Posts Tagged ‘primary’

Every vote counts!

August 4th, 2010 | 1 Comment

Think your vote doesn’t count?  Look at this: COUNTY  TOTAL BY COUNTY Jason Allen  Dan Benishek      01 ALCONA 2,052 559 545 54% 02 ALGER 1,859 527 469 54% 04 ALPENA 4,912 1,293 1,424 55% 05 ANTRIM 5,547 2,549 910 62% 06 ARENAC 2,089 498 450 45% 07 BARAGA 1,195 159 497 55% 09 [...]

Take Clyburn to the river, drop him in the water

June 11th, 2010 | No Comments

First of all, start this video and turn the volume up kinda loud.  James Brown loud. Now start reading this out loud: “There were some real shenanigans going on in the South Carolina primary,” “I don’t know if he was a Republican plant. He was someone’s plant.” “I’ve been trying to figure out how somebody [...]

What team is Specter on? ( And does it matter any more? )

May 7th, 2009 | No Comments

A lot was made of Arlen Specter’s jumping ship and declaring he was a Democrat.  His logic was the Republican Party left him.  A lot of people, including myself, figured a deal had been struck between Specter and the Democrat leadership, which at this time would be Obama and Reid.  Sure enough, both came out [...]

Hillary in 2012?

April 26th, 2008 | No Comments

From Dick Morris, who I highly respect: Does Hillary want to beat up Obama so that he can’t win the general election in November, assuring McCain of the presidency so that she can have a clear field to run again in 2012? Obviously, if Obama beats McCain, Hillary is out of the picture until 2016, [...]

Hillary wins nothing, barely

January 16th, 2008 | No Comments

Hillary Clinton took Michigan.  Running against nobody, she claimed 57% of the vote, and got all of the none delegates.  Needless to say, this didn’t tell me much at all.  Michigan lost all of their Democrat delegates for moving their primary up too early in the process and the DNC did not approve.  For one [...]

Independent voters key to New Hampshire primary?

January 8th, 2008 | 2 Comments

First of all, here’s where I stand on the issue of independent voters: In United States politics, the term independent voter typically refers to an enrolled voter who is explicitly not a member of any political party……. Now, the purpose of a primary election is defined as: …primary elections are one means by which a [...]

Crunch time for the candidates?

December 27th, 2007 | 14 Comments

A lot is being made of the Iowa and New Hampshire caucuses.  Now we’re facing “crunch time“.  Let’s look at a little history, shall we? Here’s Iowa’s history of caucus voting: Democrats January 19, 2004 – John Kerry (38%), John Edwards (32%), Howard Dean (18%), Richard Gephardt (11%) and Dennis Kucinich (1%) January 24, 2000 [...]