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Obama To Run Two-Minute Closing Ads In Indiana And North Carolina
Barack Obama is putting his financial advantages over Hillary Clinton to good use in Indiana and North Carolina, with two-minute ads set to air in each state to close out the primary campaigns there.
The ads are essentially the same for each state, talking about Obama's biography, concern with jobs and economic issues, and a commitment to telling people the truth -- with a particular focus on attacking Hillary Clinton's gas tax proposal, essentially saying that the plan is the opposite of straight talk.
Here's the Indiana version:
The North Carolina localized version is available after the jump.
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Enough of the McSame old Clinton bullshit
May 3, 2008 8:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
Having a WOMAN in the White House would be an HISTORIC CHANGE; Barack Obama, a man, more of the same. Vote Hillary: the candidate of CHANGE! Hillz 4eva!
May 4, 2008 5:41 AM | Reply | Permalink
Voting for a woman just because she's a woman? Sounds kinda sexist, don't you think?
Obama couldn't be more different from Bush. The fact that they're both men may be the only thing they have in common.
May 4, 2008 12:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah, 'cause we brothers have been running things in the White House for years.
In other (old) news, I have a pet dinosaur and the sky is purple with green polka dots. (What do you mean, you can't see it?)
May 4, 2008 4:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
Nicely done. Full of win!
But don't just read about it... make those calls today, Obama supporters!
May 3, 2008 8:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
What the hell? I'm just finding out about this now? We can call people for Obama? I know how I'm spending my Sunday and Monday.
Yes we can.
May 3, 2008 9:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
Go to his web site and click on the make calls link, then the tutorial link.
May 3, 2008 11:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
Powerful. I'm so glad he did 2 minute ads. He gets to break out of the sound bit mode and really say a lot in a short amount of time.
May 3, 2008 8:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah. This is a much more refreshing way to wrap it up, as opposed to PA. However the chips may fall come Tuesday, he is back on message, emphasizing his roots and keeping it classy.
May 3, 2008 8:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
That's the best part about it. He's back on message and working to inspire. Let Clinton fight in the mud with herself.
May 4, 2008 12:34 AM | Reply | Permalink
Hate to say I was ever watcing Larry King, but he had Sydney Poitier on last night, and he said the most intestin thing. He never promoted movies because he could not make himself understood in sound bites. I couldn't help but think of Obama the whole time he was saying this. These deep men simply cannot be digested quickly.
May 4, 2008 5:48 AM | Reply | Permalink
He loses both States:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080503/ap_on_el_pr/obama_working_class_whites;_ylt=AtZBiyX_PwDkqBek_XcwYjsDW7oF
Bring on mcwar.
May 3, 2008 8:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
You remind me of someone. Let's see, who? Oh, yeah -- Chemical Ali; remember how he reacted in denial to our "Shock and Awe?" Would you say the same thing if Hillary got to Obliterate Iran, as she so dearly dreams of doing?
May 3, 2008 9:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think you mean Baghdad Bob.
He was the press guy.
May 3, 2008 10:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
Naw, "Chemical" Ali would be perfect for gotalife.
May 3, 2008 10:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
You must be on medication and living in an altered state of mind or is that some kind of threat from you that we all should report. Tell us what you know that the rest of us don't-- and how do you know it? I think we need to check your character, please provide your resume so we can do a background check.
May 3, 2008 10:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
There you go again. That's at least the second time you've made that claim today. But when I ask you to put your Avatar where your mouth is for a fair, open, public wager, you bob, weave, and squawk like a scared chicken. C'mon already. If you're serious, and you really believe it, then get a backbone and stand by your words.
Strap on a set.
May 3, 2008 10:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
Now that is funny!
May 4, 2008 12:49 AM | Reply | Permalink
Recount:
http://www.mydd.com/story/2008/5/3/203619/3196
May 3, 2008 8:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
Apparently no one's ever told you that it's better to keep your mouth shut and appear to be a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
May 3, 2008 8:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
MyDD is famously pro-Clinton, to the point that members thing The News Hour (both PBS and NPR) is biased, and the only sdource of balanced news is FOX News.
