Super Tuesday Eve Roundup
Here's a quick rundown on all the news nuggets that are floating around on the eve of the biggie tomorrow:
* Hillary only raised $13.5 million in January -- a good deal less than the $32 million Obama raised in the same month.
* Hillary pollster Mark Penn predicts that she'll be ahead of Obama in delegates after tomorrow -- but echoes the Obama camp's spin that this is all about the long haul.
* The anti-McCain movement among conservatives continues to rage.
* Bob Dole tells Rush that McCain is as conservative as Jesse Helms.
* In a last-minute spasm of desperation, Mitt Romney uncorks an ad hitting McCain with the ultimate insult: He's just like Hillary.
* And Romney isn't even done -- he also tries to link McCain to John Kerry.
* A last minute poll finds Hillary holding onto an eight point lead in all-important California.
* Joe Klein talks sense about Hillary's emotional moment today.
* A high-profile New York backer of Obama, in a curious moment, tells The Huffington Post that Harlem is not Bill Clinton's "plantation." Did someone suggest that it was?
The highly respecyted Field poll found the a virtual tie with 18% undecided. This latest poll seems to have some strange aspects to it, in that it is clearly an outlier among recent polls and it only show 2% undecided. Even among my friends, that figure is higher. So I would not put much stock in this poll.
February 4, 2008 7:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
53% to 41% is a 12-point lead...
and MA:
Clinton 56%, Obama 39% = 17% lead
February 4, 2008 7:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
"* Hillary pollster Mark Penn predicts that she'll be ahead of Obama in delegates after tomorrow -- but echoes the Obama camp's spin that this is all about the long haul."
But as Bowers points out, he tellingly said that only about total delegates, not pledged delegates earned tomorrow.
February 4, 2008 7:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
"* Hillary pollster Mark Penn predicts that she'll be ahead of Obama in delegates after tomorrow -- but echoes the Obama camp's spin that this is all about the long haul."
But as Bowers pointed out, he tellingly only said this about total delegates, not about the pledged delegates earned tomorrow.
February 4, 2008 7:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
my third try at commenting since old log-in became re-active today
February 4, 2008 7:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ouch, I can't imagine a worse endorsement (and would hope that McCain is offended by it): "Bob Dole tells Rush that McCain is as conservative as Jesse Helms."
I'm sorry, even I can't buy that. McCain might be a lot of things to a lot of folks but I have never seen any suggestion that he's racist now or ever in his past.
February 4, 2008 8:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
Congrats mattie, that's the first normal post that I have ever seen from you. Shocking.
February 4, 2008 9:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
Actually, if you didn't have Obama blinders on you'd probably see most of my posts as normal. Except the typos that I seem to not be rid of no matter how many times I proof my posts.
February 4, 2008 9:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ah, just a fleeting moment mattie. Back to the the zone of unreality in clinton cult land.
February 5, 2008 7:17 AM | Reply | Permalink
WE LET THE MEDIA STEER US INTO THE BUSH PRESIDENCY........WE LET THE MEDIA GET US INTO A WAR WE SHOULDNT HAVE EVEN THOUGHT OF BEING IN.........NOW THE MEDIA IS TRYING TO SHOVE A CANDITATE DOWN OUR THROATS WHO IS A SENATOR FOR 3 YEARS ........WHO IS A CON ARTIST WHOS TALKS BEAUTIFUL BUT SAYS NOTHING.......ARE WE ALL IDIOTS ????????
February 5, 2008 11:24 AM | Reply | Permalink