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Good evening fellow Democrats.
Obama \ Clinton 2008
Posted by margotb822 on May 7, 2008 at 03:41 PM
That's a interesting perspective...holding your elected DLC politician to a higher standard?
What would happen if Democratic voters around the country finally held the DLC responsible for its stupidity in compromising with harmful Republican policies just so they could get re-elected?
It's time to root out those politicians that fight only for themselves...not for the American worker. Enough with making promises they never intend to deliver on and offering bribes that would just put us deeper in the hole.
It's time to perform like real Democrats instead of just talking like them. Do it or get out of the way and let true Democrats reclaim Washington.
I firmly believe that Americans have been looking for the Democratic Party for eight years now and the DLC has done everything it could to keep them from finding it.
Free the Democractic Party.
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Hey, did you see that huge sink hole in Texas? The Bush Era is literally collapsing before our very eyes on TV? The oil platforms are falling into the abyss and so is Jenna's slim chances for an elegant wedding with Spunky involved.
Do you think the Democratic Party can come up with enough seats throughout and impeach members of the supreme court?
impeach members of the supreme court?
Also,if they could would they?Have they given just cause?
Posted by virgo on May 7, 2008 at 06:59 PM
Impeach - from your lips to God's ears!
As to cause: the assault on Brown v. Board of Edu and the Indiana Voter Law decisions should be just cause but, in legal terms, probably are not.
Scientists find something good about a big bottom
By Julie Steenhuysen Tue May 6, 2:44 PM ET
CHICAGO (Reuters) - A type of fat that accumulates around the hips and bottom may actually offer some protection against diabetes, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.
Well, we know one thing for sure, Frosty will never get diabetes cause Frosty is nothing but one big, fat A.......
BBL
sunny,
Bush vs. Gore is enough reason. The Constitution clearly states that voting rules are the provision of the states and their courts.
BTW, In all the analysis today about why Obama bounced back and Hillary faltered, no one is talking about Faux News. Why did Hillary turn to the Devil for help?
Was she seduced? Or did she willingly seek out the Republican pundits?
Did this begin when Bill agreed to host the Limbaugh Show the day of the Texas primary? Did he get suckered into thinking the Right was willing to give The Clintons a second chance?
Did Rove have a strategy in place to pull them in? Perhaps its better we know now that The Clinton's are this gullible.
Just imagine how Murdock would have played them like a violin in the fall. Let us not forget that he hosted a fund raiser for Hillary earlier in the campaign.
Remember how Bill capitulated to Republicans on NAFTA? Someone isn't half as smart as he thinks he is. And neither is she. They deliberately decided to pander to the Republican base.
And then when McCain pandered to our base with the gasoline tax, they followed his lead. This has to be the worst campaign ever run and their lack of political judgment is astounding. The have always been so astute...until this year.
They honestly don't seem to see any differences between Democratic and Republicans voters. What an insult to our base. We don't want to be thrown in with racists and bigots and treated like the dumb sheeple.
Talk about elitists. Let them continue in this vein and they will lose all credibility and jinx any influence they still have within the party...if they haven't already.
Hillary needs to step back and evaluate what she's been doing in the last month and consider reaching for higher ground.
Good evening, folks.
The Democratic Party must run an Obama/Clinton ticket, it is the only way it will work, unless we bring in other replacements. This ticket is the best for the Democratic Party and the United States. It will allow the reunification of the Democratic Party from all division that an Obama and Clinton fight has brought the Party by using negative Kitchen Sink tactics. What happens if one side refuses, well because they brought the rift to the Democratic Party, they must solve it, or get out of the way. Should in a nightmare, one candidate jump to another party or support another candidate, that the full force of the Democratic Party will expunge their influence.
This fight against each other and supported by Russ Limbaugh and his rouge Republicans, who has forced the Democratic Party to react in the background. So Russ Limbaugh may have forced a dream Democratic ticket by bringing Hillary enough Republican support to squeak a win in Indiana.
Remember LBJ fanatical attempt to override JFK by any means, only in the end to become a Vice President Candidate, and later President. But now, like in Kennedy’s time, the Democratic Party comes first.
This ticket will bring the impartiality to Judge the actions of the Bush Administration to obliterate the John Yoo mentality of torture and warrant less intrusions edicts redefinitions. And do other things like ending the Guantanamo White House rule of nil due process and habeas corpus in Justice controlled by one branch of government, like Indian Reservations, without Federal Courts at one time.
