Politics 101

McCain, Romney neck-and-neck as Floridians head to the polls

“Sen. John McCain of Arizona and former Gov. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts appear to be neck-and-neck in the Republican primary. If McCain wins in Florida, his status as the national front-runner will be cemented.”

For 5 minutes tonight, please go to CNN and see who is going to be the Republican nominee. I agree with a lot of predications that the winner of Florida will be the nominee for the party.

One by One, Angry Liberals Turn Their Backs on Team Clinton

“Like lovers scorned, Bill Clinton’s longtime liberal supporters are walking out on him, slamming the door behind them and rebuking the 42nd president for his behavior leading up to last weekend’s South Carolina primary.”

It’s confusing to me how Obama keeps getting random backing from key Democrats, but its not translating into the national polls. Do Democrats not care about the opinions of their elected officials? I’m missing something here.

White House 2008: Republican Nomination

Just to reemphasize: Click on the link to see Giuliani’s demise. He went from solid frontrunner to afterthought in about 2-3 months. I bet his campaign manager is not getting job offers anytime soon.

Politics 101

Giuliani fights political fall in Florida

Rudy has fallen like the Dow Jones industrial average," said Bill Adair, chief editor of the St. Petersburg Times. "What's happened is he gambled on Florida and put all his chips on Florida, and it's beginning to look like he gambled wrong."

Eric’s words of wisdom for the day: When you’re political career is being compared to a stock market preparing for a recession…well, that’s not a good thing.

The Resurrection of John McCain

I understand the political analogy; but nobody would ever headline a story: “Giuliani’s Suicidal Decisions in Florida”. Why, because people are sensitive to specific words. Regardless of the headline, it’s a good story if you have some free time.

Study: Bush, aides made 935 false statements in run-up to war

Yet another reason to vote for Ron Paul.

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Giuliani's Florida strategy about to be put to test

So Giuliani goes all-in with Florida. “In what many political strategists called a risky strategy, the former New York mayor essentially sat out the early contests in Iowa, New Hampshire, Michigan, Nevada and South Carolina and focused on Florida and its January 29 primary.” Three candidates have already passed him in the national polls. Seems like the old phrase, “Out of sight, Out of Mind”, applies pretty heavily here.

Gender or race: Black women voters face tough choices in S.C.

Yes, this was a silly story, and CNN quickly posted this follow-up story. I love politics and stereotyping.

CNN readers respond angrily to 'race or gender' story

"Within minutes of posting a story on CNN's homepage called "Gender or race: Black women voters face tough choices in South Carolina," readers reacted quickly and angrily."

Hehe, nice one CNN.

Politics 101

I’m modifying an idea from the great Dink and Flika with a way to share some of my favorite Political stores from time to time. Its like, TSTWBTAT, except this is boring. Imitation is the sincerest for of flattery, and an easy way to present information.

Campaigning for Mike Huckabee, actor Chuck Norris said Sunday that Sen. John McCain is too old to handle the pressures of being president.

He may be. The oldest elected president was Ronald Reagan at 69. Also, McCain was tortured for like 5 straight years in a POW camp. How many years does that take off? Yeesh. Maybe we need to pay attention to his VP candidate.

But this comment was also uttered by somebody who could kill McCain just by thinking of it hard enough, so he has a lot of factors against him already.

Rep. Duncan Hunter has abandoned his bid for the Republican presidential nomination.

Who is this guy? Maybe every American has to declare whether their running or not. Let me clear something up just to be on the safe side: James Eric Adams officially withdraws his name from the Race for the White House.

Mike Huckabee repeated a claim by his campaign chairman that Fred Thompson was his biggest barrier to defeating John McCain in South Carolina.

No, I’m pretty sure John McCain was the biggest barrier to winning South Carolina.