Letters to the Editor
Ray Sharp
Published Letters: 112 Editor's Choice: 12
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Economy, stupid
[Read the article: Dead party walking]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]McCain would have a 50/50 chance to beat Hil but for the economy. I think enough independents will hold their noses and vote for her, thinking that she might be better for the shrinking/struggling middle class. We're going to be in big-time recession this summer/fall.
The best line about McCain, one that will stick, is from Chuck Norris! "The White House ages you 3 years to 1. McCain will be 72 next January, and that would make him 84 by the end of the first term.
Obama wipes McCain out easily, huge Electoral College breakthrough, based on age difference, but Hil can win a close one if the vote in Ohio isn't hacked (again?)
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Only the battleground states matter
[Read the article: Will whites vote for Barack Obama? ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It doesn't matter whether whites in SC or AL or TX or ID will vote for Obama, only if whites in OH, PA, FL, MI will. In the last two elections, a few more votes in FL or OH -- or less shenanigins -- would have changed the result. That's the Electoral College for you. As much as Obama is a potential uniter who could bring progressive-agenda changes by having broad popular support, it still comes down to those 271 electoral votes and the 3 or 4 swing states.
I have to agree with Rush, who said Hilary reminds men of their nagging first wives. I'm not saying that's fair, just that it may be true for millions of white skinned, blue collared Reagan Democrats.
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Only the battleground states matter
[Read the article: Obama's historic run heads south]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It doesn't matter whether whites in SC or AL or TX or ID will vote for Obama, only if whites in OH, PA, FL, MI will. In the last two elections, a few more votes in FL or OH -- or less shenanigins -- would have changed the result. That's the Electoral College for you. As much as Obama is a potential uniter who could bring progressive-agenda changes by having broad popular support, it still comes down to those 271 electoral votes and the 3 or 4 swing states.
I have to agree with Rush, who said Hilary reminds men of their nagging first wives. I'm not saying that's fair, just that it may be true for millions of white skinned, blue collared Reagan Democrats.
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South doesn't matter
[Read the article: Obama's historic run heads south]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Obama doesn't need to win the white southern vote. He needs 271 electoral votes, period. He doesn't need Alabama, Georgia, S. Carolina. Doesn't need Idaho or Wyoming. Jesus H. Christ could run as the Democratic candidate and not carry Idaho or Wyoming.
He probably can win the White House without Florida, if he takes the North East, West Coast, Midwest. Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois plus the 2 coasts and New Mexico. That's your majority. Gore, even Kerry, almost pulled it off.
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VP speech?
[Read the article: The Democratic response]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]She did sound like Obama-lite.
A white woman VP candidate from a red state. I'm sure she'd like that, if asked.
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Sibelius
[Read the article: Obama releases statement on Edwards' exit]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Or Janet Napolitano, Gov of Arizona, look like Obama VP picks to me -- white women, red states. I guess we're getting a little ahead of ourselves, at least before next Tuesday.
Edwards supporters, I'm trolling for your votes for Obama. Your man was right about Two Americas. Come join us and work to bring Americans together to make a better world.
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First
[Read the article: MoveOn endorses Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Woo-hoo! I voted for Obama in the Move On poll yesterday.
I don't know what this means, other than that younger, more internet inclined voters favor Obama (I'm 48, a youngish baby-boomer, right on the line between generations). HRC seems to own the Social Security crowd. We shall see...
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take it down
[Read the article: How close were Barack Obama and Tony Rezko?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Gimme a break. Running this hit job 3 days before Super Tuesday! Your last desperate attempt to hold off HRC's inevitable slide just long enough for her to get the nomination? Let the people pick the better candidate, and stop the hit pieces.
Get this shit off your biased web site. Why not run something on HRC's cattle futures deal or McCain's role in the S&L scandal in its place, while you are at it.
Pathetic article, pathetic timing.
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!Si' se puede!
[Read the article: "Yes, we can"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The nuanced differences in their health care plans is irrelevant. If we learned anything from 1993 to the present, it's that incremental change in health care will come out of congressional committees after the AMA, Blue Cross, Managed Care and Big Pharma have their say. As Hillary-Care and Obama-Care are about 95% the same thing, I say "Who-Care?"
Meanwhile, my man Obama's surging in the polls. Two weeks ago he was down 15 to 20 in California and nationally. On NPR last night, Andrew Cohut-Pew had him within 8 nationally. USA Today had him 3 down. Now, this morning, Zogby-Reuters reports 46 Obama to 40 Hillary in California. When Obama and Hillary split the vote and delegates 55/45 tomorrow, with Obama taking most of the states, watch the party leaders jump on the bandwagon and say goodbye to the old school Clinton/DLC.
Here's a measure of the impact of the Obama campaign and the video -- it was in my inbox, forwarded from 3 different people in 3 different states, this morning. And they all told me to forward it to someone in California.
And I did.