tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56041452011-04-21T19:11:25.476-07:00This is a how-to manual and handicapping report of the chances of electing a Democrat in 2004Steve Highnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1301100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604145.post-1108488953496801662005-02-15T09:08:00.000-08:002005-02-15T09:36:32.836-08:00

RNC Ken Mehlman is gay and should be ridiculed for it at every opportunity. Why? Because all's fair in love and war. In particular, every attack on DNC Chairman Dean should answered with the information that he's married with kids, not like some people we could mention. With repetition, the RNC's chairman's sexual orientation will become late-night comedy fodder, and this will be a significant

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I told you Dean was going to be the DNC honcho, but you wouldn't listen. Rich Bond and other GOP galoots have been running with line, "I think it's a scream." Very funny, frat boy. But what about your RNC chairman? I mean it was nice you picked someone who shops for underwear at Victoria Secret, but why not pick a woman? Dean, at least, is married, with kids, like a lot of the so-called normal

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The 2000, 2002 and 2004 elections were damned close. There is no doubt that the GOP had a little of the best of it going for them in Fla. all three times. They cheated, but how much? If we had a Democratic governor there, we would have cheated too. I believe that 2004 was just about as fair as elections always are, which is not entirely. Joe Kennedy begged, borrowed, bought and stole every vote

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I say the guy deserves it. He and his supporters did less sitting on their hands than any defeated Democratic Party faction in history, left or right. They poured money and energy into Kerry's Campaign as if they had been for him all along. Harry Reid is exactly the right guy for senate minority leader. He is well-liked by many Reps, which could come in handy since they run the place, and he is

Steve Highnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604145.post-1102345527043256542004-12-06T06:22:00.000-08:002004-12-06T07:10:26.686-08:00

Dems picked up a seaton Dec 3 in a Louisiana district Bush won by 58%. We're gonna need a lot of these. It's a long road ahead. There were two seats up in Louisiana. In one, the Dems were bitterly divided and lost. In the other, the Reps were bitterly divided and lost. Why does this come as no surprise? That's why I'm glad to see John Kerry acting like a candidate. When we come as close as we

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VICE PRESIDENT GRAHAM I have little doubt that Graham would already BE vice president, had Al Gore done the sensible thing last time. In retrospect, the notion that Lieberman would help more in FL than Graham is as asinine as any campaign decision ever made. The Lieberman pick was too clever by half--a Hail Mary pass that was supposed to help with Florida, fund-raising and Gore's largely

Steve Highnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604145.post-1088700246611779472004-07-01T08:29:00.000-07:002004-07-01T09:44:06.613-07:00

Today, it looks like Dicky G. for VP. For a guy like Kerry, who likes to keep the ball on the ground, Gephardt is the logical choice. An eagle scout as a young man--and a boy scout in public life--Dicky G. is the least likely candidate to produce any Ferraro-like distractions and surprises. It's not at all clear that he can bring along Missouri, but his chances of doing so are better than

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Kerry wisely cancelled campaign appearances this week in deference to the funeral ceremonies for former president Reagan, praising Reagan for his "non-partisanship" at every opportunity. This deft and unanswerable thrust was Clintonian in both its subtlety and deadliness toward the snarling Bush-Cheney Campaign. Clinton himself, as he often does, gave Democrats a heads-up on how to act with an

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John Breaux is that rare politician who could deliver the election to John Kerry practically single-handedly and therefore deserves at least a look as a potential vice-presidential running mate. Although decried by some Democrats for his centrist-right views, Breaux is in truth much more liberal than John McCain. He is similar to Bentsen and Lieberman. In the 2000 Congress, McCain's voting

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Two polls in two days from the battleground states of Fla and OH show Kerry in the lead. The seven point spread in Ohio is esp. notable since this state went GOP by four last round. Very little from the wise guys in the press about the Kerry spots because they don't fit the Dems are stumblebums story line they're so enamored with. But the Kerry Campaign's decision to "go positive" may have been

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Florida seems to have tightened up, according to this Orlando Sentinel story. Scribes Mark Silva and Jim Stratton quote a poll that was fielded 4/29 through May 3 showing Kerry 48, Bush 46, Shitbird Nader 3, adding that said poll has been confirmed by others. If this is really the Fla environment, then anyone in the Kerry Campaign with access to a pocket calculator would have to love Graham.

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Dem radio address today, Meet the Press tomorrow... ...no accident. Key variables: Looks good as commander-in-chief. Voters will accept him as qualified. Clark leads the pack here, with serious competition only from Bill Clinton and John McCain, neither of whom will take the job. Turning red state blue: Only a tiny handful of candidates, led by Breaux of LA and Byrd of WV, could for sure do

Steve Highnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604145.post-1078873743156814102004-03-09T15:06:00.000-08:002004-03-09T15:14:19.950-08:00

That cracking sound you hear is the "Bush Wins" story line about to fall through the ice. Most of what The Note (ABC News) calls "The Gang of 500"--writers, pols, consultants and wiseacres who talk out of the corner of their mouths--thought until recently that Bush was unbeatable. The crack Bush Team, led by the "genius" Karl Rove and backed by limitless GOP bucks--so the story line went--would

Steve Highnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604145.post-1078612179260012382004-03-06T13:51:00.000-08:002004-03-06T14:31:51.403-08:00

Bush is playing defense two days after dropping a very premature $10 million in TV advertising. When Election Day gets close, the Bush Campaign is going to wish it had that money back. True, they are loaded, but there's never enough. Somebody at the RNC should ask Joe Trippi what he thinks about dumping early money on TV for Dean (Hint: he calls it his biggest mistake). Moreover, the Reps are

