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[lilyv]

Well, you know we're just kool-aid drinkers who faint while watching Obama's speeches and can't articulate one coherent reason why we prefer him over the competition.

Thanks for the great explanation!

 

[MassJester]

Just how dumb does the Clinton campaign think voters are?

Apparently both dumb and afraid.

Be afraid of the dark, and pay no attention to numbers--quite a message.

 

[MassJester]

Both Bill Clinton and James Carville have both said that if she doesn't win Texas, she can't win. I think they were right.

 

[MassJester]

Just saw CNN polls. Remember, after super Tuesday, HC was 20+ points ahead in TX and Ohio.

TX
Obama 48
Clinton 44

Ohio
Obama 40
Clinton 47

This has been a month well spent.

 

[Laugh O. Grams]

Just saw CNN polls. Remember, after super Tuesday, HC was 20+ points ahead in TX and Ohio.

TX
Obama 48
Clinton 44

Ohio
Obama 40
Clinton 47

This has been a month well spent.

Wow...even thought it's still a statistical dead heat, that's the fist time I've seen Obama with a lead in TX.

 

[Laura]

Hillary Clinton is leading rival Democratic White House hopeful Barack Obama by just two points in the battleground state of Ohio, a new survey found just days before Buckeye State voters go to the polls.

In a new Reuters/C-SPAN/Houston Chronicle poll, Clinton leads Obama 44% to 42%. Clinton's lead has dwindled steadily in recent weeks, the poll noted, and the trend appears to favor Obama. The survey shows that late deciders are more likely to favor the first-term Illinois senator, and 9% of Ohio Democrats say they are undecided.

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The former first lady is worse off in Texas, another state scheduled to vote March 4, according to the Reuters/C-SPAN/Houston Chronicle poll. There, Obama leads Clinton by six percentage points, 48% to 42%.

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/sto...x?guid={624CF7C2-4FAB-4F95-BB49-41B9B6C34F35}

 

[Laugh O. Grams]

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/sto...x?guid={624CF7C2-4FAB-4F95-BB49-41B9B6C34F35}

Let's just hope it all ends Tuesday and Hillary bows out gracefully as I have no doubt that she will. After hearing her in the debates, she seems like such a decent person, and would probably make a terrific President. When it comes to her most recent ads, I think she's got someone in her ear feeding her really bad advice.

 

[arminnie]

She loved Texas the night of VA/MD/DC but when her campaign actually read the rules of TX, they realized they had no idea it was so complicated. Again, why was she so poorly prepared? I assume ready on day one doesn't apply to her campaign.

The rules have only been that way since 1972. Which is also is the year she was working on campaigns in Texas.

I was a fairly new college graduate and that was my first presidential election. I was WAY more concerned with dating than politics, but even I knew the part about the caucuses at night.

But maybe because voting was held at the rec room of a big singles apartment complex - many went back for the parties (caucuses) later. My friends and I voted in that precinct for 10-15 years no matter where we lived. It was like a big reunion.

 

[NewJersey]

Let's just hope it all ends Tuesday and Hillary bows out gracefully as I have no doubt that she will. After hearing her in the debates, she seems like such a decent person, and would probably make a terrific President. When it comes to her most recent ads, I think she's got someone in her ear feeding her really bad advice.

I thought we as Democrats held each other to a higher standard.

Laura - WOW, that's the first I've seen us within 5 in Ohio! I'll be driving to Columbus tomorrow morning. Where in OH are you from?

 

[Fitswimmer]

I thought we as Democrats held each other to a higher standard.

Laura - WOW, that's the first I've seen us within 5 in Ohio! I'll be driving to Columbus tomorrow morning. Where in OH are you from?

You're going to Ohio now?? The next thing we know you'll have yourself a job in the West Wing

 

[NewJersey]

You're going to Ohio now?? The next thing we know you'll have yourself a job in the West Wing

OH voters don't have a clue what's coming for them.

 

[Honu]

I did 20 phone bank calls to Ohio this evening. Of that, 4 didn't pick up, 2 were Hillary supporters, 3 were undecided with 1 leaning towards McCain and the 11 others were for Obama!

 

[MassJester]

I did 20 phone bank calls to Ohio this evening. Of that, 4 didn't pick up, 2 were Hillary supporters, 3 were undecided with 1 leaning towards McCain and the 11 others were for Obama!

I would like for him to win in Ohio, but I'm feeling good about Texas--very good.

 

[Honu]

Texas is looking good in both votes and delegates, that's why I switched to Ohio for making calls tonight. I'm surprised at numbers I got, given the recent polls. I'm even more surprised I'm not getting hung up on, as that's what I usually do with this type of call.

