Time's analysis of the Clinton campaign failures. Personally, I always thought Barack was a better candidate, but for her cheif strategist to not actually understand how delegates are won? Gah! You can't win if you don't know the rules
Meant to link this yesterday, but as every other bugger has done it already I thought I might as well. Mark in 'state the obvious' shockâ”for a filthy Stopper trot he's quite switched on really.
I think Chris is right here, but not 100% sure, opinions? 'Conventional economics - which is distinct from plundering capitalism - can be the ally of environmentalists, not its opponent.'
10 reasons why Obama won from the BBC's US correspondent, they look about right to me. Point 10 is especially good, although I've not seen that series yet
A character based on a real person wins a TV election campaign, the real person borrows from the character and wins a real election campaign. Circularity headache time?
I am quite happy that Obama won the primary, but I do think that it will be a massive struggle for Obama to gain the White House. In fact, i think that although he may be the better of the two candidates he is the one who is the least likely to actually oust the Republican party.
CLinton and Obama split the party pretty badly, and a considerable number who voted for one will never vote for the other. This has meant that whoever won, the democrats were going to lose some of their own voters in the process. This is a major problem for Obama, as many of the states that he won (and that have won him the nomination) are states that are overwhelmingly republican. He will not even come close to winning the presidential vote in many of the states where he won the majority of delegates.
Manby of the states that Clinton won are naturally democrat states, or ones where the democrats are just ahead.
Obama therefore has a lot of work to do to try and win over Hilary supporters. If he fails it will be yet another four years of a republican president.
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I bought a political pin in porn shop while in Florida a few years back. It says "LICK BUSH". Maybe some large signs with the same sentiment would be very annoying?
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CLinton and Obama split the party pretty badly, and a considerable number who voted for one will never vote for the other. This has meant that whoever won, the democrats were going to lose some of their own voters in the process. This is a major problem for Obama, as many of the states that he won (and that have won him the nomination) are states that are overwhelmingly republican. He will not even come close to winning the presidential vote in many of the states where he won the majority of delegates.
Manby of the states that Clinton won are naturally democrat states, or ones where the democrats are just ahead.
Obama therefore has a lot of work to do to try and win over Hilary supporters. If he fails it will be yet another four years of a republican president.
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I bought a political pin in porn shop while in Florida a few years back. It says "LICK BUSH".
Maybe some large signs with the same sentiment would be very annoying?
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