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6 months ago
I think you'd be hard pressed to find a democrat who wouldn't be happy with either candidate as the nom, in the grand scheme of things.
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If the Clintons win by getting their Michigan slate of delegates seated, the most loyal faction of the Democratic coalition (African-Americans) realize they have been screwed again. Obama played by the rules and will lose for his troubles.
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http://tinyurl.com/3xlzv2
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The challenge is with Clinton. If she is the nominee for President, even the ultra-conservatives will hold their noses and vote for McCain. They hate her that much. In my opinion, Obama would be the better candidate. As I've been saying for months, the Republicans are scared to death of Obama. They *know* how to beat Clinton and they have the dirt and the lies to do it. They don't know how to beat Obama.
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There's a convincing case to be made, in fact, that the continuing battle for the Democratic nomination will be good. McCain will largely disappear from the radar screen until the convention. We'll have wall-to-wall Obama/Clinton for months on the news.
What about senator Clinton's famously high negatives? Although I'm supporting Obama and I think he'll both be a better president and a better candidate, Clinton will eviscerate McCain in the debates. He'll look old. His professed ignorance on the economy will be a millstone. His 100 years of war will be frightening. Of course there will be a media love fest around him, and there will be endless media vilification of the Clintons. But I don't think that's going to sway most voters.
6 months ago
bush/clinton/bush/clinton is too un-american for me.
i want change, i want to the 21st century to actually start.
i think obama would be best.
i think if obama wins general delegates, and looses b/c of super delegates;
then the democratic party is finished.
i don't think the convention will be a bad thing, as long as obama wins; hopefully though he'll have enough of a lead to start hitting macain before the final weeks. if he gets macain in a debate, macain will go off and loose the election.
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I don't think people remember how weary these stalemates can get. Remember the end of 2000. Who would play the role of the Supreme Court here. Are you sure that you'd really be just as happy with the other candidate? Even after two or three months of dirt flying back and forth? We're just at the beginning of what could be a very long stalemate.
It'll be interesting to come back to this thread and see how it actually turned out.
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I think you're mistaken about the GOP contest being decided. The right wing of the party doesn't like Mac. Ann Coulter says she would campaign for Hillary if it came down to a choice between Mac and Hillary, and while AC is full of generally full of crap, Mac still hasn't won this thing. If the right wing rallies around Huck, it's quite conceivable that he could win the nomination on the second ballot, with the support of the Romney delegates.
Barack has done so well because he's excited those who otherwise don't bother to vote. Hillary can't count on those voters. Clinton's supporters are mostly regular Democrats who vote year out, year in, so if it's 50/50, I suspect the dems have a much better chance of winning this fall if Barack is the nominee. The minute Hillary is nominated, the GOP will be talking about Bill being disbarred, and suggest that as a wife, she paroled her husband for unpardonable offenses, making her weak on law and order. And if she brings up the war, they'll trot out her vote for war against Iran.
The loan to Hillary's campaign makes it look like she's run out of steam. People like to think their contribution will put someone over the top, not forestall the inevitable. I think Hillary will drop out of the race long before Pennsylvania votes.
I think if I were Romney or Edwards, I'd pick out some vulnerable seats in the House or the Senate, and go campaigning or fundraising for those candidates. Not only would that help the party pass bills in Congress, but it'd put you a leg up for the 2012 elections.
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I linked from scripting.com.
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http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/02/06...
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Well, it's a theory. :)
With a little luck, Obama and Clinton will be smart enough NOT to run dirty campaigns. If they do that, the Democrats will rise up in a body and vote for the one that gets the nomination. The Republicans can go chew on each other (we could only wish!).
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BTW, it seems to me that the Republicans have been spending a lot of our money on the war in Iraq.
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That can't be stable; too many Americans think we're spending too much. Sooner or later, someone's going to figure out how to turn that into votes.
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I think the campaigns will turn negative and be ugly
I think Clinton will garner the support of the super delegates through tremendous, embedded deal making
The problem is that their are three parties and one party will lose at the convention and then not show up for the general election
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I was thinking today that the Democrats almost always do the Republican's work for them: nominating someone who the nation as a whole won't elect. Democrats almost always nominate someone more liberal than most Americans can stomach. In this election, the Republicans have done the opposite: nominating a candidate that has broad independent appeal but not much appeal for conservatives.
There's an opportunity for Democrats there: they know who the Republican candidate is have the opportunity to nominate a candidate most likely to beat McCain. That's Obama. When faced with a choice between McCain and Hillary most independents will choose Mac. I think Obama has more independent/moderate appeal.
Don't believe conservatives who say they'll vote for Hillary over Mac. They're just pouting. On election day, they'll hold their noses and vote for Mac. What they won't do is man the phone banks, etc. Democrats have a real opportunity here if they don't take this to a convention fight.
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I honestly don't know how I would choose to vote with Obama vs. McCain. I think we need to get to that point before I can make a decision. I want more information.
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Last time I was at my local hospital emergency room, I did not see anyone being turned away.
In fact, I think I'd refer to 7:00pm as the start of open office hours.
I think the phrase "health care crisis" should be changed to "health insurance crisis"
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However, you may have no assets (assuming you had assets) since they would have been consumed to pay for your catastrophic event.
In fact, as one with a pre-existing condition and at risk of losing insurance and one with assets to be consumed in the case of catastrophic event, you're an example of one who would really benefit from government universal health care. With the government mandating coverage for you, you would retain your insurance no matter how your condition may turn.
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Yet if I somehow lost my current insurance, I'd be back to zero -- uninsurable.
I'd get told of course that I'm one of the poor people, when of course I'm not, and I'm a taxpayer (boy am I) and all the Republican administrations in my lifetime, Nixon, Ford, Regan, Bush I and II, did nothing to help me in this area. They just give me platitudes and tell me to fend for myself in this mess of a system.
Yes, I think a law that says the insurance companies have to find a way to cover everyone, no matter how sick they are, would bre a pretty good way to address the problem, for now. Other less drastic measures might have worked if we had woken up and dealt with the problem earlier.
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Yes, health insurance is the answer. If we subsidized insurance for people who couldn't afford it, health care costs would go down and health care insurance costs for everybody would decrease.
We all pay for unpaid health care costs anyway. Why not let the government pick competitive insurance plans from the private sector?
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Will those who seek primary health care in the ER suddenly stop going to ER? Will they find a regular GP who will lead them on the road of preventative care? Will they stop the behaviors that put them at risk?
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My first wife spent 17 years dying of systemic lupus erythematosis. If you walk into an emergency room with SLE, they don't do a darned thing except to tell you to see a specialist. Would you care to tell me what sort of preventative care works for lupus? What kind of behavior puts you at risk for lupus?
But even supposing that it's caused by solving sanskrit crossword puzzles, something she could have stopped doing, I would argue that my son and I didn't solve any sanskrit crossword puzzles, and yet we suffered, too. And you can point out that I took a vow, but my son was wholly innocent.
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I also quote you from a now ancient (1998) Scripting news entry regarding the shredding of our civil liberties at http://www.jrmooneyham.com/they-own-you-and-all...
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Anybody remember the fantasy we had a year ago: the Democratic convention will deadlock and turn to Al Gore as the grand unifier? Anybody still interested?
6 months ago
Hmm. I wrote about other aspects of political marketing this cycle at www.strategicmessaging.com, but not that. I should get on it when I'm through reinventing Twitter and disrupting the DBMS market. :)
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