Obama did better in Oregon than expected (+30 rather than the expected +28 delegates). Clinton did better in Kentucky than expected (+37 rather than the expected +28-31 delegates). According to RCP that brings us to: Candidate: Pledged: Supers: Total: Needs Obama 1653 306 1959 66 Clinton: 1499 279 1778 247 Update: I updated the table […]
Maryland voters in the 4th Congressional District will get to vote in a special election on June 17th, 2008. You can register to vote, and still vote on the 17th so long as you register on or before 9:00pm May 30th. Go register if you live in Maryland’s 4th CD. Per Maryland’s State Board of […]
I have already contributed a small amount to “Byrne for Congress” to help her win the Democratic Nomination and the 11th congressional district of Virginia. The 11th will almost certainly go to the Democratic winner of the primary on June 10th. Incumbent Republican Tom Davis is retiring, so there is no incumbent advantage. The district […]
I have been updating a spreadsheet with delegate and super delegate counts, and projections, and poll data of the remaining states and territories; and for the last couple of weeks RealClearPolitics has been reporting different numbers than DemConWatch pretty consistently. According to RCP, Obama only needs 117 more delegates to win; but according to DemConWatch […]
The great orator does it again, this time in response to George W. Bush’s and John McCain’s hypocritical lies. Check it out for yourself and ask if this is not the leader we have been looking for… Clearly Obama gets right to the heart of the issues and he calls Bush out for airing our […]
Today I am sending a small donation to the “Friends of Glenn Nye” to help him win the second congressional district of Virginia away from an irresponsible and spitefully corrupt Thelma Drake. Glenn Nye’s campaign has done wonders with volunteers and only lacks a little money to get their message out to the voters of […]
A cousin of mine, who has since recanted her silly impression, once commented to me that she felt that George W. Bush was a great leader. Of course I scoffed, which perhaps was impolite, but what is the correct response to such an outrageous statement? Great leaders praise in public, criticize in private; that is […]
I have been using Adium for ages to to all my online chit-chat with folks who use AOL Instant Messenger, Jabber, and Yahoo Messenger (Adium supports MSN Messenger too, but I refuse to use that). Adium’s interface is vastly better than the one you get from AOL, and miles better than most of the others […]
If you are not reading Stephen Retherford (aka Sisyphus, Hoosier in Virginia) regularly, you should be. He has posted the most thoughtful, well researched, and interesting stuff I am reading on the web for quite some time, very consistently and with remarkable insight. He’s changed my mind a few times, and would have more except […]
An Italian boyfriend of a Virginia woman is being held (for 10 days and counting) simply for wanting to visit his girlfriend? He broke no laws, is not a suspected terrorist, has not overstayed his visa, and has a history of visiting and leaving on time. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/14/us/14visa.html Wow – there is a special hell reserved […]
