Jeremy P. Jacobs
Year of the Independent Voter
When Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) all but wrapped up the Democratic nomination last week, the focus of both his and Sen. John McCain’s (R-Ariz.) presidential campaigns shifted to general election strategies. Unsurprisingly, both are targeting independent voters, which these candidates appealed to this primary season — McCain, with his almost trademarked maverick persona, and Obama, [...]
Obama Defends Foreign Policy, Attacks Bush, McCain
Yesterday Bush played the Nazi card, insinuating before the Israeli Parliament that Obama would negotiate with terrorist groups. Furor ensued.
Today Obama struck back.
"After almost eight years, I did not think I could be surprised by anything George Bush says, but I was wrong," Obama, avec flag pin, said.
"The president did something that presidents [...]
Waxman and Berman Back Obama
Two prominent House Democrats announced their support of Obama today: foreign affairs committee chair Howard Berman (D-Calif.) and oversight committee chair Henry Waxman (D-Calif.). Waxman stressed Obama’s "experience, judgment, integrity and toughness" in his statement, while Berman said Obama has "laid out a foreign policy vision driven by principle and conviction." Here is Waxman’s release.
I [...]
Fury Over Obama’s Atlantic Interview Continues
The clamor surrounding Obama’s interview with Jeffrey Goldberg continues. House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio), took the "constant sore" remarks and ran with it late yesterday, issuing this statement, per ABC news.
‘Israel is a critical American ally and a beacon of democracy in the Middle East, not a ‘constant sore’ as Barack Obama claims,’ [...]
Obama Continues to Court Jewish Voters
Despite the recent polling information that showed the Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) is not slipping among Jewish voters (which I noted here yesterday), Obama continues to make his fealty to Israel perfectly clear. In an interview with The Atlantic Monthly’s Jeffrey Goldberg posted on his blog yesterday, Obama ardently defended Israel’s existence. Here are a [...]
Obama’s Jewish Vote Troubles Overblown
One story that continues to surface over and over again is whether Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) will be able to count on Jewish voters in the general election. (I have written on the issue here and again here.) Today Gallup released a poll that should, at least for the time being, quiet all those who [...]
Maybe Clinton Bowing Out Wouldn’t Be Good for Obama…
As the punditocracy, blogosphere and, well, anyone following the race pondered when Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) will gracefully or not-so-gracefully end her campaign and coverage shifted to what will be Sens. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and Sen. John McCain’s (R-Ariz.) general election strategies, the Los Angeles Times raised an interesting point Sunday. Tad Devine, the Democratic [...]
Obama Picks Up Seven Supers
Bloomberg reports that Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) has picked up seven super delegates today, including Rep. Donald Payne (D-N.J.) who switched his endorsement from Clinton to the Illinois senator. By MSNBC’s tally, this bring Obama’s total to 269 to Sen. Hillary Clinton’s 273.5. Clinton has netted zero for today, having lost Payne and gained the [...]
(Some) Supers Stick With Clinton
Despite the widespread notion that the race for the Democratic nomination is over, 16 members of Congress penned a letter to their colleagues today urging them to support Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.). The letter highlights Clinton’s argument that she is the most electable candidate in November because she has won more big rural states that, [...]
Will Democrats Unite?
As the race for the Democratic presidential nomination between Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) drags on and each candidate’s supporters sound increasingly committed, Democrats are growing concerned that a prolonged fight will damage the party’s eventual nominee in the general election against Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), the likely GOP candidate. [...]
