Tag: 2008 election
Posted on Fri May 09, 2008 at 03:11:45 AM EST
Tags: 2008 election (all tags)
"Old" voters. Literally.
The Clinton campaign consistently includes Hillary Clinton's appeal to seniors when it discusses why she is the better choice to face off against John McCain - but the media seldom mentions older voters, choosing instead to concentrate on Clinton's appeal to "white working class" voters to hype the race angle in the campaign.
The Obama campaign's use of talking points involving "new voters" and a "new coalition" is sending a message to older voters - that "old" is worth a lot less to them than "new", that young voters are more important than older voters, and that the "new coalition" means that the concerns of the "old coalition" members are no longer critical to the Party.
And all this is going on when the Republican Party will have a 71 year old as its nominee
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Posted on Mon Feb 18, 2008 at 08:15:19 PM EST
Tags: Democrats, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, 2008 election (all tags)
CNN Politics.com is reporting that a new poll suggests the battle for the Democratic presidential nomination between Sens. Hillary Clinton of New York and Barack Obama of Illinois is a statistical dead heat in Texas. Really?
More below the fold.
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Posted on Tue Jan 15, 2008 at 12:09:10 AM EST
Tags: history, Barack Obama, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, 1912 election, 1932 election, 2008 election (all tags)
[Cross-posted from ProgressiveHistorians.]
Daily Kos has recently been abuzz with speculation that the coming Presidential election will play out similarly to that of 1932 -- a dramatic realignment election that puts Dems on top for a generation. DHinMI advanced this argument in a very good three-part series last month. Today, New Deal democrat provides more evidence of this phenomenon by pointing out that economic conditions were similar in some ways then to how they are now.
It's an interesting, if optimistic, argument, but I disagree with one of its underlying assumptions -- particularly if Barack Obama becomes the Democratic nominee. In that eventuality, I think Woodrow Wilson's campaign in 1912, rather than Franklin Roosevelt's in 1932, is more likely to serve as a useful model for the 2008 election.
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