Go Obama!

 

[MassJester]

Texas is looking good in both votes and delegates, that's why I switched to Ohio for making calls tonight. I'm surprised at numbers I got, given the recent polls. I'm even more surprised I'm not getting hung up on, as that's what I usually do with this type of call.

Go Obama!

Taking 3 out of 4 states on Tuesday would be huge, but I will be happy with 2 and a close Ohio.

 

[Fitswimmer]

From what I recall from Russert's report after Wisconsin, it won't be enough for Hillary to just win Texas and Ohio. She has to win them BIG. He was talking about percentage point differences that she has not yet achieved.

I will be sorry to see her drop out or lose, because I really do like her and I really do believe she would have made a very good President. I know 2004 was not her time, but I have wished MANY times that she had been ready then.

 

[Laura]

I'll be driving to Columbus tomorrow morning. Where in OH are you from?

You're close, you're very very close!

 

[NewJersey]

I did 20 phone bank calls to Ohio this evening. Of that, 4 didn't pick up, 2 were Hillary supporters, 3 were undecided with 1 leaning towards McCain and the 11 others were for Obama!

From what I recall from Russert's report after Wisconsin, it won't be enough for Hillary to just win Texas and Ohio. She has to win them BIG. He was talking about percentage point differences that she has not yet achieved.

I will be sorry to see her drop out or lose, because I really do like her and I really do believe she would have made a very good President. I know 2004 was not her time, but I have wished MANY times that she had been ready then.

Well now it seems the media is talking about any sort of Hillary win in those states, and it'd be "huge" for her. And we had the Clinton memo yesterday saying the four states are "must-wins" for Obama. I just want this primary to be over!

You're close, you're very very close!

I'll look for a Laura from Texas.

 

[NewJersey]

Zogby has Ohio at 45-45 today.

 

[Dolce27]

I'm speechless:

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video_log/2008/02/clinton_children.html

I thought we as Democrats chided the Republicans in 2004 and 2006 for their national security scare tactics?

I saw that for the first time yesterday and I don't find that to be a 'scare tactic'. I feel that's a great question being asked - mainly after the last 8 years of who we’ve had answering those 3am (or whatever) phone calls. I think that people are just trying to stir the pot with this one … besides did I hear correctly that Obama is coming out with an almost identical commercial to be released this week-end only with the ending stating that it should be someone who didn’t vote for the war answering the phone? If that’s true – why is it fine for him to do so but she’s being accused of trying to install fear? And if the answer to my question is because Hillary did it first - than that just make Obama look childish.

I’ll be honest, I’m not voting for Obama in the primaries– and I’m not on your thread to cause trouble. I am voting for Hillary on Tuesday but, I’m a Republican voting Democratic this election. (Yes, a Republican that actually wants Hillary in the White House). The reason that I popped over here is because I’m trying to understand why so many people are supporting Obama when I find the man to be downright scary at times. I’m sick of the GWB Administration (as are the majority of Americans) and I’m scared to vote Republican as I worry that it’ll just be a continuation of the GWB years but if Obama does get the Dem nod then I have to make a decision if I will vote for him or for McCain, because seriously – Obama worries me just as much as McCain does.

I guess since I’ve already intruded on your thread I’ll ask one question that has been bothering me: Why is such a big deal being made that Obama didn’t vote for the war in 2002?

In 2002 the Senate was given (we now know false info – but then we didn’t) what looked to be justifiable reasons to go to war: Saddam had WOMD, Saddam was harboring Al Quieda, Saddam was a serious threat to the US. At that time, when the senate voted, it looked like we needed to go to war – that we had reason to go to war with Iraq.

No one knew that what Bush provided to the senate a pack of lies, no one knew that this would be a never ending war, Bush made it all so easy. The country in the majority at that time was in support of this ... it hadn’t been long after 9/11. So, let me ask this: Why is Obama so proud that he didn’t vote for the war when in 2002 it was an extremely unpopular move for him to do so and Hillary bashed for voting yes when that was the move the majority wanted – especially with her being Senator of New York – the state the suffered the worst from the 9/11 attacks? Don’t tell me that people would have been happy with her had she voted no back in 2002. Obviously, Bush managed to present enough convincing evidence to go to war or the majority of the senate wouldn’t have agreed to do so and Saddam would still be alive and in power.

Also, if Obama is so against the war why does he keep voting yes to send more money to support the war? Shouldn’t he vote no so that there wouldn’t be money and the troops would be brought home?