Today's Fresh Blogs...

• Democrat Donor Pulls the Plug

  Published: July 22, 2007, 2:02 am

  Tags: 2008 Election

  get 270 electoral votes in 2008: One of Florida's leading Democratic rainmakers has called the whole thing off. Orlando trial lawyer John Morgan, who has personally given hundreds of thousands of dollars to Democrats and helped raise much more, is so fed up with his party's failure to stop the war in Iraq that he canceled an upcoming

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Clinton tells grads only minor genetics make them different

  Published: June 15, 2007, 5:31 pm

  Tags: 2008 Election, In The News

  Presidential hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton acknowledged Thursday she was nervous about talking to graduates of the state's largest high school, in part because past speakers have included comedian Adam Sandler. "I thought: Well gosh, how do I follow a big movie star like that?" Clinton told Manchester Central High School graduates

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Yucca opponent joins Clinton's campaign

  Published: June 15, 2007, 5:30 pm

  Tags: 2008 Election, In The News

  Peggy Maze Johnson, executive director of Citizen Alert, took a leave of absence from the grassroots organization beginning in late March. We finally know why. On June 1, Johnson began work as political adviser for presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in Nevada. Her duties include identifying important issues in the state and securing

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Poll: Clinton no pushover for GOP in Texas

  Published: June 15, 2007, 5:27 pm

  Tags: 2008 Election, In The News, Latest Polls

  to a Republican in the 2008 presidential contest, the poll finds. Read More From The Dallas Morning

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Clinton picks up veteran organizer Terry

  Published: June 15, 2007, 5:25 pm

  Tags: 2008 Election, In The News, Iowa

  Presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton has added a veteran Democratic organizer to her Iowa campaign staff. Dusky Terry will advise the New York senator on policy issues and aiding with political organizing. Read More From WHOtv

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Goldstein backs Clinton

  Published: June 15, 2007, 5:22 pm

  Tags: 2008 Election, In The News

  before the February 5, 2008 New Jersey primary. "I wish all the presidential candidates with a realistic shot to win the nomination were pro-marriage equality. None are. Within that context, Senator Clinton's support for the LGBTI community is as strong as any of the other candidates who have the most realistic shot to win,"

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Clinton Warns of Impact of Hamas Victory

  Published: June 15, 2007, 5:21 pm

  Tags: 2008 Election, In The News

  Senator Clinton yesterday warned of the consequences that a possible Hamas victory in a civil war with the Fatah Party could bring for Israel and America. "The civil war in Gaza, which has the potential of spreading to the West Bank, has the potential of bringing to power Hamas with a much stronger position than it currently has," the

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• NBC/WSJ Poll: Clinton Leads Giuliani in Presidential Race

  Published: June 15, 2007, 5:19 pm

  Tags: 2008 Election, In The News, Latest Polls

  in a potential general election matchup for 2008, according to the latest NBC/Wall Street Journal poll. Clinton got 48% of the vote to 43% for Giuliani, the former New York City mayor. In March, Giuliani led Clinton by 47% to 42% in the poll. Read More From

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Political pioneer embraces Clinton

  Published: June 15, 2007, 5:17 pm

  Tags: 2008 Election, In The News

  Once, Geraldine Ferraro represented the historic breakthrough. Now the former vice presidential candidate and the first woman on a major party ticket is championing the presidential bid of Hillary Rodham Clinton. And she's drawing contrasts between Clinton's race for the White House and her own moment in the spotlight. In 1984, Democratic

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Clinton speaks at Balto. Co. event

  Published: June 15, 2007, 5:15 pm

  Tags: 2008 Election, In The News

  Gov. Martin O'Malley helped Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton raise nearly a half-million dollars for her presidential bid last night at a Baltimore County fundraiser that attracted some of the region's most notable Democratic contributors. The event was held on a day that the New York senator picked up her latest high-profile Maryland

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Chicagoan runs Hillary's camp

  Published: June 15, 2007, 5:06 pm

  Tags: 2008 Election, In The News

  Growing up, Patti Solis Doyle, the daughter of Mexican immigrants, could hear the rumble of the L train running in the alley behind her home at 1726 W. 21st. Today, Doyle is the manager of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign, lives in an affluent Washington neighborhood and sends her two children to one of the best private

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• To YouTube or Not To YouTube

  Published: July 26, 2007, 11:52 pm

  Tags: 2008 Election

  The Washington Post reports that Republican presidential candidates are not so hot about the upcoming GOP CNN/YouTube debate.Four days after the Democratic debate in Charleston, S.C,. more than 400 questions directed to the GOP presidential field have been uploaded on YouTube -- targeted at Republicans scheduled to get their turn at videopopulism

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• The Real Franken

  Published: July 27, 2007, 7:08 am

  Tags: 2008 Election

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Clinton/Obama 2008?

  Published: July 30, 2007, 2:20 pm

  Tags: 2008 Election

  Gingrich predicts that will be the Dems ticket. I could see Democrats salivating over the idea of having such a ticket... a woman and a minority. What better ticket could they get to shame people into thinking that a vote for them proves you're neither racist or sexist. But, assuming Hillary got the nomination, I wouldn't count on her picking

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Media Narrative: The Mainstream Is Now "The Left"

  Published: July 31, 2007, 9:10 am

  Tags: Democratic Primary, Political Labels, 2008 Election

  on the one hand, and general election voters, on the other, are far more severe than on the Democratic side of the aisle. The continuing support among Republican voters for both President Bush and his policies in Iraq has pushed all the leading GOP candidates well outside mainstream views on ending the war, the issue most likely to dominate 2008.

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0