I'll probably run into you :)

Posted at April 28, 2008 3:57 AM in response to North Carolina: overview of the delegates, the primary, the politics, and the likely results on May 6th

I think the reason he is not into debating her is that it pushes her to use more of her limited funds. Debates are free ad time for her on a national level. The Obama campaign does not need free ad time since they are pretty flush with money at the moment.

Posted at April 28, 2008 1:18 AM in response to No Debate For Hillary: Obama Is Right

He's hitting the East side of the state on Monday and from what it looks like will be moving westward. So probably on Thursday/Friday he'll be in WNC.

Posted at April 28, 2008 1:12 AM in response to North Carolina: overview of the delegates, the primary, the politics, and the likely results on May 6th

I live in the 11th district and it's wildly hard to predict here since some of the old school liberals here moved out into the surrounding counties, so it has skewed the traditionally conservative counties. Hillary will probably win the district by a sliver, but the Obama campaign here is hitting the area pretty hard. There is a Clinton campaign office here, but no one is going door to door like the Obama campaign is.

One funny thing is that after Clinton talked in Asheville, the next day people were showing up at the Obama office because they went to hear her speak. I've not seen the text of what she said, but it sounds to me like it did not go over very well. I think she may have went with her strong military stump speech, which Asheville has a lot of anti-war activists, so yeah, not a good idea to talk up military strength in a town where you cannot throw a rock without hitting an anti-war activist.

BTW: Here's a good breakdown of the districts and such in NC on dailykos: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/4/27/203431/609

Posted at April 28, 2008 1:10 AM in response to North Carolina: overview of the delegates, the primary, the politics, and the likely results on May 6th

I convinced my conservative Christian brothers to watch that forum. They were already doubting McCain, but that forum tipped the scales on them. Obama convinced them that he was closer to the 'Christian ideal' than anyone else running (they were Huckabee supporters). They've since changed their affiliation to independent so they can vote for Obama. I'm still trying to turn them into Democrats, but Obama definitely showed them that a political label has nothing to do with one's religious/spiritual orientation. Hillary did not impress them because her answers seemed to be vague, overly generalized, and hollow sounding to them.

It was definitely a coup for me.

Posted at April 23, 2008 1:00 AM in response to OK. It's Official. I hate Hillary.

exactly!

I wonder if she will find the money to erase Obama's lead in NC while trying to tip the scales in Indiana . She has an amazingly hard road to run from here on out. Obama can potentially play prevent defense and still come out on top with popular vote, delegates, and states won.

Posted at April 23, 2008 12:50 AM in response to OK. It's Official. I hate Hillary.

In NC, but joined the group

Posted at April 22, 2008 4:49 AM in response to my.barackobama.com group for TPM users (plus NYC Penn primary party)