The Texas Blue: News
Turnout (Anecdotally) High in California
Tue, 02/05/2008 - 2:38pm
For your consideration: friends, family, and associates voting in California say that long lines greeted them at polling places in parts of Los Angeles. It isn't a literal turnout numbers comparison or anything but they were surprised to see it. Besides, the projected California turnout would be record-breaking if it materializes.
Huckabee Wins West Virginia
Tue, 02/05/2008 - 1:31pm
AP and MSNBC are calling the West Virginia convention for Mike Huckabee. An interesting tidbit — it was the defection of McCain supporters to Huckabee that put him over the top.
Karl Rove + Fox = <3
Tue, 02/05/2008 - 10:52am
You've heard the rumors, and now we know them to be true. Karl Rove is the latest addition to Fox's stable of "journalists" and "pundits".
Bipolarity
Tue, 02/05/2008 - 10:20am
Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo makes a very good point about the disparity between the Zogby and SurveyUSA polls in California: one of them is going to be incredibly, hilariously wrong. But what does that mean about polling in general for today's contests?
News Digest, 2/5/08: Today is Super Tuesday
Tue, 02/05/2008 - 9:30am
The national polls show that no one is quite sure what the balance of today's vote will be on the Democratic side, while pundits portend that it is all over but the crying for the GOP and that McCain is their guy. Are you ready for Super Tuesday?
Clinton's January Finance Numbers
Mon, 02/04/2008 - 8:54pm
Somewhere around $13 million, according to Terry McAuliffe. A huge month by any standards other than the standard set last week by Obama's massive January haul. My wife Diana says we live in strange days when $13 million in 31 days seems like a slow burn by comparison to some other single-month finance run. I agree with her, but what can you do? Welcome to 2008.
Border Disputes of a Different Kind
Mon, 02/04/2008 - 5:26pm
Have you seen this from Wikileaks? Via TPMuckraker and the New York Times comes the news that, in 2005, US armed forces were authorized to perform 'cross-border raids into Iran and Syria' from Iraq. The implications of rules of engagement along these lines are large, and both the documents and the stories are worth digging into.
It’s Bad — No, Wait — It’s Okay to Flip-Flop Now
By Chris Bell
Mon, 02/04/2008 - 4:30pm
"His flip-flops don't bother me," said my Republican friend at lunch last week. He was talking about Mitt Romney. In a most sarcastic manner, I replied, "We're only talking about issues like abortion. Who can be expected to have a set belief about something like that?"
Managing The Obameter
Mon, 02/04/2008 - 3:55pm
The Obama campaign's David Plouffe is now trying to manage expectations ahead of tomorrow's contest. The media has latched on to national poll movement as an indicator of possible locations for Obama to pull off some stunning upsets tomorrow, but Plouffe is saying that getting within 100 delegates of Clinton when tomorrow is all said and done is a win for them. And his surrogates have been professing the same sentiment all day long on your favorite cable news network.
McCain Pulling Away Due To Charm, Wit
Mon, 02/04/2008 - 3:46pm
Forget what talk radio says or thinks about John McCain. Forget that Romney has so much money. The idea surrounding John McCain — that he is solidifying as the GOP candidate — is stemming from the fact that while he might be losing the conservative primary, he is winning the personality primary.