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Domenico Montanaro, NBC Political Researcher



Obama up seven in NC

Posted: Thursday, May 01, 2008 5:39 PM by Domenico Montanaro
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From NBC's Domenico Montanaro
The second poll today is out showing Obama up just seven points in North Carolina, down from his double-digit leads leading up to the primary. (Mason-Dixon was the other).

A Research 2000 poll shows Obama with a 51%-44% lead. (The Mason-Dixon poll did not show him breaking 50%.) Just 3% said they were undecided. Looking inside the poll, Obama's lead is buffeted by his support among men, 56%-38% and is virtually tied among women, trailing 49%-47%.

Obama gets 30% of the white vote (66%-30%), higher than he got in South Carolina and other southern states, per exit polls. And he pulls similar figures among blacks as he has in other states, 88%-5%. The poll also indicates Obama needs to have a large turnout among younger voters. He gets trounced with the over-60 crowd, 59%-35%. He is virtually tied with the 45-49 group, 50%-46% for Clinton. He leads by wide margins with the under-50 groups: 30-44 (55%-40%); 18-29 (67%-29%).

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TO ALL THE OBAMA SUPPORTERS:

Since the media is refusing to reveal/report the Paul vs Clinton fraud case in court right now, we need to create our own movement and flood every blog on CNN and every blogging website on the World Wide Web with information from the case regardless of what the topic is. For those that don't know - Google Paul vs Clinton and hold on to your shirt with what you read!!

OBAMANACS UNITE!!! LET'S DO THIS!!
drip drip drip...
Looks like Clinton is closing in to Obama NC.

Prediction: Obama to win by 3% in NC.

What an upset that would be!!!
OH MY GOD...THIS VIDEO COULD DESTROY THE CLINON CAMPAIGN..PLEASE HAVE THE COURAGE TO GET THIS ON TV TONIGHT...SOMEBODY PLEASE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-MzByUHIzw&feature=email
Domenico: If you are getting your information form realclearpolitis.com...and I would bet money you are...than why not mention the Insider Advantage poll that shows Hillary up in North Carolina? Very curious...well not really if infact I am right and you too are pulling for Obama. This post along with the Filly post would suggest you are.
yep, he definitely has a problem with that over 60 "working class" crowd.
What do you expect his numbers to do when the GOP operative Hillary Clinton is doing everything she can to ensure the Democrats lose in November.

Hillary Clinton: No Class, No Morals, and No Chance.
North Carolinians are too smart for the Clintonian panderama.
He has'nt come out with his new ad yet. Have faith Obama supporters.

Our concern over the May 6th primaries is baseless, really. It's just that we know the media, and the Clinton campaign will spin for Hillary, regardless of the outcome. Let's keep our eyes on the prize. All that matters is the delegate count.

The Clinton lie about the China factory buy out, may gain some traction yet.
el'wrong oh' MSNBC...it's a "TIE" and Clinton is starting to "surge".YOU"LL see...you will see.Don't want to say told ou so.
Hillary will lead us again to another war with Iran just like her vote on the IRAQ war. We cannot afford another four years of a McCain-Clinton policy.
Breaking: Senior Clinton Aide Caught Distributing Anti-Obama Smears: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-dreier/sidney-blumenthal-uses-fo_b_99695.html
No matter what the corporate controlled MSM attempts we will prevail.
Next will be the rolling "Blue Monday" program for voter awareness.
Participate!
Educate!
The only poll that ultimately counts is on Tuesday.
After the Wright fiasco this week with wall to wall coverage of it in the media, if Obama wins North Carolina by 1 vote than the media should consider it a WIN.  

However, I think this poll is underestimating the African-American turn out at 32%.  According to Rasmussen the early voters were around 38%.  I expect there to be a high 30% black turn out.

I think Obama will win the state by 5-12%.  The Obama campaign need to spin NOW that that a single digit win is a WIN after Obama's worse span of his candidacy so far.
He is being set up to win North Carolina.  There are still several days left until this state votes and every poll is favorable for Obama to win.  If the numbers that report are better than that of south carolina, it would be safe to bet that he will likely win with the same or greater margins in North Carolina
As HRC said about PA, "a win's a win!"