Steve Highnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604145.post-1076279250326032432004-02-08T14:15:00.000-08:002004-02-08T14:30:13.373-08:00

The thing about a champion fighter, you drop your left hand an inch and a half and he'll hit you in the eye. A lot has been said about how Kerry is "immune" to attacks on his patriotism because of his war record. That's hooey. Bush and the GOP smeared McCain, they smeared Cleland and they'll for damn sure smear Kerrry. What Kerry's war record gives him is a platform to attack from. His latest

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John Kerry is winning because his campaign resembles a Republican campaign. His personal style may be a little bit boring, but it follows the rules of winning GOP campaign managers: Rule Number One: Avoid mistakes. Since everyone makes mistakes, the next best thing is to make your mistakes in private. Republicans do not allow the press promiscuous access to their candidates, and neither do John

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Kerry's campaign manager, Mary Beth Cahill, wisely disclaimed any hopes for a 7-state sweep on Mini-Tuesday, saying "It's never happened before." Actually, it has happened before. First, it happened in 1976, when Jimmy Carter started off a sparkling drive for the nomination by winning IA and NH back to back. Asterisk: Carter beat all the candidates in IA but came in second to a very sizeable "

Steve Highnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604145.post-1075569378227408182004-01-31T08:43:00.000-08:002004-01-31T09:23:03.810-08:00

Howard Dean's strategy according to Neel is to lose 15 straight and then win the Wisconsin Primary on Feb. 17. Does this even deserve comment? This guy Dean is a spring training phenom who can't hit the major league curve ball. So far, he's a guy who says he has a lot of supporters but who doesn't win elections. There's a difference between running for president and running your mouth. Rank and

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The NYT reports that political pros are breathing a sigh of relief as Kerry moves into position to seize the nomination. But I think the rank and file share this feeling, and would like nothing more than a quick finish to the intra-party wrangle so that Kerry can get on with the job of beating George Bush. If we were Republicans, we would already be calling on the other candidates to get the hell

Steve Highnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604145.post-1075331564644717342004-01-28T13:26:00.000-08:002004-01-28T15:14:18.966-08:00

The last time the back-to-back winner of IA and NH failed to win the nomination was never. No one finishing third or lower has ever gotten a whiff of the nomination. The closest also-ran to make it to the late primaries was Jerry Brown in 1992. Kerry, wisely, doesn't wish to be known as a front-runner. He's been there, done that, and damn near got pushed out of the race. However, he has a

Steve Highnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604145.post-1075048571957755032004-01-25T08:08:00.000-08:002004-01-25T08:37:42.686-08:00

It looks like Kerry and Dean the rest of the way, with the red-faced doc doing a heel-nipping imitation of Bill Bradley or Jerry Brown until his cash runs out. SC and the other Feb 3 states seem to offer hope to the rest of the field, but I think it's an illusion. Historically, third or lower in NH is a ticket to the boneyard. What Clark, Edwards and Lieberman are fighting over isn't worth

Steve Highnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604145.post-1074961941510927742004-01-24T07:52:00.000-08:002004-01-24T08:54:20.950-08:00

Granite State boosters would have you believe the NH Primary is determinative of the nomination. It's not. The Democratic winner in New Hampshire has secured the nomination just about half the time. On the GOP side, the eventual nominee won NH nine of twelve times. Year NH Winner Nominee 1952 Kefaufer Stevenson 1956 Kefaufer Stevenson 1964 Lodge Goldwater 1968 Johnson Humphrey 1972 Muskie

Steve Highnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604145.post-1074876149532071812004-01-23T08:10:00.000-08:002004-01-23T08:43:58.186-08:00

All of the media--from the hard-core Bush partisans at Fox News to the anonymous and generally fair-minded print reporters for local newspapers--were disappointed by the Democrat's Debate. I wasn't. Like a political Convention, the real purpose of these debates is not to make news but to showcase the Democrat Party's advantages over George Bush and the GOP. In John Kerry, the Democrats have a

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He's going to win the nomination. Howard Dean, all kidding aside, is a goner. He'll never get back over the threshhold of acceptability again. Even if campaign manages show signs of life, a single well-timed 30-second spot will ruin him all over again. Tom Eagleton had to leave the race when it was revealed he'd had electroshock treatments for mental illness. To the average voter, Dean is simply

Steve Highnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604145.post-1074619332603647752004-01-20T08:39:00.000-08:002004-01-20T09:23:38.576-08:00

George Bush and Arnold Schwarzenegger prove that anyone can get elected to anything, regardless of qualification. Any of the Democratic candidates, even Al Sharpton, is much more qualified than the ignorant prejudiced killer, George Bush. Unfortunately, if your daddy isn't a president, however, the standards are higher. Iowa voters, who are not so terribly different than any others, looked at

Steve Highnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604145.post-1074523139256134902004-01-19T06:21:00.000-08:002004-01-19T06:40:23.890-08:00

The race is not always to the swift, nor victory to the strong. But that’s the way to bet. IOWA MORNING LINE Kerry 4-5 Money, moxie and momentum Dean 2-1 Top stable; can win backing up Edwards 9-2 Best chance play; some nice guys finish 1st Gephardt 4-1 Nothing left for stretch run NEW HAMPSHIRE MORNING LINE Kerry 9-5 Bounces high onto home turf Dean 3-2 Not to be dismissed Edwards 9-2

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If Howard Dean were George McGovern, Hubert Humphrey would have endorsed him already. Dean was not my first choice, nor even my second. I doubt that he was Gore's first choice either. But Gore learned from history and did the right thing last week. The McGovern loss was not brought about by McGovern. It was brought about by moderates and conservatives every bit as hell-bent upon destruction as

