Obama, McCain sweep Potomac primaries »
Posted By Aidenag 1 year, 4 months ago in NewsSens. John McCain and Barack Obama will claim victory in all three contests in the Potomac primaries, CNN projects.
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AlphaGnosisComment removed: User banned.25 Replies
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TimALoftis1 year, 4 months ago
wow...very contrasting images. In Obama speech coverage, you saw youth, and a diverse crowd of supporters. When the networks switched over to cover McCains speech, I saw nothing but a stage full of old white guys.
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TimALoftis1 year, 4 months ago
Increasingly it looks like senator clinton is in trouble. Exit polling is now beginning to show that he is cutting into her voter base.
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Beau78901 year, 4 months ago
He has momentum, and of course it's been widely reported that her strategy is to win the bigger states in a couple of weeks, Ohio and Texas--Sort of like a "Rope-A-Dope" of campaigning. I wonder if that'll work--after all, we're only in about the 3rd round.
What's interesting is the turnouts from each party during the primaries so far--the Democrats have turned out in droves compared to the Republicans. It makes me wonder how energized Republicans will be in November.
Check out this interactive graphic (click on "View Map" then select a state to get the numbers:
http://news.yahoo.com/election/2008/dashboard/;...
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scott42611 year, 4 months ago
My prediction: Barack Obama will do very well for the rest of the campaign calender. He is much better on the stump (...at retail politics, if you will...) than is Hillary Clinton. With a much smaller slate of states yet to vote, this works to his advantage.
Say "goodbye" Hillary.
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Neophile1 year, 4 months ago
Caption contest for the picture!
"What's got two thumbs and doesn't have a chance in November?"
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1-2-Oscar1 year, 4 months ago
Obama is now ahead in the delegate count, and in ELECTED delegates he is more than a hundred ahead. That's going to make it harder for Sen. Clinton to round up more Superdelegate votes.
Clinton lost five states last week and her campaign chairman resigned. She lost three more today and her vice-chairman resigned. By the time Texas and Ohio vote, there may not be anyone left to throw under the bus. If Obama pulls anywhere near 60% in Wisconsin, he may become unstoppable. Clinton's "strategy" of competing hard only in the bigger states is a loser. It didn't work for Gore in 2000, nor for Kerry in 2004, and it won't work for Sen. Clinton this year. If she really wants to be president, she's going to have to start acting like she believes that every voter is important.
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IcCaRus1 year, 4 months ago
she doesnt even have to look back at gore and kerry.... rudy was this years victim of that flawed startegy
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IcCaRus1 year, 4 months ago
im very disappointed he didnt vote to rescind that immunity.
the "present" vote should be done away with.....
if there, you should be REQUIRED to vote yea or nea. the only other allowable vote should be "absent".
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RedstateLib1 year, 4 months ago
Obama Take a stand PLEASE. So that I know what I am voting for. PLEASE.
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NoWayMan1 year, 4 months ago
obama's speech today was another good one, huge crowd, very inspiring. the guy's on a serious roll.
mccain then made the big mistake of following obama's speech with his own, and he just sounded...old. old and tired, reading from a teleprompter, in a small room, surrounded by a bunch of old guys in suits. not inspiring at all.
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RedstateLib1 year, 4 months ago
Yep and before he made that inspiring speech he showed up and made that present vote. That is a real standup guy!
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RedstateLib1 year, 4 months ago
WE can elect him as the first "Present Didn't vote" in history!
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DrBenway1 year, 4 months ago
Remember (Okay, if you're old like me you'll remember) when Kennedy debated Nixon? Remember how old, pale and ... well... dead... Nixon looked compared to Kennedy?
Now, multiply that by 100 and you'll have what McCain is going to look like debating Obama.
I'm not a young man, and I've seen many presidents come and go... and I've voted for both Democrat and Republican... but Obama is the future. I have never seen the look of joy and hope spring up on the faces of people as when he speaks to a crowd. You cannot deny that.
I am proud to say he has my vote.
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nostalgia1 year, 4 months ago
You forgot one part of that debate
The people who listened on the radio overwhelmingly said Nixon won
After that debate people started commenting on which candidate "looked presidential"
That brought us to the current state of affairs
Successful candidates must "look the part" and the icing on the cake is rhetorical skills
Very sad state of affairs
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Aidenag1 year, 4 months ago
Since when is experience always a good thing though? I think Bobby D. said it best with his endorsment of Obama:
http://www.observer.com/2008/robert-de-niro-oba...
"He wasn't experienced enough to authorize the invasion of Iraq." "And that's not all," he went on. "It's clear Barack Obama does not have the experience to let the special interests run the government."
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EDWARDIII1 year, 4 months ago
Oh, by all means elect an innocent. I'm sure that "the look of joy and hope ... on the faces of people" observed by DrBenway is all he needs to become really great.
Give me your opinion on this. If Obama somehow isn't elected and spends four to eight more years in congress will he become better for it or will he be corrupted? Think hard before you answer.
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motivator9111 year, 4 months ago
If by some miracle Barack Hussien Obama wins the nomination we can exspect little to change that is if he performs his Presidential duties as he has perfomed his Senatorial duties, you see I got on the U.S. senate web site and researched the past 6 months to see where Barack Hussien Obama stood on the issues by following his votes and realized that out of over 200 votes he did not even show up to vote for over 150, but thats no the worst part, it amazed me what he felt was important enough to show up for compared to what he felt he had no need to show up for, no law maker should be allowed to schuck his duties, they should be required to vote especially on important issues and gaurenteed no lawmaker who does will get my vote....
god help us all....and good luck john McCain
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nostalgia1 year, 4 months ago
Unfortunately not many voters will even know about his voting record - or should I say "lack of a voting record"
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simonsez1 year, 4 months ago
It appears, by the comments, there is a new sense of anxiety building about Obama.