YES WE CAN!! OBAMA '08!
To The Producers of MSNBC the news network. I find it shameful that every other sentence out of the mouths of your So called reporters is Pastor Wright, If not for Keith Obierman and wow I cant believe I am saying this Dan Abrams I would think I was listening to the Fix,Fox,Fux news network. I think that you should be fair brokers of the News,Not Political Voices for the Clinton Campaign. Free the press stop giving Hillary a free ride. Dont be so slanted against Obama it is showing.
If Obama has a 18% lead among men and is nearly tied among women, how does he not have a double-digit lead overall?
To the poor souls who keep asking why the media ignore the Paul v Clinton case: THE CASE AGAINST HILLARY CLINTON WAS DISMISSED BY THE CALIFORNIA COURT AND AFFIRMED BY THE COURT OF APPEALS!  ALSO, THE FEC CLEARED THE CLINTONS OF WRONGDOING.  BILL AND A HOST OF OTHERS ARE NOW LISTED AS DEFENDANTS - BUT THE COURT DISMISSED ALL OF THE ELECTION "FRAUD" CLAIMS AND IT IS NOW BASICALLY A CONTRACT DISPUTE!  GOOD GRIEF PEOPLE.  LEARN HOW TO DO RESEARCH.
If we are going to hold Sen Obama for sitting in his church for 20yrs under Rev. Wright, remind you Sen Obama did not do, say, or act in a manner of Rev. Wright, then we have to hold Sen McCain and Sen Clinton accountable for a war that should of never been that killed over 4,000 troops.  The word that were said by Rev Wright not Sen Obama offended people but the lives lost from a war that should of never been will last a life time of people that lost their loved ones.  We stay on the Rev. Wright subject of words that Sen Obama has never uttered and we over look those that voted for a war that lost lives that should not have been lost.  Where has our thinking gone.  It is funny people say I do not want to vote for Obama because he sat in a church for 20yrs and listen to rev. Wright but I want to vote for the person who sent our children to war that should of never been and killed 4,00 troops for no reason and voted for the policies that sent this country into recession and now want to change those thoughts because they want to win votes to become president.  I do not want to vote for Obama because he tells the trith and Sen Clinton and McCain lie to us to put us in a worse postition then we are today.  Yeah that sounds good to you, yeah right.  Let's get off the stupid pill and get real.  The gas holiday tax what did I hear the experts say Sen Obama got it right?  Sounds like the Iraq War he had that right also.  Let's not be stupid Sen Obama has the coutries best interest in mind over the other candidates.  He is not out there trying to fake like he knows how to pump gas and pour coffee because he knows how to do it.  Sen Clinton proved she is elites couldn't pump gas and couldn't work a coffee machine.      
do not worry. despite all such attacks, obama is till leading. the dirty clinton tactics have fallen. God hears prayer...

Obama 08
How sad.  The man who professes an end to the racial divide has the support of almost every black in NC, solely because he is black.  When will black racism end?
Here is how to win a U.S. Presidential election in four easy steps:

1. Register as a Republican and tell the wealthy they will continue to get wealthy.

2. Register as a Democrat and pander to your audience.

3. Register as an Independant and tell the truth.

4. Go state to state, debate yourself and who ever believes you will vote for you!

You can't loose!!!!

Geoff
Go Barack! Keep focusing on the issues, the American people are ready for a CHANGE!

Obama '08

Obama Distorted Rev. Wright's Background

In an interview with Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday, Barack Obama again fabricated the background of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright to try to excuse his longtime pastor’s denunciations of America and of whites.

Referring to racial discrimination, violence, and segregation, Obama said Wright “went through experiences that I never went through.”

In his speech on race in Philadelphia, Obama made similar claims. He described a “lack of economic opportunity among black men, and the shame and frustration that came from not being able to provide for one’s family . . .”

Obama said this was “the reality in which Reverend Wright and other African-Americans of his generation grew up . . . For the men and women of Reverend Wright’s generation, the memories of humiliation and doubt and fear have not gone away; nor has the anger and the bitterness of those years.”

But as detailed in an April 13 Newsman article, “Obama’s Rev. Wright Mythology,” Obama’s characterization of his mentor’s upbringing is untrue.

Wright grew up in a racially mixed, middle-class section of Philadelphia called Germantown, which consisted of homes on broad tree-lined streets. Both his parents had good jobs: His father was a pastor; his mother was vice principal of Philadelphia High School for Girls.

Wright was privileged to attend the elite Central High School, which admits only the most highly-qualified applicants from all over the city. When Wright attended Central High, the student body was 90 percent white, according to students who attended at around the same time.

