“OBAMA SUPPORTERS” DAILY NEWS Tuesday April 15, 2008

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WELCOME TO “OBAMA SUPPORTERS” DAILY NEWS

Tuesday April 15, 2008


US Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) (L) and Pittsburgh Steelers owner Dan Rooney
walk to a photo op, after Obama spoke to the Alliance for American Manufacturing
on the challenges facing manufacturers in the U.S., in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania April 14, 2008. Rooney endorsed Obama on Monday.. REUTERS/Jason Cohn

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1. Obama: Shame on 'Annie Oakley'

Obama: Shame on 'Annie Oakley'

April 13, 2008 By Ben Smith 08:23 PM Politico

See the Video

Obama, in Steelton, via AP (around 4:15 above):

"She knows better. Shame on her. Shame on her," Obama said, and then expressed some amusement at Hillary's emergence as a tribune of the Second Amendment:
"She is running around talking about how this is an insult to sportsman, how she values the second amendment. She's talking like she's Annie Oakley," Obama said, invoking the famed female sharpshooter immortalized in the musical "Anne Get Your Gun."

Obama continued, saying "Hillary Clinton is out there like she's on the duck blind every Sunday. She's packing a six-shooter. Come on, she knows better. That's some politics being played by Hillary Clinton."

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2. Taxpayers fund Bill Clinton spending

Taxpayers fund Bill Clinton spending

By KENNETH P. VOGEL Politico | 4/10/08

The Clintons have made a $100-million fortune since leaving the White House, but a Politico analysis found that hasn’t kept Bill Clinton from taking full advantage of the publicly funded perks offered to ex-presidents.

In fact, his presidential retirement benefits cost taxpayers almost as much as those of the other two living ex-presidents combined.

The price tag for Clinton’s federal retirement allowance from 2001 through the end of this year will run $8 million, compared to $5.5 million for George H. W. Bush’s and $4 million for Jimmy Carter’s during the same period.

Since 2001, Clinton has received more of almost every benefit available to former presidents — from his pension to his staff’s salaries and benefits to supplies. His $420,000 phone bill and $3.2 million office rent tab both nearly surpassed the totals rung up for those purposes by Bush, Carter and the late former presidents Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan combined. As a group, they spent $484,000 on telephone service and $3.8 million on rent in the same span.

…. Politico’s analysis comes on the heels of the release last week of seven years' worth of Clinton family tax documents. They showed that the Clintons pulled in $111 million in total income from 2000, their last year in the White House, through 2007.

Given Bill Clinton’s earning potential and that of future ex-presidents, “the benefits taxpayers shell out for their care and feeding just don’t make sense anymore,” contended Pete Sepp, spokesman for the fiscally conservative, nonprofit National Taxpayers Union.

…more at the link

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3. Clinton campaign : Rendell on the press’ penchant for Obama

Clinton campaign : Rendell on the press’ penchant for Obama

The US media have abandoned all pretence at neutrality in the Democratic presidential contest and are heavily biased towards Barack Obama and against Hillary Clinton, according to Ed Rendell, the governor of Pennsylvania.

Mr Rendell, who has endorsed Mrs Clinton for the Pennsylvania primary which takes place next week, alleged that US media bias against the former first lady was “the worst I have seen in my 31 years in politics”.

In an interview with the Financial Times, Mr Rendell said the only mainstream programme that had offered Mrs Clinton positive coverage was Saturday Night Live, the comedy show. In February it aired a skit in which journalists were depicted offering Mr Obama a pillow and continually asking whether he was comfortable.

…more at the link

Hillary the victim again. Well, you shoulda divorced Bill!

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5. he also has said that Obama will win PA in the GE taking away her last remaining argument

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4. Bush misled the nation about the threat Iraq posed. But so did the Clinton administration

Bush misled the nation about the threat Iraq posed. But so did the Clinton administration.

Posted by madfloridian in General Discussion: Primaries

Sun Apr 13th 2008, 11:38 PM

Many of the Democratic candidates in the 2004 primary said they were urged by to support giving George Bush authority to use arms in Iraq. Bill Clinton himself said he approved of what Bush was doing as late as 2004. Senator Hillary Clinton voted for the Iraq War Resolution. This is a long article from Mother Jones back in 2004. It will be hard to choose just some excerpts. Faced with the need to justify an economically devastating and internationally unpopular embargo of Iraq, the Cl...

