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Here you go, SPK. Caucus thread would be great. How 'bout Obama?
Comment #1 Posted by: Tyler | January 4, 2008 12:17 PM
When I came home last night I got an excited phone call yelling OBAMA WON IOWA!! I missed seeing it on TV so I watched this video...and today I watched it again...it is powerful!
http://my.barackobama.com/iowaspeech
Dennis Kucinich advised his supporters that if he failed to garner enough backers in the first round of the Iowa caucuses, they should throw their support behind Sen. Barack Obama.
"I hope Iowans will caucus for me as their first choice, Kucinich said in a statement to the press. "But in those caucus locations where my support doesn't reach the necessary threshold, I strongly encourage all of my supporters to make Barack Obama their second choice. Sen. Obama and I have one thing in common: Change."
While Dennis Kucinich is my first choice, I am ready to root for Obama. And not just because we share Indonesian roots!
Comment #2 Posted by: Suza | January 4, 2008 07:07 PM
Friday night, 8 pm, Bill Moyer's Journal. I try never to miss it. Tonight discussing the Media and the Presidential Election, was the brilliant Kathleen Hall Jamieson, plus interviews with Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich. I was nodding off by the Kucinich appeared but, as soon as I saw the face of that bright soul, I woke right up. Kucinich is still the only candidate, far as I know, who comes right out and says that the prez and vice prez should be impeached for war crimes. He talked about how the Insurance Companies are steering the media coverage of the candidates... and the urgent need for media reform.
Having been rejected from the Desmoines Register debate before the Iowa caucuses and now the ABC News debate before New Hampshire, Kucinich told Moyer: "How can you have a debate if you don't have a voice that challenges all the others? "
Comment #3 Posted by: Suza | January 4, 2008 09:27 PM
The big winner in Iowa the other night was actually John Edwards. He came in second and beat Clinton even though he only spent 3 million to Obama's 9 million and Hillary's 7 million. Like Kucinich, the vast majority of funds for Edwards comes from $10 and $20 donations from individual citizens. In contrast, Hillary Clinton, the corporate lawyer, has raised millions and millions of dollars from corporate PACs and other large corporate donors. Unfortunately, the same can be said for Obama. Before Iowa, he was second on fund raising from corporations in the Democratic party after Clinton.
This political cycle is very different because of the huge 22 state primary that takes place on February 5th in which California is the 600 pound gorilla. Before that we have New Hampshire on the 8th and then Michigan(J 15th), Nevada(J 19th), South Carolina(J 26th), and Florida(J 29th). Of the primaries before California votes, only Michigan and Florida really matter. New Hampshire matters only because it is the first primary and the relentless corporate media will be eager to eliminate candidates so they don't have to spend any money covering them. In terms of delegates needed to actually clinch the nomination, NH is meaningless. However, the media will begin claiming that whoever wins the NH primary is THE candidate, and because the American electorate has been trained by years of television marketing to hate "losers", NH has the tendency of giving a large boost to whomever wins there. New Hampshire only has 30 delegates. By contrast, California has 441 delegates! Any candidate wishing to be the nominee for the Democratic Party needs at least 2,186 delegates to clinch. On February 5th, 22 states will vote for the nominee's of both parties: (in order of importance) California, New York, Illinois, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Georgia, Minnesota, Missouri, Tennessee, Colorado, Arizona, Connecticut, Alabama, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas, New Mexico, Utah, Delaware, Idaho, North Dakota and Alaska. Combined this is 2064 delegates. Adding the six states that vote before Feb. 5th, there will be 2604 delegates already pledged to candidates by the night of February 5th. That's enough to have a clear winner, but I seriously doubt any of the three top candidates on the Democratic side will clinch by then. In fact, it is entirely possible that we will have no clear nominee by the time the Democratic Convention rolls around this Summer.
I'll have predictions later...
Comment #4 Posted by: spk | January 5, 2008 11:32 AM
hallo
do you know maybe which company make the most cars in the world
greetings for all
http://dvdpeak.info/busty-milf/
Comment #5 Posted by: mincesetty | August 27, 2008 07:17 AM