Category: Red StatesBy Bud White on Aug 23, 2008 in Advertising, Barack Obama, Florida, John Kerry, John McCain, Ohio, Red States | 356 Comments
“Follow the money,” is the famous advice from Deep Throat, Woodward and Bernstein’s key Watergate source. The Associated Press is reporting, in an article titled “Obama Adjusts Ad Strategy During Convention,” that Obama is pulling ads from certain Red States. The key word, of course, is “adjust.” This is a familiar euphemism for pulling ads […]
By Bud White on Jul 10, 2008 in Barack Obama, Current Affairs, Democrats, Electability, Electoral College, Florida, John Kerry, John McCain, Ohio, Popular Vote, Presidential Candidates, Race, Red States | 279 Comments
No Quarter published two fascinating posts on Tuesday about the current state of the race between McCain and Obama. Taken together, these two pieces of analysis convey ominous news for Obama.
The first post, Obama’s Flawed Race Strategy: Why the Black Vote Won’t Be Enough by iam0nly1, argues convincingly that Obama’s weakness in the Rust Belt […]
By Dr. Lynette Long on Jul 7, 2008 in Barack Obama, DNC, Democratic Nomination, Disenfranchisement, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Red States, Texas, The Denver Group, Voter Enfranchisement, Washington state | 232 Comments
On March 4, 2008, Texas held its Democratic Primary, affectionately called the Texas-Two Step. After the polls closed at 7 pm, primary voters could participate in a caucus. Sixty-five percent of the pledged delegates were awarded based on the primary results and the other 35% based on the caucus results.
According to CNN, 2,867,454 votes […]
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