Now is the time for the patriots to rally the Democratic Party with Obama, Clinton’s, Gore, Edwards, Richardson, Kennedy’s, and even Carville to run a frontal attack on McBush McCain. But do it without Kitchen Sinks, we have enough ammo as is, just look at the White House Intelligence.
It is time for the Democratic Party to have a platform of Constitutionality where “We the people Made in America” claim own our government, and the focus reverts back to Katrina human needs over Corporate insurance welfare. That we elect Federal Judges with strong Constitutional backgrounds in Civil Liberties giving US back our homes individual rights. So that as employees it does not make US slaves to CEO “At Will” edicts at home. Our Declaration of Independence reclaims the Heritage and History of a nation of people, not of special interests, or Conglomerate autocratic rule with things like Cheney Oil Friends & Co secret meetings.
While after Edwards, I became a Obama supporter, I see flaws in his character, as well as Hillary’s. I see both as being to the conservative side of the Party. While I love their Religious values, they cannot have a White House religion of Katrina actions that bulldozes people’s feelings into tears. Religion is an individual human reaction of compassion for all of humanity. They two of them must bond with the country, not retreat into secret meetings of closed door sessions, they must be an open book to a new way of doing things in Washington.
Hillary, in a lot of ways I support you, and as a woman you make them damn proud (I see you as a Progressive, not as a woman; I see Obama as a Democrat, not as a Black. ). Had your campaign been orchestrated at the beginning, as it is now, things may have been different. (Minus throwing the Kitchen Sinks) Had you distanced yourself from Bush, instead of having them as Goodwill Ambassadors, I would have considered, but with what Bush has cost America in his redefinitions, I want him exiled to Crawford. Bush’s Intelligence has cost US over 100 times of Mission Accomplished in body bags, as a Vietnam Vet I thought Bush would have learned his lesson, even if stationed here as McCain served overseas.
It is paramount that finally politician face their accusers. Also CEO’s of Halliburton, Blackwater, and other carpetbagger must face accountability to their actions.
Evening all good Dems,
President Asshole was chastising congress again and said hatefully that he would veto the democratic bill to help PEOPLE in the mortgage crisis.
President Asshole said that he demands they pass the republic version which helps the bastards that caused the crisis who are a bunch of f**king criminals like bush and should be in jail.
Screw the despicable bastard president and while we are at it screw the despicable bastard limpballs and all the despicable bastards who changed their registration and voted for Hillary.
They are all a bunch of fascist pigs.
MaryMac,I figure that if God`s listening from the outside, God is listening to the inside,too. Anyway, people like Scalia make me feel like I need a shower.I know he has a perfect right to be who he is,but that`s how he makes me feel. That`s my right.
In the 1990's, the republican party set out to destroy the Clintons. Even though the 90's were pretty good for most, I will never forget the constant barage, and the hardships. I will never forgive that we have had to live without health insurance for 18 years because of it.
In 2000 the republican party destroyed McCain, on many levels, Manchurian candidate that fathered a black child while raping a prostitute (exag)
Now, Hillary supporters, who also liked McCain in 2000 are flocking to the republican party, because Obama knows nothing about foreign policy (or whatever)
I am not sure what plain I live on. It has been a long time I have wondered what plain others live on-----I have decided it is me.
At least with the polititions, if things don't make sense, I can ALWAYS follow the money, and it all clears up.
Every couple of years, during an election, I can't believe what is happening, and as far as following the money---no matter how many facts and figures you show people, THEY WILL VOTE AGAINST THEIR BEST INTEREST----
they didn't see the video of McCain and his buddies laughing at Hillary being called "THE BITCH"?
These are the women's liberation people that have been waiting 80 years for a strong woman candidate for president?
They are now flocking to a man to calls his wife a cun*, and trollup,
and says if women want to make the same as men they need to get more education???????
A man that has vowed to overturn Roe v Wade??? A man that goes against everything we have fought for women/civil rights---because they blame Obama for not letting them break the rules without accepting the agreed upon consequences,
while they complain about Bush breaking the rules for 8 years?
the end
Sandy,I couldn`t agree more.I was truly amazed by the gas tax holiday and I didn`t even know about Bill on Rush`s show.That goes beyond belief!How desparate are they to desert the ideals of the Democratic Party.It was obvious that she felt desparate to come after Barack about something. Truly pathetic!I think at every turn Barack Obama has shown why we need him as our next president.