By the way, I've noticed that you haven't even bothered trying to come up w/ a counter to the commercial, and have just gone right into a priori, ad hominem straw-man mode
May 3, 2008 8:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
No one here has tried to find a COUNTER TO THE COMMERCIAL? Is that all you've got?
So TPM, in the interest of being fair and balanced is supposed to try to find a counter to a commercial? Desperation much?
May 3, 2008 9:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
I meant a counterargument, as opposed to just saying that Obama's stupid or something.
May 3, 2008 10:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
No, gotachicken always changes the subject. Runs and hides.
Chirp!
May 3, 2008 10:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
Now that is funny!
May 4, 2008 12:49 AM | Reply | Permalink
Case in point.
May 4, 2008 1:50 AM | Reply | Permalink
I'm eliot otero and I approve this message too.
Don't let the pander bears fool ya - this guy's the real deal.
They will say anything and do anything to make you doubt and fear.
I read both his books and even though I campaigned for Bill and for Hillary's run for the Senate, they don't have 1/2 this guy's integrity.
It's time for a real Democrat to lead us from Washington.
GObama!
May 3, 2008 8:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
gotalife = Eight Belles at the Derby.
May 3, 2008 9:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
Why wont Rev Wright go away? He is being interview live on Fox News right now.
May 3, 2008 9:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
Why are you watching Fox News?
May 3, 2008 9:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
I was blogging with a nice woman and she posted this:
"No one is responsible for Wright’s arrogance and foolishness at either the NAACP or the Press Club, but Rev. Wright.
No one is responsible for Obama’s 20 years and $22,000 donation/support to such foolishness but Barak Obama.
Martin Luther King taught me I could NOT judge on the color of their skin, but he DID teach me I CAN judge on the content of their character."
Nuff said.
May 3, 2008 9:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
"I was blogging with a nice woman and she posted this"
First of all, get it right you inbred hack - you pulled that nonsensical quote from the comment section of crooksandliars: http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/05/03/bill-moyers-journal-on-rev-wright-beware-the-terrible-simplifiers
Still, not enough said.
May 3, 2008 9:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
Beware the terrible simplifiers, indeed.
The Obamas gave $22,000 to a church that helps people. How awful.
May 4, 2008 9:21 AM | Reply | Permalink
Are you familiar with the phrase of "the corroding acid of the politics of personal destruction?"
Hillary and Bill should. They complained about it enough, all the time the winger slime machine did it to them.
You should be very proud.
May 3, 2008 9:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
Chirpy... I agree. You're your character demonstrates that you're all chirp and no substance.
By the way, I judge a man by his character, not by the character of another man.
May 3, 2008 10:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
Now that is funny!
May 4, 2008 12:50 AM | Reply | Permalink
You aren't judging Obama based on Rev. Wright's character.
May 3, 2008 10:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
Mentioning working with churches to help layed-off workers get back on their feet offers a different perspective from the media distortions.
May 3, 2008 9:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
My bad that wasnt live, that was previously recorded...
I was flipping through that channels and saw Rev Wright on Fox. The Larry King rerun on CNN is also talking about Rev Wright right now. The MSM really wont let this go...
May 3, 2008 9:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
Like your emoticon.
I stumbled on Fox tonight, too. Geraldo was saying that black people in IN are angry because they feel like Obama is ignoring them. Yeah--we blacks are so stupid. We have no idea the guy has a huge deficit with working-class voters, and we will hold it against him that he's trying to reach out to this demographic. Fox must people are really stupid.
May 3, 2008 11:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
Guam is having an automatic recount. 500 "spoiled" ballots.
http://www.mydd.com/story/2008/5/3/203619/3196
May 3, 2008 9:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
Clinton won.
May 3, 2008 9:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
Who cares? She needed to win the delegates 3-1 to stem the bleeding. This thing is over.
May 3, 2008 9:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
Cite?