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6. kick

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7. Jeers for Clinton as She Continues Criticism of Obama

Jeers for Clinton as She Continues Criticism of Obama

Ichingcarpenter Mon Apr-14-08

Source: CBS NEWS

PITTSBURGH – During remarks the American Manufacturing Organization today Hillary Clinton continued to push Barack Obama’s comments that middle class Americans are “bitter” over their economic situation, but the political jab wasn’t well received by the union crowd.

“I understand my opponent came this morning and spent a lot of his time attacking me,” Clinton said as the crowd began to grumble.

“Well, you know, I know that many of you, like me, were disappointed by recent remarks he made,” at which point members of the audience began saying “No!” and making noises that sounded like boos.

...more at the link

It was AWESOME! The more she stays in the campaign, the more she burnishes his cred.

Sorry to see what its doing to the Clinton legacy though.

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8. Endorsement Watch - Pigskin Edition - Steelers Dan Rooney endorses

Endorsement Watch - Pigskin Edition

By Tracy Russo The Field

TPM’s Election Central reports that Dan Rooney, owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers has endorsed Senator Obama.

The Obama campaign adds:

Dan Rooney is an institution in Western Pennsylvania and understands the people and the region better than almost anyone. When he says that Barack Obama is one of us, it sends a very powerful and meaningful message to a lot of people.

What do you think? How much will this matter to Keystone state voters?

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9. Somebody Say “Amen!” (A Revival Meeting in Four Parts)

Somebody Say “Amen!” (A Revival Meeting in Four Parts)

April 13th, 2008 by Al Giordano at The Field

Part I:
Senator Clinton, yesterday:

“I grew up in a churchgoing family.”

Senator Clinton, asked today when the last time she was in church:

“That’s not relevant.”

Let me try to wrap my little pea brain around this: one candidate, who “grew up in a churchgoing family,” who has lapsed (as we lapsed Catholics like to say) in her Methodism compared to her churchgoing parents, that in recent weeks has attacked her rival – who grew up in a secular single-mom household not going to church, but who later in life began doing so – and she’s criticized him for attending his church and for not walking out of it.

Somebody say “Amen!

Part II:
Clinton surrogate and Indiana Senator Evan Bayh today pled to superdelegates to reject Obama over his supposed elitism.

Field Note: Do you know where that man-of-the-people Evan Bayh, son of a US Senator, went to prep school?

And, for that matter, have you seen Senator Clinton’s humble childhood home?

Here it is:



Compare that to the photos that Barry Crimmins snapped yesterday in rural Pennsylvania:



…more at the link including video

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10. GOP Bigot Eruption: Rep. Geoff Davis Calls Sen. Obama A “Boy”

You need to go to Oliver Willis' blog to learn why this will backfire major on the GOP:

GOP Bigot Eruption: Rep. Geoff Davis Calls Sen. Obama A “Boy”

Oliver Willis April 14, 2008

They won’t contain themselves. No matter how much John McCain asks his party and fellow conservatives to tone down the racial rhetoric, they will not be able to stop themselves. The idea of a black man beating their Republican candidate for the presidency will be too much to bear for the party of the Southern Strategy.

This summer the GOP Bigot Eruptions are going to go nuclear.

Cue the knuckle-dragging Geoff Davis:

Congressman Geoff Davis, took the criticisms of Mr. Obama a few steps further, likening the change slogan to the pitch of a “snake oil salesman.” He then relayed to the audience that he had taken party in a “highly classified, national security simulation” with Obama.

“I’m going to tell you something: That boy’s finger does not need to be on the button,” Mr. Davis said. “He could not make a decision in that simulation that related to a nuclear threat to this country.”

Once the “boy” remarks began to circulate on the Internet, the Obama campaign moved swiftly to criticize them. “It’s hard to tell what is more outrageous - Representative Davis’s condescending and personal attack, or his absurd and offensive claim that Barack Obama is not prepared to defend America. Geoff Davis may hide behind offensive tough talk, but he has marched in lock-step with Bush-McCain policies that have devastated our national security, while Barack Obama has stood up against a misguided war in Iraq and worked with respected Republicans like Dick Lugar and Chuck Hagel to secure loose weapons and nuclear materials from terrorists,” Bill Burton, the campaign spokesman said.