I gotta stop monitoring John McAlzhimers blogs.
Now back to:
YES WE CAN
WOOOOOPPPPPPEEEEEE
Posted by virgo on May 7, 2008 at 08:12 PM
Scalia, Alito, and Thomas (and Roberts to a little, tiny bit lesser degree) cue my gag reflex!
Did anyone happen to notice that the trolls, who are nothing but Repub. parrots, had to come back at me by copying me - could this be because they have never, ever had an original thought in their poor, sad lives?
Anyway, goodnight all you great, great Dems! Blog ya tomorrow!
Speaking of follow the money----On John McCain blocking the GI BILL. Not just to keep soldiers from leaving like he says, (remember Rove?)
What he really means is
Need to keep soldiers from signing up.
Less education and health package means
less RECRUITMENT
Less recruitment, means more need for private military.
More for Blackwater means,
more for the blackwater lobbiests.
Ohhhhhh yea. I got it now.
Does anyone have the link for the page showing transparency on who has donated to the different candidates?
Gawd, I just spent 30 min talking to a church goin voting republican. She didn't know that we haven't paid one dime toward the Iraq War Cost. I said, you didn't know? I told her when Bush said he'd cut the deficit he never included Iraq in the budget. I said he gets his money through supplementals, you know like how he's asking for 70 billion now. I told her it was immoral and we'd be the first generation to leave the cost of "our" war to our children. I could tell she votes her values - she said she really didn't care for anyone running. She thinks the war is no good, too many people dying, no end in sight and she does realize we are spending billions.
Apparently the repugs have blamed jobs going over seas on the dems. She pointed out to me that it was Clinton that passed NAFTA. I guess radio and faux news didn't tell them about CAFTA. She also didn't know about the Bear Sterns bailout and subscribes, like many in rural Tennessee, that it was the peoples fault for buying too big of homes. (Like I could just walk into a bank and say, "I want this much Money and so it is my fault" I told her, it's the banks fault for lending people more than they could afford and told her of a trick a sub-prime co played on a friend of mine. These are reasonable, good people, they just haven't gotten the facts and don't spend time finding out. We have got to change that.
It's time for the Junior Senator from NY to go away:
Another SuperD defection from Hillary to Obama
by John Aravosis (DC) · 5/07/2008 03:59:00 PM ET · Link
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It's over. Go away. This is Obama's 4th SuperDelegate endorsement today. Hillary got one today.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0508/A_flip_to_Obama.html
Hillary is hurting congressional candidates
by John Aravosis (DC) · 5/07/2008 02:15:00 PM ET · Link
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Joe and I have spoken with Democratic House and Senate candidates, and they agree that Hillary is hurting their campaigns.
One congressional candidate told us that if Hillary is the nominee, it's a guaranteed 5 point hit they take right from the start (meaning, they start the race 5-points down in the polls). Why? Because too many people hate Hillary. That's why her negatives are higher than her positives. She will bring out voters who might not have voted otherwise. And the voters she will bring out will be rabid conservatives who will vote against Democrats across the board.
Another congressional candidate told us that it's even worse than that. Not only will the candidate have to publicly run AGAINST Hillary, should she get the nomination, but she's already damaging their campaign. First off, fundraising. The money isn't coming in, first because everyone is focused on the Hillary-Obama race, and not paying attention to congressional races. Another problem, people are pissed off, on all sides. They're not in the mood to give. And finally, some major donors don't want to give to any second-tier campaigns (meaning, campaigns that have less of a chance, but still have a chance, of winning) until they see whether Hillary or Obama get the nomination. Why? Because if Hillary gets the nomination, our candidates in red states, or states that are red/blue, will get slaughtered, and thus there's no reason to fund them. (We're seeing it on our own site. People are not giving to congressional races like they did in 2006.) And don't forget, even the DNC admitted last week that the ongoing Hillary-Obama saga has hurt their efforts to raise money to take on John McCain.
But there's another problem Hillary is causing. These campaigns can't get the field staff they need. Potential field staff are telling the campaigns that they have no idea what they're doing in the coming months because the Obama-Hillary battle isn't settled. This is a very real problem - one candidate said it's killing them.