Or are you making shit up as usual?
May 3, 2008 9:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
You want a citation for the fact that she's doomed. How about the raw numbers she need 418 to win he needs 286 to win. Each time she fails to win delegates in excess of 418/(418+286)% (59%) she looses. To win delegates at that rate she needs to win the states at 70%+.
So put your thinking caps on, and ponder how she's going to do it without any big wins left on the map and Obama about to clean house in NC? And she's about to take 55% of delegates (just guess) in Indiana. And after these failures is going to need to win states in excess of 90% of the vote.
May 5, 2008 6:18 AM | Reply | Permalink
keep pecking at the scraps, chirpy
May 3, 2008 10:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
Now that is funny!
May 4, 2008 12:51 AM | Reply | Permalink
Guam is a 2-2 pledged delegate split, recount or no recount.
Who gives a damn.
May 3, 2008 9:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
Uh...voters in Guam who waited in line to vote, maybe?
May 3, 2008 9:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
The results of their vote are already known.
Two pledged delegates for Obama, two for Clinton.
May 3, 2008 10:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
100% agreed. And yet they chose to wait in line. The people who run their elections have the same commitment to every voter: all votes will be counted. If 500 have been "spoiled," these voters are owed a recount, regardless of the outcome.
Dis the candidates, not the voters. It mattered a great deal to them or they would not have shown up.
Pax,
M.
May 3, 2008 10:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
The link above tells us they'll look into it Monday or Tuesday.
May 4, 2008 12:41 AM | Reply | Permalink
GotNOlife,
Just cuz Rev. wRight, Hillary's co-pResident's spiritual blowjob counselor, is being squawked about by the corporate media, it does not mean that it is a story for anyone who can read.
The only way folk will be voting for a Clinton come fall.May 3, 2008 9:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
I love that ad, very inspirational, it made me feel good to watch.
There is a lot of hard work ahead in this country. The republicans have been disloyal to this county and has put us on the road to distruction. Anyone that vote to keep these people in office should be charged with treason. When one of your friends say that they are still a republican--don't trust anything they have to say about the future of this country--that alone will say a lot about their character and partriotism. Thank God this administration will soon be over--I just hope we all can remain together as a country in the mean time. Those of us who want the best for the country and for the world must stick together through thick and thin.
May 3, 2008 9:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
McLaughlin Group Tuesday Predictions
Pat: NC Clinton, IN Clinton "big"
Elenor: NC Obama, IN Clinton "Narrow"
(the woman who replaced Tony): NC Obama "narrow", IN Clinton "narrow"
Clerence: NC Obama, IN Clinton by a nose
McLaughlin: NC Obama, IN Obama upset
McLaughlin was one of the early realizers that W was a putz, long about May 2003. His show has been remarkably watchable since.
Pax,
M.
May 3, 2008 10:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
Pat wants to run against Hillary so badly it hurts.
May 4, 2008 9:55 AM | Reply | Permalink
Who cares about Tuesday. Hillary can't win.
May 3, 2008 10:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
I want to write the ballad, "They Made Me Tell Bubbuh His Tab Done Come Due"
May 3, 2008 10:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
Clinton complained that they had not set the Diebold balloting machines to O-blither-ate Obama . . .
GotNOlife . . . Did the harpy win by the 699% required to make come with in striking distance of Obama's dust trail? What happens when the corporate sponsorship of Clinton dries up?
May 3, 2008 10:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
The next week is going to brutal for her.
May 3, 2008 10:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
A 7-point Indiana victory and fifty cents will get her a cup of Dunkin Donuts coffee.
Throw in a 10-point NC victory and another seventy-five cents, and Hillary can have a cream-filled long john to go with her cup of coffee.
Math.
Try it sometime.
May 3, 2008 10:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
Tuesday is when we can start saying that the gap between Clinton and Obama is a large as the amount of delegates Obama needs to clinch the nomination, thus Clinton would need to win 2-1 of the remaining delegates.