There was a good editorial by David Brooks (NY Times, Feb.12)
entitled "When Reality Bites", discussing what each of them will face if elected; comparing promises made to actual conditions.
Good read.
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jmopinion1 year, 4 months ago
Anxiety is right. The truth is, a big factor is a lot of people are scared to death of a black president with little experience. Look at all of the other black led countries. Another point is Obama comes from a basically fatherless childhood which may mean he may have psychological problems such as making every day decisions as compared to someone with a two parent stable family growing up. Its pretty damn scary with such a huge position on the line.
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jovial1 year, 4 months ago
It's not so much anxiety as it it plain old fashioned "sour grapes". There's been a lot of conjecture here on this post about experience. There's no direct correlation between the amount of experience a President has and his job performance. The job he is going to inherit from Bush is going to be hard. He's still got a stacked Judicial court to reckon with. He's got an economy teetering on the brink of disaster. He's got a hugely unpopular war to sort out. A healthcare system that is ranked somewhere close to Slovenia. A divided country that has no ultimate goal or direction, save defeating terrorists that we create more and more of each day. He's got a demoralized military, and a military industrial complex that has grown exponentially to deal with. It's a tough job. As Bush said time and time again, "It's hard work." (as he was clearing brush on his Texas ranch.
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mzkin11 year, 4 months ago
Obama is just better for Democrats. Clinton is old news...besides do we really want Bush Sr. 4 years, B. Clinton 8 years, G Bush 8 years, and H. Clinton 4 or more years. It feels too much like aristocracy politics. Obama at least is young and fresh and doesn't carry the baggage of corruption that the Clintons had (remember the 850 FBI files found in the White House, the death of Vince Foster and the reemergence of his files at the White House, Whitewater, etc.). No, this race is either Obama and McCain or Obama and Huckabee. All of these candidates fair much better in my book.
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StillUnashamed1 year, 4 months ago
Once the nominees are set and Obama (if it is him, but don't be surprised if the Clintons are able to somehow steal it by seating Michigan and Florida delegates) must start defending his stance on issues, his support will fade. He still has a chance if the conservative Republicans stay home and don't vote.
Of the 3 remaining, the question is not who is the most electable. . . . it is which 2 are the least electable.
Also, if Obama is elected he will not be the first black president. His mother is white, so he's only half-black (I hate racial distinctions but make this comment so many are making so much ado about his race).
If Hillary is elected, she won't be the first woman president, but Bill will be the first to serve 3 terms since FDR. How liberating is it to know that she could not have come anywhere close except by riding on the accomplishments of her husband?
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cushi1 year, 4 months ago
I am African American and I definitely am NOT voting for him because he is "Black." I'm voting for him because I believe him to be the best of the lot for the difficult tasks ahead. To downplay Mr. Obama's credentials and vote for him solely based on his race is ignorant, insulting and unconscionable! He has so much more to offer than that rather insignificant factor! Contrary to popular opinion, there are LOTS of intelligent, capable Americans, Black and white, who are NOT voting for him because of his race. They are voting for him because he impresses them as the right one for this critical time in American history, period.
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EDWARDIII1 year, 4 months ago
And John McCain, unlikely as it may be, could become the first president over seventy-whatever. That's a barrier too. Productive lifespans are expanding despite vast and brutally stated predjudices. Seventy is the new sixty. Kids born today can probably expect lifespans well into the hundreds (Ray Kurtzweil "The Singularity is Near").
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IcCaRus1 year, 4 months ago
if he wins he'll be the oldest ever.
i think there will be alot of young voters who will see this election as generational rather than on party lines. my own 19 year old daughter said she will vote for obama because "that other guys is older than my grandpa".
hey, shes just 19, what does she know? but the point is that alot of young people dont even care about parties. they just think someone in their 70s cant relate to them, no matter what party they are from..... and they will vote in droves this time, the primaries are proving that.
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cushi1 year, 4 months ago
Anybody who would put ANY credence into ANYTHING offered up by that cauldron of corruption is incapable of sound judgement anyway.
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joey-evans1 year, 4 months ago
Jose,
As much as it pains me, I find that I must agree at least with part of your post. I believe that Rove and his minions are salivating over the prospect of Obama being the Dem nom. The poor guy will not know what hit him. On the other hand....I do not believe they will be able to inflict as much if any harm onto Hillary. She has taken their best shots and still stands tall. The neocants only hope is for Obama to get the Dem nomination.
JOEY EVANS
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Socrates11 year, 4 months ago
The main reason that Obama is popular is that he has no record to speak of which allows him to be inspirational, etc. He is the product of the internet age where actual stands matter little. Change, Change, Change, sells because we can each imagine that the change will benefit us. The devil is in the details where if he is ever forced to reveal his plans he will begin to lose votes from those who thought his change would benefit them only to find out that the election of this demagogue (sp) and/or populist will not neccesarily result in the change that that particular voter had in mind. That being said, I am not particularly enthused about either Hillary or McCain.
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IcCaRus1 year, 4 months ago
hello???? obamas website spells out his positions and plans on many issues.
i posted the site on a comment last nite and this morning RFE posted it as a story....
http://www.propeller.com/viewstory/2008/02/13/b...
there are over 20 issues with his positions and plans for them.
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