Gephardt’s Toast. But Who Else?

Gephardt to End Presidential Campaign:

AP’s reporting:

“Dick Gephardt is conceding the Democratic presidential nomination to one of his rivals, acknowledging after a disappointing fourth-place finish in Iowa that ‘this didn’t come out the way we wanted.'”

Doesn’t say

The Telegraph reports today:

“A man of 36 is believed to have become the first person in Britain to die directly from cannabis poisoning.

Lee Maisey smoked six cannabis cigarettes a day for 11 years, an inquest heard. His

AP is reporting:

“DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – John Kerry seized the lead as Iowa Democrats began their first-in-the-nation voting Monday, the initial step in the battle to face President Bush this fall.

Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina

Who cares?

It’s not like they’re going to win in the general election anyway.
But, what the heck….

In this order.
Dean, Gephardt, Kerry, Edwards

Ipse Dixit is running a map that breaks down President Bush’s aproval ratings by state.

Assuming people vote the way the approval ratings are right now, on a state by state basis, would mean Electoral College totals of Bush –

Welsh star in race row:

” ‘There is a demographic catastrophe happening in Europe that nobody wants to talk about, that we daren’t bring up because we are so cagey about not offending people racially. And rightly we should

Nice to have it all backed up to tape.
We should be totally back in business.

BitBlog was down for a bit today…. My stylesheet got trashed somehow.
I’m working on getting it back the way it was. Sorry…

Well, now. Nice to be right.
Again.

Regulars of this space will recall the other day I mentioned a bunch of Yellowcake had been found in a Rotterdam scrap yard. Speculation at the time was that it had come from

Required reading:

Suzanne Fields: The witless challenge the wits:

“Conservatives have been winning the culture war because the soldiers of the left are firing mostly blanks. Comedian Dennis Miller, who’s getting a new talk show on CNBC, tells why

Some interesting points from last night.

First, let’s call the Philly loss what it was. For all that the press wanted a Black Quarterback in the Superbowl they forgot it wasn’t just his show. So did the Eagles, apparently.

Neither

Yahoo! News – Clark Wins Backing from Ex-Nominee George McGovern

If I’m Clark, I’m now more nervous than I was…

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Let’s start out with basic fact: The Democrats are electoral trouble… serious electoral trouble. The polling data over the last six months and longer clearly and consistently places President Bush several dozen percentage points over any rival the

MOOREWATCH : poses an interesting question:

“Suppose a new political party were to emerge in time for the 2004 elections. Its platform espouses the following beliefs.

All unearned income, such as that derived through capitalism and other speculative enterprises, would

The New BitHead’s Bit is up

It says, in part:

“So you can imagine their glee when Paul O’Neill stepped into the spotlight, having been pushed by Ron Suskind. The book Suskind wrote “The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush,