , Hillary Clinton , John Edwards

Clinton Goes Negative with Ads in Wisconsin
2008-02-15 10:15:00
Senator Clinton has recently released an attack ad on Barack Obama saying that he will not agree to debate her in Wisconsin . This is the first negative ad from Clinton directed specifically at Obama during the campaign. The ad accuses Obama of wanting to make speeches rather than debate her. Clinton has signed on to a debate at Marquette University in Milwaukee but Barack Obama has not yet done so. The ad features the narrator saying, ?maybe he?d prefer to give speeches than have to answer questions.? This is the Clinton Ad: Bill Burton, who is Obama?s spokesman issued this statement after the ad was released: Senator Obama and Senator Clinton have debated 18 times already and have agreed to two more debates in the next three weeks. It?s telling that Senator Obama is spending the day offering substantive ideas on how to fix the housing crisis, offer relief to middle-class families and end the outsourcing of Wisconsin jobs, while Senator Clinton is playi...
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Edwards Endorsement: A Case for Neutrality
2008-02-15 08:12:00
According to several different media sources John Edwards is still deeply torn between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. According to the Huffington Post, Edwards is, "as split as the party he once hoped to lead -- and is seriously considering supporting Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, despite the sharp criticism he leveled at her on the campaign trail, according to former aides and advisers." Edwards was a sharp critic of Clinton throughout the campaign but towards the end of the campaign began losing faith in Obama. ABC News reported that Edwards is split between his head and his heart in deciding who to endorse. Obama?s message of change is linear to Edwards? message throughout his campaign of changing Washington, but he feels he may not have the toughness to be president. When it comes to Clinton, Edwards head is leaning more to her, who he thinks is mentally tougher and tested more in the political arena. While an Edwards endorsement would be a powerfu...
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Clinton Beats Obama: Senatorial Earmark Contest
2008-02-14 07:14:00
According to the Washington Post, Senator Clinton did win one contest this week; Clinton took the prize over Barack Obama for pork spending over the past year. Taxpayers for Common Sense put together a report showing a list of all the earmarks that each member of congress added to bills over the past year. This was the first time that such a report was done for an entire fiscal year for every lawmaker and every earmark. Senator Clinton supplied her home state with $390 million dollars worth of the earmarked projects added to spending bills. Clinton not only beat out Obama, Clinton also placed in the top 10 in the U.S. Senate for her vast number of earmarks. Barack Obama had $91 million dollars in earmarks last year and that number put him in the bottom quarter of senators seeking earmarks for their home states. John McCain was one of 5 senators who did not use earmarks at all over the past year. McCain is of the belief that earmarks should not be used beca...
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Obama Wins Big Again: Eight Straight Victories Over Clinton
2008-02-13 07:30:00
Chesapeake, Potomac, Beltway primary, or even ?mini-super? Tuesday as some have labeled the voting on Tuesday, call it whatever you want, Barack Obama won all three easily over Senator Clinton . In the District of Columbia Barack Obama got 75 percent of the vote to Hillary Clinton?s 24 percent. In Maryland, with 62 percent of the precincts reporting, Obama has 60 percent and Clinton has 37 percent. In Virginia, Obama received 64 percent of the vote and Clinton got 35 percent. Each of the three states were decisive victories for the Obama campaign giving him a bigger lead in the delegate race. According to a Real Clear Politics count, Obama has 1103 pledged delegates and Clinton has 968. When the superdelegates are added to the mix Obama still leads but by much less, 1259 for Obama and 1210 for Clinton. Senator Clinton has begun retreating to Texas where she hopes to pick off some of the larger states in order to save her limping campaign. In a speech in El Paso...
