Rasmussen is just out with its latest poll, showing Hillary’s lead in Pennsylvania is down to 5 points.
In the same poll a week ago, it was a 10-point spread.
Late Update: SurveyUSA also has new Pennsylvania poll out, showing Hillary with a still-healthy 12-point lead, although that, too, is down, from 19 points in the last poll.
Regardless of the breathless pundits, Hillary winning Pennsylvania is a foregone conclusion. As much of a hullabaloo as will be made, she’s not Rocky, and it’s not a comeback. What’s important is not whether she wins, but by how much. And by the looks of things, she’s getting closer and closer to the statistical margin of error (which is +/-4). Uh-oh!
Today the NY Post tells us that the girl from the now famed Bosnian airport is shocked by Hillary Clinton’s easy lying:
Emina Bicakcic, now 20 and studying to become a doctor, told The Post she stood on the tarmac at the air base in Tuzla, greeted Clinton and even had time to share the lines of verse she’d written - all without fear of attack from an unseen enemy.
“I was surprised when I heard this,” Bicakcic said, referring to Clinton’s assertion that she braved snipers upon landing, ducking and sprinting to military vehicles.
So we have a direct dispute in stark contrast to Clinton’s original account. Seems like more than a slip of the tongue.
Other Bosnians said they had one of two reactions to Clinton’s debunked action-hero account of her visit: laughter or anger.
“It’s an exaggeration,” said former acting President Ejup Ganic, who was present during Clinton’s visit. “No one was firing. There were no shots fired.”
Sema Markovic, 22, a student, said she has long respected Hillary as a strong leader but was angered by her remarks.
“It is an ugly thing for a politician to tell lies,’ she said. “We had problems for years, and I don’t like when someone lies about them. It makes us look bad.”
Hillary claims she misspoke. I claim she intentionally said it to burnish her otherwise complete lack of credentials on anything except for being a Senator.
Barack Obama supporter Gov. Bill Richardson, D-New Mexico, responded on Sunday to controversial comments by James Carville, saying that he would not “stoop to Carville’s level.”
It’s amazing how irrelevant one-time political guru James Carville has become these days.
“I haven’t gotten into the gutter on this. And you know, I’m not going to stoop to Carville’s level. I barely know the guy in the first place,” Richardson told Bob Scheiffer on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”
In other words: ‘Who said what about me? Whatever.’ Haha!
We here at Awesome Politics tend to practice either the politics of dancing, or the politics of mocking, but it appears that our center-right-masquerading-as-lefties-a-la-TNR friends over at TalkLeft have decided to take off the gloves and practice the politics of making shit up (sort of).
If funding an ELECTION, where no money goes to the voters themselves, can be questioned, what do we make of giving money DIRECTLY to the “voters” (the super delegates in this case)? I do not mind the donations - I mind the mendacious excuses to block the will of the voters of Michigan and Florida. The dirtiest trick of this campaign was Obama’s blocking of the revotes in Michigan and Florida. Yes, I am quite angry about that.
Big Tent Democrat is basically implying that because Senator Obama contributed to the campaigns progressive politicians who were, or became superdelegates that he is attempting to buy off the election. Then BTD tacks on the whole Michigan and Florida debacle as though it was Obama’s fault and not the fault of the jokers in those states who voted to break Democratic party rules in the first place.