Steve Highnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604145.post-1066574271574301502003-10-19T07:19:00.000-07:002003-10-19T07:37:51.223-07:00

It's Clark/Dean, Dean/Clark. Just gots to be. If you can imagine a 2004 victory with Howard Dean and his enthusiasts frozen out, you should be writing for the moving pictures. Between them, Clark and Dean have sucked all the air and damn near all the cash right out of the room. The other guys may not realize it, but they are pounding sound down at a rathole. Edwards is holding out hope that SC

Steve Highnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604145.post-1066146507815102362003-10-14T08:47:00.000-07:002003-10-14T08:53:34.146-07:00

Wesley Clark leads the most recent CNN/Gallup, Newsweek and CBS News/New York Times polls, but never by more than the 5-6 point margin of error. I haven't heard his campaign managers trying to tamp down expectations, but I think they'd better start. Clark could lead the national polls all the way to the Saturday of the Iowa Delegate Selection Caucus and still finish down in Sharpton-ville.

Steve Highnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604145.post-1065806389308456022003-10-10T10:10:00.000-07:002003-10-10T10:21:59.816-07:00

Today, I like Clark-Gephardt. Clark is the Yuppie General, and lights up the night with highly-educated voters--McGovern-Hart-Dean Democrats. While he has great symbolic appeal to Reagan/Clinton Democrats (not least because he is one), Clark is not what you could call a regular guy. He's too smart, too well-educated, and too much a driven over-achiever. Gephardt would provide great policy

Steve Highnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604145.post-1065805448561819942003-10-10T09:40:00.000-07:002003-10-10T10:09:35.056-07:00

Anyone--including the oh-yeah-ing Note--who thinks that Clark isn't the frontrunner for the nomination should ask any of the other Democratic candidates. To the extent that any undecided voters were watching, I think the overall impression would have been of a pack of small dogs nipping at a big man's heels. Overall impression number two: The Democrats couldn't find their ass with both hands and

Steve Highnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604145.post-1065716015440857972003-10-09T09:07:00.000-07:002003-10-09T09:13:35.390-07:00

No time for tears. The Iowa delegate selection caucus is less than 15 weeks away, the New Hampshire Primary perhaps 120 days out. The California hijack was a huge coup for Bush. As the last major election before the primary season, it makes the GOP look like champions defending a title belt. Admitting one's failings is the first step to getting better. I'll start. I handicapped this race with

Steve Highnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604145.post-1065626564049293372003-10-08T08:05:00.000-07:002003-10-08T08:34:15.576-07:00

Graham gone, Clark stumbling and Karl Rove hands our ass to us in the Golden State. To friends who worked for Davis and Bustamante, thanks for fighting the good fight. It's not over, because it's never over. To the other side, credit where it's due: So 'ere's to you, Creepy-Reepy, at your home in the Southland You're pore benighted 'eathan, but a first-class fightin' man. So 'ere's to you,

Steve Highnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604145.post-1065560079335540562003-10-07T13:54:00.000-07:002003-10-07T13:58:11.993-07:00

Listening to Bush smirk about the California Recall today shook me up some--Rove has gotta be whispering the latest numbers in his ears--so I went back to my charts and took another look. 1. The Oct 2 Field Poll showed Schwarzenegger beating Bustamante by five points among women, a minus five gender gap. 2. The Sept 9. Field Poll showed Bustamante beating Schwarzenegger by 13 points among women

Steve Highnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604145.post-1065539182873692762003-10-07T08:00:00.000-07:002003-10-07T08:09:22.023-07:00

Question One Recall YES 4-5 Arnold slump not quite enough Recall NO 5-4 Great late charge could do it Question Two BUSTAMANTE Yellow-dog Dems, Sen. Tom, combine for Cruz win SCHWARZENEGGER Won't survive shootout at Gender Gap MCCLINTOCK Best chance play; Christian Right could make it close If the election turns on the question, "do we believe the charges about Dirty Arnold," the Democrats

Steve Highnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604145.post-1065365006150704452003-10-05T07:40:00.000-07:002003-10-05T07:48:00.260-07:00

Sunday 10/5/2003 6:08:14 AM Let's review: Before the Arnold firestorm broke, the recall was winning 57-39, an 18-point margin. On the replacement ballot, Arnold was ahead by ten points, 36% to 26%. I am guessing--and it is a guess--that The Big Guy has been in a 2-2.5 point free fall since Friday. The day-by-day numbers from the Knight-Ridder NBC poll provide some support for this, but mainly

Steve Highnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604145.post-1065217914586269102003-10-03T14:50:00.000-07:002003-10-03T14:51:54.803-07:00

Women gave The Big Guy the lead; women can take it away. So sayeth Bill Schneider, who one would almost suspect of reading beatinggeorgebush.blogspot.com

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While the state Dems and the Tribes stand around with their fingers up their nose, Moveon.org is finally doing the needful with this tasty little 30-second spot. inexpensively but professionally produced, the commercial drives the Big Guy's words into his heart like a stake, while humanizing the despicable nature of his dirty mind by a simple slide-show of different women who could be your wife,

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Negative stories about The Big Guy have crossed from newsprint to broadcast, where they are finally having some effect on the voters. While this is good news for all Dems, my gut is says it's better news for Cruz and Sen. Tom than for the Governor. The Field Poll, concluded Wednesday, shows an eight point increase in women voting for the recall. And how much was the recall winning by before

Steve Highnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604145.post-1065034242922688792003-10-01T11:44:00.000-07:002003-10-01T11:50:42.333-07:00

