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June 18th, 2008

Barack Obama’s Campaign Email

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed or email alerts. Thanks for visiting!A simple passive website won’t do. A template of an email that the Obama campaign should seriously consider sending out to counter the Republican smear machine.

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June 16th, 2008

Al Gore endorses Obama

Registered on AlGore.com, Ash informs me that Al Gore will endorse Barack Obama for President in a few hours in Detroit. Thus, the last big endorsement in the Democratic Party has come through and now we wait to hear from Bill Clinton. After the acrimonious campaign over the past few months, his public endorsement will [...]

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June 13th, 2008

Neglecting Margin of Error

More in media election coverage bashing, yesterday Chris Matthews was talking about differences in support for Obama and McCain among women or more particularly suburban women. He had a graphic up on the screen with Obama’s photo captioned with “Woman Trouble?” Now what is seen as a part of increased media scrutiny toward media networks, [...]

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June 12th, 2008

Obama - Fiscal Conservative?

Almost 90% of Americans will pay less taxes under Obama than under McCain. And you thought Republicans were the fiscally conservative party. You’ll seen an increase in your taxes under Obama only if you earn $112K or more (strangely only $12 increase if you earn between $227K and $603K). Perhaps the ‘tax cut to the [...]

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June 6th, 2008

Media’s Sexist Behavior toward Hillary Clinton

“Clearly, in an age when the dangers and indignities of Driving While Black are well-acknowledged, and properly condemned, Striving While Female – if it goes too far and looks too real — is still held to be a crime.”
An excellent post on Clinton’s treatment by the media by Judith Warner. Mind you, the Obama campaign [...]

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June 5th, 2008

Hillary Clinton Supporters for McCain

Yeah, now this is really mature. The paragraph at the top seems to suggest that they are already sold on McCain so why bother pretending they were with Hillary? Methinks some mischievous Republican 527s are at play here.

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June 5th, 2008

The Presumptive Democratic Nominee

Finally after a 50-state primary, the Democrats have a presumptive nominee. Presumptive because the nomination will be endorsed only in the Democratic Convention in Denver in August. Heck, even previously ignored territories like Puerto Rico and Guam joined in the nomination party with cable news network actually paying attention to polling. Even though the networks [...]

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June 2nd, 2008

Would Bobby Jindal really be a good choice for VP?

The chatter for McCain’s Veep is rising and Jindal is getting lot of consideration. His nomination would supposedly give McCain not only an age counterbalance but also a conservative slant. Jindal although an Indian-American holds ultra-conservative values such as refusal to believe in evolution in favor of advocating creationism and strongly opposing abortion in any [...]

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May 29th, 2008

Perils of Loyalty as Employment Criteria

“Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free.”
…seemed to be the inspiration for Scott McClellan as is evident from its preface for writing his latest book eviscerating the Bush White House. Ranging from labeling the Iraq war as a ‘major blunder’ to the ‘constant campaign state’ as opposed to governing, McClellan [...]

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May 29th, 2008

Murdoch’s Prediction

Rupert Murdoch, the patriarch of Fox News and Wall Street Journal considered as the bastions of conservatism today, says Obama might win in November and that McCain has lot of problems [video].

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May 23rd, 2008

Margin of Victory

Clinton’s continued presence in the Democratic Primary race coupled with Obama’s losses in the conservative states are giving pundits fresh ammo regarding the electability issue. Obama’s 41-point loss in West Virginia followed by a 35-point victory in Kentucky seemingly put in doubt Obama’s ability to win in November. Bill Kristol, the columnist added to bring [...]

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May 20th, 2008

The Appalachia Racists

How are so-called working-class Appalachia whites Obama’s problem? If they can’t see beyond their racism, Obama will never get their vote no matter how hard he tries. It makes sense to let them wallow in their heartland gutter.

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May 18th, 2008

Public Whip helping undecided voters

Undecided voters skewing the polls? At least in the UK, voters who are lazy enough to take an active interest in the political issues yet do not want to vote by the Enee Meeny Mynah Moo strategy can log on to The Public Whip website. The website documents how individual MPs vote, together with who [...]

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May 15th, 2008

Clinton’s Point and Wave

All candidates have their patent campaign moves. For Hillary Clinton, it is the point and wave. You know you are no longer the press’s darling when they expose your secret (popat kiya in Bombay lingo) as Dana Milbank did in Washington Post today:
2:57 p.m., Yeager Airport, Charleston, W.Va.: A steep descent brings Clinton’s plane [...]

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May 13th, 2008

Bob Barr for President?

Bob Barr, the former Georgia Congressman has announced a bid for the Libertarian nomination for president. We had him in class for a guest lecture once in Atlanta. Even in the U.S., the Libertarian Party nominee doesn’t really attract much attention let alone stand a chance of making an impact.

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