Davis later issued an “apology” but it’s a load of crap. He said what was in his heart and in the hearts of many on the right.

Embrace the racist inside, Republicans!

MORE: Pam Spaulding has more.

UPDATE and more at the link

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11. Culling the Weak Zebra and Its “Yapping Puppies”

Culling the Weak Zebra and Its “Yapping Puppies”

By Al Giordano at The Field

When Senator Clinton says “I know that many of you like me were disappointed by recent remarks” made by Senator Obama, she’s living in the same fantasy-land that caused her to invent – and repeat her delusion of - having braved sniper fire in Bosnia.

The irony here is that Clinton, purporting to defend rural Pennsylvanians from what she calls “demeaning” and “condescending” words has invented a caricature of them that itself is… condescending and demeaning.

Here’s the video – courtesy of The Jed Report - of what happened when she brought it up again, today, in front of a hall filled with Pennsylvania steelworkers and steel company executives:

See the video

In case you couldn’t hear the reactions (that were evidently audible to the candidate as she nonetheless pushed on),
NBC reporter Athena Jones was there, taking notes:

“I understand my opponent came this morning and he spent a lot of his time attacking me,” she said, before being interrupted with several seconds of murmurs and groans from the crowd. “Well, you know, I know that many of you, like me were disappointed by recent remarks that he made.”

More groans and at least one “No” from the crowd.

“And I think it’s important that, you know, we give people the chance to really compare and contrast us,” Clinton continued. “You know, I am well aware that at a fundraiser in San Francisco, he said some things that many people in Pennsylvania and beyond Pennsylvania have found offensive.”

A few more “No”s…

...more at the link

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12. Rachel Maddow: Puts Bitter-Gate in Perspective (Video)

Rachel Maddow: Puts Bitter-Gate in Perspective

April 14th, 2008 Rachel just outted Joe. He totally knows he is manipulating.

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13. Barack Obama's counterpunching style

Barack Obama's counterpunching style

Sen. Barack Obama’s instantly infamous remarks on how small-town Americans “cling” to their faith, their guns, and their xenophobia began drawing attention around 3:30 p.m. Friday.



The response was signature Obama: Attack first, sort out the details later, if at all. No apology, no immediate regret, just a sharp counterattack. For a candidate sometimes mocked for being too soft to win a political fistfight, he has shown an uncanny ability to take a punch and then rear back and deliver one in return.

When Obama responds this way, it leaves him open to charges that he's undermining his so-called politics of hope. But, showing remarkable dexterity, he has a knack for using these flare-ups to pivot back to the central theme of his candidacy: that politics is broken, and he knows how to change it.

Obama, it turns out, has been a devout observer of a philosophy future President Bill Clinton laid out in 1981.

"When someone is beating you over the head with a hammer, don't sit there and take it,” then-Gov. Clinton told Time magazine. “Take out a meat cleaver and cut off their hand.”

Instead, when under attack, the candidate rarely acknowledges any fault — for such a move would offer critics an opening. In the case of his San Francisco remarks, perhaps the worst gaffe of his career, he conceded Saturday only that “if I worded things in a way that made people offended, I deeply regret that.”

Obama’s unexpected pugnacity also extends to include personal responses to tactical assaults, a level of sparring often left to spokespeople.


Obama has eagerly pursued other attacks. He memorably mocked Clinton for finding evidence of untoward ambition in his elementary school writings. When Clinton called to “turn up the heat” on the Republicans, Obama suggested “more light” instead.

In late February, reporters traveling with Obama in Ohio learned — before the story hit the wires or the blogs — from Obama’s staff that McCain had accused the Illinois senator of ignorance of the presence of Al Qaeda terrorists in Iraq.

Obama, taking the stage at Ohio State University minutes later, responded with vigor.

"John McCain thought that he could make a clever point," said Obama. "I have some news for John McCain. And that is that there was no such thing as Al Qaeda in Iraq until George Bush and John McCain decided to invade Iraq.”

