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John McCain has a foul, foul mouth.

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Deep thought #1: Now that Mark Penn has resigned from the Clinton campaign in disgrace (or at least he would have disgrace if he wasn’t so shameful), how will he fund his private tunnel to nowhere?
Deep thought #2: I know that I’m on the right track when I get this type of criticism from the […]

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Here’s to hoping no Democrat ever hires him ever again…

Mark Penn has given up his role as chief strategist for the Clinton campaign, it was announced Sunday.
“After the events of the last few days, Mark Penn has asked to give up his role as Chief Strategist of the Clinton Campaign; Mark, and Penn, Schoen and […]

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Um, what did Senator Clinton mean when she said this, referring to Barack Obama?

“I started criticizing the war in Iraq before he did.”

Go ahead and read the full quote with context. It still doesn’t make any sense to me– it’s almost as though she is claiming that because Obama was a state Senator instead of […]

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Hillary Clinton, respecting the democratic (and big-D Democratic) process:

Sen. Hillary Clinton made a blunt appeal to North Dakota [pledged] delegates to switch their support to her, despite the fact that Sen. Barack Obama handily defeated her in the state’s caucus in February.
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Clinton made it clear to North Dakota Democrats last night that she believes there […]

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Unlike the AP which drools over Heston for “his large, muscular build, well-boned face and sonorous voice,” I’m not from the school of thought that says you’ve got to pretend like you loved somebody after they died.
Heston started off his career as a liberal and an active participant in the Civil Rights Movement but later […]

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Overheard today: a previously-steadfast African American female Clinton supporter I know (a demographic match-up that’s rare to find here in Chicago) talking to a friend about how she wanted Clinton to drop out. The reason, she said, was because of Obama’s gigantic fundraising edge. Sure, it was just one person, but I was shocked to […]

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Hillary Clinton, suggesting that even pledged delegates awarded to Barack Obama should vote for her at the convention:

“There is no such thing as a pledged delegate… The whole point is for delegates, however they are chosen, to really ask themselves who would be the best president and who would be our best nominee against Sen. […]

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In late December, I posted the following estimations, assembled by Salon Magazine, of each candidate’s and their spouses’ projected net worth:

It looks like that Clinton number might have to be revised in light of new tax returns, released by the Clinton campaign Friday, indicating the couple took in a jaw-dropping $109 million since leaving the […]

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Via email release…
The new Diageo/Hotline (National Journal) national poll shows Obama surging over Clinton for March among Democratic primary voters:

What’s perhaps more worrying for Clinton’s campaign are these numbers however:

The poll was conducted March 28th-31st.

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As promised, here is some video from Morgan Spurlock’s Q&A session the other day at the pre-release screening of his new documentary “Where in the World is Osama bin Laden?” The questions you see in the video and below in the transcript have been reworded for the sake of conciseness. Read my review of Spurlock’s […]

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Although the polls in Pennsylvania certainly do seem to be tightening quite a bit (one poll has even shown Obama in the lead), he is still significantly behind in the Keystone State, which is demographically about as favorable as it could possibly be towards Clinton. So much so, in fact, that the Obama campaign is […]

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984 million. That’s the number of credit and debit cards that Americans had.
In 2006.
And that’s just among MasterCard and Visa.
There are roughly 300 million Americans.
Hat tip-

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The Politico has some rough fundraising totals for the Obama campaign in March (which obviously proves my earlier speculation wrong).

Total raised in March: More than $40 million
Contributors in March: More than 442,000
First-time contributors in March: More than 218,000
Average contribution: $96
Total contributors to date: More than 1,276,000

This comes after TIME Magazine incorrectly reported that Obama had […]

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With all the negativity that’s been coming from the Clinton campaign in public, one wonders how negative they’re acting behind closed doors while wooing superdelegates. A few reports give us an answer.
Apparently they bring up Reverend Wright a lot.

In an interview with me this morning, senior Hillary adviser Harold Ickes confirmed that Reverend Jeremiah Wright […]

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