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Obama hits the mark

POSTED BY TIM SHEY, JUNE 03 2008 10:42 PM | PERMALINK

Obama clinched the critical delegate count today, and our friends at The Uptake are there, covering live. Watch the speech live or archived in the embedded player below at a slightly different angle than the televised speech, from their live cam at the event. Read the full text of the speech on TPM Election Central.

Meanwhile, our friends at TPM watched McCain's "prerebuttal" to Obama's speech, and say it's a "frighteningly sad" performance. As Josh Marshall writes:

...I'm curious to hear...
Did Obama make another misstep?

POSTED BY ALEXANDRA STEIGRAD, APRIL 21 2008 03:14 PM | PERMALINK

The Hill reports that Obama said Sunday: "You have a real choice in this election. Either Democrat would be better than John McCain,” Obama said during an event in Pennsylvania, as quoted by the Associated Press. Then he added: "And all three of us would be better than George Bush."

Even though Obama's comments are hardly a McCain endorsement, some are calling this a "slip-up" that may have potential general election ramifications. Clinton jumped on this during a speech in Pennsylvania, saying: "We...
McCain making play for Latino vote in NM

POSTED BY ALEXANDRA STEIGRAD, APRIL 07 2008 04:06 PM | PERMALINK

While we were all talking about the Richardson-Clinton drama, John McCain started running Spanish language ads in New Mexico. According to the Huffington Post, McCain is making all the right moves and Dems should be concerned.

But the real reason that Democrats should worry is that the GOP presidential campaign seems to know the issues that resonate with Latino voters. McCain press secretary Brooke Buchanan recently said about her candidates Latino outreach: "His positions on issues like...
Both Dems virtually tied with McCain

POSTED BY ALEXANDRA STEIGRAD, APRIL 02 2008 01:20 PM | PERMALINK

Here's a look at over 19,000 responses from Gallup, which yielded some expected, yet interesting, demographic results. From the Baltimore Sun:

Both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are virtually tied with Republican John McCain in national daily tracking polls that Gallup has been running, but an analysis of nearly 20,000 interviews conducted over the course of the month of March reveals the strengths that each holds among different voters.

“At this point….there would appear not to be a...
How Clinton can still win

POSTED BY ALEXANDRA STEIGRAD, MARCH 24 2008 02:48 PM | PERMALINK

Ever since Iowa, it seems like the media has been calling for Sen. Hillary Clinton to drop out of the race. She’s bounced back several times—even after a winless streak in February, only to carry Texas, Rhode Island and Ohio the following month.

Now that the Jeremiah Wright story seems to be fading, the media is back to counting Clinton out. Clinton’s political death is always a good back-up story for the talking heads to dissect ad nauseam.

But in all seriousness, with the apparent Florida and...
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%...
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...
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...
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...