Political Equinox

With Obama dragging out his selection process for at least few more weeks, we’ve still got plenty of time to speculate about the myriad of potential candidates, but recently Indiana Senator Evan Bayh has been thrust into the spotlight as a likely choice for the VP nominations. Add to the fact that John Edwards is essentially out of the picture with his recent spectacle, Bayh has all the more chance of landing the job.

Bayh made a joint appearance with Obama last week in Indiana and appeared opposite Joe Lieberman on Fox News Sunday arguing vehemently in favor of Obama’s policies and giving that ever-so-famous non-answer to the …

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A couple of months ago I was watching a debate between Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and John Edwards. Barack made a statement to the effect that he voted against a bill providing limits on credit card interest rates because he thought the rate of 30% was too high. Edwards called him on the statement, but the debate pressed on.

Barack’s statement stuck with me, why did he vote against that bill. Why? He said that he thought the rate was too high, so I decided that he voted against the bill to keep the debate continuing - it didn’t make a whole lot of sense, but I decided that I’d go with it.

Then I read his website:
Obama supports extending a 36 percent interest …

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For the Democrats, Super Tuesday was a bag of mixed nuts.

One would have assumed that with the exit of John Edwards his supporters would shift one way or another. One would have assumed that since what seemed like every state was up for grabs, one of the two remaining candidates would take charge and become the presumptive nominee. One would even assume that if one candidate won major states over the other candidate that candidate would be finished.

Welp, if one assumed all or even any of that, one would assume wrong.

The fact was that Hillary won the biggies – New York, California and even some of the upsetties (doesn’t work as well) - namely Massachusetts and New Jersey. …

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This post is part of a two part series. Neil Kelty will be commenting on the Republican Primaries while Patrick McAlister will soon follow with the Democratic Primaries.

If you didn’t notice, yesterday was Super Tuesday. The big news yesterday was the “Huckacomeback.”

Mike Huckabee was considered to be the John Edwards of the Republican Party. You know, the I’m in the race, but not really type of candidate. The only problem with that notation is that Huckabee nearly won several states. His big loss was Missouri, that hurt. Big time. Those 58 delegates actually put him 116 behind where he would have been. (I guess if you want to be all mathematical you could say 58, but since Huckabee could have …

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My good friend and fellow political junkie Chris Wright has been instrumental in getting our coverage of politics for the Caucus. Here are a few thoughts on our whirlwind experience.
For me, this was an eventful and life changing experience. Going into this week, I had only met a few of the candidates. Earlier in the summer, I traveled out to Iowa to attend the Iowa state fair. I ended up, after the long weekend was done, meeting Barack Obama, John Edwards, and Bill Richardson. I thought that week was good, but nothing could have prepared me for the 5 days I have spent here in Iowa. …

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