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Jamie Dupree's Washington Insider Archive for April 2008
Blog Entries for Tuesday, April 22
No Excuses on Primary Day in PA
The weather is gorgeous today in Pennsylvania, with highs ranging from 65 to 70 all across this state, without a drop of rain in sight. In other words, no one can claim that bad weather kept them from the polls today. Expectations are that we will have record turnout, which ...
Blog Entries for Monday, April 21
A Fast And Furious Finish
All day long, I searched for clues as to where this Democratic race is going in Pennsylvania, but nothing really seemed to change on the final day of campaigning. I caught up with Barack Obama in the northwest Philadelphia suburbs, which will be key in this race when the votes ...
The Pennsylvania Expectations Game
A big part of the post-game reporting on the Pennsylvania Primary is not going to be the minute details about the vote results, but how it's "perceived" by the campaigns, Democratic Party leaders and the news media. Barack Obama started in on that during a round of phone calls to ...
What Do The PA Polls Tell Us?
One of the most frustrating parts of this campaign has been trying to figure out what in the heck the polls mean in the Democratic race. We have all seen how the polls - the election day exit polls and the regular surveys - have both been off by large ...
Blog Entries for Sunday, April 20
Hillary Clinton Goes "Small Town"
As I drove 434 miles on Sunday through Pennsylvania, tracking Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, there was once more no real sign of where this Democratic race was going. Some things were apparent to the ears, not the eyes. The most obvious change for Hillary Clinton came as her Pennsylvania ...
The Pennsylvania Ad War
You certainly don't have to go out and hear Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton in person to get a flavor of the Democratic race here in Pennsylvania. That's because the radio and TV airwaves are jammed with ads from both candidates and outside groups in the drive to Tuesday's Pennsylvania ...
Back On The Road With Barack Obama
After drawing over 35,000 people to a rally in Philadelphia on Friday night and 10,000 in Harrisburg at the State Capitol on Saturday, Barack Obama is again outdrawing Hillary Clinton in the final drive to the Tuesday Primary here. I caught up with him Sunday at Reading High School in ...
Blog Entries for Thursday, April 17
One Last Weekend in Pennsylvania
It's been over six weeks since the last primaries in the Democratic race for the White House and what an interesting ride it has been. Both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton will blanket the Keystone State all the way through Primary day on Tuesday April 22. Obama started off by ...
Media Bias From Both Sides
For most of my career, the main complaints about media bias have come from Republicans, who believe the media is made up of nothing more than a bunch of liberals who plot every single minute throughout the work day to undermine the GOP, the military and God-Fearing Americans in general. ...
Presidential Issues And Answers
One of Barack Obama's campaign themes is a pretty sensible one - basically, let's focus not on sideshow battles over divisive wedge issues, but on issues of real interest to the American people. In other words, move the political debate to a higher plane. Good luck. Yeah, it would be ...
And The Debate Winner is, John McCain?
The Democratic debate in Philadelphia did not have any real sizzling moments, no real fireworks, no real gaffes or anything like that, but it did provide more ammunition for both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton to use against each other. The debate post mortems have been interesting to look at, ...
Blog Entries for Wednesday, April 16
My Dinner With Vice President Cheney
Last night was the annual Radio TV Correspondent's Association dinner in DC, where we get to join with colleagues and politicians in saluting those who cover the news here in the nation's capital. And then everyone gets loaded. Well, not everyone, but you know what I mean. I am an ...
Blogger Feels The Bitter Heat
As more and more "citizen" journalists and bloggers ply their trade on the internet, it is very interesting to see how they deal with angry readers. Katharine Seelye wrote a good piece in the New York Times on Wednesday, detailing how blogger Mayhill Fowler had gotten a lot of guff after ...
Superdelegates and Springsteen
Even before Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton faced off in Philadelphia, there was good news on the superdelegate front for the Democratic frontrunner, as he picked up the support of three members of Congress who are superdelegates. Rep. Andre Carson (D-IN) was the first to cast his lot with Obama, edging ...
Blog Entries for Tuesday, April 15
Congress Vents Hot Air Over Airline Merger
The initial reactions in the halls of Congress to the merger of Delta and Northwest Airlines was not overly positive. But then again, those opinions might not matter too much. While Big Mergers are of big interest to lawmakers, there really isn't much they can do to stop something like ...
Debate Strategy: Gut Check For Hillary
In late February, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton debated twice before the March 4th round of primaries which included Ohio and Texas. Clinton was seen as the underdog who needed to make something happen. While many people expected Clinton to go after Obama with verbal brickbats, it was not Slash ...
Barack's Better Bitter Batter
Tuesday was a better, not a bitter day, for Barack Obama, as the storm over his comments about small town Americans finally seemed to slow down just a bit. It was still the talk of the cable TV networks and on talk radio, but the story didn't move much before ...
Blog Entries for Monday, April 14
Spare Me Your Tax Reform Rhetoric
Another April 15th is here and yet another year has gone by where the Congress has made no headway on the issue of tax reform. We can argue about various efforts to re-jigger the IRS code since the 1986 Tax Reform Act and whether they rank up there as real ...
Bitter Campaign Commentary for Obama
It's going to take something big to knock the controversy over Barack Obama's "bitter" small town comments out of the minds of the media right now. It's just too juicy of a story to ignore. Last night, it was the lead item on the evening news for NBC, CBS and ABC. ...
McCain Joins The Pennsylvania Rumble
While Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton rumble in Pennsylvania, John McCain is making a foray to the Keystone State today as well to give a major speech on the economy. McCain was asked on Monday at an Associated Press event whether he thought the nation was in a recession. "I ...
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