Wright’s classmates clearly respected him. The 211th class yearbook described him as the “epitome of what Central endeavors to imbue in its students.”

In contrast to Wright, Bill Cosby, who also attended Central High, has denounced the black culture of victimhood that Wright has promoted in his sermons, a culture that Cosby says sets up blacks for failure.
Since the Newsmax story on Wright’s background ran, only Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly has picked up on the fact that Obama’s characterization of his preacher’s upbringing is fiction.

Meanwhile, the coverage resurgence of Wright over the weekend spotlights the fact that, by suppressing any mention of Wright until mid-March, the media in effect selected Obama as the Democrats’ nominee.
Wright appeared in a Bill Moyers interview on Friday, gave a talk to the NAACP in Detroit on Sunday, and spoke to the National Press Club this morning. As a result, clips of Wright denouncing America and claiming the country introduced the AIDS virus to kill off blacks have been blanketing the airwaves.

Moreover, at the NAACP, Wright in effect ratified the black culture of failure by saying African-Americans’ brains are different than those of whites: If they speak differently from whites, they are not wrong — just different, he said, implying that they should not be corrected.

If the Obama-loving media had picked up on stories that Newsmax started running in January before the primaries began about Obama and his relationship with his pastor, Hillary Clinton undoubtedly would be ahead today in delegates and votes.

After the media finally ran the stories, Obama’s double-digit lead over Clinton in national polls vanished. At the same time, John McCain shot up in the polls.

As Ken Blackwell, a black columnist, recently wrote, the media have covered Obama “as if he were in a beauty pageant.” In doing so, they have done a disservice to Democrats by not telling the truth about Obama and his pastor until most of the primaries were over.

By not reporting how Obama is using bogus claims about Wright’s upbringing to excuse his “God damn America” tirades, the media are continuing the coverup.
I just have one question for Obama...Where is the man in the big yellow hat?
Facts are a stubborn thing.  Obama cannot close his 20 year old relationship with Wright because there is so much video evidence against it.  On the TV program THE VIEW, Obama declared that Reverend Wright accepted that his view were inappropriate and mischaracterized.   That it had offended many people.  Then weeks later Wright goes on a national Hate America Press Tour?  This was a blatant lie.  Or worse, Obama was fooled by Wright which is kind of scary.  That a possible next president can be played by a character such as Wright.  Check the video evidence yourselves.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6J7yJ9R5p0
MSNBC if this was from Obama camp, you'll cover it.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-MzByUHIzw&feature=email
HERE is some the article on the PAUL vs CLINTON case mentioned above:

"The Case Management Conference hearing in Paul vs Clinton et al on February 21, in Los Angeles Superior Court will finally set a trial date in the long delayed civil fraud case and it will set a schedule for discovery that will include the sworn depositions of the entire Clinton family and the Clinton hierarchy of the Democratic Party.

A trial was set for March 2007, but it was delayed due to an appeal of a lower-court's decision to dismiss Sen. Clinton as a defendant. The California Supreme Court upheld the decision, but Sen. Clinton, nevertheless, will be required to testify under oath along with her husband as  material witnesses.

Seven years ago Peter Paul began whistleblowing to the government and alerting the media of numerous illegalities committed by Hillary and Bill Clinton in order to win Hillary’s first election to public office.

The multi-million dollar donor to Hillary’s Senate campaign that caused Hillary’s finance director to be indicted and tried in May, 2005, for hiding his contributions, and whose complaint to the FEC resulted in a finding that Hillary’s campaign broke the law resulting in the only FEC fine imposed against Hillary’s campaign, will begin the discovery process leading to a trial in Los Angeles later this year of the Clintons and others for destroying Paul’s public company......

Paul’s allegations that his $1.2 million in donations were hidden by Hillary’s campaign have been corroborated by the Justice Department, FBI and FEC General Counsel- while the lying has been done by the Clinton appointed Judge in the Rosen trial, Hillary’s lawyer David Kendall has maintained Hillary’s campaign filed accurate reports until the campaign admitted hiding more than $720,000, and her lawyer Lyn Utrecht in false statements made to the FEC General Counsel denying Paul’s contribution of $1.

In May 2005, Sen. Clinton's former finance director, David Rosen, was acquitted for filing false campaign reports that later were charged by the FEC to treasurer Andrew Grossman, who accepted responsibility in the conciliation agreement. Paul points out the Rosen trial established his contention that he personally gave more than $1.2 million to Clinton's campaign for the fundraiser that his contributions intentionally were hidden from the public and the FEC.

