Letters to the Editor
madamfauntleroy
Published Letters: 654 Editor's Choice: 2
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Scott Bodenheimer and max mendalbaum
[Read the article: Hey, Obama boys: Back off already!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I thought I agreed with you. Care to go back and reread mycomment to you? Or do you want to start a sibling fight? Mind you, I am much bigger than you and can crush you till you go runnin' to ma Hillary. Just kidding.
max mendalbaum
What did Scott say to make you think he is racist? I need to know before I can claim him as a sibling.
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AncientAssyrian
[Read the article: Did the "bitter" flap affect the race?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]WES ain't so bad. His one line zingers are far more edible than the pages of rants by you know whos. They have been uncharacteristically absent for a while. Maybe they have morphed into something else OR they have been taking their meds.
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One thing is certain. Most Dems hate negative attacks and Hillary keeps at it much to her detriment
[Read the article: Did the "bitter" flap affect the race?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]April 15, 2008
Poll shows Obama gaining, holding steady in key states
Posted: 06:07 PM ET
A new poll shows good news for Obama.
(CNN) — Despite a weekend of negative coverage following his controversial remarks about some small town Americans, Barack Obama appears to be holding steady or making gains in the next three primary states, according to a just released poll.
Most surprisingly, the new LA Times/Bloomberg poll shows Obama ahead of Hillary Clinton by 5 points in Indiana (40 to 35 percent), a state with demographics that favor the New York senator and one where other recent polls have shown her with a lead.
The poll also shows Clinton only holds a 5 point lead in Pennsylvania (48 to 43 percent). That margin is among the slimmest measured between to the two candidates and is significantly less than the double digit lead Clinton held there two weeks ago.
In North Carolina, the new survey shows Obama with a 13 point lead (47-34 percent), a margin that is consistent with other recent polls in that state.
Pennsylvania votes April 22 while Indiana and North Carolina vote two weeks later on May 6. Should Clinton win in Pennsylvania, some political observers have said she must score a victory in at least one of the May 6 states to make a compelling argument to continue her presidential campaign.
The poll was conducted over five days (April 10-14), the majority of which came after Obama's now famous "bitter" comments first surfaced.
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Obama Outraises Clinton Among Small Town Pennsylvanians
[Read the article: Did the "bitter" flap affect the race?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/15/obama-outraises-clinton-a_n_96806.html
through the end of February 2008, Obama received nearly $250,000 in contributions from Pennsylvanians residing in zip codes with populations under 30,000 people. That total, which does not include Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and both city's suburbs, was roughly $30,000 more than the amount raised by Clinton: $220,000.
When the population size is made even smaller, Obama continues to best his Democratic rival. Among those non-urban Pennsylvania zip codes with populations under 20,000, the Illinois Democrat has brought in just over $200,000. Clinton has raised slightly more than $170,000.
(Obama's advantage may in fact be even stronger than these numbers show, since campaigns do not provide information on donors who gave under $200, a subset where Obama has excelled. See the complete data here.)
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Obama Outraises Clinton Among Small Town Pennsylvanians
[Read the article: The rubes and the elites]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]through the end of February 2008, Obama received nearly $250,000 in contributions from Pennsylvanians residing in zip codes with populations under 30,000 people. That total, which does not include Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and both city's suburbs, was roughly $30,000 more than the amount raised by Clinton: $220,000.
When the population size is made even smaller, Obama continues to best his Democratic rival. Among those non-urban Pennsylvania zip codes with populations under 20,000, the Illinois Democrat has brought in just over $200,000. Clinton has raised slightly more than $170,000.
(Obama's advantage may in fact be even stronger than these numbers show, since campaigns do not provide information on donors who gave under $200, a subset where Obama has excelled. See the complete data here.)
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Clinton Overblowing Her Role in Irish Peace Accords Says Historian
[Read the article: The rubes and the elites]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]http://alternet.org/election08/82337/
When I asked Bew about Clinton's claim, he chuckled and replied: "There is a simple point to be made." He referred me to a new book by Jonathan Powell, Great Hatred, Little Room: Making Peace in Northern Ireland. Powell was chief of staff to British Prime Minister Tony Blair, and his book, which has been a sensation in England, is an insider's account of the peace talks that led to the Good Friday Agreement. Look at the index of this book for "Hillary Clinton," Bew told me. There is, he said, "only one reference to Hillary Clinton." Bew was right about that. That one citation refers the read to a tangential anecdote in which Powell mistakes a female Secret Service agent assigned to First Lady Clinton for a friend (Nancy Soderberg, a national security aide in the Clinton White House) and cheekily asks for a kiss. "That's it," Bew said. "The only reference to Hillary Clinton in this detailed blow-by-blow account. This is more telling than any other particular point .... It is very revealing."
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DeeperTruth
[Read the article: Hey, Obama boys: Back off already!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Whose messenger are you? You speak with such authority and conviction with no proof of much of anything. Yet, you must certainly be channeling something from some higher power. Just asking.
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rufus11
[Read the article: The rubes and the elites]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]truth cannot be suppressed and liars spinnsters and propogandists stand no chance, as we can rebute yoru garbage in 30 seconds
Spinsters are for Obama, last I heard :)
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Christopher Michael Neill
[Read the article: Hey, Obama boys: Back off already!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thanks for pointing that out. Hillarobots are getting more and more aerie fairie and talk high morality for a candidate with low morals. That's what happens in cults when reason and reality are replaced with self righteousness and self styled "honesty."
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Aussiedame
[Read the article: The rubes and the elites]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thanks for an overseas perspective. We were in Australia last year and were delighted to encounter anti-war sentiments there and the anger toward your government. He is gone now and so will Bush.
Can you come and vote in Pennsylvania next week?
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Obama Surges on Electability,
[Read the article: The rubes and the elites]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]http://abcnews.go.com/PollingUnit/DemocraticDebate/story?id=4658063&page=1
Barack Obama has knocked down one of the three tent poles of Hillary Clinton's campaign for president, surging ahead of her as the candidate Democrats see as most likely to win in November. He's challenging her on leadership as well, leaving only experience as a clear Clinton advantage in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll.