Barack Obama the not-so-happy warrior
But hes become the embodiment of the partisanship he once decried,��� said The New York Timess David Brooks, one of the few journalists to strike up a real relationship with Obama during his first term. ���The dissonance [between Obama in 2008 and 2012.
Jeb Bush Speech Will Add to 2016 Election Intrigue
. for Florida Sen. Marco Rubio to lay claim to a pivotal swing state loaded with electoral votes and donors.. But unlike nearly all of the other Republicans considering 2016 bids, he avoiding visiting Iowa and New Hampshire, the states holding the.
Hillary Clinton, the Electoral College Map and the Democrats.
Polls last week confirmed the weak showing of Barak Obama in a couple of key states that will be crucial in winning Novembers general election. They also showed that Hillary Clinton has maintained an Electoral College��.
GOP Senate Win Opens Door to Deals
Republicans prepared to take control of the Senate in January for the first time in eight years���a power shift that almost certainly will put the chambers gavel in the hands of Sen. Mitch McConnell and opens up new possibilities for deal-making after.
Emailgate: Its Dead, Jim - Daily Kos
. call it) as anything resembling an actual scandal. First, early that morning, the New York Times (who started all this) ran a story admitting that email rules in federal agencies have actually been quite vague until very recently.
Ohio: Hillary Clinton dodges Obama drag
Hillary Clinton leads all potential Republican presidential challengers in Ohio despite President Barack Obamas sagging approval numbers in the crucial swing state, a new poll says. According to a Quinnipiac University poll released Thursday, Ohio.
Polls: Obama ahead in Colorado, Iowa and Wisconsin - First.
President Barack Obama leads Mitt Romney in Colorado, Iowa and Wisconsin, reaching the key 50 percent support threshold in all three battlegrounds, according to the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist polls of these states. In both. NBCs Domenico Montanaro and Chris Cillizza discuss on MSNBCs Andrea Mitchell Reports Mitt Romneys new moderate tone and new battleground polls showing an advantage for President Barack Obama. About a quarter��.
For Rand Paul, Ted Cruz And Other Presidential Contenders, Actions Speak.
Aside from Clinton, the former secretary of state, senator and first lady, potential Democratic contenders include Vice President Joe Biden, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Maryland Gov. Martin OMalley. Among Republicans in the mix: Bush, the former .
Presidential Polls Update: Obamas Swing-State Margins.
Over the past week, the national estimate has tipped to Romney by about a half a percentage point, randomly varying up or down within a range of roughly +/- 0.3 points with each successive update of the model.. We have also entered more than two dozen new polls into the Pollster database over the last 24 hours, most from the key battleground states, but the estimates of the polling snapshot distilled from these surveys looks about the same as it has for the past��.
Surveillance panel shut down
However, Review Group member Michael Morell���who stepped down in August as director of the Central Intelligence Agency���declined to take part, arguing that the panel shouldnt be pressing on while much of the intelligence communitys workforce was.
Dick Morris: Democrats Will Dump Hillary If Email.
Democrats will abandon Hillary Clinton as their presidential nominee if her email troubles continue much longer, Dick Morris said Sunday.. taking and the amount of money hes consuming until the public gets so tired of it that they drop it and they move on, Morris, Bill Clintons former pollster, told John Catsimatidis on The Cats Roundtable on AM 970 in New York.. When we talk about Will Hillary survive the email scandal?. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)��.
Polls give GOP momentum going into midterms | WTVR.com
WASHINGTON ��� Republicans woke up Sunday to a wave of new polls that showed their Senate candidates surging ahead in key states ��� including one in Iowa that looked particularly grim for Democrats ��� giving the GOP a jolt of. to distance themselves from President Barack Obama, whose floundering state-level approval ratings have been a drag for his party down the ticket as Republicans tie their opponents to the commander-in-chief every chance they get.
WHY HILLARY FIGHTS.. John Heilemanns piece in New.
March 30, 2008. By: Kevin Drum. WHY HILLARY FIGHTS..John Heilemanns piece in New York magazine about how Barack Obama blew his chances of getting an endorsement from John Edwards is fascinating reading... gets ignored by Hillarys camp and the media/blogs as a whole I think is that Hillary (1) wont have a get out of jail free card that Obama could use with Wright and (2) has a hella lotta stuff that will be pulled out come the general and used to kill her in swing states.
E-mail scandal drags down Hillary in latest swing-state poll
Paul, who launched his presidential bid Tuesday, leads Clinton in Colorado (44-41 percent) and in Iowa (43-42), but the New York Democrat maintained an edge in Virginia (47-43), according the survey. Clintons home server also has incensed archivists.
Please Get Better Advisors �� Balloon Juice
Clintons comments come as other Democrats call on Clinton to answer questions about why she took the unusual approach to email, which had the effect of giving her extraordinary control over what later became public.. I dont think thats accurate; sure, HRC will win the blue states in massive landslides, but I suspect the swing states, even without any whiff of a scandal, will be very close (they always are, by defnition)... good news according to the ny times
Colorados Democratic Drift Seems to Stall
AURORA, Colo.���With its pockets of immigrants and young families, this growing city outside Denver symbolizes the demographic winds that seemed to be pushing Colorado and similar states into the Democratic fold. That drift this year appears more.
December 2005 - Politics1 - American Politics, Elections.
