Google Maps is providing a map covering the primaries of 2008. It’s a really interactive way to see where the votes lie for both Obama and Hillary Clinton.
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PA PRIMARY FINAL PUSH
Basically in a little more than 24 hours, polls will close in Pennsylvania and the nation will have a clearer idea of who will be the Democratic candidate for President of the United States of America.
According to ten leading polling agencies, the unanimous consensus is Hillary Clinton, with an average margin of 5.9%, will take the state of Pennsylvania.
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One Day After the Debate
Whew. Philadelphia still stands. The debate between American democratic hopefuls is over.
The debate’s lingering impact will be known on April 22 when Pennsylvania hosts its late yet highly anticipated primary election. It is certain this debate created a shift in tact of both the Obama and Hillary campaigns. However in the upcoming days, it will be seen how the strategies of Obama and Clinton will morph to address concerns vital to winning Pennsylvania’s primary.
The Obama Camp is sick of the media’s inapt ability to sift out real issues for the American people. Changing media is an Obama campaign issue and strength. The debate proved to Obama supporters how much the media really needs to change and the Obama camp now is lashing out and pressing for shift in media foci.
And, as for the Hillary camp and how the debate has changed her tune, she now seems to be portraying a different, more delicate nature when on Obama attack. Perhaps the recent support from ABC (Gibson and Stephanopolis) calmed her crippling flaws of charisma as she keeps speaking out to gun-holding, religious Pennsylvanians.
What matters most now, is not what the debaters said last night, but what there is still left to say. I know it’s fair to say, being myself a voter, and taking this even further, a young voter, last night did not do justice on either candidate. The debate failed to showcase how the two will differ in delivering for our nation. To make all of this worse, both claim to endorse one another.
No, I’m not lying, both Obama and Clinton endorsed one another last night when questioned if he/she believed his/her opponent could beat McCain. Leading the debate, Charles Gibson and Stephanopolis proffered boring questions. The poor questioning resulted in pop-culturalization of politics and the sugar coating of the major issues that we as voters care about.
So because of crappy questions I learned last night a lot of stuff I could care less about. I learned who Hillary was and who Obama isn’t. I now am the proud knower that Hillary is the granddaughter of a first generation immigrant paper mill worker and that Obama is no longer friends with Bill Ayer. Hillary is sorry for Kosovo and Obama disowned Wright, I mean Wright’s words.
I also learned for certain what the media is and isn’t. I can only hope the watching public learned more about media than the candidates. ABC sucks at hosting debates not because of the orators or the time or the location or the candidates, but because the media is guilty of holding a greed for ratings and when this greed is carried over into debating the result is mediocre reporting.
The debate did not lead into a conversation about the future of our nation’s political campaign for the election of 2008. Obama and Hillary should have been pushed during the debate to prove themselves by standing strong to their respective visions for America. Instead the debate highlighted the Democratic candidates’ weaknesses and campaign short-comings. ABC used the constitution, religion, lapels, and philanthropic activity to taint Obama and Clinton.
But I will lay to rest my dismay over what seemed to be an unabashed bashing of Obama because what matters most now is who will win Pennsylvania?
The city’s mayor and the state’s governor endorse Hillary. Last night showed that the two democratic candidates will keep on huffing and puffing until the very bitter yet sweet end, but whoever wins, will win the White House in 2008.
“We feel a certain sense of freedom and progressiveness here,” Nutter [Mayor of Philadelphia] said of the City of Brotherly Love. “The notion that all black people vote one way has to be destroyed.”
But let’s be honest. Endorsements don’t really mean anything. Or do they?
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Four Days Until the Debate
There will be two hours of Democratic fury, banter, arguing, and proposing April 16, six days before the Pennsylvania Primary, arguably the most important contest of the campaign trail thus far. The debate will be aired on ABC, at 8:00. We’re talking head to head, dirty debating in historic Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Early on in 2008 the January 5th democratic debate grabbed interest of many Americans when over 9.36 million viewers tuned in.
