Posted on April 26, 2008 by respublicas
Finally, a Hillary Clinton supporter with some sense! Oh wait– he’s now for Barack Obama!
Read the original Washington Post article (emphasis is my own):
Gabriel Guerra-Mondragon served as an ambassador to Chile during Bill Clinton’s presidency, considered himself a close friend of Sen. Hillary Clinton and became a “HillRaiser” by raising six-figure sums for her presidential [...]
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Posted on April 24, 2008 by respublicas
So much for Hillary’s double digit lead in Pennsylvania. CNN reports:
According to the most up-to-date vote totals from the Associated Press — used by all networks and national news organizations — Clinton won 1,260,208 votes in Pennsylvania to Obama’s 1,045,444. If you break it down by percentages, that’s 54.65 percent for Clinton and 45.34 percent [...]
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Posted on April 23, 2008 by respublicas
According to CNN:
There were more than 150,000 new voters in the Pennsylvania primary and they overwhelmingly voted for Barack Obama, the just released exit polls show.
Among first time voters, 60 percent went for Obama while only 38 percent went for Clinton. That discrepancy could keep the race close.
But in good news for Clinton, among voters [...]
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Posted on April 16, 2008 by respublicas
I took these from the CNN transcript of the Compassion Forum.
HILLARY TALKS ABOUT HER EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCING THE HOLY SPIRIT:
INTERVIEWER: Let’s talk about your faith. And we warned people the questions tonight would be pretty personal. So I want to ask you. You said in an interview last year that you believe in the Father, Son [...]
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Posted on April 14, 2008 by respublicas
Surrounding Obama’s recent “controversial” statements about people voting on gun laws and second amendment rights, Senator Clinton responded by touting her own experience with guns by recalling a childhood memory:
“You know, my dad took me out behind the cottage that my grandfather built on a little lake called Lake Winola outside of Scranton and taught [...]
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Posted on April 8, 2008 by respublicas
In the most recent poll I could find of the Pennsylvania Democratic Primary, Obama and Hillary were in a statistical tie, following a consistently tightening gap in the polls during the past few weeks.
The poll, from the American Research Group, was taken between the 5th and 6th of April and cites democratic preference in the [...]
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Posted on April 8, 2008 by respublicas
I’m going to use this site to blog about my political thoughts relating to the upcoming primaries, elections, etc, as well as my general opinions. I’m going to attempt to base each post in some type of factual grounding, such as an excerpt from a credible source, a quotation, video, poll, etc.
To begin with something [...]
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Some polls regarding “Bittergade”
According to a Quinnipiac University Poll released today (April 15th) there was no change in the Pennsylvania primary match-up between Obama and Hillary since his “bitter” comments:
New York Sen. Hillary Clinton has stalled Illinois Sen. Barack Obama’s drive in the Pennsylvania Democratic primary and holds a 50 – 44 percent lead among likely primary voters, [...]
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