One final point, we were told: the black vote. In states or cities with a large black community, Obama will bring them out in droves. Hillary, on the other hand, is suffering from a blacklash, so to speak. Her poll numbers among blacks have plummeted after her campaign's repeated race-baiting. But not only will a Hillary candidacy potentially turn blacks away from voting, it won't inspire them TO vote. One candidate told us that they have a major city with a sizable black vote. The problem? The black community in that area has a notoriously bad voter turnout. If Obama is the nominee, that candidate will get a 3 percentage point bump in the polls votes because of the increased black turnout - but if Hillary is the nominee, they lose that 3%, added on to the 5% hit they take because of her name inspiring every far-right loon to vote.
Hillary's bizarre and reckless desire to continue in the race even after she's lost isn't just hurting our nominee, Barack Obama, she's now hurting our congressional candidates. Our superdelegates in Congress, in the states, and at the DNC, need to do something now to end this farce. Where is Wesley Clark? Where is Al Gore? Where is Jimmy Carter? And where is John Edwards?
http://www.americablog.com/2008/05/hillary-is-hurting-congressional.html
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Come on Hillary. Enough is enough. Let Obama and Congressional candidates get on with the business of beating McSame and the GOP goons.
Just a quick post requesting that someone please pass this on to Hillary. Thanks! It's been fun; it's been real, so let's keep it real fun in defeating McSame. Go Obama, or 08BAMA! Good night!
Posted by highserenity on May 7, 2008 at 08:51 PM
Try opensecrets.org
It is sad, when Russ Limbaugh can incite the Republican to come over and raise chaos by voting for Hillary to prolong the Democratic struggle in dividing Democrats further. So how many Republicans will follow suit to stop Obama from being the Democratic choice. So Russ Limbaugh will do anything to incite people that Hillary is the only Democratic Limbaugh candidate.
Therefore, in reality the real Democrats chose Obama in Indiana.
Do you think the Democratic Party can come up with enough seats throughout and impeach members of the supreme court?Posted by virgo on May 7, 2008 at 06:55 PM
Probably, but the supreme court would likely declare it unconstitutional.
:-)
well, it looks like we have our nominee.
let the poor old girl embarass herself til june if she wants to and then it's officailly over. and it ain't gonna be Obama/clinton. not going to happen in this lifetime. I am excited about helping to elect the first black Prez. we are part of history. it's time to start focusing on mccain and who will be vice. hillary clinton is making herself more irrelevant as we speak. I do hope Bill doesn't drop dead working for her. he doesn't look good. honestly I don't think she will work for Obama but we don't really need her help. maybe GORE would like to be Vice again. that gives him more time for the environment. he could serve again as vice-right? well, I'm just happy is is drawing to a close. one more month at the most.
Thank you Michael,
Know I had it and couldn't remember.
Just what I needed
How red is red? I've been trying to explain that for several years in here. People from this area get their highs listening to Limbaugh, feel the Democrats kill their babies and vote Republican all of the time.
This makes me sick - and discussed.From a few days ago:
ELKHART — A woman discovered a cross burning in her yard. Because the cross was put in the yard of an interracial couple, police are calling it a possible hate crime. It happened in the 300 block of South Riverside in Elkhart just before 2 a.m. Thursday morning.Elkhart Police do not have any suspects or persons of interest. The case has been turned over the the FBI, and agents have already collected evidence from the home. They're expected to return on Monday.
Mayor Dick Moore says the family is terrified and is trying to ensure this never happens again.
"That [the burning cross] is a hate thing that shouldn't go on in a neighborhood," said Melody Nonnemacher, a neighbor.
"Half my street is black, so whoever did it is not just against them. It's against almost everyone on our street," said Jamie Patton, another neighbor.
The couple was asleep inside the home with their four kids, feet from the burning cross.
"I didn't think it was going on anymore, but obviously there are people who still feel that way," said Nonnemacher
"It is sad, when Russ Limbaugh can incite the Republican to come over and raise chaos by voting...So Russ Limbaugh will do anything to incite people"
Posted by YoungPoet on May 7, 2008 at 10:23 PM
limb doesn't give a crap about the sanctity of the vote for a candidate you believe in, only chaos ... limb's a victim of to many prescription overdoses and securing more ratings with the moron mentality. he's a rove clone or vice versa. win at all costs. no scrupples. suppose his cigar is loaded with prescripts too?
I just thought of how to describe what I see in Hillary and what will be required in the next President of the United States.
The next President will need to be like a Timex watch. Takes a licking and keeps on ticking.
