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Wrong Track
The Democratic Daily Blog | 19 hours ago
The latest NEWSWEEK poll shows Obama opening up a double digit lead over John McCain and ”An astounding 86 percent of voters now say they are dissatisfied with the way things are going in the United States, while a mere 10 percent say they are read more
Christopher Buckley Voting for Obama
The Democratic Daily Blog | 21 hours ago
Christopher Buckley, son of William F. Buckley, announced today on his blog, The Daily Beast that he is voting for Barack Obama. Buckley said: Let me be the latest conservative/libertarian/whatever to leap onto the Barack Obama bandwagon. It’s a go read more
Palin Abused Powers
The Democratic Daily Blog | 21 hours ago
It’s official…. “A legislative investigation” in Alaska “has concluded that Gov. Sarah Palin abused her power in pushing for the firing of an Alaska state trooper who was once married to her sister, or by failing to prev read more
McCain Trading In His Character To Chase The News Cycle
The Democratic Daily Blog | October 10th 2008
That headline comes from a communications professional, Kimberly Krautter, publisher of The Body Politic. “When the chips are down for a candidate, he often cries foul when his opponent airs an ad that challenges his record and turns the candid read more
GOP Trainwreck Waiting to Happen
The Democratic Daily Blog | October 10th 2008
If the predictions are on the money, the signs are all there for a trainwreck for the GOP, come November… Chris Cillizza has pieced it all together on The Fix, noting “a column from Stu Rothenberg who, along with former Fix boss Charlie C read more
Biden Puts The Challenge Directly In McCain’s Face
The Democratic Daily Blog | October 9th 2008
“In my neighborhood, when you’ve got something to say to a guy, you look him in the eye and you say it to him.” – Sen. Joe Biden, quoted by NBC News, pressing Sen. Barack Obama’s challenge to Sen. John McCain for next we read more
The Latest Gallup Gives Obama 11 Point Lead
The Democratic Daily Blog | October 9th 2008
I haven’t posted about the Gallup Daily Poll in a while, and I thought it worth noting that today’s Gallup Poll Daily tracking report “shows Barack Obama maintaining a 52% to 41% lead over John McCain, unchanged from Wednesday̵ read more
McCain Calls Americans ‘My Fellow Prisoners’
The Democratic Daily Blog | October 8th 2008
What in the world was McCain doing here calling Americans ‘my fellow prisoners’: Is this who Americans really want to lead our nation? Talk about your “creepy Freudian” slip’s. Does John McCain want to put us all in jail read more
Undecided’s Say Obama Won The Debate and More
The Democratic Daily Blog | October 8th 2008
Democracy Corps had a focus group of undecided voters in Nevada watch last night’s debate: “Unlike the first debate, when Democracy Corps research showed half the voters remaining undecided and the two candidates splitting the other half, read more
Aggressive Debate And A Blizzard of Attacks
The Democratic Daily Blog | October 7th 2008
Maybe after I’ve had more time to think about this goddamn crap I’ll be able to give a better reading of the debate. Obviously both Obama and McCain were more aggressive. The constant contradictions of each other wore on me deeply. There read more
Who’s Calling Who Un-American?
The Democratic Daily Blog | October 7th 2008
John McCain and Sarah Palin have been busy in recent days trying to paint Barack Obama as un-American. But, according to David Talbot, it’s time to ask who’s calling who un-American: “The Palins’ un-American activities.” read more
I’ve Never Been As Sad About A Campaign
The Democratic Daily Blog | October 7th 2008
As most of you have picked up over the months I’ve been in campaigns one way or another since the mid-sixties. (Yes, that dates me a bit but I’m a lot younger than Clint Eastwood and I still wouldn’t tangle with him in a dark alley read more
Obama Revives Health Care Debate
The Democratic Daily Blog | October 5th 2008
Finally! I heard a report on NPR this morning and the Obama website confirms that the Democratic presidential campaign is going to ramp up efforts to discuss health care this week. Over the next week Sen. Obama will hold over two dozen events in read more
The McCain Tax
The Democratic Daily Blog | October 5th 2008
The ad says it all (via Time’s Real Clear Politics)… Tags: McCain, Real Clear Politics, Www Youtube read more
Sarah Palin Wins Debate–By darn
The Democratic Daily Blog | October 4th 2008
by Walter Brasch The vice-presidential debates proved one thing. At the very least, Sarah Palin can be trained. For several days, she had camped out in one of John McCain’s Arizona houses, where she underwent Debate Boot camp conducted by drill ins read more
Lost: The John McCain Episode
The Democratic Daily Blog | October 1st 2008