Now if she could just slap some sense into her pal Camejo. Nice wise-acre comment from Richie Ross, who pretends to see Cruz movement by comparing the skewed Gallup Poll to a more reasonable-sounding one from the LA Times. Looks like the Tribes, if they really stand to lose $1 billion under a Big Guy administration, would fight back a little. A statewide attack mailing would be good. I hope

Steve Highnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604145.post-1064853855482712432003-09-29T09:31:00.000-07:002003-09-29T09:44:15.020-07:00

Monday 9/29/2003 8:34:02 AM The news in the CNN/Gallup post-debate poll is not as gruesome as portrayed, but it's still pretty bad. Because Arnold has had a completely free ride on radio and television, we've got no choice except to use paid media to get out the news about him. More about that below, but first the poll: 1. The widely reported landslide 63% YES number is based on a turnout

Steve Highnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604145.post-1064760018061244142003-09-28T07:34:00.000-07:002003-09-28T07:42:17.810-07:00

A private poll cited by Matier and Ross in the Chron has Bustamante seven points behind The Big Guy. And what are Huffington and Camejo drawing away from the Democrats? Exactly seven points. The GOP is ready to hang McClintock with piano wire, but nobody in our party says one goddamn word about these treacherous Naderish scabs, who rat on everything they profess to believe in every time they

Steve Highnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604145.post-1064674165776455372003-09-27T07:48:00.000-07:002003-09-27T07:53:52.963-07:00

The woman Team Big Guy produces to prove that Schwarzenegger only holds women upside down over toilet bowls when they get out of line is named Bonnie Reiss. Trouble is, she is on Team Big Guy's payroll. And she works for California card clubs and Nevada gambling joints in direct competition with the Indian casinos. Republicans can't stand for Democrats to have money. We are supposed to sit

Steve Highnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604145.post-1064612017380239392003-09-26T14:23:00.000-07:002003-09-26T14:45:30.650-07:00

Because I personally believe Arianna Huffington should be held upside down in a toilet bowl, I find little to criticize in The Big Guy's debate performance. He's dangerously uniformed about state government, but we knew that. Arnold's problem, as is so often the case, was in the post-debate spin. He got beat by the man who wasn't there, Gray Davis. As I have said from the beginning, the burden

Steve Highnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604145.post-1064157097329903742003-09-21T08:09:00.000-07:002003-09-22T14:41:32.980-07:00

LIBERAL ADVANTAGE IN NH A MYTH According the Newsweek Poll, Clark is winning everywhere. If this poll were weighted for propensity to vote and if the Democratic sample were larger, Clark would not be necessarily on top of the field. Still, it's a nice start, and Clark's moderate politics will play better in the early primaries than generally thought. Newsweek polled about 1001 adults. Of these

Steve Highnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604145.post-106406844440303242003-09-20T07:29:00.000-07:002003-09-20T07:39:03.700-07:00

Clark got his fourth star not only by being good at giving orders but by being good at taking them. Right now, his campaign is managing itself. Clark is personally to blame for his current difficulties If he is as quick a study as he is supposed to be, he will realize this and not blame his advisers for what came out of his own mouth. He should simply say, everyone who watches television knows

Steve Highnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604145.post-1064004602445884332003-09-19T13:49:00.000-07:002003-09-19T13:51:58.103-07:00

The Clark firestorm is such that it made a television news organization forget the name of the front-runner in Iowa: Clark is already polling ahead of Graham, according to the latest Zogby Poll, though he remains behind front-runners John Kerry, Tom Daschle and Howard Dean. One is accustomed to seeing errors in reporting or interpreting poll numbers, but they usually spell the candidates'

Steve Highnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604145.post-1063995585168989812003-09-19T09:14:00.000-07:002003-09-19T11:39:33.040-07:00

Bill Clinton is our resident expert on how to beat the Bush family at the election game. His support for Clark, even more overt than Bush's support for Schwarzenegger, is based on very simple arithmetic: the Democrats need Southerners and moderates in order to win the election (see map, above). To do this, our nominee has to be inoculated against GOP puke-bucket politics. In 1988, the GOP

Steve Highnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604145.post-1063816976407906292003-09-17T09:00:00.000-07:002003-09-17T10:19:06.870-07:00

Gallup finds an astonishing level of confidence in the U.S. military, far and away our most respected institution. Trust and integrity are two big reasons why the brilliant telegenic four-star general Wesley Clark looks ready to sweep all the pieces off the table. Clark himself believes he will be president. He has the strongest sense of mission of any candidate in either party. He also

Steve Highnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604145.post-1063461751835501052003-09-13T06:59:00.000-07:002003-09-13T07:33:38.500-07:00

A word to the wise guy: Gallup says that the current welcome sag in Bush numbers comes almost exclusively from GOP voters deserting him for an unnamed generic Democrat. All by himself, Bush is bringing the Reagan Democrats back home. What this should tell our party strategists is that there is more to life than GOTV, more to life than winning primaries, and more to life than "energizing the

Steve Highnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604145.post-1063390155208884322003-09-12T11:04:00.000-07:002003-09-12T11:34:54.296-07:00

Is Clark already in double digits? That's what Judy Woodruff said yesterday. If true, it's pretty damned big news, since every previous poll shows him, including Gallup's most recent, at 2-3 percent. I suspect she misspoke. The main story was about Bush's job ratings circling the drain. This appears to be true; an average of three August and September polls by Gallup, ABC and Zogby shows:

Steve Highnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604145.post-1063386210555927022003-09-12T09:47:00.000-07:002003-09-12T10:10:23.146-07:00

