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Don't panic....Yet 'Obama has waged the waged the dirtiest campaign in American history. "That one" Ask Obama & McCain these questions tonight Ther're Back: Ayers,Wright, and Rezko The House needs to step up to the plate. Where are the leaders? Time out? It's about time Here we go again October 07 November 07 December 07 January 08 February 08 March 08 April 08 May 08 June 08 July 08 August 08 September 08 October 08 John Edwards & Barack Obama went straight for the jugular in going after Hillary. They attacked the vote on calling the Iranian Revolutionary Council a terrorist organization. Saying it will give this president the excuse he needs to go to war with Iran. Hillary’s inconsistent answers were exposed on social security and at the end of the debate she agreed with New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer's controversial plan to give driver's licenses to illegal immigrants but then a minute later started backtracking. Now Bill Clinton was a master at being evasive but her facial expressions and demeanor showed she is no Bill Clinton. Will this debate change the numbers? I don’t know. I think what was really exposed last night was status quo positions of the front runner. How can my party complain about the secrecy in the Bush Administration if Hillary does not turn over all her documents? I understand it gives the other candidates an unfair advantage, because she will be the only candidate required to do this. But if this lack of transparency is going to stop, someone has to take the lead. The other is lobbyist money; Hillary has out raised all the candidates of both parties in lobbyist money from Wall Street, defense department, and insurance and drug companies. Some might see it as success but really it business as usual. Somehow we must have a leader to take us to public financing because these lobbyist have too much influence. I am getting suspicious as to why the Bush Administration is getting their way on the latest NSA spying bill. Did the telecommunication lobbyist have something to do with it? I don’t know. This may sound like a slam on Hillary but it really isn’t, it just exposes some of her weakness in a primary. Great leaders learn form mistakes and they don’t usually repeat them. Constructive criticism will only make a person stronger. 
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On to New Hampshire
The Joe Biden and Christopher Dodd dropped out, of the presidential campaign. Biden, knowledge of foreign policies, and Chris Dodd’s expertise in the domestic issues. never did get them into the double digits. Barack Obama did what everyone thought was impossible. He brought a lot of new young voters into the process. The young voters made up 22% of the electorate. Mr. Obama got 57% of that vote. John Edwards is about done, because he does not have the money to linger on much longer. Even though Chris Matthews wanted Mike Huckabee stomped Mitt Romney, with 39,814 votes to Romney's 29,405. It looks like 34,240 of Mike's votes came from the evangelicals. The evangelical vote will not help Mike Huckabee in McCain and Thompson practically tied for third. Perhaps Thompson will drop out and support McCain in Can't count Mitt Romney out because if he wins New Hampshire,he is most likely to win Michigan and the race goes on.
The GOP race will go on for a long.long time, because they have not settled in on a candidate yet. It may be the Wall Street Republicans versus the Religious Republicans. In my opinion, Giuliani's big state gamble will be a flop. 2 comments from 2 users
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posted by
Mike
on Jan 4, 2008 at 02:30 PM
You’re absolutely right Harold, that 15 million means, Ron Paul will be in for the long-haul. I just can’t see an antiwar candidate winning the Republican nomination. I can see, Ron Paul, coming in third in IMO opinion, Ron Paul would do better running as an independent, but that would just assure a Democratic landslide. He says he will not run as an independent but he will be a force to be reckoned with especially, the next debate, where he will get more airtime as the candidates thin out. posted by
texson1986
on Jan 4, 2008 at 02:13 PM
Mike Huckabee, is completely unacceptable to large portions of the Republican party. Iowa has a much higher percentage of evangelicals than will primaries coming forward. Huckabee ain’t going to win New Hampshire and has little national organization.Exit polls suggest that Dr. Paul WON Independent Voters, who are the key crossover constituency that a Republican candidate is going to need to win in the general election. We have a wide open race right now. We are likely to be top 3 in Wyoming. Dr Paul. should also do fairly well in South Carolina and Nevada, where he has spent time building his base while everyone else was in Iowa. Besides Romney & Guiliani virtually every other candidate is broke and with the exception of Huckabee, they won’t pull in more money based on their Iowa performance. Meanwhile, Dr. Paul has over 15 millions in the bank and with his huge grassroots base, we can easily raise millions more. That money will matter a lot more in states that, unlike Iowa don’t allow candidates to meet every voter. This is where we begin to use our finances to our advantage. While it is still an uphill fight for the nomination (as it always was) we are coming out of Iowa in a better position than we came in and we are well placed to do some real damage in the primaries going forward. The Revolution Continues! Long live the Republic, Tex
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