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Superdelegates Threaten to Embarrass Party
2008-02-12 06:35:00
Superdelegates? Pledged delegates? You are not alone if you are asking yourself what the difference is. In the Democratic Party 796 of the 4,049 party delegates are superdelegates. The superdelegates are made up of party leaders, elected officials, and other individuals who may cast their vote at the convention. Superdelegates are not bound by how their state votes or the results of the election of their state. Pledged delegates are the delegates that are proportioned to the states based on their population size and those delegates are assigned to the candidates. For example, Obama has 16 delegates from Iowa, while Clinton has 15. Those delegates basically have to vote for their candidate. Things get even more complicated when you think about the fact that there is nothing to stop any delegate on the floor from voting against how their state voted. No one is going to arrest a rogue delegate who votes for Obama and was supposed to vote for Clinton. ...

Obama Takes All Three; Huckabee Wins Two of Three
2008-02-10 10:06:00
Saturday was a three state sweep for Barack Obama over Senator Clinton. Washington state, Louisiana, and Nebraska were decisive victories for Barack Obama putting him in a virtual tie with Clinton in the delegate race. Obama took 68 percent of the vote in Washington, 68 percent in Nebraska, and 57 percent in Louisiana. Clinton finished with 31 percent in Washington, 31 percent in Nebraska, and 36 percent in Louisiana. Obama won by 21 percent in his narrowest victory on Saturday and as much as 37 percent in Washington. The superdelegate ?sham?, is the only thing keeping Obama from leading a race where he has won 18 of 30 states. Barack Obama has the majority of pledged delegates but Clinton is still leading because she got an early start on soliciting superdelegates. While it is true Senator Clinton has won some of the larger states, Obama has the majority of states. Obama has won on the east coast, all across the Midwest, the plains states and states on the ...
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?We Are the Ones We?ve Been Waiting For?
2008-02-08 10:26:00
Super Tuesday produced victories in 13 states for Barack Obama and a large amount of delegates. After an historic day with 22 states voting in the Democratic race, Obama addressed his supporters in another inspirational speech. Barack Obama?s speech on Tuesday night introduced a line that resonated with many who heard it. ?We are the one?s we have been waiting for,? Obama said. Change has always been the message of the Obama campaign and he has always noted the significance of how change will not come unless Americans get involved in that effort. Many Americans have been waiting for change and Obama believes we are the ones who will bring that change. Obama gave his speech from Chicago, Illinois in his home state, where he got more than 64 percent of the vote. Chris Matthews commented on this line from Obama?s speech and the power of it, while trying to keep as much on air neutrality as possible. Matthews, host of MSNBC?s ?Hardball?, was clearly moved by ...
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Desperate Times Call for?Digging into Your Own Pockets
2008-02-07 08:38:00
Hillary Clinton announced on Wednesday that she would be reaching into her own fortune to keep their campaign going. Senator Clinton announced that she would be lending her campaign $5 million dollars and that figure could get larger. The Clinton campaign was able to move that money into their campaign last month but did not tell the public until after Super Tuesday. Worried what voters might think of her campaign after hearing they could not keep up with the enormous figures that Barack Obama has been able to raise, kept it a convenient secret until Wednesday. Clinton has been able to raise over $100 million dollars so far in this campaign and this move came as more than a surprise to donors. Senator Clinton said that she moved the money, "because I believe very strongly in this campaign." "We had a great month fundraising in January, broke all the records, but my opponent was able to raise more money and we intend to be competitive. The results of last...
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Super Tuesday Answers Nothing for Democrats: Both Going to Denver?
2008-02-06 08:30:00
The early states were supposed to filter out candidates and give us our nominees. After the early states, Super Tuesday, was supposed to be the deciding factor. We go on to March 4th and the battle goes on. Barack Obama won a majority of the states in Tuesday?s contests but it looks like the delegates could be split right down the middle. Obama won Alabama, Alaska, Colorado , Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, North Dakota, and Utah. Senator Clinton won her adopted home state of New York but probably not by as much as she hoped. Clinton won a big victory in California but as many as one-third of the votes had been cast weeks prior to Tuesday. Barack Obama was certainly hurt by early voting which did not reflect his recent surge and Senator Clinton did very well among women in California. Obama?s advantage with men in California was not as large as Clinton?s advantage with women in that state. New Jersey was als...
