Winter's Picks
According to a poll released today by the Pew Hispanic Center, Barack Obama has 66 percent of the Latino vote, compared to only 23 percent for John McCain.
Quote: “That number should be very, very sobering for the McCain campaign,” said Tony Fabrizio, the pollster for 1996 Republican nominee Bob Dole. “The bottom line: Despite all of this positioning he’s taken on immigration, it’s shielded him nothing with Hispanics and it’s another point of distrust with Republicans.”
The story also points out that Hispanics voted 62 percent for the last Democratic nominee, John Kerry, and 32 percent for President Bush. In a nutshell, McCain is doing much worse among Hispanics than Bush did.
Probably no surprise here, but an analysis by Investor's Business Daily shows big media seriously favors the Democratic party.
In the latest review, the ration was roughly 100-to-1 in favor of Democrats over Republicans in terms of campaign contributions.
Quote: The contributions add up to $315,533 to Democrats and $22,656 to Republicans — most of that to Ron Paul, who was supported by many liberals as a stalking horse to John McCain, a la Rush Limbaugh's Operation Chaos with Hillary and Obama.
What is truly remarkable about the list is that, discounting contributions to Paul and Rudy Giuliani, who was a favorite son for many folks in the media, the totals look like this: $315,533 to Democrats, $3,150 to Republicans (four individuals who donated to McCain).
Louisianna Gov. Bobby Jindal has come out saying he's not interested in being John McCain's vice presidential pick.
Quote: "Let me be clear: I have said in every private and public conversation, I’ve got the job that I want. And I’ll say again on air: I’m not going to be the vice presidential nominee or vice president. I’m going to help Senator McCain get elected, as governor of Louisiana,” Jindal said.
At the same time, The Drudge Report is promoting a brief story that Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty is being mentioned from some strong hints by McCain.
"Let me be absolutely clear," Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, said today at a press conference in Amman, Jordan. "Israel is a strong friend of Israel's.
That's good to know.
A little more news out regarding The New York Times' rejection of John McCain's op-ed piece has come out.
Appears the NYT also rejected several op-eds from Bill Clinton, and while he was president. So the whole NYT liberal biaz against McCain isn't holding much water - at least in this instance.
Quote from a former deputy press secretary of Clinton's on CNN: When I worked for President Clinton, “The New York Times” rejected many op-eds written by him as a sitting president of the United States. They don’t just give up space to a candidate because their opponent has space. You can’t just go — you can’t go to “The New York Times” editorial page and say I want to say what’s wrong with the other guy. They want to leverage their space, which is very valuable, to force you to say something you haven’t said before. And I think that they turned down McCain not because they like Obama but because McCain, all he was doing in his piece was criticizing Obama and they wanted him to put him on the spot to say more.
