Holy Crap! The Obama wave
They wanted this out there to affect the debate spin. January isn't even over yet.
I'll be very curious about the Clinton/GOP equivalents. The later they hold their announcement, the worse it likely is.
(Obama's closing in the polls, the endorsements and money are flooding in, but I just keep wondering if he's run out of time.
All that early voting follows the polls before he started closing.)
Later: Is the Clinton campaign trumpeting their new ad rollout (expensive) to try and blunt some of Obama's PR from the huge fundraising number?
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama raised $32 million in the single month of January, matching his best three-month period last year, aides said Thursday.
I'll be very curious about the Clinton/GOP equivalents. The later they hold their announcement, the worse it likely is.
(Obama's closing in the polls, the endorsements and money are flooding in, but I just keep wondering if he's run out of time.
All that early voting follows the polls before he started closing.)
Later: Is the Clinton campaign trumpeting their new ad rollout (expensive) to try and blunt some of Obama's PR from the huge fundraising number?
posted by mikevotes at
10:27 AM
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Who knows. Hillary has shown that the party base are for her. And I've also been surprised at the "sisterhood" aspect of her campaign. I didn't realize the level a female chauvinism out there.
Hillary has had better luck getting women out for her than Obama has been in getting rally goers out for him.
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-epm, at 11:16 AM
My guess is that women see her as a symbolic breaking of the ultimate glass ceiling, but what do I know?
You have to remember that all these women grew up listening to people tell them that they could be president while knowing that was a lie. Powerful stuff.
And, Obama has the standard problem, independents are more independent.
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mikevotes, at 1:48 PM
Everytime I hear women say they are for Hillary because of her sex I try to get them to answer "where would she be w/out Bill??" No where! Probably still a republican working with Nixon/Reagan/Dole and Bush regimes. Now a lobbyist for free trade (walmart/china) and NAFTA...She was a young progressive republican who worked for Nixon campaign. Met Bill and switched sides but kept corprotacracy beliefs. Everything (including Ark lawyer partnerships) was a result of Bill's Ark govenership. Then getting a national voice as first lady. who knows...she may have been an AG for Bush I or II if Bill would have kept his zipper shut!
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Anonymous, at 6:45 PM
Everytime I hear women say they are for Hillary because of her sex I try to get them to answer "where would she be w/out Bill??" No where! Probably still a republican working with Nixon/Reagan/Dole and Bush regimes. Now a lobbyist for free trade (walmart/china) and NAFTA...She was a young progressive republican who worked for Nixon campaign. Met Bill and switched sides but kept corprotacracy beliefs. Everything (including Ark lawyer partnerships) was a result of Bill's Ark govenership. Then getting a national voice as first lady. who knows...she may have been an AG for Bush I or II if Bill would have kept his zipper shut!
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Anonymous, at 6:45 PM
Well, I've also heard that if it wasn't for Hillary, Bill would be a car salesman in Little Rock and hitting on the co-eds at the state college.
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-epm, at 7:56 PM
Anon, no, probably not, and I don't really want to get into that argument, but you also have to take into account that when she started there was wasn't the same available avenue for women at least not on the scale (still limited) of today.
The one thing I would say is that she is smart, capable, etc. It's not like we're talking about a George W Bush here.
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EPM, He might not have risen to the same heights, but we're still talking Yale law/Oxford, etc.
I still think he'd have been political and connected just by the nature of small state law.
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mikevotes, at 9:12 PM
Mike, agreed. I'm just parroting a sentiment I heard in the '90 among some independents who had their fill of Bill. Just to counter Anon's "if it weren't for Bill..." reasoning regarding Hillary.
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-epm, at 6:23 AM
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