Some bloke named Andy Martin has been named as the source of the now viral "Obama is a Muslim," email that has been passed around the net for months. The Washington Post has the story here.
So how was this guy discovered, it took an Obama supporter named Danielle Allen who has two doctorates to figure this one out and she’s nailed the guy. So who the heck is Andy Martin?
I sure hope McCain isn't paying his staff much money cause man do they stink at their job. Granted they have a tough job of making McCain look young, hip, smart, energetic, enthusiastic, smart, oops said that one already...
This camp can’t go a single day without falling on their face, flip-flopping on an issue, or just saying something so stupid it hurts to read.
The past couple of months we’ve seen the Hispanic issue evaporate in front of our eyes. Individual states started to give us a glimpse at what many knew would come, but the media loved the story about Obama having a Hispanic problem. The latest proof that Obama is sitting pretty with Hispanics and McCain has a big problem comes from Latino Decision Poll that has Obama leading by 39 points, pulling 63% to McCain’s 24% of likely voters, 60/23 all Latinos.
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Let’s see if the media finally gets the message. I applaud Olbermann for his acknowledgement of this key number in the poll NBC released. For those who don’t know, an NBC News / WallStreet Journal Poll conducted from June 6th thru June 9th was released today, and the results are in line with the Gallup daily tracking polls and the Rasmussen Report Daily tracking polls. A full bump may not be accounted for either since half the polling was done before the official concession by Senator Clinton. The big overall number is Obama beating McCain by 6%, the big number within that that interest me and my website...
A gallup fellow was just on MSNBC talking about the past tracking polls. He gave MSNBC the scoop first, Obama now +7 over McCain. It seems that the bump is builing as the 3 day tracking is showed stong movement in Obama's favor that has now stabalized.
Barack Obama has a 48% to 41% lead in the latest Gallup Poll Daily tracking presidential election trial heat, based on June 7-9 polling.
Voting preferences have been fairly stable over the last three individual days of tracking polling, all conducted since Hillary Clinton officially suspended her candidacy and publicly endorsed Obama for president on Saturday.
The seven percentage point advantage is Obama's largest to date since Gallup began tracking the general election in March. In turn, McCain has led Obama by as many as six percentage points in early May. (To view the complete trend since Jan. 3, 2008,
According to all reports, tonight the fight might finally be officially over. Right now Obama stands on the edge of wrapping up the nomination. As a result I am proposing a toast for all, 9 pm-ish (or as soon as Obama finish’s on stage tonight. I don’t know what time that is exactly.)
Midday, late day Superdelegate Thread. We'll use this to keep the update total going. as of 5:42 pm CST another just came in....
Notables: 17 Senators Plan to Endorse Later this week after giving Clinton a grace period (reported all over the web and news networks)
30 - 34 House Members to to endorse Tuesday and or Wednesday possibly by the time Obama takes the stage Tuesday night. This via Hardball and Andrea Mitchell's sources. (NBC News says "They now know that 34 House Members,")
For those of you who don't know these guys.... you should. They are pretty funny guys regardless of where your political views fall. They call their act, "Red State Update," Think of them as Colbert in overalls and boots. Yes, they bash Democrats a lot, but so does Colbert, and if you listen to their spots they make fun of Republicans a lot too. Honestly a lot of their jokes probably go right over their target audiences head. Check them out, but go in knowing they might take a shot at us. Still funny. IMO
Producer Andres Levin, who worked with Will.i.am on the now famous "Yes we Can," video has lent his hand to another great piece. I’ve diaried a number of times that the demographic is already coming over to Obama, but shoring up the vote never hurts, and we know McCain thinks he can make a play for the demographic. Here is the latest star studded piece that targets Latinos/Hispanics. (below the break)
The media has been trying and make a story out of Obama’s low Hispanic vote turnout. They assume that since he lost the vote in many states, that he will lose the vote in Nov. I can not emphisis how stupid of an argument this is. We’ve seen the argument made with "whites," until Obama won the demographic in Oregon, only after winning Iowa, Wisconsin, Utah, Washington... you get the idea. Once again the media isn’t doing it’s job of conducting journalistic research. Here’s what the real story is on Obama and the Hispanic vote.
Need some help.... Yesterday a report hit the net that McCain was looking for bloggers to infiltrate sites across the net. We’ll today I’m recruiting bloggers to post, or just cross-post on my site. My site was built off of the Great Kos Daddy model and in now way am I trying to replace it. The Daily Kos is the single most influential site out there and we should all keep the movement going, but I’m trying to target a demographic that has traditionally not come out to vote in large numbers and is only now finding a voice.
TN GOP is playing with fire. Barack Obama stated today "Lay off my wife." People in the MSM saw this as an empty passing warning, nothing more. He said that the TN GOP "needs to think long and hard," about the tactics they are using. The MSM didn’t sit and think about this at all, not surprising.... What exactly was Obama implying? What was his threat? Senator Bob Corker understands and is trying to make the TN GOP see what he sees.
Late today Senator Bob Corker released a statement warning his state party to back away from their latest attack on Michelle Obama. If you haven’t seen the attack looky here.
In a funny call for unity SNL has jumped into the 2008 election again. Last week they made headlines with the very funny (so long as you weren’t a Clinton supporter) piece about Clinton. While this weeks is lighter, she still end up at the short end of the stick on this one. Very funny and worth a few minutes of your time.
Background knowledge for this spot..... The NBA is currently running spots where top players from each playoff match-up are set in spit-screen reciting the same script. The spots are mostly airing during NBA games so if you haven’t caught one, you might be in the dark on this. The NBA spots are based on there can only be one champion in the end.
Numbers thread for those just getting to the KOS late, for West-Coast folks who wish to discuss, overseas folks who wish to discuss, and anyone who may have missed the official numbers today.... and everyone else. New Open Thread since original has fallen off the board.
The Rec List :), thanks guys, my third appearance. Although this one was nothing more than a numbers regurgitation... too easy :) Cross-posted on my site too. I've been slacking on my site but will be getting it back rocking. Also looking for some front page regular guest posters. Contact me through my email link on my site if interested.
People have been saying she is in this until June 3rd or June 15th and that she is in the drivers seat. As usual the lazy media has repeat the first opinion tossed out there without even thinking this thing through logically. Everyone believes she can exit when ever she want and that it is a luxery. WRONG, Hillary has a very small window of opportunity that is closing fast. Follow the logic after the jump becasue it is Obama not Clinton who is driving the bus.
Okay, I know we are not done yet, but we are basically winding down as the last contest roll on out. I was sitting on my comfy couch next to my beautiful wife discussing the race and I started reflecting back over the last couple of months. It’s been a lot of ups and downs, some stressful days and some jubilant days mixed in. Then it hit me. Senator Barack Obama has never lost the lead in the pledge delegate race, never, he’s held it since day one. Let’s take a quick trip in the way back machine and look at how things shaped up...
Similary Tracking Diary's exist, but I've noticed that people have been asking for a list so here it is folks.
One can argue where is the flood? Where is the "Plop," of Delegates? Why are they not coming out in larger numbers? Why why why???? Look at the past week, and it's not even done yet. Relax and enjoy the drip, because when you take a step back, the drip is actually an open faucet.
