2008 February Archive Page
One Castro Steps Down, Another Steps Up! - February 19th, 2008
Today caucuses and primaries are occurring in Wisconsin and Hawaii. Perhaps they will add direction for either party in the race for the White House, or perhaps they won’t. But the big news today has absolutely nothing to do with voting and nominations here in the good old U.S.A.
The big news today is the announcement [...]
The Long March to the White House - February 15th, 2008
To no one’s surprise, Mitt Romney pledged his support to John McCain yesterday. Romney’s 286 delegates are not obligated to swing to McCain, but the majority most likely will. This puts McCain only a few delegates away from clinching the nomination. It was expected that Romney would eventually support McCain, especially since his given reason [...]
Obama & McCain Victorious! So What? - February 13th, 2008
The big news on the Democratic political front is that Barack Obama continues to sweep up wins everywhere he goes. For the first time he has pulled in front of Hillary Clinton in pledged delegates. Probably more important is the fact that he won the Tuesday primaries by making big inroads into groups that were [...]
Obama’s Winning Everywhere! - February 11th, 2008
Just in case you’ve been visiting a far planet for the last few days, I thought I’d let you know that Barack Obama is on a roll. He won everywhere this past weekend, even in Maine, where Hillary Clinton’s strong female support couldn’t pull her to the top. Now, both candidates are halfway to the [...]
Primary & Caucus Slugfests! - February 9th, 2008
Mike Huckabee started out this morning in his race for the Republican Presidential candidacy with 214 pledged delegates. John McCain, frontrunner and presumptive winner, started out with exactly 500 more delegates than Huckabee - 714 of the 1191 needed for the nomination. So McCain needs fewer delegates to WIN the nomination than Huckabee needs just [...]
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