Witnesses to be deposed include former President Bill Clinton, Chelsea Clinton, former Vice President Al Gore, Gov. Ed Rendell, Kelly Craighead, Howard Wolfson, Terry McAuliffe, and a host of A list Hollywood celebrities including, Barbra Streisand, John Travolta, Olivia Newton John, Brad Pitt, and Cher.

The case is the subject of a video documentary largely comprised of intimate "home movies" of Hillary Clinton and her Hollywood supporters captured by Paul during the period.

The cover-up of the largest campaign finance fraud in U.S. history will soon be exposed.



The lawsuit claims that Peter Paul was fraundulenty induced to make a 1.2 million in-kind contribution to Senator Hillary Clinton's 2000 senate campaign in exchange for former President Bill Clinton to be a rainmaker for this company once he left the White House.  Paul claims that former President Clinton backed out of the $17 million deal, and his company collapsed.

Team Billary has no shame. She'll make a deal with Satan if it would win her the nomination.
Malarky, First Read

The RPC polls which averages several of the most recent polls has him up by twelve.

You guys suck for Clinton--don't you
To Henry and Elliot you are one and the same. A hillary loss is a loss.She cant afford that she nneds to win every race here out by 70% to 30% and no matter how hard the media tries to help her. That just aint going to happen. By the way for you to call Mr Domineco Montanaro an Obama supporter is unreal. He can tell you if he took the time that I call him an Hillary supporter all of the time. Because if you follow his reports they slant in Hillarys favor most of the time. So that one I will stand up for him and say that is false. Mr Montanaro is not an Obama supporter.M R that was deep it shows what the Clinton Campaign truly think of it's supporters.  Yup this wont be posted either.
Polls change.  Obama still leads in states, votes, and delegates.  He is currently getting more supers almost daily.  He is right about this travesty of a gas tax holiday.  I'm voting for Obama in Nov., even if I have to write his name in.  After the abuse from Hillaryites, I'm no longer willing to vote for her if she gets the nom.  I'm fed up with being insulted.  I don't want her mandates or her poor economic sense.  I bitterly resent her vote for the Iraq "war," and her idea of nuclear obliteration.  Most of all, I resent her changing the rules when convenient and the abusive nature of her supporters.  Obama has been a gentleman and not thrown the Clinton dirt.  If the Democratic Party allows this farce, after 50 years as a Dem, I'll leave the party without a backward glance.  The ONLY candidate worth a damn here is Obama.  And no, I don't wear birkenstocks or drink lattes.  I'm just an older, disabled white woman who is bitter about preemptive war, a failing economy, arrogant government, and the other status quo trash we've been subjected to.
This is a post I put out as a blog two days ago and STILL NO NETWORK COVERAGE- WE ALL NEED TO GET ON THE STICK AND SCREAM TO THE NETWORKS NOW. Someone must be covering up this story. Have the Clintons got to the judges??

A blog has just exploded on several sites that a judge has posponed a case of fraud testimony in which Hillary wont have to testify until AFTER NOVember - Is it possible if she is the nominee for President she will be embroiled in a pretty heavy court case just as she becomes President - why no network coverage on this -

Why is it that the mainstream media has not published even a whisper about tis civil trial going on NOW in Los Angeles Superior Court? Why did Judge Munoz arbitrarily delay the sowrn deposition for Hillary Clinton until AFTER the November elections? Who runs the media in this country?

In the landmark civil fraud case against Bill Clinton in Los Angeles, where the former President is charged with defrauding a Hollywood dot com millionaire to help Hillary Clinton obtain more than $1.2 million from him for her 2000 Senate campaign, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Aurelio Munoz ruled on April 25 that Hillary Clinton would not be required to testify in a sworn deposition as a material witness in the case until after the November election!

While Bill Clinton, Chelsea Clinton, Al Gore, Ed Rendell, among others may be called to testify and be deposed starting in May, Hillary alone has been protected from explaining her role in her husband’s fraud charges. In an astonishing ruling by the Judge, Hillary Clinton may not be deposed about her role in the illegal solicitation and cover up of the largest contribution made to her Senate campaign until after the presidential election. The decision to shield Hillary Clinton from civil discovery for an additional seven months, thereby delaying a long postponed trial, was made by the judge on his own, without any request by Hillary or her lawyer to make the ruling.

