Campaign Updates and Media Headlines 8/27/08
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Hillary Approval up 6% in Gallup; Hillary 3% Better vs. McCain than Obama (by campskunk at Alegre’s Corner)
So, after all the slings and arrows hurled by the cheetos [folks at Daily Kos], what's happening with Hillary's popularity? She's doing just fine, thank you. A Gallup poll released [Tuesday] shows her at 80% approval among Democrats, up six percent from when she suspended her campaign in June. Looks like the cheetos are all hot air... none of the real Democrats are listening to them.
And how is Obama doing against McCain? well... it ain't pretty. Say goodbye to the tenuous lead Obama had over McCain in the daily tracking poll. The combination of the Biden bounce and the start of the convention put Obama down two points to McCain for the first time since May 25th, three months ago. [Emphasis added.] The Obama campaign lost their electoral vote lead last week, and now the popular vote lead. They must be sweating bullets. I wish I felt sorry for them, but... A CNN/Opinion Research poll conducted Aug. 23-24 found the [Clinton and Obama] running similarly in trial heats versus McCain, with Obama and McCain tied (47% to 47%) but Clinton having a slim but not statistically significant advantage over McCain (49% to 46%)
Don't Worry, Be Happy Redux (by Big Tent Democrat at TalkLeft)
Eugene Robinson tells Dems not to worry… [But] Jimmy Carter led by 30 and won by 2. Dukakis led by 17 and lost. Oh by the way, Bill Clinton won easily… You see Gene, following YOUR advice, the Democratic Party seemed to be following a policy of trying to distance itself from the ONE GUY who actually WON Presidential elections. That worries some of us. Indeed, given your bad advice on this, I am not real happy right now with the political situation. I am worried.
Obama, Clinton camps working on hotel roll-call vote (Denver Post)
Supporters of Hillary Rodham Clinton furiously circulated petitions on the floor of the Democratic National Convention last night, hoping to stave off a plan to hold the convention's roll call at breakfast Wednesday - out of the public eye - sources inside the delegations said… The move is being resisted by some Clinton delegates, who are busy tonight circulating a petition among delegates as the opening night of the convention, titled "One Nation," gets underway. "We just want a roll call like you're supposed to have," said one of the delegates collecting signatures for the petition, who asked not to be named because of concern about friction within the party.
Afraid. Obama is afraid. That will be fodder for the Republicans, too.—Caro
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this is good--Radar--
teasing about outing Crist (finally!), and exactly right about the psychodrama that MSNBC is overall--
Chuck Todd Alludes to Maybe-gay Charlie Crist? -- http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/20...
"It has to be said that MSNBC's coverage of the Democratic bash has been boffo so far. Alpha douches Keith Olbermann, Joe Scarborough, David Shuster, and Chris Matthews are together proving how much more entertaining cable news can be when on-air personalities don't conceal their smoldering hatred for one another. And Luke Russert has impressed while chipping in as the affable rich kid who has no business being there. Now, actual smart person and distinguished Radar fave Chuck Todd has jumped into the freewheeling fray by coming dangerously close to going there regarding rumors that Florida Gov. Charlie Crist is a gay guy who recently got engaged to a woman to enhance his prospects in the John McCain veepstakes. ..."
& more on the oil folks at DNC--
Houston Chron-- http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nati...
"... Among the hundreds of examples of how interest groups have worked through and around the new regulations at the Democratic convention is today's generically titled Energy Mid-Day Reception for invited guests only. Location: Unannounced.
The event is sponsored by the American Petroleum Institute, the American Gas Association and the Edison Electric Institute, whose corporate members employ thousands of people in the Houston area and provide electricity and natural gas to Southeast Texas.
API spokesman Robert Dodge would not say who was invited to the event. ..."
interesting Spiritual Progressives thing
they've held events at the DNC, and have a Global Marshall Plan too-- http://www.spiritualprogressives.org/
but, of course--
"... And Obama himself appears to be on the fence. In a private meeting with Lerner, whose magazine Obama has read for a decade, Lerner said that the candidate conceded he agreed with the Global Marshall Plan. "'I'm 100% behind it,'" Lerner quoted Obama as saying. "'But it will never fly in Washington.'" ..."
-- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kelly-nuxo...
(i got a great email from Lerner/Tikkun about the DNC's Faith Caucus yesterday, but can't find the text online yet--very speaking truth to power, which the Caucus didn't do at all)
every speech except Bill's edited by Obama's team--
The Hill-- Obama tightens grip on podium speeches -- http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/obam...
"...Yet not every speech has been completely overhauled. Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio), who was asked by Obama to speak about the economy, was scheduled to deliver his speech Tuesday afternoon. The Obama campaign struck just one line from his speech, which slammed the Republicans and the Bush administration, according to a Democratic source.
That line, addressing Republicans, read: “They’re asking for another four years — in a just world, they’d get 10 to 20.”
..."
So, everyone who has a problem with Hillary's speech...
... should address their complaints directly to the Obama campaign. Haw.
[ ] Very tepidly voting for Obama [ ] ?????. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.
it's telling that they took GOP=criminals out of
Kucinich's speech, no?
that was a great line.
Just posted on that.
Gee, why would that be?
[ ] Very tepidly voting for Obama [ ] ?????. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.
oho-ABC Producer Arrested - Taking Pic of Senators, Big Donors
ABC Reporter Arrested in Denver Taking Pictures of Senators, Big Donors -- http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/Convention...
"Police in Denver arrested an ABC News producer today as he and a camera crew were attempting to take pictures on a public sidewalk of Democratic Senators and VIP donors leaving a private meeting at the Brown Palace Hotel. ..."