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Richardson is Out of the Race

Posted on January 09, 2008
And then there were 3.One thing about Richardson was that he had great campaign ads:He portrayed his campaign as a job application for president, and ran clever ads that showed a bored interviewer unimpressed with his dazzling resume.The commercials helped fuel his move to double-digit support in some early state polls, and advisers argued he was poised to move past former vice presidential nominee John Edwards for the role of third-place challenger...

A Retrospective On the Last 24 Hours

Posted on January 09, 2008
On the Early Results:Trailhead: "I know it's foolish [to think Hillary will win], the cable news anchors know it's foolish, and I hope the American public knows it's foolish."Fox News: "McCain, Obama, lead in early exit polls."CNN: "Obama leads Clinton among key groups as returns come in...

Obama Wins New Hampshire???

Posted on January 09, 2008
Apparently Obama still walks away from New Hampshire with more delegates than Clinton, since the Super-delegates aren't assigned by the popular vote.Obama: 12 (9 from the rimary and 3 SD's)Hillary: 11 (9 from the primary and 2 SD's)Edwards: 4 (4 from the primary)Uncommitted Super-delegates: 3

The Biggest Shock of My Political Life

Posted on January 09, 2008
Hillary wins New Hampshire.Incredible.Facing Obama's momentum, huge voter turnout, an incredibly inspiring candidate, and a media that wanted to write her obituary, she came back and won. This was the greatest political victory of her life. Or of her husband's...

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I Was Wrong About a Lot of Things

Posted on January 09, 2008
The good news for my predictions:1. I had the right order of the GOP primary, including a McCain victory.The bad news for my predictions:1. McCain wins big over Romney (I said small win)2. Obama didn't carry 45% of the vote (I said he would)3. Obama didn't so much win (I said he would)I warned you I'm terrible at these things...

New Hampshire Predictions

Posted on January 08, 2008
The polls are still saying Obama and McCain.I agree, but think movement is afoot. Obama wins bigger than expected, while McCain wins smaller than expected. This is a function of huge turnout and independent voters flocking to Obama. That flock then limits McCain's ability to run up his tally with independents...

Dunc-Mentum

Posted on January 08, 2008
As I noted here Duncan Hunter got a delegate in Wyoming this last weekend.So apparently he felt comfortable crashing an MSNBC talk show. Watch the whole thing if you can. It goes from awkward to cringe and then worse.What a pathetic candidate. And a tease no less.

Dixville Notch

Posted on January 08, 2008
There's a small town in New Hampshire that always opens its polls first at midnight.Those votes came out like this:GOP:McCain: 4Romney: 2Giuliani: 1Dems:Obama: 7Edwards: 2Richardson: 1Wow, Hillary gets shut out. But there's good news for both Romney and Clinton...

Flip Flopping on Iowa

Posted on January 08, 2008
Clinton hates Iowa. But she didn't always.Here's her fake retrospective, as written by the NYT, complaining about Iowa's ingratefullness.Did you not think the former president of the United States had more pressing things to do than traipse around Iowa admiring the windmills? Do you know how many kids in Africa went without medicine every time he spent an hour in Cedar Rapids? Do you know how many more kids became obese? Eight hundred and twenty-seven, that?s how many...

Hillary's Your Wife; Obama is a Stripper

Posted on January 08, 2008
Great theory."If the elections were held now, Obama would probably win - which is essentially like marrying a stripper after spending a weekend with her in Vegas, doing lines off her butt. But unlike that entirely made up scenario which definitely didn't happen to me in 1992 when I had long hair and a competitive bobsled racer's physique, a quickie election can't be annulled...

Group Hug From Last Night

Posted on January 07, 2008
Ten candidates on the stage after the forum. Good idea by the moderator, Charles Gibson. Here's the video.Notice how Ron Paul and Bill Richardson are relegated to the corner and talking to each other. And is it me, or is Giuliani TOO friendly with Hillary? Maybe it's just the New York bond.

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