Long time, no rant, and after this they'll be sparse. Roughly put, I betrayed one of the key tenets of MidnightRanter, which is some level of objectivity or at least semblance of sane judgment. I avoided the pronoun I since, as I was told many years ago, no one cares what I think, only what I can show. Part of that process means taking a good chunk ( Read more... )

Hillary Clinton won the West Virginia primaries by a huge margin. She predicted 2 to 1 victory, and it looks like she will get that. This will net her a 10 delegate lead for the night. There were a total of 28 delegates available in West Virginia, so she will get 19, or so, to his 9 (note, these are estimates based on current returns and are ( Read more... )

While race is never far from the American mind, it has found itself at the forefront in this election. The Rev. Wright stuff brought it even more to the surface, which led Obama to give this seminal speech on race in Philadelphia. He managed to spell out exactly what most Americans feel about race in this country: people are often confused, ( Read more... )

For once, this is more than just a cute metaphor, there really is a Gas City, Indiana. With the Indiana primaries coming up on Tuesday, as well as the North Carolina, Obama and Clinton have both been seeking ways to turn up the heat on each other and show how different they can be and they found a real issue to show their differences. In the face ( Read more... )

Senator Jim Webb (D-VA) has long made a name for himself for taking on the administration. Elected in the elections of 2006, he first made news by showing up President Bush at a reception for new Senators. He had not taken the official oath of office and he was already showing his strong opposition to the war, his unwavering support for the ( Read more... )

Just as the Democratic primaries were threatening to dominate all the political headlines, the Republicans managed to make some noise at their Nevada state convention. Now, this isn't getting nearly as much attention as it should. What happened, in a nutshell, was at the state Republican convention, there were a lot of supporters for Ron Paul and ( Read more... )

After seven weeks of campaigning, commercials and more dirt than the Appalachians, Hillary Clinton pulled out an honest to God victory in Pennsylvania. As I go to press (heh), the margin stands at Clinton 54% to Obama 46%, an 8 point lead. Now, this is without a lot of the Philadelphia area reporting in, which is expected to go heavily Obama. So ( Read more... )

Sorry, I've been away for a while, been busy and running around and doing the political junkie thing we've all come to know and love. Tomorrow is the ever famous and long awaited Pennsylvania primary. Iowa, New Hampshire, Super Tuesday, and Texas are all done. Right now, Obama is ahead on every count known to mankind, but only one matters, ( Read more... )

The elections now are pretty easy to sum up. McCain proved that just money (Romney), God (Huckabee) or Fear (Giuliani) is not enough to win the nomination. Obama and Clinton are proving the Democratic party has a serious fracture between those who want to fight and those who want to win.

So it is written, so do I see it.

PS 60 Words, including

There are few times when a political junkie or hack hears a speech and knows, right off, this is an important speech. We're too focused on how it was flawed, what it didn't address, what was targeted, who was targeted and what specific voters the speaker was targeting with the speech. It can be broken down to an almost science about which words ( Read more... )