The impact of the union endorements aren't clear just looking at win/loss. Obama was made up a lot of ground in California in the end (despite a large ratio of absentee ballots). Who is to say that the endorsement didn't have an impact? At this point it is all about margins, and these endorsements will help those margins.

As for Hillary's blue collar support, don't forget she was endorsed by the NEA.

And Nevada? Oh that cracks me up. Obama only got 13 pledged delegates to Clinton's 12. What a crushing defeat!

So the Clinton plan is to prevent the execution of legal contracts? I'd better go look at her health plan again and make sure that it doesn't try to fix the problem by making cancer illegal.

Meanwhile Obama wants to provide banks with incentives to prevent foreclosures with the understanding that it is not in their financial interest to foreclose. Banks don't want to do it. They learned her in Washington 20 plus years ago that it is better to make arrangements with borrowers.

How does Clinton keep getting this reputation for experience as a qualification?

A foreclosure/subprime solution that would really make any kind of home loan extremely risky for any bank since the borrower would basically have cover by the government to default on the loan and not lose the house.

A compulsory health care system that would make you fork over money to private insurance companies. I just don't see why I should be forced to pay a middle man for routine health care. Health insurance shouldn't be mandatory until we are under a single payer system. Otherwise it is just a big payday for Primera like the Medicare reform bill was for Big Pharm.

So which narrative is it right now:

Obama plays politcal hardball in order to get elected

or

Obama is too nice to stand up to the right wing smear machine

How about Begala and Carville?

Can you throw up some links to support your claims?

It sounds like the union guy is mad that Obama didn't stop the closing. I don't know what he really expected one senator to do to stop the closing of an underperforming plant.

What he did do is work with Sen Durbin to push the Department of Labor to get the displaced workers assistance such as career counseling and job search assistance; information about unemployment insurance; opportunities for education and training; and information about their health benefits and pensions options.

Obviously it isn't the same as keeping your job, but again he did what a Senator can do. Even further, he did what a Senator can do under W and under NAFTA.

The important thing is that he gets the struggle, he grew up in the struggle. He is the guy you want making sure that Trade agrements aren't just about Free Trade but Fair Trade as well.

Considering that part of the "experience" Sen Clinton likes to claim is her time in the White House, I don't think she can make the claim that we won't just see more "Anything goes if you are a corporation" trade agreements like we had with NAFTA.

The disagreement is comes down to laid off workers who have the opinion that Obama should have done more and the hard evidence of the work that Obama did do for them.

As for the nuclear, show me the link that contradicts what Obama is claiming? Because I'm reading a Clinton press release from 2006 raving about the bill. Should I assume that she was for the bill before she was against it?

I don't know. Let's compare his and Clinton's tax returns.

Anyone wanting the scoop on the nuclear smear:

http://factcheck.barackobama.com/factcheck/2008/02/14/response_to_clintons_random_ti.php

I especially like how Hillary has received $80,000 from the nuclear lobby, $4600 from the CEO of NRG energy, and $5 million that went to "The Clinton Global Initative". Five million, five million...where have I heard that number before? It was pretty recent. Something about a loan?

But hey, I'll let you Barack Bashers read the whole thing. After all, I know you're all about "Substance" and wouldn't just parrot empty rhetoric you heard from a speech an "empty suit" gave.

So do we put stock into polls or not?

They haven't been very predictive so far.