Senator Bob Casey endorses Barack Obama.
** NORTH CAROLINA: BIG OBAMA LEAD. After the Rev. Wright firestorm, Barack Obama’s lead in the increasingly pivotal North Carolina primary on May 6th dipped to the low single digits. Last week, the freshman Illinois senator campaigned there, as did the New York senator and the former president. The upshot of last night’s Public Policy Polling tracking poll? Obama 54%, Clinton 36%. He leads everywhere but in the mountains.
** ICK(ES). In case you missed it, the not entirely late LA Times has a profile of Hillary Clinton’s changeable agent Harold Ickes. This guy is a real piece of work. “His enthusiasm for no-holds-barred politics sometimes rattles friends and foes alike. Ickes once got so carried away that he bit another political operative on the leg. Now, some 35 years later, at age 68, he has mellowed so little that it could happen again.”
Sweetie, you try biting me on the leg and we are publishing your obituary. With not a lot of effort on my part, incidentally. Things just happen naturally.
** KENTUCKY: HILLARY’S BEST STATE? With Hillary Clinton’s numbers dropping around the country, we may have found the best state left in America for the former Democratic presidential frontrunner. That would be the Bluegrass State, Kentucky. (I was last there for the Kentucky Derby, some years ago.) According to this poll, Clinton, in a closed Democratic primary, leads Barack Obama, 58% to 29%. Not that it will make a bit of difference in the outcome.
** NEW PODCAST. The road ahead, following Snipergate, Wrightgate, et al. Heading into this week’s John McCain tour.
** WHERE THEY ARE TODAY.
Barack Obama campaigns in Lancaster and Allentown, Pennsylvania.
Hillary Clinton campaigns in Harrisburg and Fairless Hills, Pennsylvania.
Bill Clinton, the ultimate trouper for his wife — or is he? — campaigns in Portland, Salem, and Bend, Oregon. All very familiar turf for NWN. Here’s a tip: Obama wins big.
John McCain kicks off his my-biography-is-the-story-of-America tour (somewhat discussed on NWN) in Meridian, Mississippi.
** PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON’S CALIFORNIA CONVENTION SUPERDELEGATE HAUL: 0. There is a long form. That is the short form. And the ultimate bottom-line end result of this year’s California Democratic Party convention. Aside from Jerry Brown wowing the crowd on Saturday. Which was also not exactly a surprise to anyone paying attention here.
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Yep.
>Brasky :
Thanks for the Ickes piece – this end is a little chilling:
“Both the loyalty and the focus were on display in February 1999, when the Senate voted not to remove Bill Clinton from office.
In the White House residence, Ickes and the first lady were poring over New York state maps in preparation for her Senate bid.
A call came in informing the first lady that her husband had been acquitted, Ickes recalled. “She puts down the phone and says, ‘Harold, we were talking about Buffalo.’ ”
With that, they went back to work.”
Mar 31, 2008 02:31 PM
I worked Eugene for Jerry Brown in 1976. You don’t do well in Oregon without it.
>Brasky :
“I can tell you (Eugene is) bad turf for the Clintons.”
My read as well. Winning OR without Eugene is a serious handicap for a dem.
Can you imagine a dem running in CA and not visiting San Francisco?! Skipping Eugene is an admission that the state is already lost to Obama — they’re just trying to hold the margin of victory down by a delegate or two.
One of the best campaigners the dem party has ever seen and THIS is what Bill Clinton is doing? Wow, how the mighty have fallen…
Mar 31, 2008 02:20 PM
I worked Eugene for Jerry Brown in 1976. You don’t do well in Oregon without it.
>Brasky :
“I can tell you (Eugene is) bad turf for the Clintons.”
My read as well. Winning OR without Eugene is a serious handicap for a dem.
Can you imagine a dem running in CA and not visiting San Francisco?! Skipping Eugene is an admission that the state is already lost to Obama — they’re just trying to hold the margin of victory down by a delegate or two.
One of the best campaigners the dem party has ever seen and THIS is what Bill Clinton is doing? Wow, how the mighty have fallen…
Mar 31, 2008 02:20 PM
What’s the chase?
Dana :
Lockyer isn’t running for Governor? I thought he was one of those wannabes who has been positioning themselves for years. Any idea why the cold feet?
And thanks for attending the Dem convention and giving us the surreal flavor of the event.
