Campaigning Grows Furious As Tuesday Approaches

New York Times:

The presidential campaign played to new audiences on Saturday as the leading Democratic and Republican candidates fanned out across the nation, drawing distinctions with their rivals and making urgent appeals to voters in delegate-rich or politically symbolic states.

On the final weekend before Americans in more than 20 states will cast votes, the race had an intensity typically reserved for the closing days of a general election campaign. The outcome of the balloting on Tuesday, particularly for Republicans, is likely to bring at least a sliver of clarity to the yearlong nominating battle.

"This is the most consequential election in a generation," Mr. Obama declared in Idaho, drawing applause from thousands of impassioned Democrats and curious Republicans, before arriving here for a rally.

Republicans worked their way across Southern states on Saturday, with Senator John McCain of Arizona criticizing Democratic candidates for their plans to withdraw troops from Iraq as he courted voters in Tennessee and Alabama. Mike Huckabee traveled through Alabama, too, as Mitt Romney took a brief respite from campaigning to attend the funeral in Salt Lake City of Gordon B. Hinckley, the president of the Mormon Church.

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Comments

[peaceandfreedom]

From David Wallechinsky's blog today:

The media, television in particular, played a major role in winnowing down the candidates to two Democrats and two Republicans not so much because they cared about the individual candidates, but because one-on-one contests attract better ratings than confusing multi-candidate races. To continue the sports analogy implied by the name "Super Tuesday," the day's primaries and caucuses are being pitched to us like conference championships: the winner of the Clinton-Obama game will play the winner of the McCain-Romney game in the National Championship.

[cheneyhasawarmachine]

if you are a dem and support hillary you are not a true progressive or liberal - aside from socialized health care hillary is republican lite

republicans have the same dilema with McCain aside from national security his democrat lite.

[Troubledwawa]

I'm just looking for people who will do the job of POTUS and Congress the way our Founding Fathers intended.

I think they summed it up quite nicely in the following sentence, with respect to the 5 action items:

"WE THE PEOPLE of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

The 5 action items:

1) "establish Justice":

2) "insure domestic Tranquility":

3) "provide for the common defense":

4) "promote the general Welfare":

5) "secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity":

It does make a for a nice report card to grade our government's overall performance, as well as a guide to it's future performances, when you think about it.

[forpeace]

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Right now our main concern must be not to let Republicans back in the WH NEVER again.

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[ChiGuy]

Geez, Vogie.

All that snow got you in a cabin fever snit?

[ChiGuy]

You WILL vote for me, you jerk-offs! What is your problem?? Are you just stupid?? GOD you people sicken me with your “Will I vote for Him...Will I vote for her” bulls**t! Get off your lard-laden butts and cast your vote for me on Tuesday! That is if you can pry the cheeseburgers and pizza from your fat greasy fingers. You disgust me beyond all comprehension with your asinine indecision. I ain’t making a goddam cent standing here looking at all of you pathetic morons so make it worth my while and vote for me you dips**ts!!

Now get the HELL out of here. I can’t stand the sight of you!
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Furious campaigning

[VogonsCryptolect]

JoJo the fool wrote: “Absense of evidence is eivdence of absense.”

To Fume again please, show your credentials to use the name you blaspheme with your every post. This is an easy one..

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Hey Fume did you want to tackle the idiocy of this statement from Hume's own magnificent argument on the subject?
"Absense of evidence is eivdence of absense."
Don't bother correcting the moron's spelling, just show Hume's refutation and your understanding of it.
Go on just this once, show you have any ability or understanding of basic reason...

[NoMoreHawks]

George Bush taught America well......NO MORE WAR HAWKS!!!

Yes, Hillary....that means YOU!!!

[JoJoKewl]

Here's the Defenses' summation to the jury at the trial of Almighty Gawd:

"Ladies and gentlemen of the jury - you can't blame my client Gawd for the evil his creation, man, has caused any more than you can blame Dr. Frankenstein for the murders his Monster committed. It was Igor who was to blame! It was Igor that got the Abnormal brain! Just because my client is Omnipotent doesn't mean He is all powerful. The charge doeesn't fit - so you must aquit. Amen."

[NoMoreHawks]

By pushing this Clinton revival Democrats are only proving they are as stupid as Republicans said they were back in 1999.

Why are Hillary supporters gambling everything on reliving THAT nightmare?...they will LOSE! LOSE! LOSE!

[Beelzebul]

I just looked and saw that one of my favorite posters, GrouchoMarxist didn't leave permanently. So I'll stop with the Hillary stuff.

The childish Obama/Clinton games a few longtime posters are playing here (and they know who they are), can cut both ways.

[janklowsux]

Hillary voters have their head in the sand. Most people aren't excited about her. Not only are they not excited about her, they don't like her. Young people won't vote for her. She won't attract new voters because she offers nothing new or inspiring, just more of the same and marital problems in the news rather than issues. Independents will vote for McCain. '08 should be a sure thing for Democrats after Bush. If Hillary is the nominee, we will whizz it down our leg.

[MNmommy]

Cue the music...

Nader is ranting on Late Edition.

[Beelzebul]

In order to change Washington, it's necessary to curve the influence of corporate money. It's necessary to reduce the influence lobbyists have in Washington. And in order to do that, you yourself must reduce the amount of money you take from corporations/lobbyists.

Hillary has done just that. She's taken fewer bux for big corporations than any other candidate. That's tells me she's serious about change in Washington.

Hillary / Change '08

[IkeChicago]

The East coast looks to be in Obama's favor except for NY, where Obama is going to pick up many delegates anyway. Now California is trending Obama's way, more trouble for Hillary.

Hillary is running out of money, Obama raised $32m plus another %2 to 3 million when he exceeded his 25,000 new doners by 3000. Look for the Campaign to declare about $34m. Hillary on the other hand is hiding her numbers, look like she raised only $10m. If Obama sweeps the states I indicated, look for Hillary to call a press conference on Wednesday suspending her campaign.