In light of this unbelievably stupid non-story, I would nevertheless like to inform my colleagues and LGM readers that on more than one occasion, I have devoted valuable classroom time to ridiculing the defensive skills of Derek Jeter and warning my students about the menace of robots. On those former occasions, it is quite probable […]
Tag: 2008 democratic primary
I recently said that one shouldn’t be too harsh on the Clinton campaign, but this may have been premature: Good lord, let’s see if I have this right. The Clinton campaign decides to cede every
To step back a bit from the radical uncertainty espoused in my last post, let me say that I strongly agree with Hilzoy, Peter, and Matt on this point; the fact that the Clinton campaign apparently did
Apparently, pledged delegates totals are illegitimate, because some states have open primaries. Consequently, it is the responsibility of the superdelegates to overturn the preferred pledged delegate candidate if another candidate wins the national popular vote among “self-identified Democrats.” When caucuses are excluded, Michigan and Florida included, and overall totals determined by evaluating exit poll data […]
I wish I was making this up, but: The inference is that by winning the small red states with caucuses, but not the big blue states like California and New York, Obama is likely to repeat McGovern̵
I would like to think that this is too obvious to need pointing out, but as Hilzoy and Cole note, the idea that there’s some nefarious sexism lurking in Obama’s boilerplate statement that
When Chris Dodd, Joe Biden, and Bill Richardson were still in the race, were they each listed as having one pledged superdelegate? I’ve got to assume that each was planning to vote for himself…
I think Josh and Markos get it about right about Mark Penn, Union Buster (TM). What’s amazing to me is that given his apparent willingness to leave pledged delegates on the table Penn’s ar
Just saw my first political ad of the season, 19 minutes into Lost. Clinton, positive, focusing on the economy and generally anti-corporate. Good ad, good for the Cincinnati area.
Shorter Mark Penn, Union Buster (TM): “The states that vote for Obama are insignificant. In fact, the only states that count are our home state, California, Texas, and states that held straw polls we can retrospectively claim to be primaries, preferably with the candidate who would be soundly beating us if any of his victories […]
Jerome Armstrong seems to think that even if Clinton doesn’t have the advantage right now, she’s still in pretty solid shape. Kos disagrees. By my own analysis, she looks to be in terrible
I think this correctly assesses the significance of Donna Edwards defeating Al Wynn in the primaries last night, with the caveat that I get the sense that Wynn and a lot of blue dogs aren’t so m