May 3, 2008 10:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
Aye it will all be over soon.
May 3, 2008 10:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
So...has the Gas Tax Holiday passed yet?
May 3, 2008 10:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
Dude, haven't you been to the pump?
Buck fifty a gallon for premium today. I shit you not ; )
May 3, 2008 10:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
haha. God Bless You, Hillary Clinton...
May 3, 2008 10:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
The only gas that has passed has come from gotalife.
May 3, 2008 10:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
I really liked the line:
Politics didn't lead me to workers, workers led me to politics.
That is a winning line in any battleground state that has loss mfging jobs. Obama can emphasize how he started out working with unemployed plant closing workers and that is how he became a politician. First, he was a community organizer dedicated to social progressive programs, then he helped workers out of work and then he went into politics.
That shows his true character and how he does not do what is political expedient or conventional political pandering.
May 3, 2008 10:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
Andrew Sullivan on an Obama-Clinton ticket.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/andrew_sullivan/article3866584.ece
I have to say, I'm warming to it...which is to say, from ice cold to just cold.
May 3, 2008 10:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oy vey, I don't know about that. I remain cryogenically frozen to the notion. Plus, what the commenter says about the Lincoln/Kennedy outcomes makes me shiver and, well, let's just not go there.
May 3, 2008 10:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah, I hadn't read the comments until just now. And that certainly gives me great pause. But, I dunno, Sullivan makes some very strong points.
May 3, 2008 10:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
I still think someone like Webb is a much better pick. Both Dem candidates have been dirtied by this long slugfest and it makes no sense to bring both sets of baggage onto one ticket. Webb doesn't seem that enthusiastic about being VP but he'd at least be able to hammer McCain on his lack of support on the GI Bill if he were the running mate (it also has the added benefit of giving the bill more exposure). I'd really love to see him dressing down pundits who ask him about lapel pins, too.
I have serious doubts of Hillary's presidential candidacy and by extension I wouldn't want her a heartbeat away, either.
May 3, 2008 11:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm also a big fan of Webb as VP - or Richardson or Biden. They all bring great foreign policy experience to the table. I dunno. I'm still pretty much against Hillary as VP. But Sullivan did make me think...
May 3, 2008 11:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
There needs to be a complete break at this point, given her track to the right. We cannot have dem foreign policy become that of obliteration.
May 3, 2008 10:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
I fully agree. The Clinton Era should be "totally Euthanized" for Future Good.
Obama can win this GE on his own, ably supported by his followers. Look at the opposition for Pete's sake.
May 3, 2008 11:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
Makes me wanna vomit, but he has some valid points.
May 3, 2008 10:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
Now that is funny!
May 4, 2008 12:56 AM | Reply | Permalink
No way!! Her pitiful campaign is planting that idea all over. If she's on the ticket, I hate to say it, but I don't know how/whether I would vote.
You know, I donated, registered voters and canvassed for Obama in three states. I didn't do that to have the Clintons, their "complicated" relationship with the truth and all that drama ("Shame on you!") back in the White House. I think she's not fit for office and I don't think I can cast a vote that might put her there.
May 3, 2008 11:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
Nope.
Not happenin - I hope.
another woman would be very nice. Let's find another woman to be Obama's Veep.
May 3, 2008 11:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
Agreed. But who? We want someone who brings the so called 'experience' he supposedly lacks to neutralize that argument. Feinstein? Blah. She's my senator and I hate her. Boxer I like, but not enough gravitas. Pelosi? Can't see her giving up her seat of power for a shadow role. Suggestions? Anybody but Clinton, puh-lease.
May 3, 2008 11:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
Kathleen Sebelius, perhaps?
May 4, 2008 12:31 AM | Reply | Permalink
Now that is funny!
May 4, 2008 12:56 AM | Reply | Permalink
I wouldn't have thought it possible, but your joke is even less funny than it was the last time.
