Where’s the Outrage?

The California Presidential nominating primary, which will be held for 2008 on February 5, has a history that goes back to the Progressive Era. The first California primary was held in 1912.

The Presidential nominating primary, however regressive it may seem at times today, was a Progressive reform. It was step away from the smoke-filled rooms.

California was a big part of the Progressive Era. Progressive Bull Moose candidate Teddy Roosevelt carried California in the 1912 general election and the great Progressive Hiram Johnson was Governor of California from 1911 until 1917 and Senator from 1917 until his death in 1945. Johnson was Teddy Roosevelt’s running mate in 1912.

(Here is an article from USA Today about the 2008 primary.)

(Here are some basic demographic facts about California. )

Over 36 million people live in California. John Kerry won California 54%-44% in 2004.

In that first 1912 primary, Roosevelt defeated incumbent President William Howard Taft of Ohio among Republicans by a 2-1 margin. That gives you a sense of where the Republican electorate of California stood at that point in time.

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Tags: Election 2008 by Texas Liberal
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Who knows what type of garbage that we will end up with when the Bush Dems and the Republicans get through with FISA.  Glenn Greenwald has the latest.  My previous posts are here and here.

The following is clip of Senator Russ Feingold explaining how FISA currently works.

 

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Tags: Congress, Domestic Spying by ecthompson
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Although the National Football League sells tickets for this year’s Super Bowl for $700 - $900, you can get a few tickets off a scalper for only $2 - $20 grand!  Now, that’s a chunk of change!

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This is a neat video.  A little country.  A little groove.  Jo Dee Messina - Delicious Surprise

 

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Keith Olbermann interviews Arianna Huffington, Josh Marshall and John Amato about the Democratic Debate.

This segment was way too short. These guys are very knowledgeable about politics. Hell, maybe those 3 should run for office. Oh, yeah, Arianna did. She lost to the governator.

Tags: Blogging issues, Countdown, Election 2008 by ecthompson
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CNN interviews Michelle Obama.  This is a very nice interview.  Michelle does an excellent job with softball questions.  If you really want to see Michelle Obama in action, check out this clip.

 

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Jack Cafferty is trying to dissect John McCain’s position on George Bush’s Tax Cuts.  If Jack has a hard time following McCain, I wouldn’t blame him.  Where is that Straight Talk Express?  I think that it is lost in New Hampshire somewhere.

According to WaPo’s Fact Checker - John McCain sidesteps a question about the reason why he opposed President Bush’s tax cut plan. He has been saying on the campaign trail that he opposed the tax cut plan because it did not include restraints on spending, in addition to the tax cuts. During the Senate debate on the 2001 tax cuts, however, he said that he could not support “a tax cut in which so many of the benefits go to the most fortunate among us, at the expense of middle class Americans who most need tax relief.” Restraints on spending were not at the top of his list of stated priorities in 2001 when he opposed the tax cuts.

So, he was against the tax cuts in 2001 and 2003.  At least that’s what my research shows.  Honest John has said something completely different on the campaign trail.

 

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