It's electing time for me. Go Obama. And, if you live in PG County, go Donna Edwards. Hillary Clinton, meanwhile, is off to Texas despite the fact that her national campaign headquarters is in Virginia where some primarying is happening to today.
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12 Feb 2008 08:50 am
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No kidding. MD04 covers about half of Montgomery County -- a place Al Wynn has never heard of. Even though I think Donna Edwards is crazy, I voted for her this morning. Wynn's got to go. Go Edwards!
Go Obama!
Yes we Can!
Buh'bye, Billary...b'bye!!!
Well, Obama is off to Wisconsin, so that seems a bit unfair.
I continue to be dumbfounded by Team Clinton's decision not to contest Wisconsin.
I can't help but be repulsed with the idea that Texas is being given such an important role in the Democratic Presidential Primary.
While no doubt a great state with many great people the fact is that Texas politically is one of the most regressive states in the union. There's little chance Texans will choose the Democratic nominee in November.
Senator Clinton wants to make Texas seem more important than other states that Obama has won. She has little choice in that given her current position in the race. However, results in Virginia, Missouri, and Washington state show me that Obama is more popular than Clinton in the swing states where it counts. Certainly Virginia is another important battleground state. A big Obama win there will provide further proof that Obama would make for a stronger nominee in the general election than would Clinton.
My vote is in (Arlington, VA). First time I've cast a vote in a presidential primary that actually matters. Go Obama!
"Sen. Obama has never had a serious Republican opponent,” Penn said.
While Clinton has faced down the mighty Rick Lazio and even mightier former mayor of Yonkers, John Spencer.
Penn's a hoot.
I'm a recent transplant to Nothern Virginia, and I'm very embarrased to say I didn't register on time. You have to register 30 days in advance in VA. I'm used to Minnesota, where you can register the day of voting. I wonder if VA's comparatively difficult registration will hurt Obama. Lots of folks new to the process might have caught Obama fever after the deadline for registration.
Off to vote in the District myself...
Could today be another clean sweep?
A great day for democracy, regardless.
Good luck to both candidates.
(But seriously, go Obama!)
I say go Wynn. Wynn has endorsed Obama while Edwards hasn't. Hence Wynn is the real progressive while Edwards is the faux one. Why would you or any other progressive support the faux progressive?
While Clinton has faced down the mighty Rick Lazio and even mightier former mayor of Yonkers, John Spencer.
Well, remember that Lazio was a long-established sitting New York Congressman, and he raised an absolutely astonishing amount of national "anti-Hillary" money ($30M?...$50M?), with which he carpet-bombed her on television. Lots of independent analysts originally thought he'd beat her, since she was basically a controversial carpet-bagger.
By contrast, Alan Keyes only moved into Illinois to accept the anti-Obama nomination (after the Republican nominee dropped out due to a sex-scandal), and wasn't able to raise a dollar for TV ads.
On the other hand, Hillary's reelection campaign was closer to being the Obama-Keyes race.
D. Edwards has endorsed Obama.
Edwards endorsed Obama. Check out her website: www.donnaedwardsforcongress.com
How can you call Wynn a real progressive. How is supporting the Bush/Cheney Energy Bill, Bankruptcy Bill, and oh yeah, that tiny little thing called the Iraq War progressive?
While Clinton has faced down the mighty Rick Lazio and even mightier former mayor of Yonkers, John Spencer.
And a vast right-wing conspiracy!
>I continue to be dumbfounded by Team Clinton's decision not to contest Wisconsin.
I'm sure there's a good reason why WI doesn't count. The combination of unreconstructed pinkos in Madison, the AA population of MKE, and the farmers/loggers everywhere else must be wholly unrepresentative of the nation.
Then again, Barry won the three contested neighboring states. So she might have considered it a lost cause. There's also the FIB thing. Which is worse to the loyal Wisconsinite -- a native-born Lincolnite (C) or someone who moves to the state (O)?
Phillip, I see Edwards endorsed Obama just a few days ago while Wynn endorsed him over a month ago. I still say go Wynn because he was the genuine progressive who endorsed Obama first and far before Edwards did. Edwards is just a political opportunist who felt she had to endorse Obama or she was going to lose. Go Wynn, the real Obama supporter.
Like, JB, I cast my vote in Arlington this morning. If yard signs and the visible voluteer effort is any indication, then Obama should cruise here.
TLM -- You must be joking about Wynn. Voting to repeal the estate tax and supporting the bankruptcy bill is progressive? Al Wynn is a prime example of a complacent, in-the-pocket-of-big-business incumbent.
WI doesn't count because they have cheese for brains.
Geez, I thought everyone knew that.
WI doesn't count because they have cheese for brains. Y'know, cheeseheads and all.
Geez, I thought everyone knew that.
Voted in Blacksburg (Western Virginia) this morning. Interestingly, in this largely 'regressive' region of the state that traditionally votes conservative, every single person in line ahead of me said "Democratic Primary" when asked which primary they wanted to vote in.
