Paul Jacob’s thoughts from a recent Grass in Review:
Super Tuesday is upon us. Hillary is up; Barack is down. Or is that vice versa? John is out; so is Rudy. Many Presidential campaigns have their ups and downs, until only one remains “up.”
But the real story is: you are up.
It’s now your turn. Vote!
(more…)
Michael Medved’s thoughts on the elections so far, from USA Today:
The only safe prediction about campaign 2008 is that no prediction is safe.
Experts once assumed, for instance, that today’s “Tsunami Tuesday” primaries and caucuses would settle the nomination struggles in both parties. It’s now obvious, however, that hand-to-hand combat over delegates could continue for weeks, if not months, at least among the Democrats.
The upset victory by Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire — confounding nearly unanimous pollster predictions — represented only the most celebrated among many shocks and twists on the road to the White House. In a more general sense, the campaign has also exploded unquestioned assumptions while providing three startling lessons for political players and open-minded observers:
(more…)