Campaign Updates and Media Headlines 8/8/08
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“Always aim high, work hard, and care deeply about what you believe in. And when you stumble, keep faith. And when you’re knocked down, get right back up, and never listen to anyone who says you can’t, or shouldn’t, go on.”
Please help Hillary retire her debt.—Caro
What Does Hillary Want? (by Katharine Q. Seelye at The Caucus, New York Times)
The most recent New York Times poll puts [Hillary Clinton’s] favorability rating among Democrats at 70 percent and Mr. Obama’s at 66 percent. [Emphasis added.] Now Mr. Obama is struggling in the polls to maintain parity with Senator John McCain.
Ya Know, That’s a Really Good Question (by Alegre)
From an article on Yahoo… ”At least eight in ten Americans believe the nation is on the wrong track. The Republican president is historically unpopular. From stunning Democratic gains in party registration to the high levels of economic anxiety, Obama should have a healthy lead by almost every measure. Yet, in poll after poll, Obama conspicuously fails to cross the 50 percent threshold.” There’s no excuse for BHO’s anemic numbers against McCain at this point. I don’t know about you, but if I were a Democrat running for office down-ticket to BHO, I’d be mighty worried about his short - or nonexistent coattails here. I think they know as well as we do that BHO’s inability to close the deal will hurt their chances at winning their own contest.
Are Georgia Voters Sending Obama A Message? (by Daniel Halper, originally published in Commentary magazine on August 6, 2008, reposted at No Quarter)
Politicians grabbing Barack Obama’s coattails should take note: In the Georgia democratic Senatorial primary runoff held [Tuesday], Jim Martin defeated Vernon Jones by a 60% to 40%… Jones’s campaign hoped to emulate Obama’s impressive primary victory in Georgia (he defeated Senator Hillary Clinton in Georgia, 66.4% to 31.1%), but now he’s failed to even make it to November’s ballot.
In fact, Jones distributed campaign paraphernalia consisting of a picture of himself and Obama, with the words “Yes We Can!” prominently scrawled underneath the photographs. Also, Jones sent a mass email meant to smear his opponent Martin: “My campaign has uncovered evidence that my opponent, Jim Martin, did not want Senator Barack Obama to be President of the United States and that Jim Martin voted against Barack Obama in the February 2008 Presidential Primary election in Georgia.“
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Carolyn Kay
MakeThemAccountable.com