May 4, 2008 9:57 AM | Reply | Permalink
I would prefer a woman, too, but ironically agree with the proposition that Hillary has made that impossible. With all the black-versus-white stuff that has now entered the campaign, he'll be forced to take a white man as veep unless he wants to be plastered as the "minority ticket."
May 4, 2008 10:00 AM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah, as much as I hate the idea, he does make some good points. I think it would be a good election ticket but a bad Whitehouse ticket. I still think there are other better choices that don't come in the form of the Clintons. Besides, my main dissent is that we want a VP that can hold the WH after 8 years, Clinton wouldn't be that person. That and the requirement for food tasters for Obama.
He uses the Kennedy/Johnson comparison but of course Kennedy was assassinated and there are many conspiracy theorists out there that think Johnson played a role. No, there are better options out there, although I guess I wouldn't vomit anymore if it did happen, just be disappointed.
May 4, 2008 1:18 AM | Reply | Permalink
What exactly are Sullivan's "good points" that y'all are talking about? You're buying into the notion that (1) Hillary really has connected to working people, and (2) she could and would be able to bring those folks in to a unified Dem ticket. I don't buy either premise.
And Sullivan says: "But what we've seen in this campaign is how resilient the Clintons are and how dangerous they will be to any Democratic president who isn't beholden to them."
And then he says Obama should co-opt them. Yuck. First, I don't believe that you will ever co-opt the Clintons. Second, this is the Dem's opportunity to break this dysfunctional hold the Clinton's have on the party. Let her go back to being the junior Senator from New York. Hopefully she's burned enough bridges in this process that the notion of her becoming Majority Leader will never see the light of day (I would have welcomed her over Reid in that role during Bush's presidency, but we don't need a Majority Leader during an Obama presidency that doesn't put the party's interests and agenda ahead of her own).
Let's become the 50-state party of Obama and Dean and let the Clintons fade away as gracefully as they can under the unfortunate circumstances they have created.
May 4, 2008 10:03 AM | Reply | Permalink
Dancing Bear: You've convinced me.
May 4, 2008 6:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
I got frostbite a long time ago. Even if it did get warmer, I wouldn't feel it.
May 4, 2008 4:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
The wrighting is on the wall.
"Obama was expected to win big in Guam, but takes it by
just a few votes, pending recount
Barack Obama defeated Hillary Rodham Clinton by seven votes in the Guam Democratic presidential caucuses Saturday. The count of more than 4,500 ballots took all night."
The first down ticket race in La. staring Obama is losing but may squeak out a win.
May 3, 2008 10:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
If you want to credit Obama for turning the 6th LA district, which voted for Bush by 59% in 2004, into one that a Dem can be very competitive in, well, by all means...
May 3, 2008 10:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
chirp!
Did somebody say something?
May 3, 2008 10:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
Now that is funny!
May 4, 2008 12:57 AM | Reply | Permalink
Cazayoux won, ass clown.
May 3, 2008 10:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
The ads are fabulous! I got all teary-eyed watching them. I think they will be very effective.
May 3, 2008 10:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
It has dawned on me what will happen during his acceptance speech. His rhetoric will have the entire country tearing up with joy, even those tough Obamicans.
May 3, 2008 11:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
I don't get teary, but I think they are really effective.
He sure packs a lot into a short time-
May 3, 2008 11:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well, you had me blushing this morning with your kind words. I want to thank you so much for the ego boost.
May 3, 2008 11:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
I meant that -
:)
May 3, 2008 11:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
/cheer for the dems winning the house seat tonight.
May 3, 2008 10:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
Wow. It's official. 49-46.
And everyone remember, gotalife credits Obama with this success.
May 3, 2008 10:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
Nice!
May 3, 2008 10:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
WOO HOOO!!!!! Go Cazayoux !
Repubs have got to be shaking in their boots. This is pickup #2 for the year already.
May 3, 2008 10:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
He won? Cazayoux?
That rocks! That fucking rocks!!!!!
May 3, 2008 11:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
Do a little research on Woody Jenkins. Iran Contra, Abrahmoff, the guy is corrupt from way back.