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Mersman Blog Endorsement: Barack Obama
2008-02-05 06:47:00
Photo by Marc Nozell used under a Creative Commons License After the withdrawal of John Edwards from the Democratic presidential race, the decision of who I would endorse got a lot easier. I think it has been clear for anyone who reads my posts regularly that I do not agree with Hillary Clinton ?s campaign tactics and I think that she is the wrong candidate for the party. I had always been torn between John Edwards? populist message and Barack Obama ?s message of Hope. Obama has the ability to inspire people and bring voters from the other side of the aisle to vote for him because of his message. Senator Clinton is certainly not a candidate who can get Republican votes. Senator Clinton will unite the Republican Party in an effort to defeat her. Republicans have been waiting a long time for another chance to defeat the Clintons. Obama does not have this built up hatred from Republicans that Hillary carries with her. Barack Obama has the ability to get young voters interested and a...
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Super ?Duper? Tuesday
2008-02-05 06:13:00
Tuesday, February 5, 2008 will be the closest that our country has ever come to a national primary day. Both parties are still looking for their nominee this far into the contest but the field of candidates has narrowed. The Republican Party is the closest to having a candidate with John McCain leading Mitt Romney. There are 21 Republican states voting on Super Tuesday and most of them are winner take all. The candidate that wins the winner take all states gets all of the delegates for that state. The Democratic Party has 22 states voting on Super Tuesday. The candidate that does not win the state can still gather up delegates.California is a state where candidates in both parties are looking to win and to get as many delegates as possible. A win in California for Mitt Romney would more than rejuvenate his campaign.Barack Obama has made the race close in California and has a chance to win there. A narrow win for Senator Clinton in California would certainly be viewed as a los...
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Voice for Voiceless Weaker: John Edwards Steps Aside
2008-01-31 06:31:00
On Wednesday, the Democratic presidential campaign lost a champion of the poor and middle class. John Edwards withdrew from the presidential race from the city where he started it all, New Orleans. Edwards had a clear message through out his campaign, correct the inequalities in class structures that exist in America. Edwards? message did not catch on enough for him to garner more than a second place finish in Iowa. Edwards was the first candidate to propose a fully universal health care plan. Edwards policies paved the way for other Democratic candidates to take similar positions. Edwards took responsibility for his vote on the war in Iraq and vowed to end it. John and Elizabeth Edwards have fought hard in this campaign, as well as other campaigns, for the causes that they believe in. The time and effort that they gave to this endeavor cannot be underscored. The issue of poverty and the needs of low-income Americans is not a popular stand to take and John Edwards fought fo...
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McCain Wins Florida, Clinton Tries to Spin Florida
2008-01-30 05:00:00
Senator John McCain scored a big win in Florida on Tuesday by winning the Republican primary in a winner take all contest.Senator Clinton quickly flew to the state to try and capitalize on a ?win? that produces no actual delegates. Florida, like Michigan, was stripped of their delegates for moving their primary before February 5th which was against the Democratic National Committee rules. Senator Clinton coming off an embarrassing loss in South Carolina, is trying to save face going into Super Tuesday which is now one week away. Democratic candidates agreed not to campaign in Florida.Although no Democratic candidates competed in the state, Clinton is celebrating the victory of winning no delegates to make it look like more than it is. The sad thing is that this might actually work to some extent. The voters who do not pay attention to the details will see that she won in Florida when she flies there and gives a victory speech that means nothing. According to a statement by the...
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Rudy Giuliani to Drop Out
2008-01-30 04:11:00
NBC News is announcing that Rudy Giuliani will be dropping out of the presidential race tomorrow and that he will be endorsing Senator John McCain. The ?single-digit machine? as I have called him did manage to crack single digits on Tuesday. Giuliani finished with a disappointing 15 percent in Florida where he had put all of his resources and time. I can only say I will miss seeing him finish in single-digits and adding 9/11 to every sentence. Perhaps those two things had something to do with each other?

