Archive for August, 2007
Link Sandwich - 8/31
Hillary Clinton has been quite the comedian, as shown on the Letterman show.
Although recently rumored to be dead, Fidel Castro has now endorsed Clinton and Obama.
Congress has recently been debating an act to curtail the first amendment.
Gay marriage become a major issue in a simple Midwestern farming state? Nah.
Gerald Barker claims that Republicans are “cruising […]
Posted: August 31st, 2007 under News, Links Post.
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GOP Candidates and Iraq
The strongest indicators for predicting Presidential elections are whether there is a “shooting” war involving U.S. troops and the economy. If the Presidential election were to be held today, the Iraq issue would top the list.
Two factors may alter this dynamic. First, there may be a “resolution” to the Iraq involvement. Even […]
Posted: August 31st, 2007 under Giuliani, Romney, Campaign Strategy, Iraq.
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Clinton is Unlikely to be the next President….
…according to the prediction markets.
Now that we have your attention, what does this really mean? First, no candidate is more likely to be elected than Sen. Clinton. She is the favorite to win the nomination, and the Democrats are the favorite to win the election. From an odds perspective, the candidate needs […]
Posted: August 30th, 2007 under Campaign Strategy, Election Process.
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Get Involved!
We here at electionstocks.com would like to remind you that the main attraction here is to get involved in our forum. There are plenty of unanswered posts that you could jump right in on and reply to. Potus and I just got back in school this week so we needed a little time to get […]
Posted: August 30th, 2007 under Site Information.
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Link Sandwich - 8/30
BIG NEWS: Official Fred Thompson running statement coming in about a week.
People still think he’s too late though, and are writing articles that have already been done back in July. Prime example.
Mike Huckabee is committing to a ban on smoking over the whole country.
Mitt Romney wants to push through a universal health care program, but […]
Posted: August 30th, 2007 under News, Links Post.
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Links 8/29/07
Giuliani goes for all those Fl delegates. Good move.
Can’t they just hire professonals to do this? Candidates are reaching out to supporters for campaign ads. Crap shoot?
Workers unite! IAFF supports Chris Dodd. That would be the Fire Fighters Union.
McCain does Jay Leno show. Better or worse than Jon Daley?
Hillary […]
Posted: August 29th, 2007 under News, Clinton, Healthcare, Giuliani, McCain, Links Post, Chris Dodd.
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More on Early Primaries: Richardson and Energy Policy
John Fout, TheStreet.com’s Political Correspondent, has two good articles on the race to hold the first primary, a topic we have been monitoring here at Election Stocks. In “States Seek Poll Position…” he describes the controversy and shows how front-runners may benefit from the compression of time. The second article is an interesting […]
Posted: August 28th, 2007 under Energy, Richardson, Election Process.
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Obama and Brzezinski
News was out yesterday that Zbigniew Brzezinski, former national security advisor under President Jimmy Carter, complimented Obama’s foreign policy views.
“There is a need for a fundamental rethinking of how we conduct world affairs, and Obama seems to me to have both the guts and the intelligence to address that issue and to change the nature […]
Posted: August 28th, 2007 under Clinton, Obama, Foreign Policy.
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Link Sandwich 8/28/07 (without the bun)
Candidate Mashup (debate) to be sponsored by Slate.com along with Yahoo and the Huffington Post. All 8 candidates will sit for a 15 min. interview with Charlie Rose. Three questions will be asked. You can send yours in text, audio or video to: [email protected]. Be there or be square. Save […]
Posted: August 28th, 2007 under News, Clinton, Obama, Thompson, Edwards, Ron Paul, Links Post, Debate Coverage, Fundraising, Mortgage Issue.
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Link Sandwich 8/27/07
Mike Huckabee talks about Thompson and Obama, and will have the Rolling Stones play at his inauguration (Keith Richards owes him).
Uh-oh! Communications Director, Linda Rozett, has left Fred Thompson’s not-actually-a-real-campaign-yet. Second rat jumping ship within 2 weeks.
Sure, now all the candidates have plans to rehab New Orleans and the Gulf States hit 2 […]
Posted: August 27th, 2007 under News, Links Post.
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