Oh-eight (D): Trailing McCain
Posted: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 9:12 AM by Domenico Montanaro
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A new
Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll shows that the contentious Dem primary is taking a toll on Clinton and Obama, as McCain leads both in national match-ups (McCain 46%, Clinton 40%; McCain 44%, Obama 42%). "The survey showed that McCain's potential advantages extend even to domestic issues, where he is considered to be most vulnerable. Even though McCain has joked about his lack of expertise on economic issues, voters picked him over Obama, 42% to 34%, as being best able to handle the economy. However, Clinton led McCain on that issue, 43% to 34%."
CLINTON: McClatchy’s Lightman writes, “Bill Clinton has been spending a lot of time in small-town Ohio. He is heading to Rhode Island on Thursday. From there, he may head back to some of the lesser-known dots on Ohio's map, probably Marion or Mansfield. Is this any way for a campaign to use a former president of the United States? Sure, because it's a way to keep him out of the spotlight and still useful to his wife's White House bid. ‘The Clinton campaign is sending Bill to safe places, to small cities where a visit by a former president is a really big deal,’ said Darrell West, a professor of political science at Brown University in Providence, R.I.”
OBAMA: Per the AP, “Sen. Christopher Dodd endorsed one-time presidential rival Barack Obama on Tuesday and said it is time for Democrats to join forces to defeat the Republicans in the fall campaign. ‘I don't want a campaign that is divisive here, and there's a danger in that,’ Dodd said, although he denied he was nudging Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton to end her candidacy.”
Before the debate, Obama was calling for a more conciliatory tone in the primary, which, of course, benefits the front-runner.
Obama's hometown church is under investigation over whether they've crossed the political line in support of Obama.
The Boston Globe looks at how Obama's oratory has fueled his political career. "Not since the days of the whistle-stop tour and the radio addresses that Franklin D. Roosevelt used to hone his message while governor of New York has a presidential candidate been propelled so much by the force of words, according to historians and experts on rhetoric.
"Obama's emergence as the front-runner in the race for the Democratic nomination has become nearly as much a story of his speeches as of the candidate himself. He arrived on the national scene with his address to the 2004 Democratic convention, his campaign's key turning points have nearly all involved speeches, and his supporters are eager for his election-night remarks nearly as much as for the vote totals. But his success as a speaker has also invited a new line of attack by his opponents."
