My prediction - and I made the same prediction for John Kerry if he had won - for President-elect Obama is that for the first year when it comes to domestic squabbles the biggest pain in his butt will be from the left of his own party rather than the right.
The current GOP is [...]
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“OMG Harry Reid and the Senate Dems didn’t listen to us on Lieberman. It’s OVER!!!!” I certainly don’t have the view that conservative Patrick Ruffini does of this issue as any sort of serious infighting, but I am bored with it already. The senate is dumb, you knew they were going to let Lieberman back [...]
Proves once again, that while control of the House and Senate are nice to have, the Presidency is the real prize because when the House and Senate are stupid they are very stupid.
Since the voters of Louisiana won’t do the right thing.
A federal appeals court upheld bribery and other charges against Louisiana Democratic U.S. Rep. William Jefferson on Wednesday, clearing the way for a trial.
Jefferson, who cruised to victory in a primary last week and is expected to easily win re-election, had sought to dismiss a 16-count [...]
As Howard Dean prepares to step down as DNC Chairman, its worth remembering that when he started the right and much of the decaying party establishment insisted that his tenure would be counted in days or weeks, certainly not months. Democrats were in disarray, coming off a losing presidential election and consigned to the dustbin [...]
Maryland was among the bluest of states for Sen. Obama - 62% strong - and now we’ve added one more Democrat to our congressional delegation:
According to the Associated Press, Democrat Frank Kratovil has defeated Republican Andy Harris to win a seat that has been held by the GOP for 18 years in Maryland’s tight 1st [...]
2004 Hispanic Vote
55% Kerry 44% Bush
2008 Hispanic Vote
67% Obama 31% McCain
The GOP has alienated the fastest growing set of Americans, possibly for a generation.
Si Se Puede.
It’s hilarious how the current desperation-based attack on Sen. Obama is how he, in concert with Reid and Pelosi, will create a left-wing socialist majority that will crush America.
First off the attack using who will be in control of congress is among the most desperate, a version of it was used in 2006 when [...]
The Republican party is just trying out the latest version of the Southern Strategy.
First of all, even if Fannie and Freddie were the most awful companies in the history of the planet, its books chock-a-block with non-performing loans, none of the financial contagion—none of it—would have happened had not greedy financial institutions invented the risky [...]
CNN: “Sen. Ted Kennedy has been hospitalized in Cape Cod, a Massachusetts Democratic source says.”
Dow Jones Industrial Average
Bush Inauguration: 10,587.59
Second Bush Inauguration: 10,471.47
Today: 10,609
Net change: +21.41
Clinton Inauguration: 3,241.95
Second Clinton Inauguration: 6,843.87
End of Clinton presidency: 10,587.59
Net change: +7,345.64
Historical
Bush I Inauguration: 2,235.36
End of Bush I presidency: 3,241.95
Reagan Inauguration: 950.69
Second Reagan Inauguration: 1,227.36
End of Reagan presidency: 2,235.36
Carter Inauguration: 1,029.12
End of Carter presidency: 950.69
Ford assumes presidency: 814.12
End of Ford presidency: 1,029.12
Please check out my latest column over on HuffPo.
I’m not going to link to it here, but Google, my email, and some comments show me a lot of people are talking about it. The story rings false to me, and is just the sort of thing like the phony “whitey” video tape story that Larry Johnson was peddling that would be whipped up [...]
Well, I think we just had a moment here. The AP has detail, but it was one of those emotional moments I’m really glad I was there for.
Video:
So, leave it to me to find the really nice seats they’ve set aside for bloggers on the last day we’re going to be inside here. Anyhow, I’m on the mid-level, which is the same level NBC, Fox, CNN and AP have their pavilions. Oh, and Al Jazeera. Which is right above where they’ve put [...]
* The typeface being used on the giant screen during the convention to identify each person is the same type the Obama campaign has been using on their material since launch.
* Almost every speech last night made a distinction between McCain as “more of the same” and Obama/Biden as “the change we need”. Democrats, [...]
I concede that I’ve only heard about it second hand, but apparently James Carville bitched and moaned on CNN about the convention tonight because I guess they didn’t go after McCain enough. My guess is that is coming, especially with Sen. Clinton and Sen. Biden. But even if that’s not so, can someone tell me [...]
So here are some shots from today. I got to go on the floor for about a half hour and its pretty insane. At any given moment you could run into Ed Rendell. Not, like “Oh hi Ed Rendell”, but physically BAM Ed Rendell is on the floor and Oh My God who will bitch [...]
