How can she be so transparently shameless? From Hillary’s campaign… Regardless of today’s outcome, the race quickly shifts to Florida, where hundreds of thousands of Democrats will turn out to vote on Tuesday. Despite efforts by the Obama campaign to ignore Floridians, their voices will be heard loud and clear across the country, as the [...]

Good news for Barack? Hillary? Edwards? The answer is all of them, because Democrats are coming out in force this primary season and that will bode well for the eventual nominee. From The State: Good weather and an attractive slate of candidates have South Carolina Democrats expecting record turnout for today’s presidential primary, continuing a [...]

Novak floats a theory that Obama is reaching out to Edwards, and I suppose if there’s a job John IS qualified for in an Obama presidency, it’s in AG’s office.. WASHINGTON, D.C. — Illinois Democrats close to Sen. Barack Obama are quietly passing the word that John Edwards will be named attorney general in an [...]

So the DNC yanked the delegates from these states because they moved their primaries up and now the Clintons are trying to get those delegates to count again? First, their statement… I hear all the time from people in Florida and Michigan that they want their voices heard in selecting the Democratic nominee. I believe [...]

E.J. Dionne reminds us what the former President said before he spent some time in the Oval Office… Ronald Reagan, Clinton said, deserved credit for winning the Cold War. He praised Reagan’s “rhetoric in defense of freedom” and his role in “advancing the idea that communism could be rolled back.” “The idea that we were [...]

The former Governor is ahead by 15%, but should he stick around until Super Tuesday or is one state just not enough to justify the effort? Rasmussen has the numbers… The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in Georgia finds Huckabee with 34% of the vote followed by McCain at 19%, Romney with 16%, Ron Paul [...]

Hey y’all (I’ve been in the south too long). In this video, I ask John Edwards about young voters. He definitely seemed a bit tired and grumpy when I met him, but he did take the time to answer the question. Thoughts?

Zogby shows him getting closer and closer to Hillary over the past few days, with Obama leading by a pretty solid 13%. From Zogby… Clinton won 25% support, up one point from the day before but now just four points ahead of former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards, who continued to increase support and now [...]

I think most of us know that at some point in the very near future, the US will start drawing down troops in Iraq. Come March we will have been in Iraq for five years. Five years. We know that any draw down won’t happen under the current President. Unlike his father, who was able [...]

[Re-published from 2008Central.net. This liveblog on Donklephant will be updated periodically. For the latest please visit the active liveblog at 2008Central.net] 7:30: Time Russert and Brian Williams (henceforth, Bri-Wi) are moderating this debate, and participating are John McCain, Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani, Mike Huckabee, and Ron Paul. I’m looking for Huckabee and Giuliani to be [...]

Apparently the smear wasn’t worth the heat. Or it wasn’t polling well. Either way, you know they didn’t pull it because Hillary felt bad about smearing Barack. This is all out war now, and regardless of this one pull back it doesn’t look like it’ll be letting up any time soon. From Wash Post: GREENVILLE, [...]

Justin gave us the details. Now here’s my take. What we have here is a nice little wealth redistribution plan. If these kinds of tax rebates actually stimulate the economy, then we could debate the appropriateness of excluding wealthier households. But the problem is, rebates don’t work. Historically, people use the rebates to pay down [...]

While I’m not necessarily in favor of stimulating the economy by going further into debt (huh?), I do like the compromise they came up with. The people at the bottom will spend the money they get immediately, and that’s the quickest way to see a fast uptick. And if that’s the goal, well, it’ll probably [...]

If we pull out of Iraq immediately, will Iran move in? I asked Congressman Ron Paul, one of this election’s biggest proponents of immediate troop withdrawal. I still stand by my position. What do you think?

You been to Draft Bloomberg yet? It’s a very slick site with the sole purpose of getting you to embed a widget that gathers signatures to urge Bloomberg to run. Right now they have just a little over 2,000. What’s more, former Unity08 co-founders, Gerald Rashfoon and Doug Bailey are behind it. Now, it’s no [...]

They will say anything to win. From Wash Post: DILLON, S.C., Jan. 23 — Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign aired a new radio ad here Wednesday that repeated a discredited charge against Sen. Barack Obama, in what some Democrats said is part of an increasing pattern of hardball politics by her and former president [...]

But honestly, so what? From Politico: Ron Paul, the Texas congressman frequently dismissed as a long shot candidate with no real chance at winning the Republican presidential nomination, has won nearly twice as many total votes to date as Rudy Giuliani, a candidate still widely viewed as a strong contender. With his second place finish [...]

A new site just popped up, at least for me, and I’m intrigued. It’s called RedBlueAmerica and it’s put together by the E.W. Scripps Company, which owns cable outlets HGTV, the Food Network, the DIY Network, Fine Living and Great American Country (GAC). They also own a bunch of newspapers and local TV stations. So [...]

It doesn’t get any more straightforward than this… I’m telling you…he’s hurting her…

The Edwards campaign latest justification for remaining in the race is that John Edwards is the ONLY electable Democratic candidate (as opposed to a similar but very different argument that Edwards is more electable than the other candidates). The campaign started making this argument after Iowa and has expanded on it ever since. Recently, Edwards [...]