Had Senator Clinton be forced to testify under oath, as a material witness and beneficiary of the fraud that her husband is being sued for before the Democratic Convention, her remote chances for being nominated the party candidate would have been unquestionably destroyed.
THIS IS INCREDIBLE!

IT WILL KILL HILLARY IN INDIANA!

IT IS ALL OVER YOUTUBE!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-MzByUHIzw&feature=email
Gee, that guy on you tube from Hillary's campaign stating that, Indiana those people are S&*T? Looks like Rove's cousin!
Actually this lead is larger then it was just a couple of days ago!  Looks like Obama is actually gaining ground back!
Poll Data from RPC.

So why not show this Data First Read

Poll Date Sample Obama Clinton Spread
RCP Average 04/10 - 04/27 - 49.8 37.5 Obama +12.3

PPP (D) 04/26 - 04/27 1121 LV 51 39 Obama +12.0
SurveyUSA 04/19 - 04/21 734 LV 50 41 Obama +9.0
InsiderAdvantage 04/14 - 04/14 541 LV 51 36 Obama +15.0
LA Times/Bloomberg 04/10 - 04/14 691 LV 47 34 Obama +13.0
See All North Carolina Democratic Primary Polling Data




Recent Commentary & News Stories
- Questions for Obama - George Will, Newsweek
- I Too Have Eaten Dinner at Bill Ayers's House - Stanley Fish, NY Times
- Dems Can Turn Stalemate Into Victory - Doug Schoen, Star-Ledger
- Obama-Clinton: A Dream Ticket for McCain - Peter Brown, WSJ
- Obama-Clinton Battle Will Haunt Nominee - Kevin Hassett, Bloomberg

See All North Carolina Democratic Primary Commentary & News Stories


Polling Data
Poll Date Sample Obama Clinton Spread
RCP Average 04/10 - 04/27 - 49.8 37.5 Obama +12.3
ARG* 04/26 - 04/27 600 LV 52 42 Obama +10.0
PPP (D) 04/26 - 04/27 1121 LV 51 39 Obama +12.0
SurveyUSA 04/19 - 04/21 734 LV 50 41 Obama +9.0
PPP (D) 04/19 - 04/20 962 LV 57 32 Obama +25.0
ARG* 04/14 - 04/15 600 LV 52 41 Obama +11.0
InsiderAdvantage 04/14 - 04/14 541 LV 51 36 Obama +15.0
LA Times/Bloomberg 04/10 - 04/14 691 LV 47 34 Obama +13.0
PPP (D) 04/12 - 04/13 538 LV 54 34 Obama +20.0
Civitas/TelOpn (R)* 04/09 - 04/10 800 LV 45 27 Obama +18.0
SurveyUSA 04/05 - 04/07 725 LV 49 39 Obama +10.0
PPP (D) 04/05 - 04/06 928 LV 54 33 Obama +21.0
Rasmussen 04/03 - 04/03 704 LV 56 33 Obama +23.0
Observer/WCNC 03/29 - 04/01 400 LV 35 26 Obama +9.0
PPP (D) 03/29 - 03/30 1100 LV 54 36 Obama +18.0
ARG* 03/29 - 03/29 600 LV 51 38 Obama +13.0
InsiderAdvantage 03/26 - 03/26 406 LV 49 34 Obama +15.0
PPP (D) 03/24 - 03/24 673 LV 55 34 Obama +21.0
PPP (D) 03/17 - 03/17 521 LV 44 43 Obama +1.0
SurveyUSA 03/08 - 03/10 713 LV 49 41 Obama +8.0
Rasmussen 03/06 - 03/06 716 LV 47 40 Obama +7.0
PPP (D) 03/03 - 03/03 508 LV 47 43 Obama +4.0
Civitas/TelOpn (R)* 02/19 - 02/22 400 LV 38 24 Obama +14.0
Elon College 02/18 - 02/21 307 LV 45 31 Obama +14.0
SurveyUSA 02/11 - 02/11 580 LV 50 40 Obama +10.0
Civitas/TelOpn (R)* 01/20 - 01/21 RV 29 28 Obama +1.0
Public Policy Polling 12/03 - 12/03 676 LV 24 31 Clinton +7.0
Public Policy Polling 11/05 - 11/05 679 LV 21 30 Clinton +9.0
SurveyUSA 11/02 - 11/05 580 LV 19 43 Clinton +24.0
Public Policy Polling 10/03 - 10/03 621 LV 20 32 Clinton +12.0
Elon College 09/24 - 09/27 246 LV 18 37 Clinton +19.0
Public Policy Polling (D) 09/05 - 09/05 451 LV 21 30 Clinton +9.0
Public Policy Polling (D) 08/01 - 08/02 659 LV 23 29 Clinton +6.0
Public Policy Polling (D) 07/02 - 07/02 629 LV 27 27 Tie
Public Policy Polling (D) 06/04 - 06/04 593 LV 22 26 Clinton +4.0
Public Policy Polling (D) 05/01 - 05/03 572 V 20 27 Clinton +7.0




