I was tagged by Pat over at Stubborn Facts.
Here’s the game…

Pick up the nearest book ( of at least 123 pages).
Open the book to page 123.
Find the fifth sentence.
Post the next three sentences.
Tag five people.

Right now I’m reading Marketing to Moviegoers: A Handbook of Strategies Used by Major Studios and Independents.. Here’s my meme…

Activision alleged [...]

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6:36: Tonight, it’s not about hope, it’s about hype.
The final scheduled debate of primary season is here. Finally. After 19 Republican debates and what will be tonight be the 21 debates for Democrats, [...]

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I was going to let this go, but then the whole “Ted Kennedy was incensed” thing surfaced.
Let me be as frank as possible: To narrow the passage of the Civil Rights Act to one party let alone one person, is about as foolish as you could possibly be. If anyone wants to comment, [...]

First the Dems:

As you can see, Hillary made a small gain, and Obama keeps rising. This definitely shows that Florida had absolutely no effect on Hillary’s numbers at all. In fact, her claiming victory in a state with no delegates may have slightly backfired.
Now the Repubs:

Big uptick for McCain after Florida. He’s got the [...]

What’s more, he added 170,000 new donors this month alone for a total of 650,000. I believe that’s the most of any candidate, including the scrappy Ron Paul.
Another thing to consider is that this is just fundraising for the month January. Any candidate would kill for this to be their 3-month total. Given that, this [...]

McCain won with message, not money. I guess he really is the comeback kid after all.
From TPM:
The McCain campaign filed their year-end fundraising report with the Federal Election Commission yesterday — and it shows just what dire straits he was in before he proceeded to win New Hampshire, South Carolina and Florida.
McCain took in just [...]

Is this a sign he knows he’s done?
From TPM:
With five days to go until Super Tuesday, Mitt Romney’s spokesperson is confirming that the Romney campaign has bought exactly zero TV ad time in any of the states that vote on Feb. 5.
“We currently haven’t purchased any ad time yet,” Romney spokesperson Kevin Madden confirmed to [...]

Honestly, I thought it might come to this.
(NOTE: Apparently the link is down, but I contacted the webmaster and it should be back up shortly.)

What about both of them?
Rasmussen has the numbers…
Twenty-six percent (26%) of American voters believe New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is at least somewhat likely to make a third-party or independent bid for the White House in 2008. That includes 5% who say he is Very Likely to do so.
Twenty-nine percent (29%) say that Texas [...]

First the national poll from Gallup, which shows that last week Clinton was up by 16 points. Now the gap is 6 points.
Clinton 42% (-2)
Obama 36% (+3)
Edwards 12% (-2)
Then Kennedy’s endorsement has helped Obama in Massachusetts…
A Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of the Massachusetts Democratic Presidential Primary finds Hillary Clinton attracting 43% of the vote while [...]

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Tonight is the CNN/Los Angeles/Politico Republican Debate at the Ronald Reagan Library in Simi Valley, California. It will begin at 8pm est and will air on CNN and will stream live at [...]

A snarky response to an earnest question:
I’m not sure whether I should feel flattered or annoyed with all the attention Justin Gardner of Donklephant has given me recently. Donklephant turning into Michael Van Der Galiën Watch? It’s great that Justin has moved from Ron Paul to Barack Obama – good decision – but it’s getting [...]

Paraphrasing KSuv, “It’s the media stupid!”
From Independent Liberal:
In snubbing Iowa and New Hampshire, you must realize that you aren’t simply ignoring voters in those early states. You’re snubbing the national press, which needs to feed off of these early momentum-builders to write their narratives and create their stories. If you don’t compete there, [...]

Why? Because the Democratic legislature thought it cost way too much. Interesting twist, no?
The question I have is if California can’t pass it, will this spell doom for a national healthcare initiative?
From WSJ:
The idea was that Mr. Schwarzenegger would set a national precedent, leading to a groundswell for reform in Washington. Not to mention that [...]

If you’ve been following my discussion with Michael about Obama and Hillary, then you’re all caught up. If not, you can click here and here.
Initially we were talking about identity politics, but the discussion quickly moved onto the experience issue and what being “moderate” means. Basically, I’ve been taking Michael to task for railing Obama [...]

There are some highly critical Obama posts at Stubborn Facts (here and here). One at Centerfield here and a whole host at PoliGazette (a concise one here).
The general theme? Obama is a fraud, nothing more than a generic liberal with rhetorical chops. He won’t actually unify anybody. He has no way to pay for his [...]

Dana Milbank shares the collective sentiment…
[...] in a political stunt worthy of the late Evel Knievel, the Clinton campaign decided to put on an ersatz victory party that, it hoped, would erase memories of Obama’s actual victory Saturday night in South Carolina’s Democratic primary. “Thank you, Florida Democrats!” Clinton shouted to the cheering throng. “I [...]

Frankly, I’m a bit shocked. I thought for sure he’d stick around to try and be kingmaker, but stranger things have happened and since John didn’t come in 2nd in South Carolina, one can only imagine how demoralized his campaign has become.
From AP:
DENVER (AP) – Democrat John Edwards is exiting the presidential race Wednesday, ending [...]

She won tonight, and her team is pushing for her delegates to be seated.
From Mark Penn:
Most of the voters in Florida fully expect that their votes will not be wasted again — they expect to have a voice at the convention, and Hillary has asked her delegates to support their being seated.
What gets me is [...]

He has opened up a bigger lead, 36% to Romney’s 31%. The networks have called it. And this is good news for McCain because maybe he can’t claim a resounding victory, but whenever you defeat your opponent by 5% it’s certainly not a tie.
From AP:
Returns from 64 percent of the state’s precincts showed McCain, the [...]