Rasmussen: Obama 47%, McCain 40% [Raw Story Breaking News]
July 5, 2008
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Rasmussen: Obama 47%, McCain 40%
Rasmussen: Obama 47%, McCain 40%
Planners of the convention in Denver may be forced to scale back on their original design or increase their fund-raising goals.
The presumptive Democratic nominee tells reporters on his flight to Missouri that he was surprised at how the media has “finely calibrated” his statement on refining his Iraq policy Thursday.
ST. LOUIS (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said on Saturday his plan to end the Iraq war was unchanged and he was puzzled by the sharp reaction to his statement this week that he might "refine" his timetable for withdrawing U.
Democratic presidential hopeful says he remains committed to ending war in Iraq
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama told reporters Saturday that he was surprised at how the media has "finely calibrated" his recent words on Iraq. "I was a little puzzled by the frenzy that I set off by what I thought was a pretty innocuous statement," he said.
AP - Barack Obama celebrated "active faith" as an obligation of religious Americans and a chief agent of societal change while speaking Saturday to a nearly all-black roomful of churchgoers, but hoping to reach far beyond them.
The kiss-off grows.
Barack Obama's planned European tour might make a major whistlestop in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. The candidate's schedule isn't set, but a Berlin appearance before the end of July looks likely.
More anti-war figures are voicing their opinions about contradictory and confusing statements regarding Iraq made Thursday by presumptive Democrat presidential nominee Barack Obama, and the news is clearly not good for his campaign.
As regular readers know, I have followed the case of the missing Obama birth certificate story closely. In fact, several days ago, I pointed to evidence of the legitimacy of scanned images released by the Daily Kos site and the Obama campaign.
Flip-flopping is the normal sort of rank opportunism, but for a messiah it is tantamount to sacrilege and heresy.
According to a CNN poll, Barack Obama is losing support of Democrats rather than gaining them since his “unity” meeting with Hillary Clinton. Obama’s support from registered Democrats has dropped from 59% to 54%.
In a ominous sign of things to come for Obama it appears that many people are still, weeks after her concession, identifying themselves as Hillary supporters and the number who have said they will not vote for the leader of Hypenated-Americanism have gone down also: According to a CNN/Opinion Research Corp.
During the July 4th week, Barack Obama did something that's becoming characteristic of his campaign: He took an issue on which he appeared to be vulnerable -- in this case the cluster of themes lumped together as "patriotism" -- and by going on the offensive in a powerful speech, he subtly changed the terms of the debate.
Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton will collect cash together for his campaign and the Democratic National Committee in New York City next week.
The resilience of the Hillary Clinton dead-enders is surprising. CNN reports that the number of holdouts is actually growing. According to a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll released Friday, the number of Clinton supporters who plan to defect to Republican Sen.
The contract between a government and its people is understood to be one where the government has to not exercise its power entirely.Parental, in other words. A government which fully exerts its power over its people is a tyranny, a totalitarian regime, fascism.
In "The Best and the Brightest," David Halberstam chronicles Lyndon Johnson's absolute terror of appearing soft on communism. Having seen fellow Democrats destroyed in the early 1950s because they tolerated a Communist victory in China, Johnson swore that he would not let the story replay itself in.
The West Wing has become a veritable Leftorium.
At the polls and by the pool, the Stars and Stripes sells.
Malia Obama told her parents that spending her 10th birthday helping her father campaign for the presidency far from home and "rocking out" with her family after takeout in a modest hotel room was the best she has ever had.
ST. LOUIS Sen. Barack Obama declared Saturday to a roaring crowd of religious African-Americans at the America's Center that they should have no doubt of his commitment to his Christian faith, his nation or his political principles.
ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Barack Obama celebrated "active faith" as an obligation of religious Americans and a chief agent of societal change while speaking Saturday to a nearly all-black roomful of churchgoers, but hoping to reach far beyond them.
Across the country people spent their Fourth of July registering voters at local events. In Ohio, one event caught the attention of the local ABC channel... Judy Kraus spent July 4th marching down Hamilton Avenue with other Barack Obama supporters in the annual Northside holiday parade.