Brianland

Those loveable nuts, Hillary & Billary, spent the day (apart of course) cruising around the countryside, choosing the day for love to unleash their harshest ever smear campaign against Barack Obama. Barack, by contrast, took the entire day off from campaigning and spent it with his wife.  (and kids). Tells me everything I need to know. […]

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Potomac Primary Victory Speech in Madison, Wisconsin, Feb. 12th: 26 minutes South Carolina — The Big Victory Speech, January 26th, 2008 (Brian’s “turning point in the nomination”): 17 minutes Iowa Victory Speech, Jan 5th, 2008: 14 minutes New Hampshire — the “Yes, We Can” speech, Jan 8th: 13 minutes Super Tuesday, February 5th, 2008: 22 minutes […]

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Happy Potomac Primary Morning! 168 phat delegates are up for the taking tonight in Virginia, Maryland and D.C. In a few hours, Obama will have won every state since Super Tuesday, 8 in a row, and every one of them by 20-30+ point margins. With everything going against the Clintons at this point – states […]

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first, before the funny — here’s “the video that started it all”  — “Yes, We Can”  about 4 minutes long. If you’re into laughing and politics, these are highly recommended . . . McCain’s “Yes, I Can” video — length:  1:39 Hillary under sniper fire in Bosnia: 1 min. The Mac vs. PC Guys— 30 seconds The brilliant […]

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Holy muthr jezus of gawd!  What just happened?!  Herbie Hancock just won Album of The Year! Herbie, besides everything else in his brilliant career, was a key to the “Yes We Can” Obama video.  And the guy climaxes the Grammys, saying, “Yes, We Can” from the stage when he wins.  I’m freaking out. you can see […]

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The two lines have bisected. We’re watching a turning point in the nomination. The lines had just reached parity on Super Tuesday, but he still actually won it (narrowly) in both states and delegates.  And he hasn’t lost a contest since Super Tuesday — 5 and oh.  Or, oh-oh, if you’re a Clintonian.  Washington and […]

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After the Louisianna/Washington/Nebraska/Maine weekend, 30 states have voted so far: and Barack Obama is ahead by every measure — 19 Obama states won 10 Clinton states won 1 still too-close-to-call (New Mexico) pledged (voter-elected) delegates: 1,009 Obama 944 Clinton (ABC News puts it at 951 Obama, 904 Clinton) total votes cast: 8,228,000  Obama 8,028,000 Clinton oh, […]

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Obama had a clean sweep tonight!  He won Louisiana by more than 20%!!  and by a more than 2-to-1 in both Washington and Nebraska!  Plus pulled the upset in the Virgin Islands, the only place Hillary had been leading.  and then he won another all-white state in Maine! Obama laid down a long, detailed victory speech — although […]

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For both Dems & Repubs each state makes it’s own rules about how their delegates are divied up – so there’s about a 100 different methods.  But the Dems are all proportional allocation. On the Dem’s side, the first to amass 2,025 delegates wins nomination (this takes into account Michigan & Florida not participating). Super-delegates […]

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“Democracy isn’t something you have, it’s something you do.”  Granny D (political activist) 1910–2010 People ask me what news sources I trust, and how I use the media to my advantage. I call it “controlling my sources” Rules of thumb: When an interviewer is interviewing 2 people, one a Democrat the other a Republican – […]

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