Michigan
“Unfiltered” Palin Launches Campaign-Inspired Book Tour
Sarah Palin appears at Grand Rapids book signing
Wednesday night saw Sarah Palin emerging from a massive tour bus, baby Trig in her arms, and briefly addressing a screaming crowd of hundreds as the 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee launched her nationwide book tour at a Michigan book store. It was a scene that could very […]
Quinnipiac battleground polls: Obama widening the gap
Keeping up with the latest release of Quinnipiac’s set of battleground polls today finds Obama clearly surging in every sort of state and among nearly every single demographic as the economy continues to deal McCain crushing blows that he just can’t handle. The numbers for Obama are up basically across the board from even just […]
McCain pulls out of Michigan, changing the race
Lost amidst the hoopla over last night’s vice presidential debate and the highly anticipated showdown between Biden and Palin was news that the McCain campaign has quietly decided to suspend all active campaigning and election efforts in the state of Michigan, pulling out staffers and pulling down ads. It’s a move that shocks when you […]
Obama soars to big Michigan lead
Want to know how much of a boost the current economic and financial crisis has given Barack Obama after a month of bad polling and withering leads in the battlegrounds? Well, Michigan is a small sample size and this is only one poll, but the new results from the first Marist polls of the campaign […]
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Wall Street turmoil intrudes on the campaign trail today as the candidates and their surrogates react to the financial “meltdown.” Senate Dems are bashing “out of touch” Republicans for the mess, Obama and his campaign have released concerned statements, and McCain has launched a new TV ad that finally uses the words “economic crisis”(where was […]
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 Happy 47th birthday to Barack Obama. Has to spend it on the trail in Michigan today.
Those reports from late last month that John McCain was ready to name his running mate before the start of the Beijing Olympics? Not true, according to the latest leaks out of the McCain camp. A careful examination of the […]
DNC makes a deal: Florida, Michigan fiasco settled
Is this it for the continuously hard-nosed and feisty Democratic primary struggle? Has the esteemed DNC Rules and Bylaws Committee managed to accomplish what nearly five months of voting has not?
After a Friday filled with back door negotiations on the fate of Florida and Michigan that were ultimately unable to come up with a deal […]
Clinton campaign goes to D.C. with big wishlist
For anyone wondering about potential compromises emerging from the public rhetoric of the Clinton campaign, today’s conference call with Howard Wolfson, Harold Ickes and Tina Flournoy shut the door on that thought. Info from the inside of Hillary’s camp has most advisers accepting that not all of the delegates from Michigan and Florida will be […]
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The monumental DNC rules committee meeting tomorrow is all the rage in the media and within the Clinton campaign today. Wolfson, Ickes and other advisers held a conference call at 12 noon (more on that later) with the rundown on what to expect tomorrow and how much the Clinton camp will push to get every […]
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The Scott McClellan tell-all has hijacked the media storyline this week, pushing the happenings on the trail off the front page. And why not? The McClellan memoir is a bona fide bombshell, piling up more negative accusations on a Bush presidency whose sole job of late is to stay out of the way of GOP […]