There are so many hard issues and serious problems that will leave the next President open to be beat up on daily by the media and Republican nay sayers and we need a Timex watch President! Hillary is just what we need. She can take a licking and keep on ticking.
I do not see Obama as a Timex watch yet in his life’s journey.
man listening to you guys we already have lost this election to the repubs, oh well another 4 years to suffer thru.
gemstone----and other hillary supporters---
just wondering how you feel about what is going on at this site.
http://www.johnmccain.com/Blog/Read.aspx?guid=fbd286eb-abf6-4c9f-ae3e-3b3f8de062b8
The abandonment of Hillary while she is still trying to hold it together-----the vitriolic hatred toward the DNC from Hillary supporters and the organizing with McCain to take the DNC down.
If you think this is wrong, I would sure like to see some on there who do----so far ----none.
WITNESS TO A CRIME -- AVAILABLE ONLINE
Richard Hayes Phillips has been the leading
investigator of the fraudulent 2004 presidential
election in Ohio. His work was relied upon by John Conyers in challenging the Ohio electors in Congress, by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. in his article for Rolling Stone magazine, and by Algenon L. Marbley in issuing his federal court order protecting the ballots from destruction.
Assisted by teams of volunteers equipped with digital cameras, Phillips amassed some 30,000 images of forensic evidence. Then he analyzed it all himself, examining 126,000 ballots, 127 poll books, and 141 voter signature books from 18 counties in Ohio.
Phillips' long-awaited book, "Witness to a Crime: A Citizens' Audit of an American Election," was
published by Canterbury Press on April 12.
The book is 448 pages, with a hard cover and a dust jacket. The book includes eight color plates, and a CD with 1200 digital images of actual ballots, poll books, voter signature books, ballot accounting charts, and other forensic evidence from the 2004 presidential election in Ohio.
The book is available online, by credit card, through PayPal. The cost is $30, plus $3 shipping, at http://www.witnesstoacrime.com/buyitnow.
The book is also available via check or money order, in which case the cost is $30 total, shipping included. Once the book is available in stores, the price may be somewhat higher.
Please make checks payable to Richard Hayes Phillips. Please mail checks to 4 Fisher Street, Canton, New York, 13617.
Some findings:
* 60% to 70% of ballots punched for Connally were also punched for Bush
* 50% or more of ballots punched for gay marriage were also punched for Bush
* Most of the uncounted ballots in eight urban counties were punched in advance for Badnarik and/or Peroutka, thus ruining ballots expected to be cast for Kerry in heavily Democratic precincts
* Votes were shifted from Kerry to Nader in Cleveland and Akron
* Voting machines in Montgomery County were rigged to make it more difficult to punch for president than for any other office on the ballot
* An uninvited private technician reprogrammed the
tabulators on Election Day in Butler County, and the ballots fail to match the tabulator count in every audited precinct
* The official turnout data was wrong in all 82
precincts in Miami County, not just in the precinct with 98.55% turnout
* Voter signature books with no ballot stub numbers were found in Clermont and Miami counties
* More ballots were photographed than the total number issued to voters in nearly every audited precinct in Clermont, Darke, Mercer and Van Wert counties
* Optical scan ballots in Clermont County were altered with stickers that switched votes in the presidential election and in five other contests also
* Ballots were shifted from precinct to precinct in Warren County in order to manipulate the vote count, under cover of a fake “homeland security alert”
* Ballots were sorted according to candidate –
212 consecutive ballots for Bush in Butler County,
359 consecutive ballots for Bush in Delaware County – proof that someone had unauthorized access to the ballots
Posted by margotb822 on May 7, 2008 at 05:38 PM
LOL. I've seriously considered this too. I think Cheney and Rove get Bush drunk, maybe give him some mushrooms like on "That's My Bush," and talk to him in a deep voice with the light out... "George, this is God. I need you to keep the war going so we can have the Second Coming of Christ. You may be remembered as the worst President in history, but you can do what no other President has done... bring Christ back, and replace the Constitution with the Bible. You're a good man, Georgie Bush. Greed in good. War is the way to peace. Jesus loves you. I love you too, W."
In the Morning, W says to Laura, "I spoke with God last night." Laura replies, "was that before or after you spoke with Jack Daniels, Karl, and Dick?" "Oh, you mean my prayer group with Pat Robertson? I think it was after."
I think SNL needs to do a skit on this.
Dream on, morons.
