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April 30, 2007

Ads Classified: Romney Hits the Airwaves Again
By webteam
The latest ad offering from Mitt Romney, Inc., is better than his first venture. Titled simply, "I Like Vetoes," it's been up awhile in New Hampshire and is now going national. The ad, available here, plays to Romney's strengths as an executive and a candidate who can deal with the economy better than his rivals.
In the ad, which simply features Romney giving a speech, the candidate promises as president to cap domestic spending at 1% less than the rate of inflation.

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Ads Classified, Republicans, Romney

April 30, 2007

Bobby "Boris" Pickett of Monster Mash Fame Dies
By webteam
Sad news: Bobby "Boris" Pickett, co-author and lead singer of one of the greatest "one hit wonders" of all time, died last week.
Pickett's song was, of course, "Monster Mash," and when it was released in the fall of 1962, it shot to the top of the charts (though it was initially banned in the UK as "too morbid").
At the time the song was hitting the charts, the US was in the middle of the Cuban Missile Crisis and Richard Nixon was about to lose to Pat Brown in his race to be California governor.

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April 27, 2007

Who Won Last Night's Debate? The "Experts" Are All Over the Lot But SC Voters Say Obama
By webteam
Debate winners are in the minds of the beholder. That’s why this morning we have Iowa’s David Yepsen saying the second-tier candidates all did well, including Bill Richardson (we thought he bombed); the Politico’s rising star Ben Smith saying it was Hillary’s night (better than Edwards?), and David Broder talking about how impressive the field was (we thought it lacked stature).

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Democrats, Obama

April 27, 2007

The New Quinnipiac Poll: Good News for Republicans and Terrible News for Hillary
By webteam
Quinnipiac is out with a new set of polls and it’s good news for the Republicans and very bad news for Hillary Clinton.
What the polls show is that Rudy Giuliani leads Clinton in the key swing states of Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Florida, while John McCain leads in the first two and is tied with Clinton in Florida. Since the Democrats need to win at least two of these three to win the presidency – and perhaps all three – this is terrible news for Clinton.

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Clinton, Democrats, Giuliani

April 26, 2007

Instant Analysis of the South Carolina Democratic Debate
By webteam
One debate hardly determines a party’s nominee. And it’s true, as we noted before tonight, that there is a way in which a mass debate diminishes all involved.
If there is a criticism to be made of the whole field tonight, it is that they were, on the whole, too senatorial – which is no surprise given that most are serving, or have served, in that chamber.

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Democrats

April 26, 2007

A Preview Of Tonight's MSNBC Democratic Debate, Complete With Home Scorecard!
By webteam
For those who missed it, here is last week's column that previewed tonight's Democratic debate.

Remember that the Tote Board will provide instant analysis of the debate on this site within minutes after the event ends at 8:30 pm. EDT.

Also, here is a scorecard so you can keep track at home!

The insider’s guide to scoring the first five minutes of the Democratic debate:

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Democrats

April 26, 2007

The French Election: Part III
By webteam
With the French election headed to a runoff a week from Sunday, the key question is whom the centrist, “third way” candidate who finished third, Francois Bayrou, might endorse. For the first few days after the initial election, he seemed inclined to go his own way but as the Independent of the UK indicates this morning, he may be moving towards the socialist candidate, Segolene Royal, if only out of antipathy to Nikolas Sarkozy.

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April 26, 2007

Tote Board Column -- 4/26 --The Debating Game II
By webteam

This week's Tote Board column previews the first Republican debate, to be held at the Reagan Library on May 3.
And a correction for that column: Ronald Reagan was actually Jane Wyman's second husband.

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Republicans, Tote Board Archive

April 25, 2007

“Giuliani warns of 'new 9/11' if Dems win.”
By webteam
Today’s headline in the Politico forecasts the future of the Republican race and even the fall 2008 campaign: “Giuliani warns of 'new 9/11' if Dems win.”
One can completely disagree and even accuse the Republicans of creating an artificial climate of fear. But Giuliani is a superb politician and knows the strength of his own appeal (which, ironically, is often not the case in presidential politics).

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Giuliani, McCain, Republicans

April 24, 2007

Black Leaders Beginning to Move to Obama
By webteam
The New York Times today highlights a trend that we noted over a month ago: Black support is beginning to drift from Hillary Clinton to Barack Obama, even in her home state of New York.
This is only the beginning of a trend that will see Obama overwhelmingly carry the black vote in the Democratic primaries. As noted in an earlier column, the conventional wisdom early on that Obama might not do well among black voters because, among other things, he did not share the African-American “slavery heritage," was, well, not very informed and way off the mark.

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Clinton, Democrats, Obama

April 24, 2007

Ads Classified: Bill Richardson Hits the Airwaves in NH and Iowa
By webteam
Bill Richardson appears to be the first Democrat to hit the airwaves in New Hampshire and Iowa -- not a bad move since he's got to appear to be moving out of the second tier and a good debate performance later this week might add to his momentum.
Of the two ads running, his bio ad, available here, is the more impressive. Shot entirely in black and white and consisting of a series of still photographs, Richardson comes across as different from your average candidate: He's clearly a westerner and the ad is notable in both stressing his foreign policy experience and its emphasis on optimism and his sense of humor.

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Ads Classified, Democrats, Richardson

April 23, 2007

The French Election: Part II
By webteam
Following up on our earlier post, the results of the initial election are in and France will now have a classic choice in the run-off between a female Socialist candidate, Segolene Royal, and a male conservative, Nikolas Sarkozy.
We had written earlier about the possiblity of a third-middle way candidacy emerging through Francois Bayou of the Union for French Democracy but Bayrou finished a disappointing third.

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April 18, 2007

Tote Board Column -- 4/19 --The Debating Game
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This week's Tote Board column previews the first Democratic debate in South Carolina on April 26.

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Democrats, Tote Board Archive

April 13, 2007

Tote Board Column -- 4/12 -- Take A Sad Song And Make It Better
By webteam
This week's Tote Board column discusses why Hillary Clinton should still apologize for her vote on Iraq and how she can do so successfully.
As a supplement to what's in the column in the paper, a discerning reader can read and listen here to the full speech Ted Kennedy gave in response to Chappaquiddick. And, the full text of Ronald Reagan's speech in response to the Tower report on the Iran-contra scandal is here.

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Clinton, Tote Board Archive

April 12, 2007

I Want to Tell You -- Our Beatles Picks!
By webteam
This week’s column featured a Beatles song for the current state of each campaign.

To recap:

RUDY GIULIANI I Feel Fine
JOHN MCCAIN Help!
MITT ROMNEY Baby You’re A Rich Man
SAM BROWNBACK I Don’t Want to Spoil the Party
T. THOMPSON Run For Your Life
MIKE HUCKABEE Carry That Weight
JAMES GILMORE Honey Don’t

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Democrats, Republicans

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