The Pennsylvania Voter:
78% of state can vote = 9,703,685 people
63% of state rooted in community & lived in same house (> 5 years)
82% of state, aged 25 or older, high school graduates
Average median household income: $43,000
274 people/sq. mile
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Beijing 2008.
Hilary Clinton wants nothing more than the United States to use the recent attacks on the Olympic torch bearing tradition in Paris and San Francisco en route to Beijing to stop genocide around the world. She supports an act of protest at the Olympic Opening Ceremony to stand up for a less violent world.
“The violent clashes in Tibet and the failure of the Chinese government to use its full leverage with Sudan to stop the genocide in Darfur are opportunities for presidential leadership,” Mrs Clinton said.
She wants a boycott by the President. The Olympics games are not new venues for political and social protest. In fact, the Olympics are known to be boycotted due to international concern of government opression (Melbourne Olympics: 1956, Moscow: 1980, Los Angeles: 1984). Clinton believes that if Bush does not show himself as a representative of America at the opening ceremony then the United States can most strongly convey its disapproval of the Chinese government. How is this so? The Chinese government is hosting the Olympics. There is nothing much to be done to change that. I’m sure she thought of this, yet the next best option in her logic is for the President to not go to the opening ceremonies.
It’s too late to make a point via the Olympics. Just like the empty threats the Bush administration made to promote and ensure international compliance of nation-states hesitant to join in on the Global War on Terror, Hilary’s belief in an Olympic boycott is years too late. As it is years late in acknowledging the fronts of war the United States is presently engaged. You can’t just make a decision to be against the Olympics even if the government hosting is failing. The Olympics is an event that represents too much internationally in terms of peace and humanity to ever be boycotted, even if the host shares with the Olympics, a history of controllable and uncontrollable terrorist attacks.
Bush not being at the opening ceremony does not mean the US Olympians will not compete. Bush not attending the opening ceremony is an empty threat. His absence, a move that would be out of line with the ideologies of the majority of Americans, does nothing to support change in China. Isn’t the Olympics more about bringing the world together rather than a leader throwing a hissy fit, an act the nation definitely doesn’t support?
Clinton supporting a Bush boycott of the Olympics is scary. Hilary isn’t ready to lead a nation. A stand of absence is an invisible move and the most weak option. The protests and the international stands do more than show the Chinese government and international community that people want China to stop oppressing its citizens and are using the Olympics as a means to express disapproval. Support of the Beijing Olympics is waning quickly and for the Chinese to regain an approvable reputation, change can be nothing but forthcoming.
An answer to bring about change in China is not for our President and diplomatic teams to throw a boycotting fit. Instead, China and America need to learn from failures. America failed before invading Iraq by not harnessing a coherent and cohesive global consensus. We need to work to bring nations together and confront not hide out against, the crimes against humanity being executed by the Chinese government. The focus needs to be on making a stand at the Olympics not with a U.S. absence but with a participatory U.S. presence.
Obama does not agree with Clinton. Last week, he said,
“I’m hesitant to make the Olympics a site of political protest because I think it’s partly about bringing the world together” and Monday in a statement did not address the proposal to boycott the opening ceremony. If the Chinese government did not work “toward meaningful autonomy for Tibet,” Obama said, “there should be consequences.”
Consequences. Agreed. Not unorganized, irrational demonstrations supported by the Clinton campaign. Hillary in contrast to Bush may have European support, as,
“European leaders are considering a boycott of the opening ceremony. The Bush White House is not.”
For once, I will agree with Bush. In this one case I am glad he is president instead of Hillary since he has sense, for once, to not engage in an opening day boycott. Please, Hillary stop with the dramatic exaggerations.
Do we really need all citizens of the world to lack the support of their country’s leaders at the Olympics? Isn’t it unfair for athletes engaging in peaceful competition to lack the peaceful interaction that exists among our world leaders during the Olympic games? Let’s let our nations’ athletes parlay and let’s let our leaders peacefully, stand by.
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