Archive for February 4th, 2008

Delaware Obama & McCain Betting Line

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Dems: The over/under for Obama is 54% The over/under for Biden is 3% R’s: The over/under for McCain is 52% Put your predictions in the comment section. The best prognosticator will win a prize.

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Republican Radio Host Declares America Not Ready For “Affirmative Action” Presidency

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Michael Savage, a Right-of-center Republican talk radio host stated: “America’s not ready for an affirmative action presidency.” On his syndicated show (which reaches 10 million listeners on 410 stations throughout the United States including WILM’s 10 listeners), he insisted that “the American people haven’t been heard from yet” regarding Barack Obama. And that… “when they […]

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Video From the Obama Rally

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I put this together with some of my footage from before Sen. Obama arrived. Brought to you at no charge and filmed in Zapruder-vision.  Street interviews with Real people.  Thanks, real people. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7MjIKy1Fzc[/youtube]

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Hartley-Nagle Endorsement of Barack Obama

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Hartley-Nagle Endorsement of Barack Obama

On Sunday I noticed one of the candidates for the Democratic nomination for US Congress ath the Obama rally. It was Karen Hartley-Nagle. I spoke with her this afternoon and, inspite of what I think is a genuine affinity for Hillary Clinton, she told me that Obama’s speech persuaded her that he was the right […]

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Super Tuesday Prediction Thread

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1) McCain closes the door on Romney. With the “winner take all” nature of the Republican primaries it does not matter if Romney loses by a little or a lot. It is over after tomorrow for the Republicans. 2) Obama to lose by a little. And that would be a big win for him. Because […]

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“I’m Joe Klein from TIME MAGAZINE!”

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“I’m Joe Klein from TIME MAGAZINE!”

I had not intended to cover the rally as a journalists and even told Tom Noyes on my way to the event that I wanted to be just an attendee in order to let myself get swept away. But the crowd was so huge and my kids begged off at the last minute – so […]

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A Super Day

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Like the rest of Delaware, I was at the Obama rally yesterday.  At 6:45 my family woke up after spending the night at The Franklin Institute with our YMCA youth group.  We had a great planetarium show and breakfast.  Then we got on the road and headed home for showers and a change. At 10:30, […]

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Obama Coverage Report Card

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Delaware State News: Drew Volturo A Volturo got straight to the heart of the speech and got the numbers right. He found some people from Milford and got some great quotes from them. Wilmington News Journal: Beth Miller C Miller’s story was good – but her editors killed her with the crazily misleading banner headline: […]

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