All Commentary & News Stories
- Questions for Obama - George Will, Newsweek
- I Too Have Eaten Dinner at Bill Ayers's House - Stanley Fish, NY Times
- Dems Can Turn Stalemate Into Victory - Doug Schoen, Star-Ledger
- Obama-Clinton: A Dream Ticket for McCain - Peter Brown, WSJ
- Obama-Clinton Battle Will Haunt Nominee - Kevin Hassett, Bloomberg
- Recovering America's Secular Conscience - Austin Dacey, USA Today
- Obama Refocuses Appeal in Indiana - Nick Timiraos, Wall Street Journal
- My Advice for Senator Obama - Karl Rove, Newsweek
- Clinton Cynically Turns to Race Argument - Gary Younge, The Guardian
- Hillary Gets No Respect - William Kristol, New York Times
- Clinton, Obama & the 'Tragedy of the Commons' - Shankar Vedantam, WP
- McCain Running Strong Despite Disadvantages - Susan Page, USA Today
- McCain is Bush Made Permanent - Paul Krugman, New York Times
- Hillary Shows McCain How to Beat Obama - Reihan Salam, Wkly Standard
- The End of the Age of Reagan - Sean Wilentz, The New Republic
- Social Conservatives Still a Political Force - JC Watts, LV Review-Journal
- Bill vs. Barack - Ryan Lizza, The New Yorker
- Bill Clinton May Be Biggest Loser of Campaign - Al Hunt, Bloomberg
- Questions for the Candidates - Los Angeles Times
- On Foreign Policy, It's McCain vs. McCain - Fareed Zakaria, Newsweek
- Is Obama Carter's Heir? - Matthew Continetti, Weekly Standard
- Hard to Believe Dems Could Lose - Dick Polman, Philadelphia Inquirer
- How McCain Lost in Pennsylvania - Frank Rich, New York Times
- Clinton Risks Rift With Democrats - Sarah Baxter, Sunday Times
- Obama's Race Talk Off Point - Michael Goodwin, New York Daily News
- Is the 'Other' Tag a Problem? - Thomas, Bailey, and Wolffe, Newsweek
- Obama's 'Mainstream' Friends - Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe
- Bowling 1, Health Care 0 - Elizabeth Edwards, New York Times
- Voters Will Fall Into (Party) Line - Ann McFeatters, Boston Herald
- Primary Showed Race Still Matters - Philadelphia Inquirer
- Obama Needs to Stand Tall in This Chaos - Bob Herbert, New York Times
- Popular Vote Claim Gives Clinton Edge - Michael Barone, US News & WR
- Why Clinton and Obama Are Electable - John Dickerson, Slate
- Will the Real Obama Please Stand Up? - Fred Barnes, Weekly Standard
- McCain Tightropes On Bush's Legacy - Ronald Brownstein, National Journal
- McCain's Money Mess - Robert Novak, Chicago Sun-Times
- Obama Got an Unfair Shake in PA - Colbert King, Washington Post
- Calling Attention to Wright is Not Racist - Peter Wehner, National Review
- Embracing Obama's Inner Partisan - John Heilemann, NY Magazine
- Pres Election Crucial for Hoyer, Dem Congress - Kimberly Strassel, WSJ
- Static Obama Needs a Bolt of Energy - Michael Tomasky, The Guardian
- The South Won and Ruined America - Michael Hirsh, Newsweek
- Contrarian McCain - Los Angeles Times
- The Shameful, Race-Baiting Ad - New York Times
- Holding Clinton to a Different Standard - Geoff Garin, Washington Post
- McCain Showed Courage This Week - Dominic Lawson, The Independent
- McCain's Week of Photo Ops - Michael Scherer, Time
- Wright Still Wrong For Obama - Rick Klein & Mike Elmore, ABC News
- America Is Fed Up With Bush - Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal
- Dems Squandering Chance of a Lifetime? - Gerard Baker, Times of London
