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Monday news items

Blog: January 28th, 2008

Ted Kennedy and Caroline Kennedy are endorsing Obama now – it’s on MSNBC. It’s happening a few miles from here in Washington DC. Sadly, I had too much work to do or I would have been there. Updated to include video of the speech… George W. Bush’s last State of the Union address is tonight. [...]

Pundits gone wild

Blog: January 28th, 2008

“I don’t have a dog in the pony.” Pundit Michelle Bernard on MSNBC’s Hardball. Any guesses what that was suppose to be?

Today: Florida GOP Primary; Dem Beauty Contest

Blog: January 29th, 2008

Things are looking pretty grim for America’s Mayor. The final polls before today’s voting put Rudy in third – running barely ahead of Mike Huckabee. Romney and McCain are in the lead. Pollster.com has Romney ahead of McCain by a little more than 1%. According to Pollster.com’s collection of polls… it currently stands… Romney 32% [...]

McCain wins Florida

Blog: January 29th, 2008

NBC and CNN are calling Florida for McCain ahead of Romney. Giuliania and Huckabee are running far behind. NBC is suggesting Giuliani will be dropping out and endorsing McCain. – Steve

State of the Comic Strip

Blog: January 30th, 2008

Socks and Barney has had a pretty great five days with 4,000 unique readers. I appreciate all the comments and feedback. They mean a lot. Regarding the “comments” feature on the blog… the site is getting some spam and before it gets out of hand, I’m activating the user registration feature. That means you will [...]

John Edwards dropping out

Blog: January 30th, 2008

UPDATE: Here is Edwards’ farewell announcement… This just being reported now from the Associated Press: Democrat John Edwards is exiting the presidential race Wednesday, ending a scrappy underdog bid in which he steered his rivals toward progressive ideals while grappling with family hardship that roused voter’s sympathies but never diverted his campaign, The Associated Press [...]

Regarding Edwards

Blog: January 30th, 2008

With the news that Edwards is dropping out of the race, I thought it would be worth sharing the following exchange. About a week ago, I received a very thoughtful letter from Jay S regarding the Edwards campaign and a comment I made in the Jan. 19 blog posting about the Nevada Caucus. It was [...]

GOP debate tonight

Blog: January 30th, 2008

The remaining four Republican candidates – McCain, Romney, Huckabee and Paul – will debate tonight at 8pm on CNN. Giuliani will be holding a press conference at 6pm EST and is expected to endorse McCain. – Steve

Rudy drops out, endorses McCain

Blog: January 30th, 2008

CNN reporting that former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani ended his GOP presidential race and endorsed rival Sen. John McCain of Arizona on Wednesday. The latest word is that cyborg killing machine and California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger may be endorsing McCain as well. This follows Sylvester Stallone endorsing McCain last week and Chuck Norris’ longstanding [...]

Democratic Kodak debate

Blog: January 31st, 2008

The debate has been great. I’ve been swamped with work and unable to liveblog. For great summaries, check out… TalkingPointsMemo AndrewSullivan.com