An interesting tally from the Concord Monitor:
Romney 28, McCain 21, Paul 16, Giuliani 14
I’d say McCain’s main problem is Obama, because Obama is attracting many of the independents that McCain won in 2000. But Huckabee is not doing well. New Hampshire could be the brake on his momentum.
A Roma girl covers up in the Cesmin Lug refugee camp in the Serbian district December 12, 2007 in Kosovo province, Serbia. One hundred and fourty-four refugees live in the camp near toxic metal waste left by the Trepca mines, living in extremely poor conditions with no running water. Members of the Roma minority were forced to flee their homes in the Mahala district in southern Mitrovica during the Kosovo war in the 1999. They settled in the Serb-populated northern side of the divided province. By Carsten Koall/Getty Images.
This awful:
What we’re beginning to see here is how underdeveloped the arguments for Clinton were when separated from her aura of inevitability.
What arguments? The only sliver of policy difference is health care mandates. The rest is "experience", "dynasty," "inevitability", "competence." No wonder their only current argument is: cocaine.
The latest Sioux City Journal poll gives Obama and Huckabee nine point leads each. Obama had 1,000 house parties in the state last night.
I guess she wants to lose ugly.
Some encouraging news from the House – as America struggles to differentiate its HIV policies from Sudan and Saudi Arabia.
If he’s nowhere in Iowa, struggling in New Hampshire, tied third in South Carolina, and now third in Florida, how on earth is he supposed to win the nomination?
"I’m confused. Exactly who is this ‘they’ that the Religious Right keep saying has hijacked the country?… And who are the consumers of the cultural products the Religious Right constantly criticizes? Who do they think is watching Desperate Housewives, going to see Maid in Manhattan, buying Cosmopolitan, and downloading Janet Jackson’s half-second nipple?…They have gotten the government and media to support them as defenders of America’s wholesomeness against some mythical, incredibly powerful ’them’… But the Right is like the kid who kills his parents and asks for mercy because he’s an orphan. Somehow, they neglect to mention that it’s the consumer choices and other preferences of their own constituents that are the so-called problem," – Marty Klein, in his book, America’s War On Sex, reviewed here by David Farthing.
"Not that what one blogger thinks matters that much, but if Huckabee gets the nomination, I’m voting Democratic. It’s not just an idle threat; I just won’t vote for him and in fact won’t even vote third party or stay home. I’ll vote for the Democratic candidate, even Hillary. I won’t be a party to selling out everything the party is supposed to stand for to a liberal ideology," unhinged Jacksonian, Ace Of Spades.
Well, he’d have to call the fax in his living room, but you get the idea. There’s an exhibition in Los Angeles called "Merry Titmas." Dan has more. It’s pretty pathetic, I have to say. The Virgin Mary in a Hooters t-shirt? You really can’t do better than that? My general rule with "brave" outsider anti-religious art is to ask if they’d do to Islam what they do routinely to Catholicism. Most don’t. Poseurs are often cowards.