Posted by Ron Gunzburger - 12.30.05 | Permalink |. NEW YORK. Even as Nassau County Executive Tom Suozzi edges closer to a gubernatorial Democratic primary challenge to Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, a new poll shows he should probably forget. The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday the Republicans are facing serious problems in several 2006 gubernatorial battleground states... As it is a vacation, I wont be checking emails, updating state pages, etc.
Polls: Udall vs. Gardner in a dead heat in Colorado
As I mentioned yesterday, the cash and the ads from outside groups have already been flying back and forth in Colorado, but Team Udall released its own official TV spot this week that was just about everything youd expect from an anxious swing-state.
Poll: Chris Christie opinion unscathed
While journalists and politicians have spent the last week captivated by the George Washington Bridge Scandal involving Gov. Chris Christies office, two new polls show the public has remained largely indifferent, calling into question the long-term.
McAuliffe vs. Cuccinelli: Virginia Race a Bellwether?Capital.
(The conventional wisdom is that, as governor, he will be in a good position to deliver Virginia, a key swing state, to Hillary Clinton if she is the Democratic presidential nominee in 2016.). Bloomberg, the billionaire mayor of New York City, was after Cuccinelli because of the Virginia attorney generals position on gun-related issues (Bloomberg favors a wide range of restrictions on human rights, and funds the anti-Second Amendment group Mayors Against Illegal��.
White House Civil War | Vanity Fair
And when Hillary decided to run for the Senate, a tense competition got ugly. In an excerpt from her new book about the Clinton White House years, the author reveals how conflicting agendas���the triangle of a scandal-ridden lame-duck��.
John McCain Suggests Hillary Clintons Use Of Personal Email Was Hypocritical
While serving as a senator from New York in 2007, Clinton criticized the Bush administration for its secrecy, according to The Hill. We know about the secret wiretaps, we know about the secret military tribunals, the secret White House email.
Poll shows Hillary Clinton dominating every Republican.
A new CNN/ORC poll shows Hillary Clinton dominating the Republican field. which pretty much explains the Republican obsession with Eghazi and Benghazi and any other eye-roller of an allegation they can come up with. In the. No wonder their party is working so hard to distract voters with manufactured Clinton scandals... joining the bandwagon to trash Hillarys legal e-mail behavior, I want to call you damn fools for falling for the NY Times dishonest actions.
Hard-drive scratch deejays of the IRS
The saga of Lois Lerners supposedly defective hard drive has become a mini-scandal unto itself, as the implausible excuses offered for the refusal to hand over subpoenaed electronic documents twist into ever more fantastic configurations. Even if one.
right - The Washington Monthly
Email Newsletter icon, E-mail Newsletter icon, Email List icon, E-. A lot can happen--especially if the Democrats put up a nominee for the Presidency who is weak and ineffectual as a campaigner and drags down the ticket... The Democratic Party also claimed a majority of state governorships in the 2006 elections, gaining control of Republican-held governorships in New York, Massachusetts, Colorado, Arkansas, Maryland and Ohio, to give the party a 28-22��.
Kill Hill Hysteria: Maureen Dowd and Rupert Murdoch Sunday
Since I was actually writing columns, as well as polling my readers online at the time of the Lewinsky scandal, let me once again educate people on something that still eludes Maureen Dowd. Yes. ���The Obamas are behind the e-mail story, and theyre spreading rumors that Ive been with women, that Hillary promoted people at the State Department whod done favors for our foundation, that John Kerry had to clean up diplomatic messes Hillary left behind.��� Then��.
AP sources: FBI looks into Bob McDonnell link to donor
The review was first reported Monday by The Washington Post. Earlier in the day, Todd. There was no reply late Monday night to email and telephone messages left for McDonnells chief spokesman, J. Tucker Martin, about the FBI review. Earlier Monday .
Christie doesnt meet the press in D.C.
For governors descending on Washington for the National Governors Association winter meeting this weekend, it was a chance to promote their work in the states, made the media rounds and talk up their respective parties chances in elections this fall.
David Petraeus affair scandal highlights email privacy issues
Privacy buffs have struggled for years to make their fight to keep law enforcement out of email feel personal ��� and now theyve got a face. The David Petraeus scandal has galvanized tech companies and civil libertarians who want Congress to drag a.
CLINTON vs. McCAIN.. Jon Chait comments on Hillary.
Its true that recent matchup polls show McCain doing well against Hillary, but honestly, does anybody think those polls are even remotely meaningful nine months before the election? I dont. Two months ago.. lipstick on a pig, shall we? Posted by: Dilan Esper on January 9, 2008 at 7:06 PM | PERMALINK. E Henry Thripshaw. You ask, Why are they considered conservative when they voted for Kerry in 2004? 1. Kerry won New Hampshire with 50.2% of the vote. 2.
Webliography: The WWHHD (What Would Hillary Have.
Updated with more links and pull quotes Wool-gathering here after the Bears victory, wondering if Hillary Clinton would have been a much different president than Barack Obama and whether it might be smart for Obama to ask her to tap.. Or until the day the ex-state senator takes Joe Biden off the 2012 ticket and replaces the aging gaffemeister with her because Obama is in so much trouble and the partys big-money people from New York and California insist.
Rand Paul Says Bill Clintons Behavior With Monica Lewinsky Was Predatory
Its not Hillarys fault, but it is a factor in judging Bill Clinton in history, he said. Paul -- perhaps a little miffed about being asked by Gregory to disagree with his own wife -- ended on an ambiguous note. Pointing to the Clintons close.