Sen. Kennedy may attend the Democratic convention. That would be phenomenal.
As most of you know, I’m going to the convention next week (I leave Sunday) and since I don’t actually have any reporting skills, I want to know from you what sort of things you’d like me to find out about. There’s a good shot I may write some stupid Hunter S. Thompson lite stream [...]
In an interview with the London Times, political consultant and apparent snake oil salesman Dave “Mudcat” Saunders says the following:
“The Democrats talk of tolerance, but in reality the only tolerance they ever exhibit is for their own intellectual arrogance — and they don’t have tolerance for my culture,” says Mudcat. “They think we’re a bunch [...]
Sad news
The Cleveland Plain Dealer is reporting that Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, the first black woman elected to the House from Ohio, died Wednesday afternoon in a Cleveland hospital.
Tubbs Jones was hospitalized Tuesday night after police pulled over her car and found her unconscious behind the wheel.
A Huron Hospital spokeswoman said Tubbs Jones, 58, [...]
The DNC responds to McCain’s web ad yesterday of 2 year old plus footage of Democrats lauding the old John McCain.
Democrat Mark Begich is up 9 over the incumbent, incompetent Ted “Tubes” Stevens. A Democrat can win a senate in Alaska if people step up.
That wacky idea Howard Dean had of competing in all the states as if the Democrats were a national party just might work.
The DSCC and the DCCC have strong fundraising advantages over their Republican counterparts.
You know what this means, right? Good For John McCain!
In the same poll that shows Sen. Obama with a 17 point lead in Minnesota, Al Franken is 10 points behind Norm Coleman. I’ve never been super wild about the Franken run (I don’t like entertainers and other media folks running for office most of the time), but I’m even less so now. Maybe he [...]
From today’s Hardball. On the left, Danny Diaz of the RNC. On the right, Karen Finney of the DNC.
Perhaps you shave before you come on tv, hmmm Danny?
Check out this interactive infographic from the NY Times on how various demographics voted during the primaries. Then click “Blacks”. Hehehe.
There sure are a lot of Democrats out there. I see… blue people…
Today Jim Gilmore barely got the Republican nomination for the open senate seat. 65 votes! Steadily I think Virginia is going to become more like us over here in Maryland. And Mark Warner has his first campaign ad up:
Obama will win Virginia on Warner’s coattails.
* I’m glad to see the party finally standing up to the Clintons. Florida and Michigan both get their delegates in with penalty, supported by Obama and opposed by the Clintons. The Clintons no longer control the party.
* Harold Ickes is clearly among the more odious of the Clinton goons. The way he threatened the [...]
I haven’t been watching this thing in full - even I am not that boring - but I’ve now seen Harold Ickes have his butt handed to him twice. First was up against Rep. Robert Wexler, and later against Sen. Carl Levin (who seriously has issues with the Iowa-New Hampshire monopoly - and I agree [...]
Watch one of America’s two major parties get all up in detailed political procedure.
Denver Broncos Cheerleaders are in Denver. Hmmm.
And by we, I mean me. OliverWillis.com is one of the blogs officially credentialed to cover the Democratic convention in Denver. I’ve never been to a convention (a political convention, that is, I’ve *ahem* been to a comic book convention or 10) so this should be pretty cool.
I’m thinking [...]
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Bartels comes to this conclusion by examining what happened to income inequality from President Truman to President George W. Bush. He writes, “Under Democratic presidents, poor families did slightly better than richer families (at least in proportional terms), producing a modest net decrease in income inequality; under Republican presidents, [...]
Columnist Ed Cone explains in the Greensboro News & Record how I saved the Democratic party and created Barack Obama. Well, not exactly, but he has a good column on the GOP’s “brand” woes and features me heavily.
In 2004, blogger Oliver Willis launched a viral marketing campaign called “Brand Democrat.” The idea was to frame [...]
What does it and the other two Democratic gains mean? There is nowhere on the map that a Democrat can’t compete. Sure, the candidate has to be in tune with the local ethos - you won’t run a Los Angeles Democrat in San Angelo, TX or vice-versa - but you don’t do what Democrats did [...]
Jeralyn Merritt at Talkleft writes:
As for the speculation that Obama would convince Hillary’s supporters to vote for him if he picks another female VP candidate like Napolitano or McCaskill, I highly doubt it. There is only one Hillary Clinton. Women are not interchangeable. In fact, it would be rubbing salt in the wounds of [...]