The LA Times' own reporter Michael Finnegan needs practice in reading its own polls. A far better analysis from the same large newspaper comes from the polling staff, but AP chose the shorter inaccurate summary. False Claim #1: Support for the recall is "virtually unchanged." Not true. The race is now a statistical dead heat; in the August poll, the Yes side had a slight lead, outside the

Steve Highnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604145.post-1063309098429210192003-09-11T12:35:00.000-07:002003-09-11T12:49:08.330-07:00

Howard Dean has the New Yorker's ability to push to the head of a line and make you believe he really was in front of you all along. The latest Dean-Clark ticket rumor is a great example. What the hell happened to Clark-Dean? But that's just the kinda guy Howard is. He did the same thing with Bob Graham, which contributed to the continuing impression that the Democrat with the best electoral

Steve Highnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604145.post-1063141525430408402003-09-09T14:05:00.000-07:002003-09-09T14:05:25.623-07:00

The biggest news today is not Ueberroth's exit from the Calif. race, nor the results of the new Field Poll. It is Bill Clinton's blessing of former NATO commander General Wesley Clark as a Democratic Party star. The slightest word from Pres. Clinton resonates loudly with all Democrats from top elected officials to the rank-and-file. For example, the Dean Campaign really got its sea legs only

Steve Highnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604145.post-1063028197784910642003-09-08T06:36:00.000-07:002003-09-08T07:02:55.886-07:00

One of my three readers has asked me to tell the other two that the following advertisers are sponsoring Rush Limbaugh's appearance on ESPN: ESPN Advertisers-First Rush Limbaugh air 9/7/03 Old Spice Screen Gems Columbia Pictures Circuit City Office Depot Bridgestone Tires 989 Sports Citgo McDonalds Jaguar Ford Underarmour Lee Jeans Wrangler Chevron Visa Coors Lincoln Financial Neutrogena AT&T

Steve Highnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604145.post-1062962703766242822003-09-07T12:25:00.000-07:002003-09-07T13:11:34.226-07:00

The anti-Bush vote increased again this week. We are within striking distance. Since the GOP has the money to hire the best campaign consultants in America, we would do well to look at their tactics and emulate them. Successful GOP campaigns almost always have three elements in common: 1. Deny Democratic access to money. During the Civil War, General Sheridan set the Shenandoah Valley on fire

Steve Highnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604145.post-1062798789428699452003-09-05T14:53:00.000-07:002003-09-05T14:53:09.330-07:00

Screw Ronald Reagan's Eleventh Commandment. Rule Number One for every Democrat is Don't talk trash about another Democrat A battle line has been drawn and the whore Huffington, as stated here earlier, is on the wrong side. So is Joe Lieberman, for sliming Howard Dean while others such as John Kerry and Dick Gephardt wisely directed their fire at G. W. Bush. We are on a roll here; let's not

Steve Highnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604145.post-1062639601985262892003-09-03T18:40:00.000-07:002003-09-03T18:53:39.600-07:00

Nice think piece by Pat the Brawler discussing the effect of intraparty fights on the general election. Without spending much time on his own three divisive attacks on the GOP, Buchanan traces the history of such contests back to Teddy Roosevelt's 3rd party assault on Taft. I make no apology for citing Buchanan or other right-wingers. Respect your opponent, and learn from him, or, in the case of

Steve Highnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604145.post-1062516503784608112003-09-02T08:28:00.000-07:002003-09-02T08:28:23.770-07:00

The progression of John Kerry's polling numbers relative to those of John Dean should have stirred the Massachusetts senator to action long before now. As early as 7/4/03 it was clear that the Kerry Campaign was in trouble. The NBC/Wall St. Journal poll, confirmed by Gallup and others, showed Kerry transforming a 17-3 May lead to a statistical tie just two months later. Still, the campaign

Steve Highnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604145.post-1062256971946276492003-08-30T08:22:00.000-07:002003-08-30T19:47:02.073-07:00

The most potentially damaging quote from Arnold yet: "I have no memory." This was either a politically-motivated flip-flop or worse, the truth. Carla Marinucci , of the SF Chronicle interviewed some pointy-headed intellectuals in the Political Science biz at UC Berkeley and Claremont, and they agree that these revelations are as serious as cancer. What if Arnold really doesn't remember, just

Steve Highnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604145.post-1062105958548776652003-08-28T14:25:00.000-07:002003-08-28T14:34:14.943-07:00

While there's still a big war to be fought out here in the Golden State, I see a well-financed NO campaign and Team Big Guy is wishing that it'd taken poison instead of signing up with the over-sexed Senor Universe. Both Gray Davis and Bill McClintock are steady as she goes, meaning, worse case, it's Cruz. So I'm going to try to concentrate on the bigger picture, which is how do we beat George

Steve Highnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604145.post-1062100012172153592003-08-28T12:46:00.000-07:002003-08-28T12:46:52.250-07:00

A fast food joint--I won't repeat its name--has a poll where if you buy the cheapest and most popular item on its menu, you just voted for Arnold. Okay, fair enough. I say buy up that cheap item in quantity and pound 'em down--you're helping prop up the Reps' weakest candidate. The Big Guy looks good, if you like muscles, and he can even act, if you call that crap acting. But as a political

Steve Highnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604145.post-1061956607801591692003-08-26T20:56:00.000-07:002003-08-26T20:56:47.830-07:00

A draft-Wesley-Clark poll suggests that the more voters learn about Clark, the better they will like him. The poll results contain a giant's helping of "ifs," but still do seem to show that Dem and Rep voters alike hunger for military competence in their commander-in-chief. The questionnaire designers should have worked as hard to write bios of the other candidates as they did writing Clark's:

Steve Highnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604145.post-1061932368602615692003-08-26T14:12:00.000-07:002003-08-26T14:12:48.803-07:00