Democratic registration brisk in Pa.
WAYNE, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvanians are rushing in record numbers to sign up as Democrats so they can vote in the April 22 presidential primary between Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Many are lured by the historic drama of two U.S. senators vying to be the first black or female president. But the two campaigns also are busily recruiting independents, disgruntled Republicans and those who weren't previously registered at all.
Obama's effort has generated the most fanfare as his campaign has laid down a steady drumbeat of radio ads and e-mails leading up to the deadline for switching or joining parties.
"For real change, register as a Democrat by Monday, March 24," advise Obama ads airing throughout the state.
Only registered Democrats can vote for their party's candidates in the state's April 22 primary, and Obama is hoping the recruits will help him overcome Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's solid lead — 12 points in one poll taken last weekend. At stake are 158 delegates to this summer's Democratic national convention — the biggest bloc of delegates still to be awarded.
Since last fall's election, statewide Democratic enrollment has swelled by more than 111,000 — an increase of about 3% in less than six months that state elections Commissioner Harry VanSickle said is apparently unprecedented. With days to go, Democratic registration is barely 5,000 votes shy of a record 4 million.
"The volume is very large, very steady," said Jim Forsythe, director of voter services in Chester County, a Philadelphia suburb where Democratic enrollment grew by nearly 7% — the second-largest gain among the 67 counties.
The smaller statewide enrollments of Republicans and voters not registered in either party have both declined slightly.
Neither the Obama nor Clinton campaigns will offer a public estimate of how much they contributed to the increased registration, and certainly other factors are at work.
But hundreds of Obama volunteers have stepped up their voter registration efforts in recent weeks on the streets, on college campuses and in nightly telephone canvassing among the nearly 1 million registered independent voters. In earlier Democratic primaries where independents could vote, Obama has outpolled Clinton, 54% to 40%, according to exit polls.
The Clinton campaign has also mounted a major registration effort in Pennsylvania, the first time in the primary season it has done so. While the former first lady has drawn most of her support in other states from traditional Democratic "base" voters, her aides believe she is positioned strongly enough in Pennsylvania to draw a significant number of independents, especially independent women.
The Clinton campaign is using extensive phone banks to identify likely switchers, targeting voters "who fit the profile'" of the New York senator's supporters and sending them registration applications upon request, said campaign spokesman Mark Nevins.
While all of Obama's ads urge non-Democrats to join the Democratic Party, he is using some regional targeting as well. The ad in the Pittsburgh and Harrisburg areas is tailored to young voters, mentioning Obama's opposition to the Iraq war and his plan to help loan-burdened college students. In the Philadelphia area, Obama's ad specifically talks to Republicans and independents unhappy with the country's direction and then recounts Obama's role in passing ethical reforms.
An Obama supporter, Russell Simmons, co-founder of Def Jam Records, announced a "Hip-Hop Team Vote: Turn up the Vote" campaign at the University of Pennsylvania on Wednesday that he hopes will register 15,000 to 20,000 voters before Monday. The group plans to use public service announcements from hip-hop recording artists and actors, including Jay-Z, LL Cool J, Wyclef Jean and Will Smith.
Heightened interest in the Democratic contest and disenchantment with the Bush administration have likely spurred many Pennsylvanians to join the party on their own. More than a few Republicans have switched sides — at least for the primary.
At a makeshift registration center that Obama volunteers set up on a sidewalk recently in this affluent Philadelphia suburb, one woman boasted that she and five friends — like her, all Republicans — had simultaneously changed their registrations to Democratic to vote for Obama, who she called "a fresh face" in politics.
"I do feel he's honest. I think he's hard-working, and I think he can understand what the people are going through," said Linda Lemmon of Kennett Square.
But asked whether she would remain a Democrat through the general election, she replied, "I can't say that."
Mining the state's computerized voter registry for trends, the Pennsylvania Department of State, which oversees elections, has found that:
• Since January, more than 100,000 Pennsylvanians who were not previously registered to vote did so.
• In that time, more than 68,000 registered voters changed their affiliation to one of the major parties, with those switching to Democratic registration outpacing those turning Republican by more than 3-1.
• The nine counties with the biggest percentage increases in Democratic enrollment since last fall — more than 5% — are mainly in two tightly contested areas — the Philadelphia suburbs and the state's vast central region. Despite the changes, Republicans still outnumber Democrats in all those counties.
