Political bits
(Politico) Obama has started a run of state specific ads with endorsers from those states. (Interesting that the first two are women, Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill and Az. governor Janet Napolitano. They must not be happy losing so much among white women.)
(Ambinder) Then there's the possibility that extremely popular Kansas governor Kathleen Sebelius might be about to endorse. (Another high profile white female endorser.)
Sebelius would be a significant endorsement because she's giving the Dem response to the SOTU. (How would the Dem leadership feel if she springboarded the SOTU into an endorsement?)
Meanwhile, (ChicagoTrib) Tony Rezco, Obama's unwanted sponsor from the past was arrested and had his bond revoked. (Does it punch through on Kennedy day?)
(WaPo) An odd story about Obama's very limited availability to the press that's travelling with him.
(CNN) Mitt Romney responds to McCain's insult of comparing him to John Kerry by reviving the rumor that McCain once considered being Kerry's VP.
(Politico) Lieberman is on the stump with McCain in Florida
(CNN) I joked earlier about Romney eating at KFC. Well, McCain's new surrogate, Mike Huckabee, attacked Romney for not eating the skin. (That's where these guys are.)
(WSJblog) McCain and Romney get vicious on the last day.
(AP) The AP has this handy list of Bush's approval ratings at each one of his SOTU's. (62, 84, 60, 53, 51, 43, 36, 32.) If he was a stock, you'd have put in a stop-loss at 50.
For fun, take a look at this mocking post at WashWire: McCain’s Secret Plan to Capture Bin Laden.
And, I don't know if anyone's noticed, but Obama has transitioned his "change message" on the stump to include attacks on the Clinton's. (Past versus future. "Those who would divide us," "Those who tear people down....")
(Ambinder) Then there's the possibility that extremely popular Kansas governor Kathleen Sebelius might be about to endorse. (Another high profile white female endorser.)
Sebelius would be a significant endorsement because she's giving the Dem response to the SOTU. (How would the Dem leadership feel if she springboarded the SOTU into an endorsement?)
Meanwhile, (ChicagoTrib) Tony Rezco, Obama's unwanted sponsor from the past was arrested and had his bond revoked. (Does it punch through on Kennedy day?)
(WaPo) An odd story about Obama's very limited availability to the press that's travelling with him.
(CNN) Mitt Romney responds to McCain's insult of comparing him to John Kerry by reviving the rumor that McCain once considered being Kerry's VP.
(Politico) Lieberman is on the stump with McCain in Florida
(CNN) I joked earlier about Romney eating at KFC. Well, McCain's new surrogate, Mike Huckabee, attacked Romney for not eating the skin. (That's where these guys are.)
(WSJblog) McCain and Romney get vicious on the last day.
(AP) The AP has this handy list of Bush's approval ratings at each one of his SOTU's. (62, 84, 60, 53, 51, 43, 36, 32.) If he was a stock, you'd have put in a stop-loss at 50.
For fun, take a look at this mocking post at WashWire: McCain’s Secret Plan to Capture Bin Laden.
And, I don't know if anyone's noticed, but Obama has transitioned his "change message" on the stump to include attacks on the Clinton's. (Past versus future. "Those who would divide us," "Those who tear people down....")
posted by mikevotes at
2:25 PM
7 Comments:
Obama might want to ease back a bit before going on the attack, Tony Rezko was arrested today and had his bond revoked.
More fuel for the Clintons' fire.
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Anonymous, at 2:39 PM
I picked it up and put it in the post while you were writing this comment.
I tend to build these catchalls bit by bit as I read through the papers and blogs.
I wonder if that will punch through on Kennedy Day.
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mikevotes, at 2:50 PM
I've said it before: Rezko will be Obama's Whitewater. He'd better find a way to preemptively defuse this.
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-epm, at 2:56 PM
Thus far, he's been bulletproof to the media. I don't know if that'll hold up, but thus far, nothing's punched through.
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mikevotes, at 3:06 PM
It will punch through in a 527 at some point... probably in the general, if he's the nominee.
What's the deal with Lieberman? Who are his people and how does he help McCain in a GOP primary? I don't get it.
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-epm, at 3:35 PM
I don't get using Lieberman either.
However, down here in Texas, some of the blinders on Republicans I talk to often cite Lieberman as some sort of good thing for McCain.
(Yes, each and everytime I explain the way Democrats view him now, and that seems to change the look on their faces.)
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mikevotes, at 4:16 PM
LOL.
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-epm, at 6:51 PM
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