The AFL-CIO has joined the teachers and state employees (mostly not represented by the state federation of labor) in backing the NO Recall/YES Cruz strategy. By the time Bill Clinton gets to town, I think the locals will have figured it out. As John Burton said, it's hard to turn down two bites out of the apple. It's really a no-brainer. As the No Recall site says, you have to vote on the

Steve Highnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604145.post-1061920252419515002003-08-26T10:50:00.000-07:002003-08-26T10:58:47.970-07:00

The wretch Huffington can boast of only $65K so far to fund her gauzy, snotty commercial. Huffington appropriates the GOP's "Blackout/Gray Out" theme to attack Davis, and also, in another shot at Davis, suggests that teacher's salaries could be made higher than those of prison guards, which they certainly could be--by a governor willing to break one union to help another. Her commercial is

Steve Highnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604145.post-1061916921301455992003-08-26T09:55:00.000-07:002003-08-26T10:12:05.760-07:00

The details of John Kerry's combat service are finally getting some notice, as his schedule these days is filled almost exclusively with veterans' stops. Although The Note cautions against a campaign slogan that says, "vote for me, I've killed people," I'm not so sure. Most of Bush's support level is held up by the perception that he, and not the Democrats, is ready to pull the trigger in a

Steve Highnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604145.post-1061866018135064262003-08-25T19:46:00.000-07:002003-08-25T19:46:58.146-07:00

On a recent visit to Oakland, the Rev. Al Sharpton said correctly, "a vote for the recall is a vote for George W. Bush." Arianna Huffington doesn't care. Her website says, "Personally, Arianna plans to vote 'yes' on the recall." This is a deal-breaker. Huffington needs to slapped down, hard and early, before the idea gets around that is somehow okay to endorse a scheme hatched by Darrell

Steve Highnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604145.post-1061736868730393682003-08-24T07:54:00.000-07:002003-08-24T08:10:57.060-07:00

Must have been gloomy Chez Karl Rove this weekend. Polls show the Democrats soaring in California. And Bush is nose-diving toiletward thanks to idiotic Iraq policy. 1. Even the exit of Bill Simon from the second ballot question in the California Recall wasn't especially good news. The same LA Times poll that shows Demcrat Cruz Bustamante opening up a dramatic lead over Schwarzenegger and the

Steve Highnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604145.post-1061611474134402382003-08-22T21:04:00.000-07:002003-08-22T21:08:45.423-07:00

Support for the recall is falling and will fall further, as GOP attempts to beat up its activist wing fall flat. And fall flat, they assuredly will. State Sen. McClintock, who is burning up the Right-Wing Drool Case talk radio shows, says he agrees with the sentiment that there should be fewer Republican candidates and suggests that The Big Guy drop out and endorse him. He's not kidding. There

Steve Highnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604145.post-1061477096857313752003-08-21T07:44:00.000-07:002003-08-21T07:48:12.840-07:00

Gen. Wesley Clark and former president Clinton were the twin stars of the recent Brainstorm Conference, a confab of over-achieving intellectuals chronicled by Michael Wolff of New York Magazine. Slow to anger at Bush's organized and sustained effort to ridicule, blame and belittle his two administrations, Clinton seems to have finally put on his boxing gloves. Just in case, as the Ernie K-Do

Steve Highnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604145.post-1061318045249355122003-08-19T11:34:00.000-07:002003-08-19T11:37:18.766-07:00

Arnold's press guys sound so dumb they might be better off letting the Austrian speak for himself. First, they attack the integrity of the Field Poll, which hasn't taken nickel one from a politician since the year of my ever-lovin' birth, 1947. "Left-leaning," my achin' feet. You don't stop a downward slide by claiming the next polls will be better. Next, they say about Simon's scorching Prop.

Steve Highnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604145.post-1061305176479146592003-08-19T07:59:00.000-07:002003-08-19T07:59:36.390-07:00

Don't let the spelling of "centre" fool you; the Guardian's Hugo Young has figured it out. The Dems need to consolidate their base, then move to the center. Concerns that Dean or anyone else is "too far to the left" are silly in light of the extremism of the Bush Administration. Any candidate who contrasts his views to those of Bush, Cheney, Ashcroft and Rumsfeld will look moderate. We are

Steve Highnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604145.post-1061238322586065522003-08-18T13:25:00.000-07:002003-08-18T13:30:45.603-07:00

Wesley Clark, first in his class at West Point, is a smart guy. He surely knows that candidates for high office who have never been elected to anything have a poor track record. Perot, Forbes, Buchanan and Elizabeth Dole all come to mind. Of course, the two non-polititicians who went straight to the White House without passing Go were, like Clark, both generals. It's not impossible. But, of

Steve Highnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604145.post-1061154696646896842003-08-17T14:11:00.000-07:002003-08-17T14:55:24.696-07:00

The three-part Field Poll is stuffed with horrible news for the GOP. And the bleating from Team Big Guy that this, the most respected and incorruptible poll in the history of the state, is "left-leaning" is simply risible. The Field Poll is the gold standard. It benchmarks the race. If the election were this Tuesday, Davis would be gone and Bustamante would be in, an outcome that would have to

Steve Highnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604145.post-1061074148367688412003-08-16T15:49:00.000-07:002003-08-16T16:21:24.570-07:00

Sorry, can't muster three. I think he let Gore down. Perhaps by inclination, or perhaps because he didn't want to be unlikeable, Lieberman failed the ticket by not providing the attack dog services required of the VP nominee. Even Lloyd Bentsen, a more conservative Democrat than Lieberman, was willing to spend his personal popularity going after both Quayle and Bush Senior in the doomed Dukakis

Steve Highnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604145.post-1061051596300484062003-08-16T09:33:00.000-07:002003-08-16T09:47:12.893-07:00

According to the received story line, the Democrats are divided and the Republicans are a remorseless juggernaut. One problem: Cruz Bustamante is winning. Of course, if you ignore California Election Law, you could Klaim, Kool Kids-style, that this means Bustamante is beating Gray Davis. Another WAY inconvenient fact is that Californians are very worried about the wisdom of the recall itself.

