For months back during the 2004 campaign, we heard from media elites about how “BushCo” were using so-called “wedge issues” like gay marriage and illegal immigration in an effort to deliberately divide the American electorate for purposes of winning the election in the fall. The ‘slimy’ GOP would stop at nothing, they insinuated, to keep their power both in Congress and the WH.
Yeah, I know the first official game of the 2008 NFL season was played Thursday night – with the Super Bowl champion New York Giants beating the Washington Redskins 16-7, but most of us poljunkies were too keyed up about the RNC to really notice. Like many of ya’ll, this is my favorite time of the year. Fall is in the air, and the pro football season is kicking into high gear with a full round of games for it’s first Sunday of games this season.
Barry Oh! has been out on the stump today in North Carolina criticizing his opponent on the issue of the economy and gas prices, but what he’s not telling people about are the ties his campaign has to evil subprime lenders, lenders who both he and his legions of supporters/followers have relentlessly attacked the last several months (as part of the overall downturn of the economy), especially when some of those same supporters tried to tie McCain to the subprime lending ‘crisis’ several months ago.
The race to the nomination has just gotten a lot tougher for Hillary Clinton. In light of her trouncing in NC last night, and her squeaker win in IN (and has she really won IN?), her “popular vote” argument to the superdelegates looks less and less like a plausible one …. unless Florida and Michigan are included in the mix, and it looks like for Clinton and Co, that’s what it will boil down to:
**5/7: Make sure to check out my post-primaries morning after post here.**
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The things I do for my readers …