- Cheer Up Dems! Party Is In Great Shape For Nov. - Alan Abramowitz, TNR
- Dems Always Seem to Find Way Not to Win - Robert Stacey, Charlotte Obsvr
- Obama's Revealing 'Distractions' - Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post
- Seven Ways to Fix Obama's Image Problem - Howard Fineman, Newsweek
- Judgment, Character Are Paramount - Stuart Taylor, National Journal
- Media Jump Ship From Obama To Clinton - Tom Edsall, Huffington Post
- How To Manufacture a Popular Vote Victory - Steve Kornacki, NY Observer
- A Surprise in Central Pennsylvania - Jay Cost, RealClearPolitics
- Pennsylvania Fault Lines - E.J. Dionne, Washington Post
- McCain's Turning Point - Linda Douglass, National Journal
- Bitter Politics - The Nation
- Dems Should Win, Obama Could Blow It - Pat Buchanan, Pitt Trib-Review
- Democrats' Self-Inflicted Confusion - Paul Krugman, New York Times
- McCain's Campaign Finance Revelation - Kimberly Strassel, WSJ
- White Males Aren't Feeling the Love - Kathleen Parker, RealClearPolitics
- Wounded Obama Needs to End This - Mort Kondracke, Roll Call
- Hillary Won't Be the Nominee - Daniel Henninger, Wall Street Journal
- A Plague on Both Houses - Howard Kurtz, Washington Post
- Obama Needs to Get off His Pedestal - Joan Walsh, Salon
- The Growing Obama-Unelectable Myth - Jonathan Chait, New Republic
- The Real Bill Ayers Problem - Sol Stern, City Journal
- McCain Appealing to Non-Partisans - Matt Bai, New York Times
- A Pennsylvania Primary Follow-Up - Rep. Rahm Emanuel, Charlie Rose Show
- Easing Clinton Out the Door - Thomas Schaller, Baltimore Sun
- Obama's Clear Weakness Against McCain - Lanny Davis, Huffington Post
- Deepening Democratic Dilemma - Robert Novak, Chicago Sun-Times
- McCain Cannot Ignore Bush's Shadow - Ron Klain, New York Times
- Is Obama Ready for Prime Time? - Karl Rove, Wall Street Journal
- Small Politics of Campaign Drags Obama Down - Joe Klein, Time
- Why Shouldn't Bin Laden Be an Issue? - Froma Harrop, RealClearPolitics
- Hillary Just Can't See That It's Over - Toby Harnden, Daily Telegraph
- What If She Wins the Popular Vote? - Michael Barone, US News & WR
- It's Time for Dems to Recruit Al Gore - Steven Stark, Boston Phoenix
- Superdelegates' Superdilemma - Christian Science Monitor
- A Revealing Battle - New York Post
- Candidates on Equal Footing in Indiana - Jonathan Martin, The Politico
- Clinton Says Tide is Turning - Michael Luo & Patrick Healy, New York Times
- The Race Hasn't Moved One Bit - Amy Walter, National Journal
- All Eyes Turn to a Repeat in Indiana... - Victor Davis Hanson, NRO
- Why Hillary Makes My Wife Scream - Tom Hayden, The Nation
- McCain's Anger Management - Michael Gerson, Washington Post
- The Democrats' Quagmire - Philip Klein, The American Spectator
- Ayers, Obama & McCarthyism - Hendrik Hertzberg, The New Yorker
- Whole Wide World Wants Obama - Beth Arnold, Huffington Post
- Obama Can't Close the Deal - Walter Shapiro, Salon
- A Lot Happened but Little Has Changed - Marc Ambinder, The Atlantic
- Always Take the Clintons Seriously - John Hood, National Review Online
- Hillary Clinton's Resilience - Matthew Rothschild, The Progressive
- Clinton Threatening to Tear the Party Apart? - David Corn, Mother Jones
- The Friends of Barack Obama, Part I - Paul Mirengoff, Power Line