Mar 31, 2008 06:02 PM
Bill Bradley :
Shall I drag out the suspense or cut to the chase?
Mar 31, 2008 06:20 PM
I suspect cold feet are spelled B-R-O-W-N…
>Bill Bradley :
Shall I drag out the suspense or cut to the chase?
I suspect cold feet are spelled B-R-O-W-N…
>Bill Bradley :
Shall I drag out the suspense or cut to the chase?
You are my All-Time Hero for this comment!:
Sweetie, you try biting me on the leg and we are publishing your obituary. With not a lot of effort on my part, incidentally. Things just happen naturally.
You are my All-Time Hero for this comment!:
Sweetie, you try biting me on the leg and we are publishing your obituary. With not a lot of effort on my part, incidentally. Things just happen naturally.
What well-known comedy was shot at the University of Oregon?
Eugene was supposed to be an Eastern campus…
Actually, the Migden/Leno/Nation fight is a symbol of how much incumbency is treated as the end of a discussion, rather than the beginning.
Leno vs. Nation would be an interesting race to see how much the extremist nature of a district primary electorate can elect someone who is a detriment to his party statewide, but Carole Migden would be a complete nonfactor if not for Perata going to the mat for her. The woman is in desperate need of being involuntarily committed to a psychiatric institution for being dangerous to others. The reckless driving is among her lesser offenses. We’re talking about someone who routinely (in the Assembly, Board of Equalization, and Senate) tried to severely injure others, including members of her own staff, by hurling hard objects at their heads – staplers, calculators, vases, paperweights, candy dishes, and on at least one occasion scissors!
What has to be going through the mind of someone who decides to endorse a borderline psychotic over people who will vote just about the same way as she does on everything?
Wow!
Wow!
Indeed.
Indeed.
Nick, your post may constitute libel.
>NickM :
Actually, the Migden/Leno/Nation fight is a symbol of how much incumbency is treated as the end of a discussion, rather than the beginning.
I don’t know. Any other clues?
>Brasky :
What well-known comedy was shot at the University of Oregon?
Eugene was supposed to be an Eastern campus…
Mar 31, 2008 10:48 PM
I don’t know. Any other clues?
>Brasky :
What well-known comedy was shot at the University of Oregon?
Eugene was supposed to be an Eastern campus…
Mar 31, 2008 10:48 PM
Thanks!
>Minerva :
You are my All-Time Hero for this comment!:
Sweetie, you try biting me on the leg and we are publishing your obituary. With not a lot of effort on my part, incidentally. Things just happen naturally.
Mar 31, 2008 08:18 PM
I believe Bill Lockyer has already said that if Jerry Brown runs, he wins.
>Dana :
I suspect cold feet are spelled B-R-O-W-N…
>Bill Bradley :
Shall I drag out the suspense or cut to the chase?
Mar 31, 2008 06:54 PM
I believe Bill Lockyer has already said that if Jerry Brown runs, he wins.
>Dana :
I suspect cold feet are spelled B-R-O-W-N…
>Bill Bradley :
Shall I drag out the suspense or cut to the chase?
Mar 31, 2008 06:54 PM
You mean what’s likely to happen?
>Ann :
What’s the chase?
Dana :
Lockyer isn’t running for Governor? I thought he was one of those wannabes who has been positioning themselves for years. Any idea why the cold feet?
And thanks for attending the Dem convention and giving us the surreal flavor of the event.
Mar 31, 2008 06:02 PM
Bill Bradley :
Shall I drag out the suspense or cut to the chase?
Mar 31, 2008 06:20 PM
Mar 31, 2008 06:40 PM
Bill – something has to be untrue to be libelous.
I’ve talked to four staffers who have been themselves the targets of her rage as well as witnessing it directed at others. I’ve even seen pictures of gouges she left in office walls.
BoE agency staff suffered more than any other group – they’re not used to politicians trying to treat them as personal servants, and having civil service protection, were willing to say no to her.
Bill – something has to be untrue to be libelous.
I’ve talked to four staffers who have been themselves the targets of her rage as well as witnessing it directed at others. I’ve even seen pictures of gouges she left in office walls.
BoE agency staff suffered more than any other group – they’re not used to politicians trying to treat them as personal servants, and having civil service protection, were willing to say no to her.
Well, I don’t know that. And it’s my real name on this site.
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