More recently, when faced with the incendiary video of his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, attacking Clinton, followed by more video of the minister’s criticism of America, Obama eschewed the counterattacks. But nevertheless he hewed to a familiar course: no apology, no concession of wrongdoing. His position was that he hadn’t been in the pews for Wright’s reported controversial statements.

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14. Media shit storms and heartland reality

I think most folks have figured out that the MSM lied and helped us get in this
mess, and people just don't take their marching orders from the media anymore.

Media shit storms and heartland reality

by Joe Bageant | April 14, 2008 Smirking Chimp

There seems to be no end to the media mediocrity we must suffer in this country. Now we have the Obama Guns, God and Bitterness shit storm, with the shit pouring forth from the same media scuppers (scuppers are outlet sewage blowholes on the sides of ships) as usual: The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, CNN.com, the Associated Press, Fox News, Reuters, Politico, the Lou Dobbs Show, Hardball, Olbermann's Countdown, The Atlantic.com, The DailyKos, TalkingPointsMemo…

And all because Obama mentioned something we've known for at least a couple of decades now: That the government has been fucking over the nation's heartland towns and the "little guy" Americans inhabiting them.

» article continues...

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15. New ad for McCain, too bad its paid for & produced by Hillary Clinton

Vile, sickening, and filthy

by John Aravosis (DC) · america Blog 4/14/2008

As The Field blog puts it: "New Ad for John McCain Hits Pennsylvania Airwaves."

Too bad it's paid for and produced by Hillary Clinton.

Watch Hillary's latest kamikaze ad, then ask yourself if you'll ever vote for this woman again.

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23. First time I watched I lol. 2nd Time even harder.

She musta flunked outa Condescending Manipulative Asshole 101.

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16. Author: Bill Clinton's conduct in wife's campaign 'unexplainable'

Longtime Clinton Apologist Cokie Roberts now blames Bill Clinton for sabotaging Hillary's campaign

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/04/14/author-bill-clintons-conduct-in-wifes-campaign-unexplainable/
WASHINGTON (CNN) – Book author and veteran political journalist Cokie Roberts speculated Monday about former President Bill Clinton’s motivations with respect to his wife’s presidential bid.

“The math is tough for her,” Roberts said of Sen. Hillary Clinton’s White House bid. “And, every time she seems to get some traction, Bill Clinton comes along and says something that throws her off again,” added Roberts.

“It’s unexplainable unless there’s some deep-seated problem there that he’s subconsciously doing.” “I can’t get over it. He’s politically so smart and yet he keeps managing to get in the way instead of being helpful,” observed Roberts.

Roberts, the author of the recently released “Ladies of Liberty,” a historical look at some of America’s early influential women, also spoke with Wolf Blitzer about why it has taken so long for the country to have a serious female presidential candidate and about how some women – especially young women – have been torn in their allegiances between Sen. Clinton and her rival Sen. Barack Obama.

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17. Bill Clinton caught lying for Hillary, again (new)

Bill Clinton caught lying for Hillary, again

by John Aravosis (DC) · 4/14/2008

ABC catches him in the act.

Gotta tell you, after being lied to this many times by the Clintons, I'd be bitter too. (Hat tip, Ben Smith.)

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18. Michelle Obama to Appear on The Colbert Report April 15

Michelle Obama to Appear on The Colbert Report April 15

Comedy Central posted April 14th

After you're done writing off your last pointed tip bolo knife purchase (whoever said being a Laotian hitman would come back to bite you at tax time?) be sure to catch Michelle Obama's tax night (April 15) appearance on The Colbert Report -- part of "The Colbert Report: Doritos Spicy Sweet Pennsylvania Primary Coverage From Chili-Delphia - The City of Brotherly Crunch!"

We'll have the video available the next morning, so if you miss it, be sure to check back here.

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19. Latest North Carolina polling numbers. I detect a slight trend.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=5506632&mesg_id=5506632

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20. Bitter Wins

Bitter Wins

April 14, 2008 Andrew Sullivan

Pretty funny result for this online poll at the LA Times.

Asked whether they're bitter, over 60 percent answer:

Yes. I'll show you bitter when I vote.

Yeah, I know: it's a meaningless online poll. But telling Americans they're a cheerful happy bunch
when the wrong-track number is at an historical high seems a slightly dubious political strategy to me.

