Archive for March, 2008
Thursday, March 6th, 2008
[Daniella Zalcman / Flickr]
As a small addendum to the previous post, this from Republican John Rich, who voted for Clinton in Virginia:
The Clintons are a team. You get one, you get both. And that’s good news for Republicans like me: he’d be a steadying influence on Hillary’s more leftish notions.
Stated ...
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Thursday, March 6th, 2008
Were they talking up Clinton? [chix0rgirl / Flickr]
Before Tuesday's primaries in Texas, Ohio, Vermont, and Rhode Island, Rush Limbaugh urged Republicans to vote for Hillary Clinton. His reason: a bruising ongoing Democratic race helps the GOP.
Republican John Ruwe, who did vote for Clinton on Tuesday, sees very much eye-to-eye with ...
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
[trialkat / Flickr]
This picture by trialkat was taken at a Fair Tax rally in Jacksonville, FL, where Mike Huckabee played his bass. The boy is holding a dollar bill autographed by Huckabee, and the photo seemed a fitting adieu to the candidate, who, after last night's primaries, conceded the GOP ...
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
[Litandmore / Flickr]
[Litandmore / Flickr]
John McCain clinched the Republican nomination last night, but the buzz belonged to Hillary Clinton for winning Ohio, Texas, and Rhode Island.
Ohio blogger The Critic explains the vote he cast for Clinton yesterday:
Today I was up by six thirty, dressed by six forty, and out the ...
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
A Vermonter and self-described "housewife and homeschooling mom" had this to say last night after watching the Vermont primary results on TV:
On the Channel 17 exit interviews, when asked what comment she would write on her ballot for her elected officials, if she could, one woman said, “I would tell ...
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Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
[mattkeefe / Flickr]
Here's another perspective on technology and Campaign 08. Scott Chacon is a Bay Area computer programmer with an abiding interest in "open source politics" -- which he defines as "the idea that openness and transparency through technology can improve our political system." He put that idea to the ...
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Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
[Mashuga / Flickr]
[MikeSchinkel / Flickr]
These pictures pretty much sum it up. It's a big issue this election -- especially in states like Texas, which votes and caucuses in primaries today.
The photo of the little girl holding the sign was taken in Scranton, PA, by Gary Clark (aka Mashuga), a retired ...
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Monday, March 3rd, 2008
Connecting the old-fashioned way [Jay Tamboli / Flickr]
Emmett O'Connell lives and blogs -- largely about politics -- in Olympia, WA. He was enthusiastically involved online in the Dean campaign in 2004; this time around, he helped set up a community site for Bill Richardson long before Richardson even declared his ...
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