Eric Florack on June 23rd, 2008

June 22, 2008 -NY Post- Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama are heading for a meeting of the money.

As the ex-foes are scheduled to sit down face to face this week and talk fund-raising, each needs to leave the

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You know, it would be laughable if it were not so tragic.

Mike Allen at Politico:

With the cost of gas a top issue in the presidential campaign, Barack Obama on Sunday will announce a plan to crack down on

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Eric Florack on June 22nd, 2008

James Joyner at OTB mentions the current reading at Electoral-vote.com and says:

If the election were held today, Barack Obama would cruise to victory with 317 Electoral Votes to John McCain’s 194, according to projections tabulated by Electoral-Vote.com. Florida,

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Eric Florack on June 21st, 2008

JACKSONVILLE, Florida (Reuters) – Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama said on Friday he expects Republicans to highlight the fact that he is black as part of an effort to make voters afraid of him.

Republicans? Seems to me the only

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Eric Florack on June 19th, 2008

ABC’s Political Punch this morning:

In a web video to supporters — “the people who built this movement from the bottom up” — Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, announced this morning that he will not enter into the public financing system,

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Eric Florack on June 17th, 2008

Jason Horowitz at the New York Observer this morning:
(Warning: NSFW)

A former bundler to Hillary Clinton just called in to tell me that Barack Obama’s selection of Patti Solis Doyle as chief of staff to the campaign’s eventual vice

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From the Daily Mail:

George Orwell once wrote that politics was closely related to social identity. ‘One sometimes gets the impression,’ he wrote in The Road To Wigan Pier, ‘that the mere words socialism and communism draw towards them with

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Eric Florack on June 14th, 2008

Washington -Journal Sentinal- As an avid supporter of Hillary Rodham Clinton in the Democratic primaries, Debra Bartoshevich is not alone in her frustration over Clinton’s defeat.

She’s not alone in refusing to support Barack Obama.

And she’s not entirely alone

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Eric Florack on June 12th, 2008

Trying to play Mister Apolitical is taking it’s toll. The WaPo:

Today’s news that Jim Johnson, one of three people charged with vetting potential vice presidential candidates for Barack Obama, is stepping down from his role illustrates the perils ahead

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davidl on June 9th, 2008

Clarra BartonBarack Obama, 3 June, courtesy of Breitbart:

The journey will be difficult. The road will be long. I face this challenge with profound humility, and knowledge of my own limitations. But I also face it with limitless faith in

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Eric Florack on June 8th, 2008

Nift little post at the Barack Obama official website about How the jewish lobby works.

Oh, wait… they’ve removed it… AFTER Memeorandum had it in the number one slot.

Gee, can you imagine why that might be? For all

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  • Been getting downright crazy traffic the last couple months, and none of it bigger than the last week or so. No particular reason I can see. Usually when we get traffic spikes it’s due to one article or another that

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I got an E-mail overnight wondering why I’d not mentioned Obama getting enough delegates to win the nomination for his party. (Shrug)
OK… here…. from yesterday, here’s a note from ABC’s political page

Sen. Barack Obama achieved the 2,118 needed

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Something from Political Punch catches my eye this morning:

In another excerpt from Rev. Michael Pfleger’s sermon last Sunday, May 25, from the pulpit of Sen. Barack Obama’s now former church, Trinity United Church of Christ on the South side

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Eric Florack on June 1st, 2008

THERE’S BEEN a relative lull in news coverage and debate about Iraq in recent weeks — which is odd, because May could turn out to have been one of the most important months of the war. While Washington’s attention has

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