One man who registered to vote for the first time at the Obama station here in Wayne was Tzvetan Tzonev, a newly naturalized citizen from Bulgaria.
But Tzonev said Clinton will get his vote, because Bill Clinton was president when he first arrived in this country and times were better then.
"It was a fantastic time," Tzonev said. "We thought maybe she will kind of continue this period of time, and we'll be out of all this mess."
One woman who stopped at the Obama table was Nina D'Iorio, already registered as a Democrat. She was carrying a bag of books including two by Obama.
D'Iorio said she was leaning toward him and wanted to learn more about him. While she longs to "see a strong, powerful woman thrive" as president, she worries that former President Clinton might hold his wife back.
Obama, she said, has "that JFK feel."
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008-03-20-registration-pa_N.htm
When hate trolls become love birds... what is this world coming to?
I bet when you guys met you don't even get a room... you just go the men's room. You closet commies disgust me. Get a real job, sickos. The RNC is hopeless. Obama/Clinton is America's ONLY HOPE!
Nobody died when Bill lied!
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/
Superdelegates,
Don't fall for this. Don't let republicans influence your decision. They don't have our best interests at heart. They did this with Howard Dean in 2004 when he was the strongest candidate and we picked a John Kerry and lost. Trust Your gut. Obama is the strongest candidate. You have to believe.
Superdelegates,
Don't fall for this. Don't let republicans influence your decision. They don't have our best interests at heart. They did this with Howard Dean in 2004 when he was the strongest candidate and we picked a John Kerry and lost. Trust Your gut. Obama is the strongest candidate. You have to believe.
I too would like to see this blog opened up to new members. It is after all the open blog of the Democratic National Committee. It should be open to all Democrats not just Democrats from the communist wing of the party.Posted by FrostyMilkweed on May 8, 2008 at 03:11 AM
It's open - just not to pr*cks like you.
it becuse of you two trools that lock up the sight if you to would leave then they open it to new members
Hi Dusty
Clinton camp is claiming that the votes in Michigan should still count. I think that is one of the reasons why Clinto is looking so foolish - I just shake my head when they come out with that statement. Count Michigan votes when Obama wasn't even on the ballot? How laughable!
Well - got to go to work so I can take my paycheck and fill my gas tank up. I wonder what the leader of the free world is doing about gas prices? Nothing - what a frickn' loser - the Republicans are so cooked this fall!
Keep on Rockn'
I don't know how I feel about Sen. Clinton being VP.
The truth is, I don't think that she would want the VP spot.
Look, for what 20 plus years married to Bill, she was always "second". Yes she is a strong, smart, woman. But she wasn't the one in charge or at least publicly.
Finally when she became a senator, she was.
She has been a good Senator. (MINUS the mistake on the Iraq war vote).
Does she really want to become "second" again?
Better for her, better for the Democratic party, better for the country, that she stays being the Senator from New York and then run for Gov. of New York.
Has New York ever had a woman Governor?
where is frosty and catass the tools i think clinton should bow out and let oboma go on to heal the party and go to win in november
Good morning all Good Dem's! On to victory in the fall! Save your country, VOTE DEMOCRATIC!
good morning. looks like a few days of rain coming here in the hudson valley.
Gregg,We've had a "gully washer" down here, now the humidity is coming back along with temps in the 90's...Och!
Here's another example of what a failure this 'surge" has been, and how the people were better off under Hussein, than under the USA rule! No Wonder they hate us!
Max Boot Compares Walled Baghdad
Neighborhoods To American Gated Communties
Despite what Iraq war hawks are willing to admit, the surge has transformed Baghdad into an ethnically-cleansed and religiously divided city that bears little resemblance to its former character
We have a little Texas sized hole in the ground developing not too far from here. Salt dome collapsed, so far, only about 600 feet wide and 100 feet deep. Has not swallowed the town, yet.
Posted by PamB on May 8, 2008 at 08:49 AM
While I certainly agree we need to leave ASAP, I am not sure I agree with that logic you linked to. "...how the people were better off under Hussein, than under the USA rule!" That makes me think of the old phrase about Mussolini and the trains running on time. Not sure if that was what you meant but thats what it made me think of.
The real answer, in my univited opinion, is native rule. People want to be self ruled, not governed by outsiders. Hussein was a horrible dictator, but he was an Iraqi. Iraqis need to run Iraq, not the US. The sooner we allow them to be sovergn, the better.
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