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Posted in Open Thread, People, Politics on Aug 26th, 2008
The Princess has a reputation to take care of (don’t we all), and Obama is not all too keen on having the show blown apart by Bill and Hillary. Lined up for padgent is a who’s-who of the political game. Kicking of proceedings is Michele Obama, Nancy Pelosi and maybe a guest appearance [...]
Posted in Open Thread, Politics on Aug 18th, 2008
Frank Rich (New York Times the Op-Ed Columnist) gets into the subject of polling numbers and questions of popularity and in the process provides some salient historical facts.
Posted in Open Thread, Politics on Aug 7th, 2008
This article, http://time-blog.com/real_clear_politics/2008/08/obamas_big_7.html, caught my attention. While I realise that Obama and the Democrats have money to burn at this point, all the evidence to date indicates that this is going to be a much tighter election than many previously believed. On current polling, if McCain can hold Virginia then he needs Michigan and one [...]
Posted in Open Thread, Politics on Aug 1st, 2008
Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been noticing a reoccurring phrase from the talking heads in the US media.
This election is a referendum on Obama.
Give me a break! If this was a referendum on Obama it would be suggesting that all of those dumb white lazy Americans were actually thinking about voting for [...]