Slog - Comments on Obama's New Speech http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/the_democratic_presidential_race_finally Posted by Ryan S. Jackson Time's Ana Marie Cox reports on the revived Barack Obama stump speech, which got another airing in Iowa over the weekend. Apparently she enjoyed the speech: The speech mixed inspiration and contempt, passion and outrage, autobiography and attack. It balanced language that both harkened back to the rich, poetic phrases of Martin Luther King (he cited King's reminder about "the fierce urgency of now") and the less subtle patois of contemporary politics — his boast that "when I'm your nominee, my opponent won't be able to say that I supported this war in Iraq; or... Copyright 2008 Mon, 12 Nov 2007 14:57:42 -0800 Tue, 13 Nov 2007 13:23:32 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by unPC from real clear politics:

Iowa Democratic Caucus



Polling Data
Poll Date Sample Clinton Obama Edwards Richardson Biden Spread
RCP Average 10/10 - 11/06 - 30.0 23.6 19.6 7.8 4.6 Clinton +6.4

Zogby 11/06 - 11/06 502 LV 28 25 21 9 3 Clinton +3.0
American Res. Group 10/26 - 10/29 600 LV 32 22 15 7 5 Clinton +10.0
Univ. of Iowa 10/17 - 10/24 306 LV 29 27 20 7 5 Clinton +2.0
Strategic Vision (R) 10/12 - 10/14 600 LV 28 23 20 9 6 Clinton +5.0
Rasmussen 10/10 - 10/14 1007 LV 33 21 22 7 4 Clinton +11.0



]]> unPC http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/the_democratic_presidential_race_finally#c846983 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/the_democratic_presidential_race_finally#c846983 2008 Mon, 12 Nov 2007 15:08:03 -0800 Comment by maddogm13 I don't care how inspiring a speaker he is--no one's going to get my vote who regards outreach to homophobes and resurrecting Rethug/Wall Street talking points about the phony Social Security "crisis" as the best ways to distinguish himself from other Democrats.

]]> maddogm13 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/the_democratic_presidential_race_finally#c848344 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/the_democratic_presidential_race_finally#c848344 2008 Tue, 13 Nov 2007 12:31:11 -0800 Comment by IMAdrgQ No Nig-Nogs for me!

]]> IMAdrgQ http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/the_democratic_presidential_race_finally#c848503 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/the_democratic_presidential_race_finally#c848503 2008 Tue, 13 Nov 2007 13:23:32 -0800