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TO ALL THE OBAMA SUPPORTERS - ESPECIALLY SUPPORTERS IN INDIANA AND NO. CAROLINA -

Since the media is refusing to reveal/report the Paul vs Clinton fraud case in court right now, we need to create our own movement and flood every blog on CNN and every blogging website on the World Wide Web with information from the case regardless of what the topic is. For those that don't know - Google Paul vs Clinton and hold on to your shirt with what you read!!

OBAMANACS UNITE!!! LET'S DO THIS!!

HILLARY IS NOT ELECTABLE.

http://www.paulvclinton.com/pp_complaint_022504_njw.pdf
If Obama wins NC by 7, then he will have weathered the storm.  He will have held serve and the nomination battle will essentially be over.  The superdelegate trickle for Obama will turn into a flood.  
Anyone that can't work a coffee machine in a gas station does not identify with the working class.

New York Times: HIllary will save money be cutting Medicare and Medicaid!

Barbara, a Clinton friend, was on speaker committee of press club that asked Jeremiah Wright to speak
I don't care how many debates there have been, Obama needs to stop being a big baby and do more. Voters need to see what he's made of. No prepared speeches, just debate. At the very least, he needs to be interviewed by someone who will ask him the same questions that were asked of Sen. Clinton. He's hiding, folks. What a wuss.
Anybody who thinks Obama will lose North Carolina doesn't know the state very well.  The Clintons can't win the nomination.  Their goal now seems to be to destroy Obama so they can run again for their 3rd term in 2012.
DEMBO ALERT!!!!! For those of you who don't know, DEMBO stands for Democratic Media Blackout.  It is a movement committed to damaging the ratings of cable networks and ultimately hurt their revenue.  Our membership base has grown to 4,098,230 since March 2008 and we continue to grow each day.  Unless we take a stand the MSM will continue to dictate the race by smearing our candidates. For example, it is clear that the voters are not concerned with Rev. Wright.  If they were they would ask him questions while he is on the campaign.  That rarely happens.  CNN did a survey and 73% said they are fed up with news on Rev. Wright.  Yet they continue to make news out of nothing.  This is because they are trying to stir up controversy and dictate the outcome of the NC and IN primaries.  Join us, by utilizing the Internet and/or local news for political information.  This is what's known as a partial DEMBO. DO NOT WATCH CABLE NEWS (MSNBC, CNN, FORXNEWS, HEADLINE NEWS.....).  This is especially important for the nights of the results.  Please research how ratings affect’s the revenue.  Exercise your right to know.
Getting closer. It's all over for Obama when NC falls.
It's time for Joe Scarborough to go!  I used to like his morning show, but he is beating a dead horse and is showinsg an anti obama agenda.   I guess I'll go back to CSPAN in the morning and turn off Gregory's show in the afternoon so I don't have to hear him repeat the same garbage.  SORRY, JOE IT IS YOU THAT IS ELITIST AND OUT OF TOUCH-WE DON'T CARE ABOUT THIS WRIGHT.  Guilt by association politics goes both ways; when are you going to go after Clinton, she has 30 years of left wing commie associations.
TUNING OUT JOE FOR GOOD UNTIL YOU SHUT UP!
DRIP, DRIP, DRIP The real Obama is emerging and we have only seen the tip of the iceburg!!!!
Do not trust that poll. North Carolina has early voting. Trust me Obama is doing fine here. She can't catch him. And as soon as he wins North Carolina and Indiana, this thing ends. The only reason this thing has gone on this long is because free Billy won't let it end. In his mind he would never lose to Obama. He isn't trying to let that happen to his wife. However, the damage has been done.Rassln' vernac!
BREAKING NEWS!!!!

The Huffington Post is reporting that Clinton segrogate Sidney Blumenthal uses former right-wing foes to attack Sen. Obama on the behave of Sen. Clinton. This is huge and I hope the MSM, MSNBC, & CNN reports this!

Here's the link.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-dreier/sidney-blumenthal-uses-fo_b_99695.html

This is just a long list of just how dirty Hilary Clinton has become.
When will MSM,MSNBC start talking about the lawsuit by Peter Paul's fraud case against the Clintons filed in California. This has the protential to bring her down and no one is discussing it! This is being talked about on radio shows like Ed Shultz and Randi Rhodes. People are pleading that MSM talk about this potentially damaging story regarding The Clintons. Come on Chuck, tell your boss Mr. Russert to stop avoiding this story and start talking about it!

MR, that is similar to Hillary's saying "screw 'em" about white working class Southerners who didn't vote for Clinton.
Every Indianan should see it.
Checfk outb the Republican Roots youtube video related to yours.
Laura, that is what Hillary is all about.


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