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Sam Yoon could help decide the Democratic nominee for president

adamg — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 08:39:48 -0500

At the time, it was like "oh, that's interesting," in an "I will forget this in 30 seconds" sort of way. But as Michael Pahre notes, the fact that Sam Yoon (yes, our Sam Yoon) was named to the Democratic National Committee's Rule Committee in January now has some national implications: His committee has to decide what to do about Florida and Michigan.

Clinton turban gambit wins local acceptance

adamg — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:05:41 -0500

Steve reports:

... I can confidently report that it has been very convincing among the coveted "angry smelly pre-lunch drunks who for some reason zero in on you out of all the passengers on the train in order to wave the front page of the paper in your face and scream racist ignorant nonsense and violent threats against politicians right into your ear until they release you're trying hard to ignore them then scream threats against you instead and tell you to get a haircut because it's always 1950 somewhere" vote.

Area man declines to run for president

adamg — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:04:09 -0500

Michael Bloomberg of Medford to sit this one out.

You'd think Patrick could get his buddy Obama to pronounce our state name right

adamg — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:20:44 -0500

Massatoosits just doesn't cut it, especially because he's eventually going to screw up and use a similar sounding name that will get him in a lot of trouble.

Kerfuffle

adamg — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:10:38 -0500

That's how the Outraged Liberal describes that Clinton camp's desperation over the fact that Barack Obama and Deval Patrick share the same campaign advisor:

... Hillary Clinton's main line of defense these days is that she's taken the full force of the GOP Fear and Smear Machine and Obama has not. So perhaps she should be thanked for taking one potential non-issue out of the McCain armory.

Or is Hillary plagiarizing Kerry Healey?

Jay Fitzgerald, though, sees the beginning of the end for Obama.

Isn't France the France of the 21st century?

adamg — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 16:09:01 -0500

Everything Mitt Romney did wrong

adamg — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 10:48:42 -0500

John Ellis compiles a Romney Campaign Mistake List - which includes the Mittster's you'll-still-have-me-to-kick-around speech yesterday:

... Having mismanaged their candidate to political defeat, the Romney team added insult to injury by spinning his departure as reminiscent of Ronald Reagan’s defeat in 1976. This is preposterous. Reagan electrified the conservative movement in 1964 with his televised address on behalf of Barry Goldwater. Reagan came within one endorsement -- Strom Thurmond's -- of wresting away the Republican nomination from Richard Nixon in 1968. And when he arrived in Kansas City in the summer of 1976, he had carried any number of critical states by majority votes (and in some cases, by wide margins) in Republican primary elections. Reagan left the stage as a force because he was a force. Romney leaves the stage having carried Michigan and Massachusetts and a number of caucus states. ...

Via Jay Fitzgerald, who has a much shorter list:

... At what point do you stop blaming the consultants and blame the candidate who so casually brushed aside integrity and honesty? Mitt lost because Mitt's character allowed him to be multiple Mitts.

Speaking of the speech, Mike Ball dissects it. David Bernstein takes a few whacks at the speech as well.

Romney gives up

adamg — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 13:00:41 -0500

For the good of the country, of course.

Margery Eagan: Women who voted for Clinton are insecure sheep with tawdry fantasies

adamg — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:02:16 -0500

You're busy, so let me sum up Margery Eagan's column today, just in case you don't have the time to read it all:

I'm a woman. I don't like Hillary Clinton. Therefore, women who voted for her wish they could be married to Bill Clinton, and that disgusts me.

Boston vote breakdown by precinct

adamg — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 09:48:40 -0500

Chris Lovett graciously shared his spreadsheet with precinct-by-precinct vote tallies for the entire city of Boston in Tuesday's Democratic primary. Below, you'll find the counts for Clinton and Obama. His spreadsheet also has numbers for all the other Democratic candidates; if anybody's interested in those, let me know and I'll append the spreadsheet. If you want to see where a particular precinct is, check this map.