Almost - oh, I don't know - out of touch?

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21. The Hillary Repugnancy

The Hillary Repugnancy

Mon Apr 14, 2008 Jed Report

Al Giordano is taking a bullet for the team and hosting Hillary's sickening new ad at The Field. He asks:

The question is, how many Clinton supporters are there that aren’t signing up for the slash-and-burn-down-the-Democratic-Party strategy that is now naked and running around on TV? Those that remain silent will probably lose credibility later on because in times of moral crisis, silence is seen as complicity. That’s another reason Rendell has drawn limits on his own participation in these attacks.

John Aravosis calls it "vile, sickening, and filthy."

As The Field blog puts it: "New Ad for John McCain Hits Pennsylvania Airwaves." Too bad it's paid for and produced by Hillary Clinton. Watch Hillary's latest kamikaze ad, then ask yourself if you'll ever vote for this woman again.

I know my answer to that question. As far as I am concerned, Hillary Clinton is no longer a Democrat.

....The voters of Pennsylvania deserve the truth about Hillary Clinton, and I hope Barack Obama gives it them. And you know what? Even if they decide to support Hillary Clinton's kamikaze campaign, it's not enough. She still cannot win this nomination. Do the math. She loses.
...this much is true: she is aiding and abetting John McCain -- and destroying her future in the Democratic Party.

...more at the link

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22. McCain can't imagine being a farmworker -- even for $100k per year

McCain can't imagine being a farmworker -- even for $100k per year

Mon Apr 14, 2008 The Jed Report

Lost on the shuffle of the "bitter" kerfuffle is that the fact that John McCain is a true elitist.

First (via John Aravosis), McCain owns eight houses. Right there, QED.

Second, existenz at Daily Kos reminds us, earlier in the campaign McCain said he couldn't imagine someone picking lettuce for a living, even for $50 an hour. Keep in mind that $50 an hour is $100,000 dollars a year, just a trifle above the median income.

But even though dainty John McCain can't imagine getting his hands dirty, I bet a lot of Americans would be willing to make $100,000 per year, even if it meant picking lettuce. $100k might be peanuts for McCain -- but not to most Americans.

I'm not aware of any video of McCain's remarks, but there is audio, and Barely Political included it in this funny video:

...more at the link

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24. Revealing responses to CNN ticker on “Bitter” Democratic fight

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x5510251

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25. Clinton attacks Gore to get Obama

Clinton has run such a respulsive campaign and burned alot of bridges.
She proves that she will stick anyone in the back. Don't think Superdelegates
don't realize that she'd do it to them. And her style is - going out of style.

"Clinton attacks Gore to get Obama," from the Australian. "The unprovoked attacks on Mr Gore and Senator Kerry came as a British newspaper reported that Mr Gore and former president Jimmy Carter would either privately or publicly appeal to Senator Clinton to pull out of the Democratic primaries and clear the way for Senator Obama to be anointed as the party's candidate for the November presidential election."

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23538559-2703,00.html

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26. Obama: 'Hope and Anger' Go Hand in Hand (also, clinton delivers 5min speech to non-attentive crowd)

...
Obama spoke to a rowdy crowd for 25 minutes – there was a roar of ambient discussion going on while the Senator spoke but most people paid attention and some stood on chairs to see the Senator speak. By comparison, Senator Clinton, who spoke to the same group before Senator Obama, delivered her shortest campaign speech yet, speaking for less than 5 minutes.

Clinton delivered a super-speed version of her stump speech, hitting the topics of Iraq, college affordability, and health care in quick succinct successive form. Clinton spoke loudly to the crowd, as the audience members spoke over her. Campaign staffers explained that Clinton was warned by Mayor Nutter and Gov. Rendell to keep it short because the crowd was standing and drinking -- and it was not the time for the long speech.

(emphasis mine)
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/04/obama-hope-and.html

I didn't have a post left to put this up as a new topic. Maybe someone here will. It appears that Clinton only spoke for 5min, because attendees ignored her and spoke over her.

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27. K & R!

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28. Obama momentum slows in Pennsylvania

I have to wait a few hours to post new threads. Please feel free to post this.

http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2008/04/obama_momentum.html

Barack Obama's surge in Pennsylvania appears to have stopped after the controversy over his remarks about bitter small town voters clinging to guns and religion, according to a new poll.