Go Obama!
I can't help but be repulsed with the idea that Texas is being given such an important role in the Democratic Presidential Primary.
Look, we wouldn't matter so much if the rest of y'all had settled on a candidate by now.
Anyway, why give Texas such a beating? Surely those two little old ladies who are still counting ballots in New Mexico deserve the whip a little more...
Bragan, then why did she wait so long to endorse the progressive candidate Barack Obama? This just reeks of political opportunism.
As for Wynn's votes, progressives believe in the free market too. As Barack Obama said, "I believe that America's free market has been the engine of America's great progress." We should heed Barack's words and let these issues be handled by the free market before we suddenly decide it requires a one way government mandated decision.
With due respect, Hillary better be off to Texas and so should Obama. Their work in Virginia is done. Nothing they can do today will change the outcome much better move on to the next fight.
TLM: So you completely rule out the possibility that Wynn endorsed Obama for opportunistic reasons?
This is a joke. Edwards is clearly the Obama to Wynn's Hillary.
Anyway, why give Texas such a beating?
Easy answer to that one. Texans elected George Bush as their Governor and hooked him up with Karl Rove. Oh ... and that forced, gerrymandered, re-districting where they inflated their Republican representation didn't sit too well with me either. Remember how in the process the Texas state police chased down Democratic legislators like a band of criminals? Not cool.
OTOH I saw a great sunset in Amarillo once. I also appreciated it when Texas Tech took Bobby Knight off our hands up here in Indiana. So I don't want to come down on Texas in general, just the politics.
TLM makes me think of a recent column in the Onion entitled, "There are people making stupid comments online, and I'm going to correct them." At a certain point, you realize it's just futile.
Good point, Tyro. I should know better than to feed such a troll, but I've never encountered a Wynn supporter before, troll or not.
Voted in Blacksburg (Western Virginia) this morning. Interestingly, in this largely 'regressive' region of the state that traditionally votes conservative,
I also went to school at Va Tech. In many ways, Montgomery county VA (and Blacksburg specifically) has more in common with Montgomery county MD than it does with its Appalachian neighbors. (entirely due to the school, of course)
"MD04 covers about half of Montgomery County -- a place Al Wynn has never heard of."
That's about right. It's a freakishly gerrymandered district that skips most of the major population centers in Montgomery County but includes a lot of smaller communities that Wynn has paid no attention to whatsoever. Edwards nearly won in 2006 by carrying nearly 60% of the vote in the Montgomery precincts. With some national support, and an impressive organization this time around, I expect her to pull this off.
I've received several pro-Edwards calls from the SEIU in the past couple of weeks, and the MoveOn ad has been in heavy rotation. The only evidence of the Wynn campaign I've seen is an unintentionally funny commercial that touts Wynn's record of fighting against predatory lending practices, but then at the end the ad is revealed to be sponsored by the National Association of Realtors. That's Al Wynn in a nutshell.
TLM: as a Mont. County resident of MD04 that just voted I feel entitled to say that Wynn sucks. The man seems tired and bored and that estate tax vote is simply not forgivable. If you're a Democratic congressperson in a liberal district you have to stand on the right side of the issues when it matters or find another job.
I also voted in Arlington early this morning. They tally the ballots as they give them out. The count at about 7 a.m in my precinct was: Democrats 81, Republicans 5. There aren't a lot of Republicans in my precinct, but there are more than that.
(I expect to see a big win for Obama in Arlington, but I'm just guessing. My precinct is maybe 20% black. The racial makeup of the people in line didn't seem any different from any other election.)
I say go Wynn. Wynn has endorsed Obama while Edwards hasn't. Hence Wynn is the real progressive while Edwards is the faux one. Why would you or any other progressive support the faux progressive?
What total bullshit.
In the DC metro region, few areas are going to be hit harder by the subprime mortgage fallout than Wynn's traditional base, lower PG county. And many of the folks who get burned in that fiasco are going to find that their exits are blocked, thanks in large measure to the bankruptcy "reform" that Wynn voted for. In this instance, Wynn was fellating the finance industry -- but he's always ready to get nasty with any corporation that's paying.
Now, maybe you don't mind that your politicians are scumbags, so long as they deliver goodies from the Federal trough. Thing is that even by that sorry standard, Wynn's a nothing -- after more than a decade in office, he holds no position higher than head of a very minor subcommittee.
If you think an endorsement of Obama comes within a light-year of negating his years-long record of whoring himself out, you're deluded.
Easy answer to that one. Texans elected George Bush as their Governor and hooked him up with Karl Rove.
Oh please. California gave us Nixon and Reagan. You think that would get them half the grief Texas gets.
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"And, if you live in PG County, go Donna Edwards. "
Little islands of Montgomery County, too.
Posted by Njorl | February 12, 2008 8:54 AM