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New Gallup poll has Obama up

POSTED BY ALEXANDRA STEIGRAD, MARCH 24 2008 01:58 PM | PERMALINK

According to Gallup's daily tracking poll, Obama has a 3 point lead on Clinton, 48% to 45%, reversing a dip that had Clinton leading by 7 points. The surge comes after Obama's important speech on race, and an endorsement by Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico. Versus their Republican opponent, John McCain, both Democrats have inched closer in the latest update on registered voters' general election preferences. McCain holds just a two percentage point edge over both -- 46% to 44% over Obama and 47%...
John Kerry: Obama's cred is due to his race?

POSTED BY ALEXANDRA STEIGRAD, MARCH 21 2008 04:01 PM | PERMALINK

No he didn't. What is John Kerry talking about? He's sounding a bit like Gerry Ferraro. In an interview with the Standard-Times (MA), Kerry attributes African-American oppression as the concept that allows Obama to unify. Really? Tokenism, white liberal guilt, ridiculous reasoning are all streaming through my head. Maybe Obama was right about white people? See article below from the Wall Street Journal:

With Extreme Prejudice
By JAMES TARANTO
March 21, 2008

Remember John Kerry?...
It's primary delegates, stupid....

POSTED BY ALEXANDRA STEIGRAD, MARCH 21 2008 03:43 PM | PERMALINK

With slim chances of Hillary Clinton picking up more pledged delegates and more of the popular vote, (if Michigan and Florida don't revote/count), than Barack Obama, how can Clinton convince superdelegates to pick her as the nominee? The answer is: pledged delegates, the New York Observer's Politicker blog reports:

At the end of today's Clinton conference call (during which Phil Singer said that if the Clinton campaign were a baseball team, they have a "great leftfielder in Mark Penn") NBC's...
More details on the passport breach story

POSTED BY ALEXANDRA STEIGRAD, MARCH 21 2008 02:15 PM | PERMALINK

The New York Times is reporting that the passports of all three candidates were breached. Obama's file was breached three separate times, by three different employees, working for independent contractors. Two of the employees were fired, and the third, who also accessed John McCain's file, was "only reprimanded and remains an employee."

Clinton's passport file was breached during a summer training session for State Department employees. For training purposes, trainees were encouraged to enter a family...
Clinton camp criticizes Obama camp over photo

POSTED BY ALEXANDRA STEIGRAD, MARCH 21 2008 01:59 PM | PERMALINK

The AP reports that the Clinton campaign criticized the Obama camp for "peddling photos" of former President Clinton and Obama's longtime pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright. The photo shows Bill Clinton and Wright shaking hands at the White House during a prayer breakfast in Sept.1998. The New York Times posted the photo to its Web site on Thursday and said it was provided by the Obama campaign. Now if only they could get a picture of either Bill or Hillary attending Obama's church while Wright was...
Bloomberg and Paterson react to Obama's speech

POSTED BY ALEXANDRA STEIGRAD, MARCH 20 2008 04:07 PM | PERMALINK

New York City Mayor Bloomberg and Gov. Paterson's thoughts on Obama's speech about race.

The New York Observer's Politicker blog reports:

Paterson praised the speech, saying, “He talked about the different avenues of society that become frustrated.” Bloomberg, who deferred to Paterson at first said, “I think it’s an issue that he has to address, I thought he should have done it earlier, I’m glad he did and let’s get on with it.
McCain aide suspended for pushing new Obama/Wright video

POSTED BY ALEXANDRA STEIGRAD, MARCH 20 2008 03:13 PM | PERMALINK

An aide to John McCain has been suspended from the campaign for circulating a racially-charged video about Barack Obama, which calls into question the Illinois senator’s patriotism. The video melds clips from Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s sermons, sound bites from Michelle Obama, and previous interviews of Barack Obama.

According to the Politico, “Soren Dayton, who works in McCain's political department, sent out the YouTube link of "Is Obama Wright?" on twitter at 12:31 today with the tag, "Good video...
New Gallup poll shows Clinton beating Obama

POSTED BY ALEXANDRA STEIGRAD, MARCH 20 2008 02:06 PM | PERMALINK

A new Gallup poll shows Hillary Clinton taking the lead over Barack Obama. According to Reuters, the March 14-18 national survey of 1,209 Democratic and Democratic-leaning voters gave Clinton a 49 percent to 42 percent edge over Obama. The poll has an error margin of 3 percentage points.

According to the poll, John McCain leads Obama 47 percent to 43 percent in 4,367 registered voters' preferences for the general election. The general election survey has an error margin of 2 percentage points.

The...
Why MI and FL must revote

POSTED BY ALEXANDRA STEIGRAD, MARCH 19 2008 04:11 PM | PERMALINK

To revote, or not to revote, that is the question. Bloomberg News is reporting that the Michigan DNC has endorsed a revote today, and are just waiting for the Clinton and Obama campaigns to agree. A secondary hurdle is that the plan must be approved by the end of the week by the Michigan legislature, which is slated to go on a two-week recess beginning as early as tomorrow.

The story goes on to detail the logistics, and Obama/Clinton bickering, but seriously, it seems fairly obvious that Obama is...
Bush and the presidential candidates talk Iraq

POSTED BY ALEXANDRA STEIGRAD, MARCH 19 2008 02:57 PM | PERMALINK

If you didn’t already know, today is the five-year anniversary of the Iraq War, and President Bush made a speech today at the Pentagon, defending the war, while also making the case that the U.S. continue its involvement in the conflict.

In front of a North Carolina crowd, Sen. Barack Obama, who opposes the war, also weighed in.

''Ask yourself,'' Obama told the crowd, ''Who do you trust to end a war: someone who opposed the war from the beginning, or someone who started opposing it when they started...