Hillary Clinton
Election Predictions
Where does it go from here? Good places, I think.
Depends on Clinton. I think she wins PA but not by much and bows out. The best case scenario is she leaves gracefully and gets behind Obama {kind of like Romney did McCain, but more strongly}. Bill comes out and campaigns for Obama and the whole Democratic Party reunites. This would be plenty enough resources to pull off one of the biggest landslides in history, and the first strong mandate for liberal ideas in decades.
Nader and Clintons (REMEMBER 2000)
I like Ralph Nader. He's a good fighter and a passionate advocate for consumers. But he'll always be remembered for taking 5% of the vote in Florida in 2000, depriving Al Gore of liberal votes that could have saved us from these dark ages we call the Bush years.
Wandering Around GOP.com
I was looking at my PureVolume page last night and looked up at the top and saw a banner ad for the GOP. It showed the faces of Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and Ted Kennedy circled and crossed out by a thick red line. The text read: “SUPPORT THE GOP. CLICK HERE.” Being a passionate GOP supporter, I clicked, and it took me to a fundraising form for the Republican National Committee.
Democrats and left-wing special interest groups are raising hundreds of millions of dollars to put a Liberal in the White House and expand their majorities in Congress.
The fight to stop the Liberals starts here. The Republican National Committee is the official national campaign organization of the Republican Party
Complete the information below to make a secure online contribution to support Republican National Committee's efforts today.
Since I wasn’t in a giving mood but still curious about what my party is fighting for lately, I clicked over to GOP.com
Change
Where does it come from? Does it flow from the top or seep up from the bottom? Is it measured by pieces of legislation, or societal benchmarks, or events, or hearts and minds? What causes it? Anger? Hope? Desperation? Fear? You could answer yes to any of these and be right. The fact is that change is a very amorphous concept. It's difficult to define because there are so many types. We've all noticed how Democratic presidential candidates are falling over themselves to prove how much they can bring. They're doing it because it's the message we want to hear; otherwise, they'd emphasize other things, like John Kerry dwelled on Vietnam and George W. Bush constantly tried to scare us. In other words, our demand for change is driving the narrative of this election. This very desire is significant in itself. What's equally significant is how we express it.
No matter what happens with the nomination, we can take comfort how far we've come as an electorate. The incessant fearmongering and lying of the Bush administration didn't numb and dumb the American people into submission; we rebelled, recognized evil when we saw it and are now trying to fix our mistake. We're using new and evolving tools at our disposal, most notably the Internet, which I'd argue has turned from background noise into a driving force.
Election 2008: Iowa, New Hampshire, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama....... and us
So Hillary beat Obama 39-37 tonight. Stunning upset. Hats off. But there's one demographic she can't seem to reach: us. As in, ages 18-24. Every other age bracket, she's doing fine.
According to CNN exit polls, we broke 60-22 in favor of Obama. That's on top of Iowa where the entrance polls said ages 17-29 went 57-11 in favor of Obama. Those are outright landslides. And boy does it matter --- turnout is up, WAY UP. New Hampshire --- youth turnout DOUBLES. Iowa --- youth turnout TRIPLES. So we have what amounts to a tidal wave of millennial support for Obama; we're seriously the backbone of this guy's campaign right now. How come? There's gotta be a damn good reason, right?
It's because we want change. Yeah, I know, no fuckin duh. There's been a lot of cranky debate about what exactly "change" is lately. Well, I'll take a stab at it: change means not having a Bush or a Clinton in the White House. For example, I was born in 1985, so that means the last time a Bush or Clinton wasn't my president, I was in preschool. Some of you guys around here are '87 and '88 babies... You were in DIAPERS!
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...And she sold her soul for 2 Clinton t-shirts
I am in Iowa City, Iowa working for the Edwards campaign for the caucus coming up on Thursday. As you can imagine, it's getting pretty intense out here (not to mention freaking cold), and I've heard some pretty ludacris stories of dirty politicking. Interestingly, most of the stories I've heard involve the Clinton campaign (although I've heard some disgruntling stories involving Obama, as well).
Tuesday Open Thread
- ACTION ITEM: Antiwar Tuesday. Man, it tried to die again last week --- just 3 participants. So hot and cold with that goddamn thing.
- MORE ACTION ITEMS.
- The hat is red. The opium is Afghan.
- Hope she turns out ok.
- Holy crap, I agree with something Hillary Clinton said.
- Ted Nugent is a flaming hypocrite.
- You don't want Idaho Senator Larry Craig sitting in the bathroom stall next to you. Unless you're into that kind of thing, not that there's anything wrong with that...
- Basra: British out, militia in.
- Whistleblowers in Iraq punished, imprisoned.