Obama - Stark Ravings

March 27, 2008

Tote Board Column -- 3/27 -- The General Election Hurdles Facing Obama
By webteam
This week's Tote Board column looks at the massive general election precedents facing Barack Obama.

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March 20, 2008

Tote Board Column -- 3/20 -- Race Gets in the Race
By webteam
This week's Tote Board column looks at how the issue of race and affirmative action may be beginning to cripple the Obama campaign.

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March 19, 2008

Obama's Speech and the Campaign
By webteam
Obama's speech on race in Philadelphia yesterday was wonderful rhetoric and the reaction has been almost universally positive. But will it help his campaign? On that, of course, the jury is out and we won't have any answers until at least the Pennsylvania primary in a month. Remember that Republican pundits tended to love Mitt Romney's speech earlier in the campaign on his faith, too, (though it wasn't nearly as good), and in retrospect, it certainly wasn't the political plus they said it was.

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March 12, 2008

In Mississippi, Obama Holds Serve
By webteam
Sporting analogies are overdone in politics but this year's Democratic campaign -- with its clear demographic contours -- is a bit like a tennis match. Obama last night won a state he was predicted to win. Now, on to Pennsylvania, where it's up to Hillary to hold serve in a state she should carry.

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March 07, 2008

Guest Blog Pundit Matthew Sawh: Some Possible Dark Horse Vice-Presidential Choices for Obama
By webteam
Obama's Dark-Horse Veep List:

1. Senator Russ Feingold:
The strongest counterpoint to the McCain aura of reform and cleaning the corporate system up. If Senator Obama is truly serious about challenging the 'Iraq Mindset' he needs to strongly consider Russ towards the top of the list. His selection would generate a serious debate about America's role in the world and its ideals at home.

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March 06, 2008

The Huge Problem Facing Barack Obama
By webteam
The huge problem facing Barack Obama is clearly outlined in the latest Pew poll:

A quarter of Democrats (25%) who back Clinton for the nomination say they would favor McCain in a general election test against Obama. The "defection" rate among Obama's supporters if Clinton wins the nomination is far lower; just 10% say they would vote for McCain in November, while 86% say they would back Clinton.

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Democrats, Obama

March 06, 2008

Tote Board Column -- 3/6 -- "Giant Step"
By webteam
This week's column looks at the problems ahead for the Democrats and why Hillary Clinton could well be the stronger general election candidate.

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Clinton, Democrats, Obama

March 05, 2008

Clinton Wins Big on Mini-Super Tuesday Which Means Big Problems for Democats
By webteam
As we anticipated in earlier posts and columns, the Democratic race is now headed to a train wreck, on the heels of Hillary Clinton's strong showings last night. The race now heads to Pennsylvania in late April but, as Fred Barnes noted jokingly last night on Fox, Pennsylvania is more like Ohio than Ohio, so it's uphill for Obama there.

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March 04, 2008

What's At Stake in Tonight's Primaries
By webteam
What's at stake in tonight's primaries? Actually, it's pretty straightforward. If Obama sweeps Ohio and Texas, it's over. If Clinton sweeps, she'll still trail in delegates but she still has a chance to win the nomination -- though it's not an easy path. If they split, Clinton can continue and cause interparty havoc but something very unusual will have to then occur to give her the nomination.

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March 03, 2008

Preview of Mini-Super Tuesday: Don't Assume the Obama-Clinton Race is Over
By webteam

The press has been approaching the upcoming contests in Ohio and Texas (with two other states voting) as the end of the line for the Clinton campaign. That could happen but it's far less likely than the media has been assuming. Sure, if Obama wins Ohio and Texas, it's over. But right now, the polls indicate that this is not a likely occurrence.

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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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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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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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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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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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A More Perfect Union
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