Elections Blog

Former New York Mayor Rudolph “Rudy” Giuliani [Republican] made his 2008 Presidential candidacy semi-official by forming an exploratory committee to raise money for the primary campaign. Guiliani made no official statement.
Various polls, surveys and straw ballots have Giuliani in first or second place among Republican voters, competing neck and neck for frontrunner status with [...]

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Senator John McCain [Republican, Arizona] told the fake Tim Russert (Darrell Hammond of Saturday Night Live) a few years ago that he was “ready to serve as our next President!” Sunday on the real Meet the Press, he told the real Tim Russert:

Are we doing the things organizationally and legally that need to be [...]

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Senator Russ Feingold has announced that he will not seek the Democratic nomination for President in 2008. Feingold, a favorite antiwar Senator, principled liberal stalwart and the only Senator to vote against the USA Patriot Act in 2001, told the Associated Press:

I never got to the point where I felt strongly I wanted to [...]

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Little known California Congressman Duncan Hunter became the first Republican member of Congress to officially announce a Presidential campaign today. Hunter is the Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, but despite the powerful position he’s little known to voters outside his home district.
The Vietnam War veteran, a recipient of a Bronze Star, [...]

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Barack Obama [Democrat, Illinois] said on NBC’s Meet the Press Sunday that he is considering a Presidential bid for 2008 and will announce a decision sometime after the November 2006 election, the equivalent for serious candidates of announcing his intention to announce. Obama appeals to a broad swath of voters with his multiracial background, [...]

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Former Virginia Governor Mark Warner announced Thursday that he will not seek the Democratic nomination for President in 2008.

“I know these moments are never going to come again,” Warner said. “This weekend made clear what I’d been thinking about for many weeks - that while politically this appears to be the right time for me [...]

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The Way to Win: Taking the White House in 2008 - by Mark Halperin, John F. Harris. This title will be released on October 3, 2006. Pre-order now!

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Russ Feingold leads the Democratic field with 48% of the vote in the straw poll at Daily Kos.
Wesley Clark has 15%, Mark Warner has 12%, John Edwards has 6%.  “No Frickin’ Clue” beats all the other candidates for fifth place with 3%, even Hillary Clinton who ties with “Other” at 2%. Tough crowd.
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Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman said on ABC’s “This Week with George Stephanopoulos” that Hillary Clinton is too angry and too left-wing to be elected President.

“Whether it’s the comments about the plantation or the worst administration in history, Hillary Clinton seems to have a lot of anger.”
“There’s a lot of talk about a new [...]

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Criticizing the Bush tax cuts, Senator Hillary Clinton (Democrat, New York) told the U.S. Conference of Mayors that federal budget cuts left them “on their own” in meeting local needs.

“Across the board, federal budget cuts are leaving states and cities struggling to make up the difference,” Clinton told a meeting of the U.S. Conference of [...]

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PolicyByBlog looks at Hillary Clinton’s non-campaign campaign for the Presidency and concludes that her attempts to appeal to the center risk losing core support from decidedly left-of-center Democrats. Specifically, political bloggers tend to come to blogging precisely out of frustrated idealism, so the rhetorical two-step is often seen by bloggers as politically sinful.

Indeed [...]

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A potential Presidential faceoff between Hillary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani could put a New Yorker back in the Oval Office for the first time since Franklin Roosevelt.
New York has not had one of its own elected president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt won a fourth term in 1944. Since then, several New Yorkers — almost [...]

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U.S. Senator Russ Feingold (Democrat, Wisconsin) has gone from a minority of one to leading a filibuster that could sink the renewal of controversial provisions of the Patriot Act. The high profile defense of civil liberties will further endear Feingold to the Democratic Party’s liberal base, but ironically will find him allies among Republican [...]

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