Steve Highnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604145.post-1060971770577692712003-08-15T11:22:00.000-07:002003-08-16T09:01:50.616-07:00

California Dems are not at war with each other, but the Reps are. Efforts by GOP leaders to muscle Simon and McClintock have been crowned with failure. Simon, according to Carla Marinucci, "went ballastic." And McClintock's response was to book radio interviews at 10, 2 and 4, just like Dr. Pepper, this according to The Note. The State GOP is officially taking no position, but the California

Steve Highnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604145.post-1060890164330725292003-08-14T12:42:00.000-07:002003-08-14T12:47:15.676-07:00

Cragg Hines at the Houston Chronicle nails Bush's claim to be above politics:"...the smarminess stands out anew in 10-foot tall neon letters." Accusing the Democrats of "pure politics," Bush continues to claim that he changed the tone, and that he and his rabid dog pack of pollsters and consultants and producers are somehow above it all. And even those reporters who know first hand that

Steve Highnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604145.post-1060871349998139612003-08-14T07:29:00.000-07:002003-08-14T07:33:44.363-07:00

I woke up this morning thinking it was time to take another look at Dick Gephardt's candidacy and found that the AP's Ron Fournier already had. Looking at the blog map, the candidates who seem to bring the most to the party are--far and away, Bob Graham, followed by Dickie G., John Edwards and nobody. The three New England candidates bring no electoral votes, and the final three bring no votes

Steve Highnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604145.post-1060827604484013392003-08-13T19:20:00.000-07:002003-08-14T07:48:34.470-07:00

A careful and detailed look at the GOP consultants associated with the recall is found in The American Prospect. However, as scribes have been wont to do every since Joe Cerrell was a teenager, the writer says Schwarzenegger paid George Gorton $780K for Prop 49. That's a little misleading. Some other people, like TV station owners, also got paid out of that money. Gorton might have cleared

Steve Highnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604145.post-1060803813006699872003-08-13T12:43:00.000-07:002003-08-13T12:53:33.986-07:00

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. California's conservatives are not going to buy it a second time. Rove and Bush have intervened on behalf of Arnold, a liberal Republican, and they'll pay a price Rush Limbaugh, while disclaiming any attempt to make Rove and the White House look bad, does exactly that. Why is he documenting the White House betrayal of its base if he

Steve Highnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604145.post-1060783558754799492003-08-13T07:05:00.000-07:002003-08-13T07:17:02.253-07:00

The LA Times reports that Arnold "Little Peter" Schwarzenegger has shuffled his campaign team, replacing its best-known consultant with its least. George Gorton, identified last week as the leader of the "crack team" hired by the Big Guy, will now take "a lesser role." He will be replaced by Bob White, a Pete Wilson guy. Hard to know what's going on inside that room. But I think it's safe

Steve Highnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604145.post-1060743994727183572003-08-12T20:06:00.000-07:002003-08-13T11:54:06.253-07:00

Tuesday 8/12/2003 7:50:32 PM NADER, SCAB, GETS PIE IN FACE What a lamentable occurence. The traitorous man who sold out every progressive principle he has ever pretended to stand for got a pie in the face. The arrogant man who served as midwife to the illegimate birth of the most anti-environment, anti-consumer protection and anti-labor policies in the history of the United States was humbled

Steve Highnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604145.post-1060723824401081042003-08-12T14:30:00.000-07:002003-08-12T14:30:24.376-07:00

You gotta love Dickie G.'s comment on the California recall: "This is an attack on the institutions of our government. That's what Republicans do." It's true. From the shuttered up U.C. Extension building in San Francisco to the abusive Homeland Security attempts to hunt down Tom Delay's political opponents in Texas, that is, indeed, what they do. Wino patron Darrell Issa is a good example of

Steve Highnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604145.post-1060722483301394832003-08-12T14:08:00.000-07:002003-08-14T10:02:26.270-07:00

What are the presidential candidates doing while Arnold snorts all the air out of the room? Well, Bob Graham is getting votes the old-fashioned way...by earning them. It's is the "Graham for Mayor" strategy. Proof that he's practicing what he preaches comes, not from Nightline, but from the Ft. Madison Daily Democrat Remember how Landslide Lyndon won his first congressional race? It was by

Steve Highnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604145.post-1060704309395143872003-08-12T09:05:00.000-07:002003-08-12T09:42:29.036-07:00

In what I think will be the first of many similar opinion pieces from California's scribes, widely-read LA Times columnist Steve Lopez disses Steroid-for-Brains and talks up Peter Ueberroth who, all kidding aside, would make a good GOP governor if there were any reason to recall the present Democratic one, which there isn't. The recall is the first engagement of the 2004 presidential race.

