I just got called and polled by Ohio Dominican. The questions are below. I’m told it was being performed by Ohio Dominican University and the results are only used by the University and will be “published in the local Catholic Times”.
For these questions, answers included “strongly disagree”, “disagree”, “strongly agree”, “agree”, “neutral”
It is important that a Presidential candidate be a good communicator
It is important that a Presidential candidate be diplomatic
It is important that a Presidential candidate be religiously observant
It is important that a Presidential candidate be be Christian
It is important that a Presidential candidate defend their own personal beliefs
It is important that a Presidential candidate assume accountability their actions
For these questions, answers included which of the two things were “more important” in a Presidential candidate:
quiet/thoughtful or powerful/dynamic
experienced or energetic
firm in beliefs or open minded
experience in business or experience in politics
have a record of accomplishments or new ideas
I was also asked my sex, age, income, religion, and party affiliation. I guess I will look for results here?
Note to Mr. Obama: you aren’t going to win over any blue collar voters by bowling a 37. But, if you promise to practice, I’ll send you my Wii with the bowling game so you’ll be much better next time.
Better yet, next time you’re at the bowling alley just get drunk on cheap beer (Iron City?) and then get in a fight in the bowling alley parking lot. That’ll win you more respect with the blue collar folks than any high scoring game ever would!
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Barack Obama has won the overall delegate race in Texas thanks to a strong showing in Democratic county conventions this past weekend.
Obama picked up seven of nine outstanding delegates, giving him a total of 99 Texas delegates to the party’s national convention this summer. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton won the other two, giving her a total of 94 Texas delegates, according to an analysis of returns by The Associated Press.
Burnt Orange Report has it closer by 2 delegates. Obama up 3. The bottom line to the whole thing is that Barack Obama is the winner of Texas and not Hillary Clinton. This means she won precisely 1 “big state” and one “little state” on March 4th. Precisely the same as Obama – though she is farther behind in total delegates. The results in Ohio meant about as much as they normally do in a Democratic primary for President. Squadoosh.
NOW will Team Billary STOP using Texas as one of the states she supposedly “won” in her fundraising emails? Probably not. The only thing sure to happen is continued delegate poaching and arm twisting.
Recently upgraded PB to Wordpress 2.5. Most of it you can’t see except for the sidebar stuff that was broken in a previous WP version. The back-end is really nice. You can now see the latest comments, most frequent commenters, blogroll, shoutbox, the works. Thanks to Brian for getting this done this weekend. Good stuff. More to come…
Slowly but steadily, a string of Democratic Party figures is taking Barack Obama’s side in the presidential nominating race and raising the pressure on Hillary Clinton to give up.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota is expected to endorse Sen. Obama Monday, according to a Democrat familiar with her plans. Meanwhile, North Carolina’s seven Democratic House members are poised to endorse Sen. Obama as a group — just one has so far — before that state’s May 6 primary, several Democrats say.
Nice graphic in the article demonstrating what has changed since the candidates were about equal in pledged delegates and Clinton had a big superdelegate advantage. Clearly, the pledged delegate count favors Obama and the super gap has closed and continues to do so today:
Albert Arnold “Al” Gore, Jr. was born on this day (March 31) in 1948.
And today – on his 60th birthday – The Alliance for Climate Protection, the group he founded with the goal of halting global warming, is launching The We Campaign to help “educate people in the US and around the world that the climate crisis is both urgent and solvable.”
A pair of Ohio companies owed more than $25,000 by Clinton for staging events for her campaign are warning others in the tight-knit event production community — and anyone else who will listen — to get their cash upfront when doing business with her. Her campaign, say representatives of the two companies, has stopped returning phone calls and e-mails seeking payment of outstanding invoices. One even got no response from a certified letter.
Oh wait. I remember! Haven’t we had enough deficit spending? We need a President who is ready on day one to better manage the finances of this country! No to Hillary Clinton!
“We worked very hard to put together these events on a moment’s notice and do absolutely everything to a ‘t’ to make it look perfect on television for her and for her campaign,†said the employee. “Sen. Clinton talks about helping working families, people in unions and small businesses. But when it comes down to actually doing something that shows that she can back up her words with action, she fails.â€
Way to “walk the talk” Hillz. Good stuff! If her campaign is any indication of how she’d run the country, we are in trouble if she succeeds in stealing the nomination.
Saw these guys at Bogart’s in Cincy back when this was new. Drove up from Louisville with some debate buddies from UL. Great stuff:
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Nothing on the top but a bucket and a mop
And an illustrated book about birds
See a lot up there but don’t be scared
Who needs action when you got words
AG Marc Dann’s office doesn’t plan on going after Rush Limbaugh for convincing tons of Ohio Republicans to vote for Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primary.
“We have no intention of prosecuting Rush Limbaugh because lying through your teeth and being stupid isn’t a crime,” said Leo Jennings, a spokesman for Democratic Attorney General Marc Dann.
Just watching John Edwards speaking in Durham, North Carolina. Instead of endorsing one of the candidates like he should have done a long time ago, he instead said this: “we would be blessed as a nation to have either one of them as our president.”
Come on, John! Make a decision already. Neither of them is going to pick you as a running mate so quit stalling.
And if you really want to seem like you are politically relevant, you should pick Obama since polls indicate he going to win there big time:
Barack Obama (49%)
Hillary Clinton (34%)
Undecided (17%)
If you haven’t done so yet, make sure you go over to Women’s Voices Making History and vote for Ohio’s own Jill Miller Zimon (from WLST) as your favorite female blogger.
Come on @scottpullins. As a small business owner you must be getting gouged by your private health insurance provider? 3 hours ago
@ohiomatt Obama speaks at tiny venue and you claim small crowd is the result of his #hrc message? Correlation not causation, Matt. 14 hours ago
Congrats on the natl attn @ohiomatt, but your 'analysis' sure seems pretty anti-Obama, pro-GOP for the president of a *nonpartisan* org. 15 hours ago
RT @TavernWench: Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland @MSNBC: "Anyone who votes against this bill will regret it for the rest of their political lives." 23 hours ago
RT @delrayser: Not gonna set my clocks forward; I refuse to participate in this socialist Government TAKEOVER OF TIME. 2010/03/14
