Plunderbund

I saw this video last night over at Tim’s blog. It got a LOT of comments- be sure to check it out.
In short: two long-time Democratic women from Central Ohio go on O’Reilly and threaten to leave the party and vote for John McCain if the Democrats don’t choose Hillary as their nominee.
We […]

I know I’m a little late in posting this- but it still seems worth mentioning that no one but George Bush - a guy with no tact and even less class - would make a speech in Irsael using a story about the Nazis to attack a political opponent.

It looks like the Edwards endorsement is actually doing Obama some good.
Today he picked up the endorsement of the United Steelworkers of America…
When the presidential primary contests began last year, our Union felt strongly that because of Senator John Edwards’s deep commitment to working people and because of our shared beliefs, he deserved our […]

From the LA Times…
In a speech he’s about to give shortly at the Greater Columbus Convention Center in Ohio, Sen. John McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, will for the first time talk about a specific date for when he envisions direct American military involvement to be over in Iraq.
It’s January, 2013. By then, he […]

Wow! This one is a big surprise…
Democrat Barack Obama has won the endorsement of NARAL Pro-Choice America, a leading abortion rights advocacy organization that has supported rival Hillary Rodham Clinton throughout her political career.
Let’s hope this becomes a trend.

A new Quinnipiac poll has Obama beating McCain 47 - 40…
Either one of the two Democratic contenders, Illinois Sen. Barack Obama or New York Sen. Hillary Clinton, leads the likely Republican presidential nominee, Arizona Sen. John McCain, according to a Quinnipiac University national poll released today. Sen. Obama leads Sen. McCain 47 - 40 percent […]

I am really not looking forward to the next few weeks.
We know Hillary is going to win tonight in West Virginia- a state that is tailor-made for her: “The population is 97% white with the lowest percentage of college graduates of any state in the country.”
And, despite the fact that the victory will […]

Howard Wolfson, senior Clinton advisor, appeared on Fox News this Sunday and admitted that the campaign is $20 million in debt!
He also said: “There is no reason for her not to continue this process.”
NO REASON?
How about $20 MILLION in debt?

InTrade currently has shares of Barack Obama trading at 89.8!

That means real people, who are betting real money, are predicting 9/1 that Barack will be the winner of the Dem nomination this year.
And how good are InTrade’s traders are predicting the outcomes of political events?
According to ABC News “In 2004, the market odds on Intrade […]

According to politico undecided Ohio superdelegate Zack Space met with Barack Obama yesterday.
Obama also met with : Gabrielle Giffords (Ariz.), Dan Boren (Okla.), Mike McIntyre (N.C.), Melancon (La,), Tim Mahoney (Fla.) and Jim Costa (Calif.).
Afterward, Obama visited the House floor where he was mobbed by members from both sides of the aisle and even asked […]

Last month Rep. Tim Ryan threw his support behind Hillary Clinton.
But it looks like he might be changing his mind.
This morning, while discussing the results of yesterday’s primary elections, Ryan told CQ’s David Nather:
“I don’t know if the fat lady has sung yet, but she’s clearing her throat”

Hillary is moving the goal posts again- and lying to West Virginians in the process.
In a short speech in West Virginia today she called the WV primary “one of the most important elections in this entire process.”
Which, of course, is a load of crap. The nomination is typically wrapped up by the […]

In a speech today at Wake-Forest University, McCain “vowed to model his Supreme Court appointees after George W. Bush’s” - i.e. radical, right-wing judges who want to overturn Roe v. Wade and take away reproductive rights from America’s women.
McCain also attacked a 2005 Supreme Court decision that “barred capital punishment for murderers who were under […]

Indiana’a photo identification law isn’t just impacting minorities and elderly voters - it’s also causing nuns to turn away other nuns at the polls …
About 12 Indiana nuns were turned away Tuesday from a polling place by a fellow bride of Christ because they didn’t have state or federal identification bearing a photograph.
Sister Julie […]

According to The Hill:
An environmental activist group on Saturday cited the “sham” of a national gas tax holiday proposal in its endorsement of Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) for president.
Friends Of The Earth Action (FOEA) said the holiday idea proposed by fellow presidential contenders Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) was the […]