Obama '08?

LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- People hoping to stay awake long enough Tuesday to see who won California's primary might have a long night....

County registrars throughout California are warning that because of what could be record-breaking voter turnout and a change back to paper ballots, Tuesday's results may take some time.

Meanwhile, millions of California absentee ballots and early voting ballots are still out. Officials say many of those voters are expected to drop the ballots off at their polling places Tuesday.

Because of concerns over reliability, California decertified many of the state's electronic voting machines. That means in places like San Bernardino County, east of Los Angeles, where more than 3,000 voting machines will be sitting in a warehouse, paper ballots are back.
Kari Verjil, a registrar with San Bernardino County, says paper ballots will require more time to tally the votes.

More than a third of the state's 58 counties will go from directly recorded electronic machines back to paper.

Los Angeles County never stopped using paper ballots, but poll workers still spent time this past weekend on a dry run, getting ready for the expected high volume of ballots.

More than 700,000 more Californians are registered to vote Tuesday than were four years ago; 240,000 signed up in December.

Here is an interesting article about how Obama made a big flip-flop on the issue of guns.
To be fair, it also shows a major flip-flop made by Romney about guns.

I find their flips interesting, because the 2nd amendment is very important to me.


http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/02/obama-romney-mi.html

As far as Hillary goes, I found this article.

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/campaignmatters?pid=239574

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CLINTON WON'T COMMIT TO RENEW CONSTITUTION...Illinois Senator Barack Obama has finally signed the American Freedom Pledge, joining his fellow Democratic presidential candidates in encouraging the restoration of basic Constitutional principles after the battering they have taken during the Bush-Cheney era.
All the Democrats, that is, except New York Senator Hillary Clinton.

snip

Quote:

The pledge is anything but radical. It simply asks candidates to affirm a statement that reads: "We are Americans, and in our America we do not torture, we do not imprison people without charge or legal remedy, we do not tap people's phones and emails without a court order, and above all we do not give any President unchecked power. I pledge to fight to protect and defend the Constitution from attack by any President."

I wonder why Hillary wont sign this pledge.
After all, she claims to be against everything the pledge is asking her to be against.

HOWEVER, it should be pointed out that this appears to be yet another example of Obama not being able to get good help.

You guessed it -- his campaign says this questionnaire was filled out incorrectly by a staffer. (Read more on that HERE.)

We've been following Mr. Obama's "The Buck Stops Over There" blame-his-staff trend since last June and, more recently, in December.

Bang bang

OCCOM BILL wrote:

What if it becomes 50% of GDP? And averages an extra 20 years on Earth?

Then I was wrong, and America's current system really is better. But the empirical evidence tells us that the actual outcome is different. It tells us that Germany, which has universal healthcare but not a single payer system, gets about as much bang for the buck as France and England, who have universal, single-payer healthcare systems.

I am sure that there must be some jobs where prior experience is of little to no value, but they don't come readily to mind.

Saw Hillary referring to herself as "The Uniter". Right, and I'm a midget. Off to vote. Finally decided to vote in the Democratic primary today. It won't be for Hillary.

today may be the day we go one step closer to Mccain as president if Obama wins big.... then we're screwed for sure.... except that dj's are always in demand

vote early
vote often
vote kucinich.

Alas I cannot, so today i will vote Obama.

Wow, JPB!

I mean it's pretty darn likely that Obama will win Illinois anyway, but that's still cool!

sozobe wrote:

Speak for yourself.

Nastiness is always appreciated. Thanks.

The couple next to me were saying that they were there to vote for McCain so i tried to explain that this was DEMOCRAT CAUCUS ONLY and they responded theat they didn't stand in line for 2 hours for nothing and were going to stay until they could vote for McCain. I told them "have a nice day." voted and left.

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The couple next to me were saying that they were there to vote for McCain so i tried to explain that this was DEMOCRAT CAUCUS ONLY and they responded theat they didn't stand in line for 2 hours for nothing and were going to stay until they could vote for McCain. I told them "have a nice day." voted and left.

Heh...! Well, two less votes for McCain anyway...

Good about turnout!

That's a surprise. Maybe alphabetical by first name? No idea.

Tunnel... oy.

Clinton Accepts Fox News Debate

Now, this pisses me off...

Quote:

Clinton Accepts Fox News Debate

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/02/05/clinton-accepts-fox-news-_n_85111.html

I think part of the debate thing might be how much money Hillary has as compared to Obama, too. I saw someplace earlier that while Obama trumpeted the 32 million in January, Hillary's campaign was quiet about that. Eventually a vague figure -- "at least 10 million" -- was released. It seems possible that she just doesn't have that much money left (in American election terms anyway). Debates are free publicity.

One more thing on that subject, I remember seeing that only 3% of Obama's donors have topped out their contributions, so there could easily be a lot more money rolling in yet. (I've been contributing $10 and $20 here and there for a while now... nowhere near the limit yet.)

Now, this pisses me off... (Clinton pisses me off, not Obama)

Quote:

Clinton Accepts Fox News Debate

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/02/05/clinton-accepts-fox-news-_n_85111.html

She's criticized when whe won't debate on Fox.
She's criticized when she will.

Can't win!@

maporsche wrote:

She's criticized when whe won't debate on Fox.
She's criticized when she will.

Can't win!@

No, no - won't win. This was a poor move on her part.

Cycloptichorn