He should have crushed that con.
May 3, 2008 11:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hey Puddles, since when has corruption kept anyone out of office?
Shit, the Clintons and Bush's have held the White House for 20 freaking years.
May 3, 2008 11:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
God you are such fun!
Remind me not to invite you to any parties.
jeez.
It's practically a miracle he won. Someone like that has all kinds of bullshit going on.
May 3, 2008 11:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well, you know, (blink, blink), she should have, you know (blink) wrapped it up by, you know, Super Tuesday (blinkty blink).
You can should in one hand and shit in t'other, and see which fills up first.
May 3, 2008 11:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
Chirpy, you're such a two-faced chicken-little. At the same time you go around bashing Obama and pretending you're against McCain and support Clinton, you talk trash about a huge Dem victory in Republican territory. Totally blew your cover - not that it's the first time. A real Clinton supporter is still a Democrat. You're not either. But that's why you won't put your avatar where your mouth is. Your avatar is more important to you than your words, which have less value and meaning than one can find in the Sunday funny papers.
* chirp *
May 3, 2008 11:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
Now that is funny!
May 4, 2008 12:58 AM | Reply | Permalink
I hope spends a wad on these ads. They are the first ones I have seen that capture the essence of the campaign. He's got to put her away next week and this may be the way.
May 3, 2008 11:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
These are 2 minute ads so he is going to have to. They are like 4 commercials in one.
May 3, 2008 11:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
Jenkins would be another Tom Delay if he won. This is a major blow for the gop.
A big win for the Dems.
May 3, 2008 11:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
"The first down ticket race in La. staring Obama"
May 3, 2008 11:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
Feathers ruffled, chirpy?
May 3, 2008 11:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
Now that is funny!
May 4, 2008 12:59 AM | Reply | Permalink
don't be silly.
there was never any doubt! ;)
May 3, 2008 11:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
Why is the MSM not reporting on this FEC Fraud case on Hillary Clinton that is going on in LA. See link:
http://www.paulvclinton.com/
Also about her praising the "Millionares" then her Campaign Manager saying she did not say it, which he a lied about it. See link:
http://www.americablog.com/2008/05/clinton-spokesman-outright-lies-about.html
May 4, 2008 12:10 AM | Reply | Permalink
Big Brown laying down the hammer for the closing argument. He's going to wrap this up this week.
May 4, 2008 12:17 AM | Reply | Permalink
I'm DaddyD, and I approve this ad!!! Not only do I approve this ad, I helped pay for it!
By the way, a two minute and one minute ad running simultaneously in two markets is EXPENSIVE. I'm guessing Obama's money numbers for April will be massive. They were pushing hard at the end of the month for additional money, and I think they got what they wanted - the ads are evidence of that.
That said, Tuesday's votes won't be a knockout blow. Clinton will 'stay the course' until all the voting is done, at least. Expect a looong month.
May 4, 2008 12:27 AM | Reply | Permalink
Now that is funny!
May 4, 2008 12:49 AM | Reply | Permalink
Zogby's tracking numbers are up for Sunday. Obama is holding steady at 9pts in NC they both gained 2pts since yesterday.
Obama is inching up in IN however, with 2pt lead an increase of 1 pt since yesterday and 2pts since Fri. Statistically insignificant of course but encouraging. Even if the absolute #s are wrong, it appears Obama's message is starting to get through.
May 4, 2008 1:02 AM | Reply | Permalink
http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.dbm?ID=1497
May 4, 2008 1:19 AM | Reply | Permalink
NC by 15
IN by 4
Early voting and a broken horse...a bit from each side of the Brain.
May 4, 2008 1:49 AM | Reply | Permalink
Good God. Talk about Overkill. A 2 minute ad is too much. Indiana and North Carolina don't want someone crammed down their throats. The ads aren't that good anyway. Money can't buy you victory.
May 4, 2008 1:18 AM | Reply | Permalink
New to the discussion, but enjoying it greatly! I was starting to slowly go insane listening to the corporate media during the "Seven Weeks of Preachergate".
