There was an upset of sorts in Saturday’s caucus for the election of delegates pledged to Hillary Clinton at this summer Democratic National Convention in Denver.
Female delegates are Salem Mayor Kim Driscoll and veteran party activist Agnes Ricko of Lynn. But in the contest for the two delegate slots reserved for males, Rowley’s Stan Slepoy [...]
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Going to Denver
Posted in 6th District, Nelson Benton, Presidential race, Uncategorized on Apr 7th, 2008 Comments
Dems set to self-destruct — again?
Posted in Nelson Benton, Presidential race on Mar 24th, 2008 Comments
George W. Bush won’t go down as one of the great American presidents, and he wasn’t exactly a formidable candidate either.
So how did he win in 2000 and 2004? Well, he had a little help from the Supreme Court the first time around, but in both elections the Democrats put up candidates | Al Gore [...]
The Barack Obama camp is spinning like mad today trying to put a happy face on Tuesday’s disappointing results. Here’s the e-mail that went out to supporters this morning, courtesy of a reader in Peabody:
We may not know the final outcome of today’s voting until morning, but the results so far make one thing clear.
When [...]
With her victories in Texas, Ohio and Rhode Island last night, it appears Hillary Clinton has kept her campaign alive at least through the start of spring.
The primary in Pennsylvania, the next big state with a large number of delegates at stake, isn’t until April 22. (There are contests in Wyoming this Saturday and Mississippi [...]
We should know tonight.
There are primaries in Vermont and Rhode Island, but all eyes will be on Texas and Ohio where the vast majority of delegate spots are at stake. Polls out this morning showed New York Sen. Hillary Clinton holding onto a slight lead in both. And her words and demeanor at appearances Monday [...]
Debate season on hiatus
Posted in Nelson Benton, Presidential race, Uncategorized on Feb 29th, 2008 Comments
Won’t you miss those debates?
For months now Republicans and Democrats have been slugging it out on live TV. And the ratings have been surprisingly good even when they’ve been aired on relatively hard-to-find channels like MSNBC.
They allowed John McCain to show how tough he can be, putting Mitt Romney is his place for flip-flopping on [...]
Barack Obama’s presidential bid, viewed as little more than a freshman senator’s pipe dream just a year ago, is beginning to assume the air of inevitability.
Unless the pollsters suffer another New Hampshire-style meltdown, it appears the lawmaker from Illinois will emerge from today’s so-called Potomac Primary (Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia) stronger than [...]
Illegal immigration: How big an issue?
Posted in 6th District, Massachusetts politics, Nelson Benton, Presidential race, Uncategorized on Jan 31st, 2008 Comments
Outrage over the more liberal provisions of the bipartisan immigration bill put forward last year had everyone from Harry Reid to John McCain to George Bush running for cover.
Yet here we are less than a year later and McCain is leading the GOP pack despite opponent Mitt Romney’s best efforts to paint him as soft [...]
But how will it play in Peoria?
Posted in Massachusetts politics, Nelson Benton, Presidential race on Jan 29th, 2008 Comments
Much is being made of the Kennedy family’s anointing of Barack Obama as the candidate best suited to follow in JFK’s footsteps.
Sen. Ted Kennedy, who’s long since given up his dream of becoming the second Kennedy brother to occupy the White House, was at his rip-roaring best Monday as he declared Obama “ready to be [...]
Though he remains a serious contender for the GOP nomination, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney has become a favorite target of his fellow politicians, media pundits and late-night talk show hosts. David Letterman has a new segment devoted to the Mittster, and his testy exchange with AP reporter Glen Johnson (formerly of the Salem News, [...]
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