Category: Democrats (Page 39 of 57)

Obama’s impressive campaign

February 22, 2008 / Gerardo Orlando

Anyone who says Obama’s campaign is “all rhetoric” is not paying attention. Obama’s ground game, coupled with his Internet strategy, will be studied for years by acedemics and political strategists. This will go down as one of the best-run campaigns in our lifetimes.

Kos highlights some details from a reader about Obama’s ground game in Cleveland. It’s pretty amazing.

Obama’s vote totals and margins of victory have been exceeding the polls since Super Tuesday. Few reporters are focusing on this, as many of them are still stuck on the New Hampshire story where Clinton exceeded expectations.

In Ohio and Texas, the polls are tightening. It’s even in Texas and Obama is within single digits in Ohio. With his ground game and the enthusiasm of his supporters, I think he can win Texas and possibly pull out a shocker in Ohio.

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Clinton’s Bizarro World

February 20, 2008 / Gerardo Orlando

In Hillaryland, numbers don’t matter, red states don’t matter, and voters who voted for Obama don’t matter.

They invent their own math, and they try to change the rules. They’ve been beaten by huge margins in their current 10-state losing streak, and every week we have a new strategy and new lame attacks.

The latest attack claims that only Hillary is qualified to be commander-in-chief. This from the Senator who voted for Bush’s disastrous war, yet claims that she thought he was only voting for resuming inspections. She cast this vote without even reading the full National Intelligence Estimate that was made available to Senators and which detailed the problems with Bush’s WMD claims.

I’m sure Obama welcomes this debate. Her Iraq War vote in my opinion should disqualify her from being commander-in-chief. She screwed up, and she won’t even admit it.

Of course, none of this matters in Bizarro World.

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Stump the Chump

February 20, 2008 / Gerardo Orlando

Here’s a very gracious (and humorous) statement issued by Texas State Senator Kirk Watson, the Obama surrogate from Texas who was stumped by Chris Matthews last night when he couldn’t cite any legislative achievements by Barack Obama.

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Obama responds on the issue of spending limits

February 20, 2008 / Gerardo Orlando

In a USA Today Op-Ed piece, Barack Obama responded to the issue of spending limits in the general election. He will seek an agreement, but it will not be an easy agreement to craft since supporters on both sides can cheat the system.

Let’s see if the press is capable of reporting on this issue in a fair manner. They will actually have to dig in and understand the issue, which means it might take longer than a 30-second explanation. They have 24 hours per day available on cable news, so one would hope they could deal with this responsibly. Unfortunately, that might be too much to ask.

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