According to Gallup’s national tracking poll, Clinton has lost her lead among registered Democrats, Hispanics, and women. (The generic numbers are backed by Rasmussen). If that’s true, it really is all over.
Meanwhile, in excellent news for McCain:
A Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 61% of Americans would like to see U.S. troops brought home from Iraq within a year. That’s up a point from a week ago and two points from two weeks ago.
Good thing he splurged on the surge.
Here’s something I missed:
A footnote: The endorsement of Obama Wednesday by Puerto Rico Gov. Anibal Acevedo Vila gives him a big edge in the island commonwealth’s primary June 7, despite a predominant Hispanic population, with 63 delegates at stake. The governor will put the Popular Democratic Party, Puerto Rico’s most powerful political force, at Obama’s disposal.
Also, add Virginia and Iowa as states where Obama beats McCain but McCain beats Hillary. That’s beginning to hold in every state polled. So much for the electability argument.
But here’s the thing that seals it:
In Vermont, the smallest of the four states holding March 4 primaries, Sen. Barack Obama already had key support from the state’s congressional delegation, Democrats who hold statewide offices and almost all of the state legislative leadership.
Which is in all likelihood very useful and could help him win by a large margin in the state’s open primary next month, but isn’t anything you can drown in chocolate syrup or serve to voters in a sugar cone. So the Ben & Jerry’s vote could make all the difference. At an event in Burlington yesterday, Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, the Ben & Jerry’s founders and former John Edwards supporters, formally announced their support for Obama.
Sen. Patrick Leahy, Vermont’s senior senator, joined the ice cream entrepreneurs and played a new Obama radio ad featuring himself and Leahy’s wife Marcelle that has begun airing across the state. As part of the event, Ben & Jerry and Leahy rode in customized Honda Elements they dubbed “ObamaMobiles,” to American Flatbread, a Vermont-based “artisan pizza” company. No word on whether, among all discussion of Obama’s commitment to affordable health care and getting children the “education they deserve,” anyone in the party ordered American Flatbread’s “Revolution” pizza. They were already handing out “Cherries for Change” ice cream, so perhaps there’s a limit on symbolically freighted food.
No one can recover from that.
Well, that does it.If it’s good enuf for Ben and Jerry, it’s good enough for me!
question- I am wondering where I can fond an itemised list of Mccains Viet Nam time and behavior in Nam. Besides getting captured, what else did he do in Nam?
Ben & Jerry have even created a flavor for the campaign.
It’s not all that detailed, but a good place to start might be McCain’s Wikipedia page, especially sections 1.3 and 1.4 (Vietnam operations and Prisoner of War).
I have to say I found this amusing:
Thanks for the suggestion. I gotta tell ya, I know the risks involved in flying fighters in a combat situation, however, if thats the justification for him being revered as a “War Hero!”, then what were the 500,00 combat troops that Oh, just slogged through waist deep rice paddys, or spent endless days trying to function in the insane jungles, trying to support a regime that thought nothing of taking the life of any of their citizenry and the blink of an eye. I realize that history is always writen by the victors, but I am really tired and pissed off at this psychotic “war hero” worship that is driving the gop deification of this lying bastard!
Thanks again.
Stick a fork in her.
Or a spoon.
up here in VT, we know our cow…which one will produce the best cream.
Late September I knew something was up when 6 rural (whites) 20 + yr olds asked me if I’d be backing Obama. My eyes popped.
Silly me, I erred asking, “what do you know about him?” It was a chorus “He’ll be our next president”
Obama raised over $400,000. compared to Clinton’s $47,000. No not a typo.. Guess our population..more cows than people?
Hey, would you like me to send you some B&J ‘cherries for change ice cream’? At this point, it may be second run. Darn Wapo…they had to go blab.
New poll shows Obama barely ahead nationally. Is some of the goo sticking?
I wish this were over.
Not necessarily. Polls are like the stock market. They go up, down, and sideways day-to-day.
I know.
Just getting nervous!
veia Ben Smith
Clinton: “I’ve worked the night shift”
How insulting to women who have actually worked the night shift, had no child care, often no spouse to share support, etc.
If the point of this ad is “I’m one of you”, it’s incredibly tone deaf. It’s on par with “I’ve been a hunter all my life. I’ve shot small varmints. Twice.”
I think it’s a great deal worse than pretending to be a hunter. It shows a total lack of understanding of what many women endure. Hillary had one child, a secure income, a top education and marketable skill, health insurance and every kind of house care/child care one could imagine as First Lady in Arkansas then in the White House.
PS–My comment wasn’t intended to be critical of yours at TPM which was very good.