Back to the veep question, the only number that matters in the speculation about a "dream ticket" is 60%. That's Hillary's negative rating, more or less. Well, I guess the other number that might matter is the majority of voters who describe her as "dishonest". Now THERE'S veep for a change ticket!
I do have a lot of sympathy for women who really thought this might be the breakthrough year - and why shouldn't it be? There are some exceptional women (some mentioned here) that would make great additions to the Obama ticket. It's against conventional wisdom not to toss in a white guy, but hey, this election is all about tossing out convention.
May 4, 2008 1:23 AM | Reply | Permalink
Well, howdy, and welcome!
Aye, convention is a dead horse. It cracks me up Sen Clinton was denied her Winning Horse Moment.
The question that fascinates me is: who will euthanize King Bubbuh?
Pax,
M.
May 4, 2008 1:47 AM | Reply | Permalink
Nothing to worry about. The horse that Hillary told reporters she favored for the Derby came in SECOND (and was put down).
Things happen for a reason.
May 4, 2008 3:17 AM | Reply | Permalink
LOL, In truth, it is a very sad story for a magnificent horse but as a political metaphor for Hillary's campaign it is priceless.
May 4, 2008 4:49 AM | Reply | Permalink
I'd vote for him. ;^)
Brilliant commercial
May 4, 2008 3:53 AM | Reply | Permalink
I'm not sold on the whole "2 minute-closer" advertisements.
I also think it is interesting that Obama mentioned the gas tax suspension in the NC ad, but not the IN one.
May 4, 2008 4:07 AM | Reply | Permalink
Wrong..... he mentioned the same gas tax holiday issue in both ads.
May 4, 2008 8:39 AM | Reply | Permalink
That is no dream ticket unless you are into nightmares. If she had won he could have helped her (But I would have hoped he said no). If she is VP would he really bring in "her" vote? A lot of her vote may not be hers come November in any case, especially after the republicans bring out their attacks against her with vague reminders of old scandals and hard hits on the post presidency scandal that major print media has covered but not TV (so the public is unaware). Even as VP she will bring out the anti-Clinton base.
Some independents or republicans that might like Obama will be averse to her on the ticket and they will not think she strengthens it.
Some of her base will find it demeaning to see her in the 2nd spot and would rather wait until 2012.
Then lets say they do win. There is the true nightmare. Most of the time I hear it brought up on TV one of the pundits will ask the other "Are you going to volunteer to be the taster?". One said that's what secret service is for. The other said that wouldn't be enough.
That's only partly sarcastic. But assuming that is just crazy I have zero confidence they wouldn't work to sabotage his presidency. I don't think their oppo research would slow.
I know candidates who hated each other have teamed up. I know they would accuse each other of misleading and bad policy but did they say the other was unqualified, offered only a speech? Did any compare their opponent unfavorably to the nominee of the other party, tie him to Hamas. Farrakhan, terrorists, bombs, imply they were dangerous?
May 4, 2008 5:15 AM | Reply | Permalink
I agree. It will be only a two fer but for all the bad baggages that repugs will bring out during the GE. And I wouldn't trust Billary not to knee-cap his presidency just like his campaign.
If the SD's are pushing this meme (being the wimps they are, they might want to not wanting not to take "risks"), this a doomed primary and a presidency, if it gets to that.
But wait, I have an ace up my sleeve.
I see your Hillary and raise you, my Michelle. Take that, you SD's.
May 4, 2008 7:32 AM | Reply | Permalink
If the SD's are pushing this meme (being the wimps they are, they might not want to take "risks"), this is a doomed primary and a presidency, if it gets to that.
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May 4, 2008 8:41 AM | Reply | Permalink
I hope the two ads' grammatical blunder ("different than") was not an attempt to sound less "elitist"!
May 4, 2008 10:04 AM | Reply | Permalink
Oh come on! Name one president who wasn't black!
May 5, 2008 6:04 AM | Reply | Permalink