Barack Obama?s Victory Speech in South Carolina
2008-01-27 08:51:00
South Carolina Democrats stood up and told America that they want change on Saturday. Barack Obama won a resoundingly large victory in South Carolina over Hillary Clinton and the message of hope is stronger than ever. ?Yes we can!? echoed loudly across South Carolina as Barack Obama?s campaign gained some much needed momentum along with a mandate for an end to the Clinton machine tactics. The results from Saturday?s election show that there is certainly hope in this election. Obama?s message in this campaign, hope, got a loud victory in South Carolina that will carry him farther into Super Tuesday. The 9:00 P.M. victory speech from Columbia, South Carolina left me with two words, goose bumps. Many people have described his speeches as giving them goose bumps during this election and it happened again on Saturday night. The message of unity and the vivid words from his speech that describe what brings us together made his message even more palpable. Inspirational is an underst...
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South Carolina Democrats Send a Strong Message to Clintons
2008-01-27 01:56:00
Barack Obama won the South Carolina Democratic primary handily over Senator Clinton on Saturday. All of the major news outlets projected Obama the winner of the state only minutes after the polls closed in the state because the loss was so embarrassing for Clinton. A ?substantial margin? according to MSNBC and the Associated Press called it a ?routing?. Fox News was discussing whether or not Clinton would even be the second place finisher there. John Edwards and Clinton are now competing for the second spot in South Carolina. The Democratic voters in South Carolina sent a message to Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton and that was to STOP the kind of campaign you are running. The voters showed that they are tired of Bill Clinton?s lies and stretching of the truth to attack Obama. The voters in exit polls showed they were sick of the attacks in this campaign over the past week and those voters overwhelmingly supported Senator Obama. Obama received in the neighborhood of 80 percen...
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Letterman Messes Up Edwards? Hair on ?Late Show?
2008-01-24 10:05:00
John Edwards appeared on the ?Late Show ? with David Letterman on Tuesday night. At the end of his interview, Dave asked if he could mess up John?s hair, which has been the subject of a popular internet video. John?s hair also became an issue of discussion when someone found out that he paid $400 for a haircut. Letterman decided he wanted to mess up his perfect hair and I think it still looked pretty good. Here is the clip:Here is the entire interview:
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?And Another One Gone, and Another One Gone, Another One Bites the Dust!? (
2008-01-24 08:05:00
Duncan Hunter dropped out of the presidential race on January 19th after a poor showing in the Nevada caucus (was this something new or was he surprised?). The latest casualty of the Republican presidential primary was none other than Fred Thompson. In the words of the classic band Queen, ?Another One Gone, Another One Bites the Dust.? William Kristol, a Fox News contributor wrote in TIME Magazine ??former Senator Fred Thompson, a serious potential challenger, is in a way the most manifestly Reaganite of all.? Many people like Kristol predicted that Thompson would be a serious contender for the nomination but that was not the case. Commentators could not stop with the comparisons to Ronald Reagan. The similarities to Reagan began and stopped with acting and being Republicans. Thompson was not the communicator that Reagan was and not the same kind of operator. Do not mistake my comments as praise for the former president. I think that President Reagan?s policy of trickle down...

