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Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - Posts
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This election cycle has seen its conventional wisdom bonfires. Hillary’s inevitability: gone. Obama’s insurmountable lead in New Hampshire: gone. McCain’s summer of death: long gone. But the most brazen assault on the most conventional wisdom of all—Giuliani’s Read More...
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John McCain, welcome to the club. In the past, McCain has been known as everything from maverick to fringe candidate to walking dead man. (Last month, we used the words “McCain” and “embalming fluid” in the same sentence.) He has appealed to an unlikely Read More...
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CNN has called it for Hillary. Her lead is decisive—49 to 29 in the latest tally, with a third of precincts reporting. The campaign is celebrating the victory with a (now legal!) rally in Davie, Fl. So on a scale of one to vacuum, how empty is her win? Read More...
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Early exit polls ( Disclaimer: DO NOT BELIEVE!) show a few interesting trends: Fox News has McCain trouncing Giuliani among Hispanics, 50 to 26. Romney, meanwhile, trails at 16 percent. So much for those ads featuring his Spanish-speaking son Craig. McCain Read More...
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A few things to keep in mind as tonight's numbers roll in: Winner takes all. Normally, most of Florida's 114 delegates are divided among the candidates who win each of the state’s 25 congressional districts, with the remainder allocated to the statewide Read More...
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Over the last few weeks we’ve been trying to calculate the candidates’ expiration dates in our Death Watch series . Tonight, two candidates are in jeopardy. We pay our pre-mortem respects to Mr. Giuliani below. See Mike Huckabee’s Death Watch here . It Read More...
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Over the last few weeks we’ve been trying to calculate the candidates’ expiration dates in our Death Watch series . See our pre-mortem death watch for Rudy Giuliani here . Mike Huckabee does not have delusions of grandeur for Florida. The day after South Read More...
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Today’s Democratic Florida primary is a political inkblot test. Given that no delegates are being awarded (for now), you can pretty much interpret the “beauty contest” results however you want. As a result, the propaganda battle between the Clinton and Read More...
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The New Yorker devotes a quickie to Barack Obama’s poker skills. As a state senator in Illinois, Obama won over other politicians by starting a regular poker night. James McManus offers this analysis of his game: Obama never played for high stakes. Only Read More...
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In about eight minutes, Barack Obama will give a speech at a college gymnasium in El Dorado, Kan. As his campaign reminds us, “Obama’s grandparents, Stanley and Madelyn Dunham, were Kansas natives. Obama’s mother, Ann Dunham, was born at the military Read More...
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As the Hispanic-heavy votes in Florida, California, Arizona, and New Mexico approach, Bill Richardson is suddenly the most popular guy around. Apparently he’s been fielding calls from the two leading candidates and their surrogates. Richardson describes Read More...
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