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Breaking News: Chicagoans LOVE Obama

POSTED BY MICHAEL GSOVSKI, FEBRUARY 06 2008 09:37 PM | PERMALINK

Tuesday evening, I went to an Obama watch party at the Town Hall Pub on the northside of Chicago. So did a wide cross section of Chicago's young, politically savvy and creative demographics, a band called Devin and the Straights and Asahi TV (#1 news cast in all Japan!). I've filed an account using the joyous tool of Youtube, which apparently can transform something that takes 15 minutes to render into the most pixelated mush imaginable (and 45 minutes isn't enough either).

If you don't have...
The End of Mitt

POSTED BY THOM FILE, FEBRUARY 06 2008 11:35 AM | PERMALINK

... and his lie of a campaign.

The best thing about Mitt Romney’s atrocious Super Tuesday performance came early in the afternoon when his campaign released the statement excerpted below. In direct response to losing something called the West Virginia State Republican Party Convention, where voters cast ballots until a clear majority emerges, Romney’s irritated campaign unleashed a vitriolic screed that reeked of the juvenile sulking that increasingly defines this torpedoing campaign. More and more,...
Obama: Our Time Has Come

POSTED BY RALEIGH-ELIZABETH SMITH, FEBRUARY 05 2008 11:44 PM | PERMALINK

Obama addressed a passionate crowd in Chicago to chants of "Obama, Obama" as he took the stage. Before beginning his speech, he introduced Dick Durbin, the Senior State Senator of Illinois, and declared how good it was to be back home. He then sent his condolonces to the victims of tonight's storms in Tennessee and Arkansas and said he hopes the federal government responds quickly and rapidly to get them all the help that they need. He then addressed the night's results, results which...
Huckabee Addresses His Fans

POSTED BY RALEIGH-ELIZABETH SMITH, FEBRUARY 05 2008 10:07 PM | PERMALINK

In Little Rock, AK, Huckabee addressed his crowd and quipped that for the last few weeks, everyone's been calling it a two-man race - "well it is, and we're in it!" And in some ways he's right. He was wildly written off, but his heavy dose of Christianity and clever spoken charisma have given him some power in certain parts of the country, namely, Dixie. And in the heart of God's Country, he wasn't shy on the metaphors. Tonight he proved, he said, that "one small smooth stone is more effective than a...
Good Night for Huckabee?

POSTED BY RALEIGH-ELIZABETH SMITH, FEBRUARY 05 2008 08:52 PM | PERMALINK

A great piece on Raw Story from our own Michael Roston:

Leaked exit polls suggest good news tonight for Huckabee

Update: Networks have called Alabama for Huckabee. Georgia remains too close to call.

Gov. Mike Huckabee received good news this afternoon after a strategic move by John McCain awarded him the 18 delegates up for grabs at West Virginia's state Republican convention. And if the results pointed to in leaked exit poll data can be believed, he might be in for more optimism about his presidential...
McCain Plays Rough in the Sandbox

POSTED BY RALEIGH-ELIZABETH SMITH, FEBRUARY 05 2008 04:47 PM | PERMALINK

They say he plays rough in the sandbox, and fearing a Super Tuesday sweep, Christian Conservatives are out to fight McCain in force - James Dobson [of Values Voters fame] said he cannot, and will not, vote for John McCain. Even if he is the Republican candidate.

It's not just the Religious Right that's out against him, it's the GOP in general.

That should make this evening fun!
Google Goes Political

POSTED BY RALEIGH-ELIZABETH SMITH, FEBRUARY 05 2008 01:24 PM | PERMALINK

Getting out the vote (or at least those talking about it) online, Google is mapping the primaries in this map. It's a cool way to look at those twittering Super Tuesday - be sure to check it out.
Dispatch from Georgia

POSTED BY JORDAN EMMOREY, FEBRUARY 05 2008 12:36 PM | PERMALINK

The forecast for Peachy weather today in Georgia looks to bring in a record number of voters for this exciting Super Tuesday event. The Candidates have shown their interest in Georgia, and State Republican's and Democrats alike are gun hoe to make their voices heard.

Since the last presidential election, there have been a confluence of major change in the State which should have a significant impact on the outcome of the primaries. Unfettered population growth and development followed by the recent...
Romney-rama in Denver

POSTED BY RALEIGH-ELIZABETH SMITH, FEBRUARY 05 2008 12:23 PM | PERMALINK

More from our Ground Hounds: This time we ask, who are the folks in the overflow crowds when a presidential hopeful comes to town? These are some of the people who waited outside a Denver car dealership hoping for a chance to see Mitt Romney, even though they couldn't hear the speech. Not a far cry from the Barack Obama rally also in Colorado?
The Drama: Who to Vote For!

POSTED BY RALEIGH-ELIZABETH SMITH, FEBRUARY 05 2008 11:39 AM | PERMALINK

Since I can't browbeat the political reporters who are going to spend the rest of the day focusing on recession-depression make-me-want-to-cry economic policy, inevitably inaccurate exit polls, and highly improbable, thoroughly unofficial, legally-debatable presidential postulations, I offer Super Tuesday Salvation in its most basic form: Indecision 2008.

Because fun quizzes make everything better. And this one has me pinned dead on, although I never thought my grandmother's artichoke dip...