Hit the Road, Joe
Your Daily Politics Video Blog: Are the Senate Dems finally going to toss Joe Lieberman overboard? We ask the question in today's episode of TPMtv and look at one way grassroots Dems across the country may be able to give the final push that sends him over the edge.
So, in case you've been in a coma: America's not a very democratic place. Our system of primaries and caucuses is absurd. Fortunately, the closeness of the Democratic race may spur our elected and party officials to take a hard look at the circus they're running.
First, the completely arbitrary, nonsensical scheduling: Iowa and New Hampshire called dibs on being the first caucus and primary back in the 1950s, and for some reason we're honoring that? The schedule is justified as a way to let...
Texas / Ohio Preview
Your Daily Politics Video Blog: It's all over but the voting (and caucusing). So in today's episode of TPMtv, we go over which states are voting, how many delegates each has, what to expect, and just how that weird Texas Caucus/Primary works.
It's another nice Spring day in Austin, Texas, where it turns out that what happens today might not matter as much as you thought. Over sixty percent of the vote has already been cast, the Texas Monthly's BurkaBlog reported this morning:
CNN is reporting today that 60% of the vote in Texas has already been cast. This means that any local candidate who trails after the early vote will have a hard time overcoming their opponent's lead. Assume, for example, that 10,000 votes are going to be cast in a...
Wisconsin Primary Preview
Your Daily Politics Video Blog: Wisconsin is the island of primary goodness between Super Tuesday back on Feb. 5th and Last Stand Tuesday (Texas and Ohio) on March 4th. And tonight's the night. (Our live results coverage starts at 9 PM Eastern.) The polls say Barack Obama is the likely winner. But there's been so much buzz and hype for Obama over the last two weeks that a win for Hillary, even by a tiny margin, could seriously upset the apple cart. And most polls don't show...
Rounding out a weekend full of upset in the Clinton camp, Barack Obama is winning today's Maine caucuses according to CNN:
With 95 percent of precincts reporting, Obama was leading Sen. Hillary Clinton of New York 59 percent to 40 percent. At stake are 24 delegates to August's Democratic national convention in Denver.
And this after taking Nebraska, Washington, and (the biggies) the US Virgin Islands. The new delegate tallies favor Obama in the primaries, but Clinton's still got a head's lead in ...
With the doors about to closed at in Nevada, coming up is a look at Hillary and Barack- last night our intrepid ground hounds Royce and Corrine attended rallys for both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton in Nevada Here is Corrine's video from the Hillary rally
Intrepid Ground Hound Royce D'Orazio went to an Obama rally last night. Feel the Obama excitement!
Nevada is switching caucus locations to the work place so that shift workers can vote - and someone affiliated (or not?) with Hillary Clinton has decided that's a bad idea. And he's suing.
Tim Russert asked Clinton why she's trying to stop a bill that would allow shift voters, typically pressed out of caucus participation by jobs that do not allow them to leave the workplace for the neighborly political joust, and besides reminding Russert it's not her suit, Clinton brought up the...
Five Days in New Hampshire
Your Daily Politics Video Blog: They say a week is a lifetime in politics. And I'm sure the last week felt like a lifetime for Hillary Clinton. So with Hillary's stunning come from behind victory last night in New Hampshire we went back and picked out what we thought we several of the key moments between her defeat in Iowa on Thursday and her victory yesterday evening. Check it out. It looks different now with the benefit of hindsight.
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