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Getting Ugly
SFGate: PoliticsBlog ^ | 3/3/8 | Carolyn Lochhead

Posted on 03/03/2008 10:08:37 AM PST by SmithL

Whatever the outcome of Texas and Ohio voting tomorrow, there's enough dirt being thrown in the final throes of the Democratic campaign to arm Republican John McCain with an arsenal of attacks on Barack Obama.

The Clinton campaign contends they are closing in Ohio and Texas after seeing their double-digit polling leads evaporate in both states. In a conference call with reporters, the campaign said voters will wake up Wednesday to newspaper headlines that show Sen. Hillary Clinton being being "successful" in both states, though they conceded that she would remain far behind rival Sen. Barack Obama in pledged delegates.

Clinton is hitting Obama as hard as she can on the Rezko house-hunting deal and the NAFTA flap (see below), with her advisers going so far as to call the Canadian memo about a conversation with Obama economic adviser Austan Goolsbee "NAFTA-Gate." That seems like a stretch, but Clinton campaign strategist Mark Penn said late-breaking voters are headed their way based on questions raised about Obama's credibility on national security and the economy.

Those two issues will be "pivotal reasons behind our success," Penn predicted, based on internal polling. Clintonites are also hitting hard on Obama's failure to hold hearings on Afghanistan despite chairing a Senate subcommittee with oversight responsibility. . . .

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TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bluestatewhine; clinton; obama; piaps
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1 posted on 03/03/2008 10:08:38 AM PST by SmithL
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To: SmithL
Note to all republicans in Texas. Vote for Hillary and vote often!
2 posted on 03/03/2008 10:10:06 AM PST by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: SmithL
Getting Ugly

Yes it is.


3 posted on 03/03/2008 10:12:29 AM PST by reagan_fanatic (A Fatal Tag Line Exception has occurred at 0028:C001AEEB Please reboot your tagline)
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To: SmithL; doug from upland
I have the theme song for tomorrow:
(To the tune of Crosby Stills and Nash 'Four dead in O-Hi-O')

Whore Dead in Ohio...

4 posted on 03/03/2008 10:19:09 AM PST by null and void (I slept better when I thought our betters actually were better...)
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To: 2banana

Hillary Clinton is going to be your President and she is going to shut Free Republic and locks Rush Limbaugh in jail.


5 posted on 03/03/2008 10:19:17 AM PST by jveritas (God bless our brave troops and President Bush)
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To: SmithL
[. . .there’s enough dirt being thrown in the final throes of the Democratic campaign to arm Republican John McCain with an arsenal of attacks on Barack Obama.]

The “final throes of the Democratic campaign” may not happen until August in Denver. This Chronicle writer—like all activists posing as “journalists”—doesn’t hide her fear of Obama being exposed.

6 posted on 03/03/2008 10:21:48 AM PST by Brad from Tennessee ("A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.")
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To: SmithL

OBAMA TELLS HILLARY TO LEAVE THE RACE - http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1979684/posts


7 posted on 03/03/2008 10:22:36 AM PST by doug from upland (Stopping Hillary should be a FreeRepublic Manhattan Project)
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To: SmithL

Lochhead looks like a Hillary supporter. Interesting that she wants to prematurely end the nomination process. Typical liberal thought process - just do what I want to do and quit looking at options.


8 posted on 03/03/2008 10:23:49 AM PST by AD from SpringBay (We deserve the government we allow.)
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To: SmithL

Everyday we have to look at Carolyn Lochhead.


9 posted on 03/03/2008 10:24:53 AM PST by bmwcyle (I am the watchman on the tower sounding the alarm.)
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To: 2banana
Note to all republicans in Texas. Vote for Hillary and vote often!

You betcha - let's keep this going!

10 posted on 03/03/2008 10:25:02 AM PST by colorado tanker
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To: doug from upland

Dem voters and Obama’s coming
She’s finally on her own
This Tuesday I see the votin’
Whore dead in Ohio

Gotta count down to it
Voters are cutting her down
Should have been done long ago.
What if you knew her and
Found her dead in the poles?
How can she run with “you know”?

Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na.
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na.
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na.
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na.

Gotta count down to it
Voters are cutting her down
Should have been done long ago.
What if you knew her and
Found her dead in the poles?
How can she run with “you know”?

Dem voters and Obama’s coming
She’s finally on her own
This Tuesday I see the votin’
Whore dead in Ohio
Whore dead in Ohio
Whore dead in Ohio
Whore dead in Ohio
Whore dead in Ohio
Whore dead in Ohio
Whore dead in Ohio
Whore dead in Ohio
Whore dead in Ohio

(They write themeslves)...


11 posted on 03/03/2008 10:28:04 AM PST by null and void (I slept better when I thought our betters actually were better...)
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12 posted on 03/03/2008 10:32:18 AM PST by Vaquero (" an armed society is a polite society" Heinlein "MOLON LABE!" Leonidas of Sparta)
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To: reagan_fanatic

HELEN THOMAS, CALENDAR GIRL - http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZrOMOh56Z3Y


13 posted on 03/03/2008 10:33:13 AM PST by doug from upland (Stopping Hillary should be a FreeRepublic Manhattan Project)
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To: SmithL
Hey... something to consider, here in Ohio there is the expectation of freezing rain tomorrow!
14 posted on 03/03/2008 10:38:12 AM PST by SMARTY ('At some point you get tired of swatting flies, and you have to go for the manure heap' Gen. LeMay)
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To: SmithL

‘Whatever the outcome of Texas and Ohio voting tomorrow, there’s enough dirt being thrown in the final throes of the Democratic campaign to arm Republican John McCain with an arsenal of attacks on Barack Obama. ‘

Hmmmm, that depends on if we can ween McCain from his addiction to attacking Republicans, doesn’t it?


15 posted on 03/03/2008 10:41:51 AM PST by Badeye (Give McCain the same level of support he gave Conservatives like you and I)
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To: SMARTY

Who is going to be effected more by these weather conditions? Clinton voters or Obama voters? or it does not matter?


16 posted on 03/03/2008 10:46:19 AM PST by jveritas (God bless our brave troops and President Bush)
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To: jveritas

IMHO, Clinton’s elderly supporters will stay home with weather like freezing rain. Old bones don’t mend well, eh?


17 posted on 03/03/2008 10:49:56 AM PST by Tensgrrl
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To: 2banana
Vote for Hillary and vote often!

Not a snowball's chance.

The evil witch MUST LOSE. Having NEVER voted in a 'rat primary, I will tomorrow. And it won't be for the woman who shafted old folks in Whitewater, collected 900 FBI files through her bar-bouncer-buddy, made $100K in criminal cattle-future deals, threw ashtrays at Secret Service agents, trashed women who told the truth about her co-criminal spouse, helped sell nuclear secrets to the communist Chinese, ad f'n NAUSEUM.

Tomorrow the criminal empire goes down the toilet here in Texas !

I'd sooner vote for Satan than Hillary.

18 posted on 03/03/2008 10:50:27 AM PST by jimt
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To: Vaquero

Great photo. Chelsea could be in the White House press corps!


19 posted on 03/03/2008 11:03:53 AM PST by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast
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To: jveritas
Who is going to be effected more by these weather conditions? Clinton voters or Obama voters? or it does not matter?

Excellent question.

On the one hand, Clinton's supporters tend to be older, so you'd think that bad weather would affect them more. On the other hand, older voters tend to be more dedicated, so a spot of bad weather may not affect them as much. And on the third hand, Ohio absentee voting means many will have already voted...

It'll be interesting to see how it plays out.

Maybe if the weather negatively affects Hillary, she can threaten to sue God for the ice and the state of Ohio for a do-over.

20 posted on 03/03/2008 11:08:21 AM PST by mountainbunny
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