Caption Contest
Time for the Monday OTB Caption ContestTM I'm baaaaaaccckk!.... Happy Bash Steel Day! Thanks to Dodd for providing a couple excellent contests over the last couple of weeks. REUTERS/Eloy Alonso (SPAIN) Winners will be announced Thursday PMPosted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on July 14, 2008 06:09
Caption Contest Winners
The Spin Cycle Edition OTB Caption ContestTM is now over. REUTERS/Vincent West (SPAIN) ✰ THE WINNERS ✰ First: William d'Inger - With the last U.S. sword factory having moved to Mexico, American pacifists are reduced to beating washers into plowshares. Second: Gollum Stop! - - Hammer time! Third: Charles Austin Entry 3367 of the rejected Peter Gabriel music video themes. HONORABLE MENTION Rodney Dill - ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on July 12, 2008 21:26
Obama Plunges in Newsweek Poll!
Newsweek has released a new poll and is excited by the huge change: "Glow Fading? The latest NEWSWEEK Poll shows Barack Obama leading John McCain by only 3 points. What a difference a few weeks can make." This is quite amusing in that pretty much everyone agreed that the June 20th Newsweek poll was an outlier. No matter. In ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on July 12, 2008 06:56
Obama-McCain Debates
John McCain has proposed a series of debates with Barack Obama in the format that he thinks best suits his skills as a candidate. Naturally, Obama has responded in kind. Taegan Goddard: According to NBC News, Sen. John McCain proposed a series of ten joint town hall meetings with Sen. Barack Obama beginning June 12 in New York ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on June 4, 2008 14:52
It’s a Storybook, Man
Barack Obama has ostensibly* passed the magic number of delegates needed to clinch the Democratic nomination. The media have declared him the winner. He's declared himself the nominee. Hillary Clinton hasn't acknowledged either reality, yet, but seems resigned to it. Obama Claims Victory Sen. Barack Obama achieved the 2,118 needed to clinch the Democratic nomination for president last night ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on June 4, 2008 07:07
Clinton Going After Obama Superdelegates
Hillary Clinton continues to provide ample evidence that she has no intention of going quietly into that good night. As Barack Obama turns to concentrate on his general election challenge, his rival Hillary Rodham Clinton is mounting a last ditch campaign to stay relevant in what is left of the Democratic presidential contest. The former first lady enters this week with an ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on June 2, 2008 09:23
Why Obama Beat Clinton
AP's Stephen Ohlemacher explains why Barack Obama, the young upstart, is going to be the Democratic Party nominee for president while Hillary Rodham Clinton, the hands-down favorite, is getting a set of steak knives. Unlike Hillary Rodham Clinton, rival Barack Obama planned for the long haul. Clinton hinged her whole campaign on an early knockout blow on Super Tuesday, while Obama's ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on June 1, 2008 07:07
Kentucky and Oregon Primary Predictions
Today's Democratic primaries in Kentucky and Oregon provide something akin to a rematch of the recent Indiana-North Carolina pairing. Hillary Clinton should easily win Kentucky, where Barack Obama hasn't even bothered to campaign, and Obama should take Oregon. The Polls The latest RealClearPolitics average has Clinton up a whopping 29 points in Kentucky and Obama up a comfortable 12 ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on May 20, 2008 07:49
Hillary Clinton: It’s the Map Not the Math
Jeralyn Merritt recounts a blogger call with Senator Hillary Clinton: She is staying in the race. She is ahead in the popular vote by 50,000 votes, counting Florida and Michigan which must be counted. She intends to continue to lead in the popular vote when June 3 comes around and everyone has voted. The number one message: It's the map not ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on May 17, 2008 06:53
Clinton the Stronger Candidate?
Chris Cillizza examines Hillary Clinton's claims that her demonstrated ability to appeal to white, working class voters makes her the better candidate in the Fall. Examining the state-by-state races, he figures only 14 states will truly be competitive. A glance at these 14 states -- and the polling to date in each -- suggests that Clinton is clearly the ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on May 15, 2008 11:57
