But this is a Rasmussen poll. Rasmussen's polls have tilted toward the right all year. Hillary Clinton lead Obama in the Rasmussen poll throughout the primary until it was clear she had no mathematical chance of winning.

If Rasmussen says that the Dem is leading the Republican just OUTSIDE the margin of error, then the Dem probably leads by a little more than that.

Posted at July 3, 2008 11:51 AM in response to Poll: Obama Leading In Red State Of Montana

"His middle name is Hussein." Observed Terry, the female Bush voter: "I don't feel he's a true American."

Translation: "He is not the same race as I am, so I am a little afraid of him"

Posted at June 25, 2008 12:28 PM in response to Focus Group: Pennsylvania Voters Are Suspicious Of Obama -- But Support Him Anyway

Ignorant people, by definition, breed faster than people who are more informed.

Posted at June 25, 2008 12:19 PM in response to Focus Group: Pennsylvania Voters Are Suspicious Of Obama -- But Support Him Anyway

"Where I live $250K income for a couple is common, well within the middle-class."

That is because you live in one of the top 1%-2% of neighborhoods in the country.

Judging from your post it sounds like you are so far from the average American that you have no idea what the average American's lifestyle is like. Most Americans are stuck with their local public school. Most Americans can't pay for their children's college, let alone fork over cash for private elementary and secondary education.

Why does no one realize that Democrats are fiscally conservative and Republicans are the ones who are fiscally liberal. Republicans always borrow money to spend. That makes them reckless.

No business that is currently making money hand over fist has an incentive to invest significant money in R&D to develop something to replace their current cash cow. Poor people and Government have all the incentive to invent new technologies to replace the current cash cows.

Posted at June 17, 2008 12:21 PM in response to Obama Makes Economic Pitch To Wall St. Journal

Where did you get the picture of McBush? Do you have a link.

Posted at June 13, 2008 11:00 AM in response to Obama Hitting McCain Today On Social Security

That is exactly what I was going to say. At last somebody is going to bring some discipline to the Democratic Party. They really need it.

Posted at June 12, 2008 1:04 PM in response to Obama Campaign Taking Over Large Swaths Of DNC Operations

I'd settle for a 270 to 268 electoral college slaughter.

Hell, I'd even settle for 269-269 slaughter provided that the Democrats control the House and the Senate.

Posted at June 10, 2008 2:26 PM in response to Obama Campaign Manager Promises Campaign Staff In All 50 States

Maybe he is getting the money from the same place Republicans get the money to pay for their wars and their cuts to the tax on incomes over one million dollars.

Posted at June 10, 2008 12:47 PM in response to McCain: Obama Will Raise Taxes On Everybody

I do think that the smaller states should go before the large states. Having the large states go first biases the race towards the establishment candidate with the most name recognition and money. Moreover, the large states are so big that they matter and get attention even if they come at the end of the primary cycle. Small states like Iowa, or New Hampshire wouldn't matter for practical purposes if they came at the end.

Open primaries are only a problem if one party already has a nominee and the other one doesn't. But I think that, all in all, each state party should decide how it wants to award its own delegates. Remember, state parties don't have to accept the state sponsored primary as legitimate. They can hold their own caucus or firehouse caucus if they wish.

Superdelegates are destructive if you have a system with proportional representation in every state like the democrats have. Superdelegates are only necessary if you don't have a significant amount of winner-take-all states, and then superdelegates only be congressmen, who must answer to the people at every election.

Posted at June 3, 2008 12:24 PM in response to What if? How the Democratic Party dodged a bullet this week

I think the proper phrase is "recurring bouts of cancer".

Posted at May 23, 2008 4:34 PM in response to McCain's Doctors, Medical Records Say He Is In Good Health