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Be sure to check out the Living Room Candidate from the Museum of the Moving Image. It's got TeeVee ads for POTUS stretching back to 1952. Really amazing stuff, even if watching it makes you feel like you're stuck in a time loop. Will we ever learn that we can't trust Republicans with the economy?
Lehman, 158 years old, is dying. Merill Lynch is quite likely next in line. AIG and WaMu are in critical condition. This a week or so after the collapse of Fannie and Freddie.
This is what happens when you put Republicans in charge of the economy and they throw regulation out the window. This is Sununu's radical free market dream - and our nightmare - realized.
This is a Nation of Whiners' Open Thread on the Economy.
(Absolutely frightening words from PermaBear Roubini below the fold)
While perhaps not the most exciting event this cycle from a Democrats' perspective, a primary day nonetheless. Step outside and feel the democracy. And here are three handy diaries you might want to visit today:
The NH Delegation has great seats and is getting some good media attention. CBS (Not sure if it is local or national) is about to do an interview with Mary Rauh and Joanne Dowdell about what Michelle Obama needs to do to win over hesitant Democrats. Apparently Mary and Joanne were not going to tell the right story so they have moved on to find someone willing to be controversial... Grrrr TradMed.
Lots of procedural stuff right now, The Hall is slowly filling up at times it seems there is as much media as delegates.
Use this as an open thread if any of you are watching the proceedings tonight.
The Iraqi PM's endorsement of Obama's plan:
* is already forgotten. - 19 votes (59.38%)
* will be a week-long news cycle. - 8 votes (25%)
* will feature prominently until November. - 4 votes (12.5%)
* will be decisive for an Obama victory. - 1 votes (3.12%)
* will be a month-long news cycle. - 0 votes (0%)
Total votes: 32
I'm surprised at how strong a showing was made for casting the issue as "already forgotten," given how it continues to ricochet around McCain's alleged foreign policy advantage.
This week's poll concerns Bob Barr. And let's make this an Open Thread.
True story: Natalie Merchant once called me a "bad Bardie" and then kicked me. Right around the time this song came out. My brush with fame all those years ago.
The NH-01 Republican nominee will be:
* Jeb Bradley - 25 votes (55.56%)
* John Stephen - 20 votes (44.44%)
Total votes: 45
Most of those votes took place before the 2Q fundraising numbers. Now that I know that Bradley has spent more than raised, has gone into more debt, and has essentially not shaken off Stephen's money haul, I regret my vote for him. If turnout and enthusiasm are low enough, Stephen could very well pull this out, which is a shame, because I think, while both aren't really a match for Shea-Porter, Jeb is easier to beat.
This week's vote is on the Iraq news. And let's make this an Open thread.
Obama's new in-state general election ad. To me, it says, "Look, NH, how I work with an actual Republican maverick on an actual national security threat. Doesn't it remind you of what you used to like about McCain before he became the second coming of Bush?"
This is an Open Thread.
Update: And like moths to a flame, the McCain campaign puts up a dishonest negative ad to counteract:
Is anyone else getting the impression that Obama v. McCain is getting lopsided? (And no, that doesn't mean you should relax one inch from your GOTV efforts.) The short attention span world of 24/7 cable news has been fed two close POTUS cycles in a row, but really, stepping back for a minute, at least at this snapshot in time, both in polls and in campaign operations, there are big, relatively unchanging differences, and we're in July already. Maybe now that McCain is bringing on the Spawn of Rove that will change?
Will update for as long as I stay up (a bit under the weather).
Listening to McCain...Sounds like and empty suit to me... the Mr. Rogers Candidate. Couple of hundred people in the room at most. We've got to crush this guy in NH.
South Dakota
75% Reporting
- Clinton 56% Projected Winner!
- Obama 44%
Update: llinois senator has received enough support to secure the Democratic nomination, AP report Update: MSNBC declares Obama the Presumptive Nominee at 9pm, June 3. Update 9:20 Super Delegate and NHDP Chair Buckley Endoreses Obama Thank you Ray. ~9:30 Hillary is on... good speech, crowd is into it. 9:50 HRC "This has been a long campaign and I will not be making any decisions tonight" 10:08 Barack and Michelle enter to U2's Beautiful Day. Crowd is wild.
When will Senator Clinton exit the race?
* June 3rd (last contest) - 16 votes (32.65%)
* June 15 (one rumor) - 10 votes (20.41%)
* May 20th (KY/OR) - 8 votes (16.33%)
* Clinton will be the nominee - 7 votes (14.29%)
* At the convention - 4 votes (8.16%)
* Other - 3 votes (6.12%)
* Sometime this week - 1 votes (2.04%)
Out of 49 total votes, 34 feel Clinton will withdraw sometime between 5/20 to 6/15, while 7 maintain that she will be the nominee.
This week's poll is a simple binary one on the education funding constitutional amendment - I've left out the wiggle room of an "unsure" or "other" on purpose.
Let's make this a convention open thread. Thanks to Ray for inviting us to a panel on New Media - if one new blog on a local race or BH user comes from it, the opportunity will have been worth its weight in gold. I also have to say, on a personal note: it's kind of fun being a blogger. I got to walk around and talk to all kinds of people across the big tent spectrum of the party, many of whom read the site but whom I hadn't yet met.
I met Gov. Shaheen for the first time, as well as Kathy Sullivan; that was a real treat. I also got to see Carol Shea-Porter again. I have to admit, our first district Rep is a powerful, articulate, and genuinely nice presence to be around. Every time I see her I want to work that much harder for her.
Speaking of Carol, she and BH and Betty Hall were honored by Fergus yesterday (h/t Kathy). While it's not as exciting as getting bashed by Bill O'Reilly on Faux News the way Daily Kos does, I have to say it's a badge I will definitely wear with pride. I'll have to find a suitable place to hang this up on the site:
There was a time when pragmatic centrists held the upper hand within the New Hampshire Democratic Party, but Howard Dean changed that. Today's New Hampshire Democratic Party is dominated by left-wing ideologues like state Rep. Betty Hall, Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter, and the BlueHampshire crowd," said Fergus Cullen, Chairman of the New Hampshire Republican Party.
I wear sweater vests, read Latin and Greek, like to put around in the garden, and my favorite president is Republican Teddy Roosevelt. Meet the new loony left!
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