Steve Highnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604145.post-1060661539216821572003-08-11T21:12:00.000-07:002003-08-11T21:12:19.240-07:00

MSNBC is out with another snap poll showing shockingly high turnout numbers. Dan Weintraub doesn't believe them, but that's what people are telling any pollster who will ask them. The Arnold thing has shattered a lot of my notions about this recall, none more firmly-held than the notion that an election in October of an odd-numbered year doesn't get much participation. A huge difference this

Steve Highnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604145.post-1060612074002244432003-08-11T07:27:00.000-07:002003-08-11T07:27:54.010-07:00

Yesterday's USA Today/CNN/Gallup poll contains grim numbers for Davis and the Dems. However, like Saturday's poll, the questionnaire does not take into account the effect of partisanship, which will play a very large role. Because the candidatres are not identified by party label, the results are distorted and do not reflect the effect of a single Democrat running against four major Republican

Steve Highnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604145.post-1060611934048712072003-08-11T07:25:00.000-07:002003-08-11T07:25:34.036-07:00

Yesterday's USA Today/CNN/Gallup poll contains grim numbers for Davis and the Dems. However, like Saturday's poll, the questionnaire does not take into account the effect of partisanship, which will play a very large role. Because the candidatres are not identified by party label, the results are distorted and do not reflect the effect of a single Democrat running against four major Republican

Steve Highnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604145.post-1060558215094344632003-08-10T16:30:00.000-07:002003-08-10T16:36:31.033-07:00

The AP headline, Poll: Davis would lose to Schwarzenegger, distorts both parts of this two part election campaign. On Question One, Davis cannot lose to Schwarzenegger; he can only lose to Davis. Voters have to vote YES on recall for Davis to lose. The AP story omitted the following finding from its story: "Do you think the recall is good or bad for California." Result: statistical tie, 47%-

Steve Highnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604145.post-1060526195104998332003-08-10T07:36:00.000-07:002003-08-10T07:37:59.860-07:00

If the election were held today, Davis would be recalled and Steroid Boy would be governor. BUT, the election won't be held today. And the Austrian is gonna wish he'd stayed in the weight room. One Dem, four Reps. You do the math. As Arnold's unfavorables climb--and believe me, climb they will--polls will show Cruz leading the pack in the final weeks of the campaign. And this in turn will

Steve Highnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604145.post-1060524678033097032003-08-10T07:11:00.000-07:002003-08-10T07:20:13.306-07:00

The track record of California rich guys financing their own campaigns is not encouraging. One reason is that they run their campaign managers around instead of listening to them. In this respect, Arnold Schwarzenegger's campaign for governor didn't get off to a very good start, acccording to Karen Tumulty in Time. Goop-for-brains Arnold decides to run four seconds before walking onto the set

Steve Highnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604145.post-1060446502644195252003-08-09T09:28:00.000-07:002003-08-09T09:40:31.830-07:00

The California recall has temporarily put the kibosh on coverage of the invisible primary and reduced last week's celebrity, Howard Dean, to scraping for tidbits from lesser known websites such as Gayapolis. The story says "a growing list of gay and lesbian celebrities" are backing Ho Ho. I think this support is what has Karl Rove licking his porcine lips at the prospect of a Dean candidacy. It

Steve Highnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604145.post-1060445425456558572003-08-09T09:10:00.000-07:002003-08-09T09:19:57.700-07:00

Dean Murphy in NYT has a prediction from Lou Cannon that the right-wing will attack the Charles Atlas Course Graduate who would be governor. Watch your verb tenses, Dude. Said attacks are already splashed all over Rush Limbaugh's website like gangland graffitti on an East San Jose railroad crossing. Murphy does a better job of reporting than most, talking to people like Cannon, Lyn Nofziger

Steve Highnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604145.post-1060403765053461372003-08-08T21:36:00.000-07:002003-08-09T09:24:45.496-07:00

Friday 8/8/2003 8:58:18 PM With 24 hours to go, Yahoo News placed the Ueberroth story under "Politics," and Schwarzenegger story where it belongs, under "Entertainment." And while the press continues to pound the "Democratic disunity" storyline down a rathole, Rush Limbaugh and The Traditional Values Coalition are gearing up to beat up Senor Iron-Pumper. The all-time NASTIEST California

Steve Highnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604145.post-1060320767848123182003-08-07T22:32:00.000-07:002003-08-07T22:32:47.813-07:00

Bare-knuckled tough guy Darryl Issa beslubbers himself at the thought of $1.6 million on signature-gathering winos going for snot, I mean naught. Buck up, Dude. Be grateful you beat all your cases.

Steve Highnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604145.post-1060292078225359952003-08-07T14:34:00.000-07:002003-08-07T14:36:12.360-07:00

The Sacto Bee's Daniel Weintraub hypothesizes a YES landslide in California's recall, but I can't see it unless the Reps rally around Arnold in a big way. And I don't quite feature that. The hard-core rank and file GOP (i.e., your gay-bashin' right-to-lifers and such) ain't too big on the Big Guy. I don't see the Reps getting their act together behind a guy none of them wanted to run. However

Steve Highnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604145.post-1060278208102804242003-08-07T10:43:00.000-07:002003-08-07T10:50:28.390-07:00

...NOT! The national media has been pulling so hard for a Democratic street-fight that they can't even tell the Sharks from the Jets. Bloomberg News says that Arnold shattered plans for Dem unity--like we have any control over this steroid-enhanced Nazi spawn. I say the Reps are more screwed up than the Dems--by far. I know these gimlet-eyed CRA ladies. They ain't gonna buy the muscleman, not

Steve Highnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5604145.post-1060197124185619542003-08-06T12:12:00.000-07:002003-08-07T11:13:50.510-07:00

Mario Cuomo just endorsed Gore. But who will Gore endorse? Do you remember Cuomo's electrifying keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention in San Francisco? Maybe not. The youngest Dean voters were born that year. They were ten when Cuomo, Speaker Foley and many others were chopped down like so much old lumber by Newt Gingrich & Company. And now, what do you know? Here they are old

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