What the heck… John McCain got lost and could not find his way off the stage today: And then there’s this: Something just went wrong with McCain’s face on national TV. Isn’t it about time McCain came clean with his health reco read more
Senate to Vote Wednesday on Bail Out
The Democratic Daily Blog | October 1st 2008
Two days after the Bail Out Bill failed in the House, the Senate plans to vote on the “$700 billion bank rescue plan,” on Wednesday evening. The Senate Bill “adds new provisions - including raising the FDIC insurance cap to $250,000 read more
A Must Read Article About Leadership
The Democratic Daily Blog | September 30th 2008
Leadership has to be one of the key issues we face today as voters. Certainly most DemDaily readers are supporting Obama. There are some that do not. Here is the except of a very interesting Time magazine article about leadership and the reaction of read more
FINALLY! Now it’s a Recovery Plan
The Democratic Daily Blog | September 30th 2008
Gawddamn. After nearly two weeks of screwing the pooch, from a communications point of view, all the reporters today are using the ‘Recovery Plan’ language because the Leadership, as demonstrated by Senator Kerry this morning, in Congress read more
Banana Republic
The Democratic Daily Blog | September 29th 2008
There’s a lot of finger pointing going on in the wake of the Bail Out Bill failure in the House today (see Roll Call vote here). Barack Obama said today that “he believed Congress would ultimately pass a proposed $700 billion financial b read more
More on Last Night’s Debate After a Night’s Sleep
The Democratic Daily Blog | September 27th 2008
I am, by nature, an aggressive political speaker much like Joe Biden. [This is Video of a speech after the Republican Convention.] In a debate I take my opposition by the ankles and use them for a golf club if the facts are so completely on my side. read more
I’m Not Happy With This Debate…But It Was Acceptable
The Democratic Daily Blog | September 26th 2008
This is going to be very short. John McCain did better than I wanted. McCain was dismissive towards Obama. In several places McCain simply attacked Obama’s judgment and integrity. In the beginning Obama was tying McCain to Bush. Then he let h read more
Sometimes Photos Are Better Than Words
The Democratic Daily Blog | September 25th 2008
While these pics say as much as anything else, if you have watched the developments all day today you can only believe that both of these days are wandering in a daze. Bush sounded, as Chis Matthew said, unschooled and a little scary talking about pa read more
The Obama Address to the Clinton Global Initiative
The Democratic Daily Blog | September 25th 2008
At about 7:30am Pacific Barack Obama addressed the Clinton Global Initiative. After addressing his well known requirements of the financial bill being created in Washington D.C., he put forth other issues. He committed, again, to a $15 Billion invest read more
Letterman Thrashes McCain After McCain Cancels Appearance Then Sh…
The Democratic Daily Blog | September 25th 2008
David Letterman received a personal phone call from McCain explaining that he had cancel his scheduled appearance to rush to Washington to save the economy. Fine, that’s a reasonable excuse. Letterman was peeved at the whole thing and the begin read more
Hillary Clinton: “No Doubt” Obama Will Be Next President
The Democratic Daily Blog | September 23rd 2008
In an interview this morning on CBS’s “The Early Show,” Senator Hillary Clinton said “Barack Obama is going to be elected the next president and that she has “no doubt” about it.” Clinton also said that while read more
The Gay Man and the Senator
The Democratic Daily Blog | September 23rd 2008
A question from Michael Rogers: Which nominee for President of the United States is homophobic and has a gay chief of staff at his Senate office in Washington, DC? A. John McCain B. Barack Obama That’s right, McCain’s chief of staff, Mark read more
McCain Aide Schmidt Blasts New York Times on Conference Call and…
The Democratic Daily Blog | September 22nd 2008
McCain aide Rick Davis wasn’t too happy today about being called out by the NY Times, on his ties to Fannie & Freddie and particularly the role he “played in helping Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac beat back regulatory challenges when he s read more
About That Blank Check
The Democratic Daily Blog | September 22nd 2008
I spent the weekend preparing for my move cross country, which I have been alluding to here for a while. I will finally be posting about it later this week. What I can tell readers now, is that the planned move has arisen out of the financial crisis read more
The Unfinished Bail-Out Bill And Some History Of Another Crisis
The Democratic Daily Blog | September 21st 2008
First, this isn’t Bush’s plan. It’s the plan of experienced financial leadership, in government and mostly outside, of pretty realistic people trying to overcome the bullshit passed years ago that caused this mess. Bush couldn’ read more
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