Posted by admin on June 26th, 2008 | Categorized as Obamacons, Opinion
What is an “Obamacon?” The phrase surfaced in January to describe British conservatives entranced by Barack Obama. On March 13 the American Spectator broadened the term to cover all “conservative supporters” of the Democratic presidential candidate. Their ranks, though growing, feature few famous people. But looming on the horizon are two big potential Obamacons: Colin [...]
Posted by admin on June 26th, 2008 | Categorized as Polls
Sen. McCain’s lead among white voters in Colorado and Michigan cuts the gap to single digits, but doesn’t offset Sen. Obama’s strength among other groups. The Democrat also leads by eight to 21 percentage points among independent voters in each state. Overall results show:
* Colorado: Obama leads McCain 49 - 44 percent, including 51 - [...]
Posted by admin on June 26th, 2008 | Categorized as Gay Marriage, McCain
A source with close ties to the Log Cabin Board of Directors provided information about the meeting to GayPatriot earlier this week. This source disclosed that the Log Cabin meeting was not reflected on Senator McCain’s published schedule in advance and the meeting. A second source familiar with the Log Cabin-McCain meeting reports [...]
Posted by admin on June 26th, 2008 | Categorized as McCain, On the Trail
Since effectively capturing the Republican nomination when Mitt Romney dropped out of the race on Feb. 7, John McCain has held just one public campaign event on a weekend.
Instead, after workweeks full of fundraisers, town hall meetings and interviews, McCain has been, in campaign parlance, “down” on nearly every Saturday or Sunday for 20 weeks, [...]
Posted by admin on June 25th, 2008 | Categorized as Electorial College, On the Trail
Barack Obama will focus his resources largely in 14 states George W. Bush won in 2004, his chief field operative said Tuesday, hoping to score upsets in places such as Virginia, Indiana and Georgia.
But winning the White House won’t be his only goal, deputy campaign manager Steve Hildebrand told Politico: In an unusual move, Obama’s [...]
Posted by admin on June 25th, 2008 | Categorized as On the Trail, Opponents
But Bill Clinton has a beef. A Democrat who has spoken directly to Clinton about his feelings said that the former president remains “miffed” for two reasons. One is that he feels that Obama’s candidacy was essentially an anti-Clinton candidacy; that Obama ran against Clinton’s presidential record at times, implying that it was timeworn, divisive, [...]
Posted by admin on June 24th, 2008 | Categorized as Polls
A Times/Bloomberg Poll says that in a two-man contest, 49% of respondents favor Barack Obama, while 37% support John McCain. With Ralph Nader and Bob Barr added to the mix, Obama holds 15-point edge.
Link:Los Angeles Times
Posted by admin on June 24th, 2008 | Categorized as McCain
A top advisor for Sen. John McCain is causing him some media grief. The Washington Post reports this morning that Charlie Black, in an interview with Fortune, said “a fresh terrorist attack ‘certainly would be a big advantage to him.’” Black also “said that the December assassination of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto, while [...]
Posted by admin on June 24th, 2008 | Categorized as Endorsments, On the Trail
Relations between the last Democratic president and the candidate who wants to be the next one are still frosty _ they still haven’t spoken in the aftermath of the heated campaign. But Bill Clinton extended an offer to help in a one-sentence statement from spokesman Matt McKenna.
“President Clinton is obviously committed to doing whatever he [...]
Posted by admin on June 24th, 2008 | Categorized as Faith
As Barack Obama broadens his outreach to evangelical voters, one of the movement’s biggest names, James Dobson, accuses the likely Democratic presidential nominee of distorting the Bible and pushing a “fruitcake interpretation” of the Constitution.
Link:My Way News