Via Markos , First Read reports:
An Obama source emails First Read that the campaign is expecting turnout between 3.6 to 3.8 million in the Texas Democratic primary.
Consider that John Kerry received 2.8 million votes in the Lone Star State in the 2004 general election.
“That’s a lot of ‘new’ Democratic voters,” the Obama source says. “Will be great for Texas Dem Party that’s working to rebuild and only needs to pick up four seats to take back the state house.”
Now, from the looks of things the popular vote in Texas is going to be very close , so these humongous numbers are a credit to both Democratic campaigns.
In 2004, Kerry received 2.8 million votes (38%) while Bush received 4.5 million votes (61%) in Texas . Unless the new million are all former Bush voters, adding one million Democratic voters probably wouldn’t result in a Democratic win of the state. But it will certainly make it close ...
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Time to take down the picture, Kavon?
I have always refused to gamble, but I am willing to bet we will be posting about Governor Huckabee each day during his book tour. He is clearly not running in 2012, but plans on stirring up the hornets nest between now and 2012.
Huckabee on Palin: “What John McCain did for her was to give her the capacity to sort of leapfrog over the process and get right to the center stage,” he said at a breakfast with reporters this morning. “By namin... more
The Silver Lining From: feeds.wizbangblog.com Post Date: 2008-11-19 10:30:00
It seems that every day another name is leaked about possible Cabinet positions in the Obama administration. And it seems that every one has some serious baggage. John Kerry. Hillary...
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The Associated Press
McCain returns to Senate, is welcomed by Kerry The Associated Press- 1 hour ago
John Kerry, D-Mass., clapping a big hand on John McCain's shoulder. The pair conferred quietly as they rode up an escalator toward lunch with their … Kerry, Schumer Announce Senate Stimulus Package to Include Their … MarketWatch all 114 news articles
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Eric Boehlert of Media Matters has a great piece about how progressive blogs, lead by FireDogLake , orchestrated a massive push back on an Associated Press story by Nedra Pickler of Republican smear attacks on Barack Obama.
What prompted the organized outpouring of angst last week against the AP was when the website Firedoglake took action , embraced a new organizing tool, tapped into a wellspring of enthusiasm for Obama, and pointed angry readers not in the direction of the AP itself, bu... more
McSame As Bush From: holdfastblog.com Post Date: 2008-03-05 08:00:51
The Campaign to Defend America, a 501(c)4 that will be doing a whole lot of work against John W. McCain this cycle, has released their first ad.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cN10_6pyshQ
Greg Sargent at TPM Election Central reports:
The Campaign to Defend America — which will be running ads on issues like Iraq, the economy, energy, and health care, from a bent that appears to be pro-Democratic — is spending more than $1,000,000 on the buy, the group tells me. ... more
Lhadon at Beijing Wide Open reports:
Bjork took a stand for Tibetan independence at a concert in Shanghai on Sunday. Following what the BBC described as a “powerful performance” of her song, Declare Independence, Bjork yelled “Tibet, Tibet” and “Raise your flag” repeatedly from the stage . She did the same thing but for Kosovo at a concert in Tokyo last week and was promptly dropped from the lineup of a summer festival in Serbia .
Not surprisingly, may Chinese are not ha... more
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