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Obama closes the gap in Gallup poll

January 30, 2008 /

The national Gallup tracking poll now has Obama trailing Clinton by just 6 points.

Barack Obama has now cut the gap with Hillary Clinton to 6 percentage points among Democrats nationally in the Gallup Poll Daily tracking three-day average, and interviewing conducted Tuesday night shows the gap between the two candidates is within a few points. Obama’s position has been strengthening on a day-by-day basis. As recently as Jan. 18-20, Clinton led Obama by 20 points. Today’s Gallup Poll Daily tracking is based on interviews conducted Jan. 27-29, all after Obama’s overwhelming victory in South Carolina on Saturday. Two out of the three nights interviewing were conducted after the high-visibility endorsement of Obama by Sen. Edward Kennedy and his niece Caroline Kennedy.

UPDATE – Obama is also within six points in Massachusetts in the new Rasmussen poll. Last week he was down 37 points in a separate poll! Looks like the Kennedy endorsement made an impact.

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The Clintons’ hatchet man

January 29, 2008 /

The New York Times profile of Howard Wolfson rings true now that we’ve seen the deplorable campaign being run by the Clintons.

In many ways, Mr. Wolfson’s bare-knuckle brand of politics is reminiscent of the tactics of Karl Rove, President Bush’s chief political adviser — and a man whose skills Mr. Wolfson admits to admiring. While other Democrats tend to run campaigns that largely focus on issues, Mr. Wolfson is more than willing to make an opponent’s character the central theme of a race.

Is this the genius who decided to run an ad in South Carolina basically saying Barack Obama supported Reagan’s agenda just becuase Obama said Reagan had a transformative presidency?

This kind of crap will continue to dominate our politics until the voters finally reject candidates like Hillary Clinton to hire hatchet men like Wolfson.

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Obama and JFK

January 29, 2008 /

This is quite a story:

In his command of the US political stage over the past year, Barack Obama has inspired many a comparison to John F Kennedy. Both young senators brought a lofty message, an appealing young family and a movie-star aura to the presidential race. But the two men forged a less known link – before Obama was even born.

The bond began with Kenyan labour leader Tom Mboya, an advocate for African nationalism who helped his country gain independence in 1963. In the late 1950s, Mboya was seeking support for a scholarship program that would send Kenyan students to US colleges – similar to other exchanges the US backed in developing nations during the Cold War with the Soviet Union. Mboya appealed to the state department. When that trail went cold, he turned to then-senator Kennedy. Kennedy, who chaired the senate subcommittee on Africa, arranged a $100,000 grant through his family’s foundation to help Mboya keep the program running.

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