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Posted by: Aidenag 1 year, 10 months agoSens. John McCain and Barack Obama will claim victory in all three contests in the Potomac primaries, CNN projects.
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TimALoftis
Feb. 12, 2008, 10:38 p.m.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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Neophile
Feb. 12, 2008, 11:19 p.m.Caption contest for the picture!
"What's got two thumbs and doesn't have a chance in November?"
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1-2-Oscar
Feb. 12, 2008, 11:30 p.m.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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RedstateLib
Feb. 12, 2008, 11:42 p.m.Barack votes Present again today on voting to give telecoms immunity. That strong stand of "present" really sways me.
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RedstateLib
Feb. 13, 2008, 12:12 a.m.Obama Take a stand PLEASE. So that I know what I am voting for. PLEASE.
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NoWayMan
Feb. 13, 2008, 12:28 a.m.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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DrBenway
Feb. 13, 2008, 1:20 a.m.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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EDWARDIII
Feb. 13, 2008, 1:30 a.m.Let's elect Obama, untainted by expeience or know-how, the best personality candidate since George Bush. You never know. James Buchannan had a lucky presidency. Maybe this guy will too.
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motivator911
Feb. 13, 2008, 3:52 a.m.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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simonsez
Feb. 13, 2008, 10:07 a.m.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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mzkin1
Feb. 13, 2008, 11:04 a.m.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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nikkibabe
Feb. 13, 2008, 11:18 a.m.Congratulations to President to be Barack Obama. He is ready to beat the crap out of the "my friend" hypocrite Iraq war patron and con artist from AZ and his bunch of crooks; the Iraq war J$#!@# pig from CT and the "9/11" tattooed on his forehead adulterer from NY.
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StillUnashamed
Feb. 13, 2008, 12:15 p.m.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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EDWARDIII
Feb. 13, 2008, 1:23 p.m.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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EDWARDIII
Feb. 13, 2008, 2:15 p.m.Obama is a talented able human being. I admire him greatly though I disagree with him on many points. Often the person is bigger than the policy. He just needs time to master the tools.
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Socrates1
Feb. 13, 2008, 4:08 p.m.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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