Obama wins Maine as well.
Everyone is assuming Hillary will do well in Texas and Ohio, but Obama is showing he can catch her when he has enough time to introduce himself to the voters of a state.
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This shouldn’t be a surprise. The Clinton campaign has been a mess, and her collapse in numerous states, particularly caucus states, shows that the campaign has been poorly run. Listening to CNN, it sounds like there were two power centers in the campaign along with few financial controls. Obe has to question Hillary’s managment skills, particularly in contrast to Obama’s well-oiled machine.
As more polls come out showing that Obama has a much better chance of beating McCain, Obama’s campaign will be able to convince more super delegates to come to their side.
He shouldn’t have a hard time convincing red state politicians. They’re terrified of having Hillary Clinton at the top of the ticket.
The New York Times concludes that Obama’s drug use was not very extensive.
Mr. Obama’s account of his younger self and drugs, though, significantly differs from the recollections of others who do not recall his drug use. That could suggest he was so private about his usage that few people were aware of it, that the memories of those who knew him decades ago are fuzzy or rosier out of a desire to protect him, or that he added some writerly touches in his memoir to make the challenges he overcame seem more dramatic.
In more than three dozen interviews, friends, classmates and mentors from his high school and Occidental recalled Mr. Obama as being grounded, motivated and poised, someone who did not appear to be grappling with any drug problems and seemed to dabble only with marijuana.
They’re both liberal, but as Andrew Sullivan explains, they take very different approaches to solving problems:
Obama is the more pragmatic and centrist of the two on this matter. The notion that he is the more liberal of the two is not a very enlightening analysis. In general, they represent different strands of liberalism, and it’s reflected in their campaign rhetoric. Obama tends to emphasize people’s ability to help themselves and their capacity to do so independently of government. Clinton tends to emphasize the neediness of people for government support and help, and she’s much more comfortable with coercive government action.
It’s “Yes, We Can,” vs “I’ll Take Care Of You.”
And that’s why a simplistic Obama-is-a-leftist critique won’t work as well as some seem to think. He’s a liberal, but a reconstructed one. He’s the kind of liberal who sees dependency as a problem not a solution. And he’s not a statist in the way previous liberal generations have been. He actually listened to and absorbed some of the conservative critique of liberalism these past two decades. And he has changed not just to protect his right flank.
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