South Carolina Democratic Debate YouTube Videos(January 21, 2008)
2008-01-23 09:30:00
Monday night, Democrats debated in South Carolina at an event before the Black Caucus on Martin Luther King Day. Wolf Blitzer, Suzanne Malveaux, and Joe Johns questioned the candidates. The event aired on CNN. Heated exchanges took place between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton . John Edwards also questioned Obama?s voting record while in the Illinois legislator after Senator Clinton called Obama out on those votes. For my full take and comments on the debate you can read my previous post here: Obama: "I Can't Tell Who I'm Running Against Sometimes." (Bill or Hillary)-The Mersman Political BlogThe YouTube debate videos are below if you want to watch the event in full. I suggest watching it because it was a very interesting debate. Part 1:Part 2:Part 3:Part 4:Part 5:Part 6:Part 7:Part 8:Part 9:Part 10:Part 11:Part 12:
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Obama: "I can't tell who I'm running against sometimes" (Bill or Hillary)
2008-01-22 10:01:00
Monday night?s Democratic debate in South Carolina was arguably the most heated debate between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. Fiscal responsibility, Ronald Reagan, and the personal pasts of the candidates were the topics of the exchanges between Clinton and Obama. Hillary Clinton started things off by questioning Obama?s fiscal plans for an Obama administration in which she claims he does not account for how his programs would be paid for. Obama fired back by saying that this is another distortion of the facts by Clinton and her husband former President Bill Clinton. President Clinton has been the attack dog of the Clinton campaign lashing out against Obama from state to state. Monday?s debate brought those issues out in the open for everyone to see. Obama addressed Bill Clinton?s ?fairytale? type view that the media gives Obama for his views on the Iraq prior to the invasion. Senator Clinton had her time to respond and went on to say that Obama was talking up the ?good i...
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Republican Race Gets More Confusing
2008-01-20 10:16:00
After Saturday?s Nevada Republican caucus and South Carolina?s Republican primary are we any closer to a front runner? Mitt Romney came away with a dominating win in Nevada and McCain barely pulled off a victory in South Carolina. Mike Huckabee was in need of a win in South Carolina, a state with a high evangelical voting block. McCain scored a huge victory by beating Huckabee with 33 percent of the vote to Huckabee?s 30 percent. Fred Thompson finished third with 16 percent of the vote and Mitt Romney had 15 percent. There was speculation that Fred Thompson might drop out of the race if he did not finish strong in South Carolina. Thompson gave a 10 minute speech on Saturday in which all signs pointed to the end of his campaign. The only thing he ended was his speech, which he finished by saying, ?God bless you!? before walking off stage. To make matters more confusing, Mitt Romney did extremely well in Nevada where he got 51 percent of the vote and Ron Paul finished in secon...
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McCain Wins South Carolina; Romney and Clinton Win Nevada
2008-01-20 08:47:00
Saturday was a busiest day so far in the presidential campaign with two states voting in the Republican race and one for the Democrats. Republicans in South Carolina held their primary today and next Saturday Democrats will get their chance to vote there. Both parties voted in the Nevada caucuses where Romney easily won and Clinton edged out Obama. Mitt Romney dominated the field in Nevada getting 51 percent of the vote and Ron Paul finished second with 14 percent. McCain was able to squeak out a victory in South Carolina, the state where his campaign was ended in 2000 by George W. Bush. McCain and Romney will now be in a close fight for Florida on January 29. Senator Clinton got her second straight victory over Obama by a 51 to 45 percent margin. John Edwards finished with a disappointing 4 percent. The Obama campaign is claiming a shared victory in Nevada due to the fact that Obama actually won more delegates than Clinton. Obama received 13 delegates and Clinton receiv...
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Media Casts John Edwards Aside
2008-01-18 10:09:00
Media outlets have decided that the Democratic race is now a two person race. To the media, John Edwards is as forgotten as Rudy Giuliani is to voters. John Edwards finished second in Iowa, beating Senator Clinton, yet the media feels it is not important to cover the former senator from North Carolina. Edwards is in a close three way race right now in the Democratic caucuses where he is currently in third. Edwards is only 3 percentage points behind Senator Clinton and is within the margin of error of Barack Obama who is currently leading. A study done by the Project for Excellence in Journalism found that Clinton and Obama got a disproportionate amount of the coverage between January 6 through January 11, 2008. This chart shows that Edwards has gotten only a fraction of the media coverage that Obama has and even less coverage compared to Senator Clinton. The John Edwards campaign website has begun to point this out to their supporters as a way to motivat...
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