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Sunday, November 16th, 2008As Democrats continue getting their house in order–pun intended–one of the most vexing questions that the party faces is what to do with Joe Lieberman. Lieberman who as recently as 2000 was the Democratic vice-presidential nominee, and on whose behalf Barack Obama campaigned in 2006, was extremely critical of Obama during this year’s presidential race. [...]
Ballots sold for crack?
Thursday, August 7th, 2008To what depths won’t folks sink in an election year? How easy is it for corrupt election handlers to get in bed with the likes of downtrodden drug addicts? It seems that in Alabama a desperate crack feind can apply for an absentee ballot for free and then turn it over for cash from underhanded [...]
RP Asks: Will Going Negative Hurt McCain?
Thursday, July 31st, 2008The New York Times published a scathing editorial criticizing John McCain for letting Karl Rove’s operatives into his campaign, and in so doing adopting a more negative tone in his contest against Barack Obama. In recent weeks McCain has falsely accused Obama of turning his back on soldiers and being an opponent of energy, and absurdly [...]
Tuesday Talking Point: Mark Penn Strikes Again
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008Last seen marshaling Hillary Clinton’s implosion, Mark Penn has penned an op-ed for Politico outlining how it is seniors, and not “the youth vote,” who are likely to be power brokers in this year’s election. One of the more impressive stats that Penn gives to back up his argument is how Bill Clinton had a [...]
Kevin Tracy Nominates Bill Frist for McCain’s VP
Monday, July 28th, 2008Kevin Tracy’s treatment of Bill Frist in this post is rather amusing. I agree with Kevin that Frist, or anyone else would be a better VP selection for McCain than Mitt Romney, but am unconvinced whether Frist has the fire that McCain’s campaign needs to put up a good fight in this race. I’m convinced [...]
RP Roundup: Is Ed Towns on his way out?
Thursday, July 24th, 2008Today’s edition of the RP Roundup takes a look at a local campaign that has been stirring some buzz on the internet(s). New York’s 10th district features a race between incumbent Ed Towns and challenger Kevin Powell. Towns has been in congress for twenty-five years and during that time his ability to shape his district [...]
RP: Roundup: Madison Avenue Edition
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008The Nation Times directs us to NPR’s report on advertising efforts targeted at Latino Voters
Adage reports that the democrats are taking no shorts in spending for this year’s races. The Dems have already set aside 50million in ads
Never one to bring a knife to a gunfight, the Wall Street Journal reports John McCain spent a [...]
Colin Powell for Vice President?
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008We here at RP do not quite understand the obsession with turning Colin Powell, and other military officers such as Wesley Clark into politicians. In spite of his failed 2004 presidential bid, Clark for the most part has managed to keep his golden boy image intact, and in some ways has emerged as the anti-Guiliani, [...]
Swing Semester Launches
Thursday, July 17th, 2008Just as social-networking sites like Facebook that dovetail off the work of sites like Friendster and Blackplanet are emblematic of a web 2.0 approach to community building, there are also newer movement building web-portals creating their own niches in an environment long associated with MoveOn.org. Over the past two years we have seen organizations such [...]
Forget the Bradley effect, Does Obama face a Dinkins effect?
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
Veepstakes shmeepstakes, the GOP is already gearing up for the perfect ticket for 2012.
It’s not forgone that Obama has 2008 sewn up but he’s got such a strong shot that his bigger worry has to be actually getting re-elected in 2012. Once he overcomes the dreaded Bradley effect in November he’ll have another negative legacy [...]
Voter fraud is real
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008Problems persist today just as they have in the past. This will be a huge challenge in this year’s election because fraud will happen again but high turnout might overwhelm fraud. In small towns, small black towns, voters are still targeted. No I’m not crazy, not paranoid, not playing victim. I’m just hearing the similarities [...]
Rosa Clemente Accepts Green Party VP Nomination
Friday, July 11th, 2008In a press release distributed yesterday, community organizer and political strategist Rosa Clemente announced that she has accepted the Green Party’s vice-presidential nomination. According to Ms. Clemente:
“I choose to do this, not for me, but for my generation, my community and my daughter. I don’t see the Green Party as an alternative; I see it [...]
The Right Is Where We Go Wrong
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008There has been a lot of discussion recently about Barack Obama’s move to “the center.” The concern as Ariana Huffington explains in a post on HuffPost is that by doing so Obama threatens to alienate his core supporters, legitimizes many of the right-wing policies that have bankrupted this nation, and most pressingly, this approach [...]
Benches for Barack
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008Renowned Brooklyn real-estate blog, Brownstoner, posted an entry today about two high school seniors who have developed a unique way for people to contribute to Barack Obama’s campaign. A portion of each campaign contribution “Benches for Barack” is used towards making a bench that a person can place in their garden. The other [...]
Rick Shenkman: “Ignorant America: Just How Stupid Are We”
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008Rick Shenkman has an interesting post assessing America’s intellectual fortitude. Shenkman takes particular offense with how uninformed American voters are in an age where they have unlimited access to information:
Why are we so deluded? The error can be traced to our mistaking unprecedented access to information with the actual consumption of it. Jump Here
While offering [...]
NY Mag Handicaps McCain’s Running Mates
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008Can you guess who is being referred to in this passage:
It’s hard to imagine McCain spending the next five months in close quarters with someone for whom he has so little respect, much less putting him a heartbeat away from the presidency. Jump Here
To think that this person is among leading candidates on everyone’s list [...]
Can Dixiecrats become Obamacrats?
Monday, June 30th, 2008Invisible blog directs our attention to this SF Chronicle article exploring Obama’s chances in the south in November:
“I think we’re going to see the largest African American turnout in the history of the country this fall,” said Merle Black, a leading scholar of Southern politics at Emory University and author with his twin brother, Earl, [...]
Color Lines Magazine: Race and Election Coverage 2008
Sunday, June 29th, 2008Color Lines Magazine’s recurring assessments of Race and 2008’s Election coverage always brings to light issues that are not covered by the MSM. For example, while many have discussed Missouri’s importance as a battleground state, and the prospects of Missouri Governor as a vice-presidential candidate has also garnered adequate attention, there has been no debate [...]
Howard Fineman: “Poll Position”
Saturday, June 28th, 2008Newsweek’s Howard Fineman explores the significance of summer polls for a fall race. According to Fineman’s assessment both parties and all voters have very god reason to take current polls with a grain of salt.
June polls of a horserace that ends in November aren’t “reliably predictive,” as the survey experts say. So why are [...]
Ari Berman: “John McCain’s Voodoo Reformism”
Friday, June 27th, 2008One of the biggest surprises of this campaign is that it is McCain, the candidate touting his experience in office, who actually has had more trouble shaping his identity. Labeled as everything from a hero to a maverick, McCain the senator and Republican presidential nominee has found it difficult living up to these iconic signatures, [...]
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