But the Quinnipiac University survey, the first taken since coverage of the remarks, also doesn't show immediate evidence that Obama has been wounded.

The poll showed Hillary Clinton with a 50 percent to 44 percent lead over Obama, the same as a week earlier over Obama, who had been narrowing her lead from single digits.

Obama reinforced his overwhelming support among black voters, while Clinton held a 20-percentage-point edge among white voters, the poll found.

The survey also showed more of the bitterness that many Democrats are worrying about: 26 percent of Clinton supporters said they would vote for presumptive Republican nominee John McCain in November if Obama is the Democratic nominee, while 19 percent of Obama's backers said they would support McCain if Clinton is the nominee.

The poll of 2,103 likely voters in the April 22 Democratic primary was conducted by telephone from Wednesday through Sunday. The news of Obama's comments at a fund-raiser in San Francisco broke on Friday night. The margin of sampling error was plus or minus 2.1 percentage points.

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30. one of the strangest things about many of the polls and apparently also showing up

in Obama internals is the high rate of undecideds.

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29. Poll after poll prove it: Hillary has turned it around

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x5513254

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31. Obama to visit lucky folks in Greenville NC on April 16, 2008!!!

Obama in Eastern NC

Submitted by janeybell on Tue, 04/15/2008 - 11:18am. Barack Obama Greenville
Barack Obama will be in Greenville, NC for a rally that is open to the public. It will be held at Minges Colosseum on Thursday, 4/16. Doors open at 4. Apparently this will not be a ticketed event, so you may want to arrive early.


http://bluenc.com/obama-in-eastern-nc

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32. WaPo: Hillary's attacks are failing

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/4/15/9925/06631/787/492452

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34. and Hillary's attacks are also "flailing"

hehehehehehe

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33. Hillary making a fool of herself - Jon Stewart Show - video is GREAT

I hope you'll recommend this thread, its already gotten good grades so far.
I listened to it and the entire thing is entertaining. I am glad to see Jon Stewart back.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=385&topic_id=118877&mesg_id=118877

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35. Breaking Gallup after Bittergate Clinton declines

http://www.gallup.com/poll/106537/Gallup-Daily-Obama-51-Clinton-40.aspx

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36. LAT Poll shows races closer - lots more undecideds

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-poll16apr16,0,794499.story?page=1

Clinton losing traction over Obama in Pennsylvania, Indiana

Pennsylvania
Clinton 46%
Obama 41%

Indiana
Obama 40%
Clinton 35%

North Carolina
Obama 47%
Clinton 34%

Methodology: "The poll, conducted under the supervision of Times Poll Director Susan Pinkus, interviewed 623 voters in Pennsylvania, 687 in Indiana and 691 in North Carolina who expected to cast Democratic ballots. The margin of sampling error for the findings in each state is plus or minus 4 percentage points. The telephone interviews took place Thursday through Monday, meaning the bulk were conducted just as controversy broke out over an Obama remark widely criticized as demeaning rural voters in Pennsylvania


Her formerly double-digit lead is now just a five-point margin in Pennsylvania, survey finds. The reduced margin makes a win for her there less significant. She trails Obama among Hoosiers.
By Janet Hook, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
2:00 PM PDT, April 15, 2008
WASHINGTON -- With three crucial Democratic primaries looming, Hillary Rodham Clinton may not be headed toward the blockbuster victories she needs to jump-start her presidential bid -- even in Pennsylvania, the state that was supposed to be her ace in the hole, a new Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll has found.

The survey found the New York senator leading Barack Obama by just 5 percentage points in Pennsylvania, which votes next Tuesday. Such a margin would not give her much of a boost in the battle for the party's nomination.

What is more, the poll found Clinton trails Obama by 5 points in Indiana, another Rust Belt state that should play to her strengths among blue-collar voters.

In North Carolina, an Obama stronghold, he is running 13 points ahead.

The race remains volatile, however, because many likely voters in the Democratic primaries are still undecided -- 12% in Pennsylvania, 19% in Indiana and 17% in North Carolina.

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37. KnR

:kick: :woohoo:

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38. kick! /nt

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39. evennig kick

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40. Kick

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