The Political Inquirer

Sadly, I think Paul Begala is right. Democrats just cannot win without the working “blue collar” votes–if Obama can’t pick up enough of those, he will still get 45% of the vote but lose in a Dukakis-type fashion. Begala “The Forehead” had this to say:
On Tuesday night, we mentioned the dustup between two Democratic pundits, [...]

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Interesting list that Norm sent me for Obama, the one below it is a list of Clinton lies that I found and put up as well. The Obama list is a bit longer, but please add your own list of lies that either of these two candidates have made, could make for some interesting discussion:
Obama’s [...]

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My prediction for the primaries is that the Indiana polling data is correct, Hillary will win there by a comfortable enough margin. It seems to be about 48.3% for Clinton and 42.5% for Obama, according to RealClearPolitics, I suspect the end result will be around a 5 point lead for Clinton.
North Carolina is where it [...]

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The New York Times is running a piece on Republicans that are voting in the Democrat primary. The story mostly talks about those who are crossing over to vote for Barack Obama, but there is mention of possibly the most interesting “covert operation” of any national election held in the United States: Operation Chaos.
Rush Limbaugh’s [...]

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Incase you missed it, Hillary Clinton is actually in favor of a suspension of the gas tax. What’s that, Republicans? A Democrat in favor of a tax cut? There must be a catch, right? Yes, there is.
The New York senator highlighted new oil company profit figures as evidence her proposed windfall profits tax was the [...]

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This will more than likely be my last posting about Reverend Jeremiah Wright, not because there is nothing more to say but because the interest will not be there. I continue to write about it today because the readers of this blog are still interested in reading about him and commenting on him. But soon, [...]

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I don’t make it a practice to quote conservative commentators, much less even read them, but I must say Tom Roeser caught my attention when explaining Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s actions of late.
Two Reasons.
Knowledgeable African Americans, some of whom attend Trinity United Church of Christ, tell me that there are two reasons why the [...]

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People have got to get over their crush on Obama.
Obama is still in this; and the Wright fiasco gives him a chance to remove this cloud and address it again. He has the most votes, the most states, the most money, the most new voters and the most delegates and the most Senators on his [...]

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This time of year is usually “down-time” for politics. Things get boring as people prepare for the ‘good news’ that starts during May and June. Right now is a really bad time, and I’ve gotten tired of it. The Hillary-Barack race has gone on far too long, leading to hatred on both sides. Republicans are [...]

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Reverend Jeremiah Wright will one day owe Sean Hannity a great deal of gratitude for making him famous. Unfortunately for Hannity, his attempt at a high tech media-lynching was to make Reverend Wright “infamous” and not “famous” and “respected.”
This attempt at a high tech media-lynching failed.
Reverend Wright is now showing the world what a great [...]

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Rupert Murdoch offered $580 million for the newspaper Newsday. Now Mortimer Zuckerman offers the same amount. If Murdoch gets it, we can be certain that Newsday won’t be going out of circulation anytime soon, but to tell you the truth I hope he loses the bid simply because of his grapple on the media. We [...]

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Hillary Clinton is taking a chapter from Karl Rove’s book. The book could be titled “Political Success: No Matter What the Price.” His tactic is to relentlessly attack your opponent’s strength, forcing them to defend their strength, causing the electorate to think that maybe this isn’t a strength. Planting doubt in the minds of the [...]

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