Feeds: 
symbol identifies content for paid subscribers only.
LIGHTNING ROUND: THIS IS A PRIMARY THAT NEVER ENDS, YES, IT GOES ON AND ON MY FRIENDS.
- I've got a longer take on the Democrats below and all that really needs to be said about the Republicans is that the nomination is pretty much McCain's now. Barring a total collapse by either Huckabee or Romney and straight victories for whomever is left running against McCain, the senator from Arizona will be shopping for a VP soon.
- Romney won't drop out though, his son Tagg says. I'll take any excuse to use that name I can get.
- On the Democratic side Clinton is contemplating a big loan to her campaign from personal funds. In fact, she already has borrowed 5 million from herself. Weirdly, this might actually help her campaign's image.
- In case you didn't know that the expectations game is completely ridiculous check out this chart from Jonathan Stein at MoJo which points out that Obama actually outdid his poll numbers by more than Clinton outdid hers.
- Will a long race help or hurt the Democrats in November? Opinions differ. I'd argue it depends on how bloody things get.
- TNR has a Q&A with
JTJoe Trippi that deals with the end of the Edwards campaign and the fight between Clinton and Obama.
- The Texas election on March 4 is often said to favor Clinton, but Ed Kilgore points out that everything, including the complexity of the primary process, is bigger down there. The good people of Texas, you see, hold both a pimary and a caucus at the same time! Obama seems to be good at caucuses and complex systems that require careful organizing so this could give him an edge.
- And I really can't believe the XX Factor is having a debate on the deeper meaning of Michelle Obama's red suit. Leave that to Robin Givhan.
- Finally, just for fun, it's rare you see a metaphor come to life so to speak, but all the Google-Obama Microsoft-Clinton comparisons turn out to be borne out by actual donations. Also, meet the new Bill Richardson, not the same as the old Bill Richardson -- much, much more evil-looking.
--Sam Boyd
COMMENTS (2)
Mr. Stein is just full of it.
Of the people who decided on the last day decided 2-1 for her.
Second given the surging numbers and expectations he underperformed by a lot.
I was an original subscriber to Mother Jones, Mr.Stein's magazine...Adam Hochscild the founder was a geat editor, and Michael Moore (yes that Michael Moore) was a good one. I not only subscribed I donated.
But the magazine just degenenerated. One editor after another decided to have one anti-feminist writer after another masquerading as feminsist who busily trashed feminists and feminism.
I remember a long phone call, initiated in an attempt to get me to donate even more about why publishing women who would now be members of the Independent Women's Forum was progressive!
Admittedly I stopped reading it a long time ago because I couldn't take one more such article. So when these kinds of numbers are heavily massaged I feel that old feeling.
Posted by: debcoop | February 6, 2008 11:44 PM
On your last point, I think we should encourage politicians to grow beards, rather than calling them evil-looking. Remember how awesome the 19th century was? Won't somebody please think of the muttonchops!
Posted by: Mythmaker | February 7, 2008 9:20 AM