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Tuesday, January 15, 2008 - Posts
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The decision to let the candidates ask each other questions — risky, by cable-network standards — was probably the best part of the debate. For one, it led to some of the most substantive exchanges of the night: Edwards asked Obama about lobbyist money. Read More...
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Barack Obama had a great pivot when asked why blacks disproportionately drop out of the education system. Within the first sentence, Obama had made his answer not just about blacks but about Latinos, too. All of a sudden, Obama is talking about all minorities, Read More...
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Obama gets the first (and probably the last) sincere laugh of the the night. A moderator asks: Is there a history of Hispanics not voting for black candidates? "Not in Illinois," says Obama. "They voted for me." It gets laughs, but it also serves a purpose: Read More...
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John Edwards answers each question as if he'd been asked, Sen. Edwards, can you please recite a few of your talking points on Subject X for us? Brian Williams asks, "What’s the problem with English as an official language?" Edwards takes a few minutes Read More...
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All three candidates agree to enforce the law that cuts off federal funding for schools that don't offer ROTC programs. In their answers, Obama and Clinton take a few minutes to praise soldiers serving in Iraq. Edwards turns his answer toward veterans' Read More...
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A look inside CNN's exit polls: GOP Of the 13 percent of voters who were 18 to 24 years old, Ron Paul pulled in 21 percent support, third-highest. Probably a testament to how low youth turnout was and how Paul supporters will turn out no matter the weather Read More...
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Here comes the good part. (Fingers crossed.) NBC has decided to let the candidates ask each other two questions--wait, says Brian Williams, make that one question. (So this is why they didn't let Kucinich in — it would have taken too long.) Sounds like Read More...
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We've moved on from the Awkward, Useless Questions segment to the Economy segment. All the candidates talk about how they'd cut down on foreign ownership. Edwards points to how this trend hurts the middle class more than the wealthiest. Hillary says she'd Read More...
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A number hidden at the bottom of the returns : Fred Thompson is beating Rudy Giuliani in Michigan by nearly 3,000 votes. This matters not because Thompson is beating Giuliani, but because Giuliani is losing to Thompson. Rudy Giuliani used to be a peculiar Read More...
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John Edwards: "For 54 years, I’ve been fighting with every fiber of my body." Read More...
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The shallowness — it just don't stop. The first 20 minutes are consumed entirely with crappy questions. - Sen. Obama, you won the women's vote in Iowa; Hillary won it in N.H. Is that because you said, "You're likable enough, Hillary"? - Obama, do you Read More...
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Kudos to Mitt Romney, who started his victory speech at the same time John McCain was giving his second-place speech. Fox decided to switch over to Mitt, effectively muting McCain. Read More...
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And we're off! Brian Williams cites a bunch of recent comments about Martin Luther King Jr. and Obama's unmentionable teenage activities. "How did we get here?" he asks. He might as well have asked, Who can give me the biggest platitude? Hillary: Neither Read More...
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It seems home is where the votes are. Mitt Romney has won in Michigan, and we owe him at least a moment so he can bask in his gold-medal glory ... Now, with that out of the way, let's begin the dissection. A lot of the story line coming out of Romney's Read More...
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As results trickle in, the early precincts suggest Hillary Clinton is holding off the great, shadowy threat that goes by "Uncommitted." But does it even matter? Regardless of what happened tonight, Clinton is immune from bad or good press. If she obliterated Read More...
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Of the many story lines to pay attention to this evening: Who gets more votes, Mike Gravel or Duncan Hunter? As of now, Bill Kristol and company on Fox News tell me that Gravel has seven more votes (51 to 44) with 2 percent of precincts reporting. Can Read More...
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Michigan exit polls are just beginning to trickle out, so there are a lot of reasons to take this Fox News report with a grain of salt. But it does contain one potentially meaningful tidbit. Among African-Americans, Hillary won an estimated 25 percent Read More...
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Perhaps wolverines do hibernate after all. Reports out of Michigan today suggest people didn't feel like plowing through inches of snow to vote in a primary that doesn’t matter for Democrats and sort of matters for Republicans (mainly if Romney loses). Read More...
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Here's a sentence that affirms our continued fascination with the New York Sun , particularly its style guide : A number of opinion surveys put Messrs. McCain and Romney in a dead heat, with Michael Huckabee trailing in third place. Indeed, he seems to Read More...
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Listen to Barack Obama's new Spanish-language video (short version here ; longer version here ). Seriously, just listen. The church bells, the drums, the cheesy mid-'90s synth track. Something tells me this style wouldn't quite fly in a New Hampshire Read More...
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So the Nevada Supreme Court has ordered a hearing for 1:30 p.m. local time (4:30 p.m. ET) to address NBC's appeal. It will last 30 minutes, after which we'll know whether or not Dennis Kucinich will have his chance to speak truth to Brian Williams. (See Read More...
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Back in November, as the Democratic presidential candidates assembled for their first Vegas debate, we imagined which candidates would be which hotels along the Strip. Now, as they return to Sin City for tonight's debate, the comparisons are more useful Read More...
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Finally, Dennis Kucinich's What about me? debate theatrics are paying off. Initially, NBC said it would include him in tonight’s Las Vegas debate. Last week the network disinvited him, saying it was “redoing” the inclusion criteria. Kucinich promptly Read More...
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After offering an unconvincing explanation for his remarks about Barack Obama's cocaine use, BET founder Bob Johnson must have decided that a bit more damage control was in order. He sat down with the Washington Post and explained what he meant when he Read More...
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