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February 27, 2008

Ted Van Dyk on Last Night's Democratic Debate
By webteam
Ted Van Dyk on last night's Democratic debate.

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Democrats

February 22, 2008

Guest Blog Pundit Vic Sholis: The Battle for Texas
By webteam
This is it, folks. After months of skirmishes across
the country, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are in
Texas for the next two weeks, waging what possibly is
a fight to the death.

Texas is the biggest state left on the Democrats'
calendar, and both sides acknowledge that for Clinton
to survive, she must win in Texas. So what's it look

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Clinton, Democrats, Guest Blog Pundits

February 22, 2008

Ted Van Dyk on Last Night's Austin Debate
By webteam

One of the Democrats' great senior wise men, Ted Van Dyk, former aide to Hubert Humphrey, George McGovern, and others, sent me this wrapup of the debate last night. As always, he bears listening to:

. . . Both Obama and Clinton have honed their performances over many months until, now, they are in late-playoff form. Both kept their poise in the presence of the other.

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Clinton, Democrats, Obama

February 21, 2008

Guest Blog Pundit Johanna Wald: What Obama Has to Do in Tonight's Debate and Over the Next Two Weeks to Seal the Deal
By webteam
Barak Obama is on the verge of putting this contest away. This is what, in my opinion, he needs to do in tonight’s debate and over the next two weeks to fend off the sharks :

1. Somehow respond to, get past, and diffuse wife Michelle’s statement about this being the only time in her adult life that she has been proud of America. He needs to perform the tricky task of being totally loyal to and supportive of his wife, while also defanging her statement before it comes back to bite them in the general election.

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Democrats, Guest Blog Pundits, Obama

February 21, 2008

Will Clinton Go Super-Negative in the Debate Tonight?
By webteam
There is another Democratic debate tonight and Clinton partisans are undoubtedly hoping it marks the beginning of her comeback. There's some anticipation that she will go super-negative on Obama but the feeling here is that would be a mistake. She's already been pretty negative and dour and none of it appears to be sticking so far.

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Clinton, Democrats, Obama

February 21, 2008

How the Times Story Is Actually Helping McCain With Conservatives
By webteam
For weeks there’s been speculation about how John McCain could possibly convince his party’s right wing to rally around him.
The New York Times may have helped him take a giant step in that direction.
Opinions can differ about whether the Times should have gone with its story about McCain and his alleged close relationship ten years ago with a female lobbyist.

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McCain, Republicans

February 21, 2008

Tote Board Column -- 2/21 --"Civil War"
By webteam

This week's Tote Board column, "Civil War," opines that if Hillary can come back in Ohio and Texas on March 4 --a better possibility than it might seem today -- the Dems are headed for, well, civil war.

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Clinton, Democrats, Obama

February 19, 2008

Instant Analysis of Tonight's Wisconsin Democratic Primary Results: Clinton Loses A State She Should Have Won
By webteam

Both Fox and CNN have called Wisconsin for Obama. The exit poll data showed, for example, that only 40% of the Wisconsin Democratic electorate had a college degree. That's a demographic mix tailor-made for Hillary and her inability to prevail tonight indicates a campaign now in serious trouble.
If she can't win Texas and Ohio in two weeks, it will be the beginning of the end.

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Clinton, Democrats, Obama

February 19, 2008

Clinton Fails to File Full Delegate Slate for Pennsylvania On Time: This Campaign is So Disorganized It Doesn't Deserve the Nomination
By webteam
More evidence of the Clinton campaign' inept negligence, of the sort we wrote about in last week's column: There are reports today that the campaign failed to file a full delegate slate for the Pennsylvania primary in April. Apparently she can make this up later. But still . . . .
Ready to be president on day one? She's not even ready to be a candidate on day 340.

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Clinton, Democrats

February 19, 2008

Preview of Tonight's Wisconsin Democratic Primary: More Than Meets the Eye
By webteam

Tonight's Wisconsin primary isn't going to determine who wins the Democratic nomination, though in a race this close everything counts. But it bears watching. So far, if you accept the notion that Clinton and Obama represent roughly equal constituencies (old vs. young, Latino vs. African-American, working class vs. upper class), there's only been one real surprise in the primary results so far.

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Clinton, Democrats, Obama

February 18, 2008

Why the "Plagiarism" Charge Against Obama Concerning His Borrowing Some Riffs From a Deval Patrick Speech May Have Legs
By webteam

It's now all over the web and will soon be all over the newscasts. On Saturday night, in a speech in Wisconsin, Barack Obama "borrowed" some phrasing from a speech Deval Patrick gave over a year ago, during his own campaign.
It seems inadvertent; When you're as tired as these candidates must be, these things happen. It's not plagiarism when you accept advice from a friend and supporter.

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Democrats, Obama

February 18, 2008

Let the Word Go Out: The Tote Board Is Seeking Guest Hosts!! Try Your Hand at Blogging!
By webteam
It's always been our view that blogs belong to the people who read them and post. So, in that sprit, the Tote Board is seeking anyone interested to guest host in periods of several days or even a week. The requirements are that, as always in this space, the blogger attempt to provide good, dispassionate analysis of the race. It's nice to be a partisan but this isn't the blog for that.

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February 16, 2008

The Tote Board on FNX!
By webteam

The state of the race: The Tote Board on WFNX.

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February 14, 2008

Tote Board Column 2/14 -- Losing It?
By webteam
This week's column shows how Clinton's ineptitude in running her own campaign may well show she is hardly prepared to be president.

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Clinton, Democrats, Obama

February 13, 2008

For Clinton, It's Win Ohio and Texas on March 4 -- Or Else
By webteam

The delegate race is still close. And, yes, Clinton can come back. But she'll have to win Ohio and Texas on March 4 or the pressure will be enormous on her to scale back her campaign and her principal argument -- that Obama can't win the big states -- will collapse.
Before the latest Obama streak -- which was hardly unexpected, by the way -- it was thought Clinton would contest Wisconsin seriously this Tuesday.

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Clinton, Democrats, Obama

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