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Jamie Dupree's Washington Insider Archive for October 2008
Blog Entries for Friday, October 31
Everyone Can Vote, But Not Drink
I got this the other day and thought it was sort of interesting - the states that still ban booze sales on Election Day. So, what follows is a press release from the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States. Seven States Still Force Prohibition-era Bans on Election Day Alcohol ...
Blog Entries for Thursday, October 30
Measuring The Drapes
When I saw an "Urgent" story on the Associated Press wire Thursday saying that Barack Obama had approached an Illinois Congressman to possibly be his White House Chief Of Staff, I had a little chuckle. And I then I realized that it was probably a good thing that someone was ...
A Last Stand In Ohio
John McCain spent all of Thursday rushing around the state of Ohio, and as his schedule emerged for Friday, it seems he's going to adopt the Buckeye State for another day. In a sense, he's making his last stand. Ohio has long been a bellwether state. The last time Ohio ...
A Quiet End Of The Line
Unless the White House hasn't been sending out the schedule of Vice President Cheney of late, he has not exactly been burning up the tarmac to campaign for GOP candidates around the country. For that matter, neither has President Bush, who is fulfilling pretty much the same role that Bill ...
Economy Shrinks; Candidates Battle
On a very busy day in this Presidential race, both campaigns battled over a new report from the feds today that showed the US economy shrank in the third quarter of this year, a signal that a recession may already be here. The report found that GDP in the US ...
Blog Entries for Wednesday, October 29
Cramming For Finals
Most of my work this week is behind the scenes stuff, as I try to jam as much information into the ole brain for Election Night coverage of the 2008 campaign. And as I crunch the numbers in Congress, it could be an ugly night for the GOP. Just as the ...
$4 Million Well Spent?
The half hour Obama advertisement last night was about what I expected. If anything, Obama can step right into a career on a show like 20/20 or something, as he sounded like a voice over professional. I guess the first question I had while watching it was, where was that ...
As The Polls Turn
In this installment of "As The Polls Turn," we again look back at earlier this year to see if we can figure out whether the current group of Presidential polls are nothing more than a bunch of numbers gathered by watching little kids throw darts at a dart board. A ...
Blog Entries for Tuesday, October 28
Trying To Map The House and Senate
It is hard enough to try to predict which Presidential candidate will win which states, let alone which Democrats and Republicans will win the 435 House seats and 35 Senate seats up for grabs in 2008. So let's give it a shot, shall we? There are a variety of people ...
So Which Poll Do You Believe?
With time ticking away until Election Day, I thought it was time to go a bit more in depth on polling this year, to give all of us an idea of what we should believe and what we should be skeptical about when it comes to polling. Let's start with ...
Obama Flexes His Ad Muscles
With his 30 minute prime time advertisement running tonight on TV, Barack Obama most certainly showcases the big time advantage he has over John McCain when it comes to money in this year's Presidential race. "You can see it in terms of the amount of money spent on the TV, ...
Palin Joins Call For Stevens Resignation
With a week to go, John McCain and Sarah Palin should be focused like a laser beam on the final seven days of campaigning in the Presidential race. Instead, the big story today has been their calls for convicted Sen. Ted Stevens to resign. McCain went first today, issuing a ...
McCain Calls For Stevens To Resign
A day after Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska was convicted on seven corruption charges in a Washington, D.C. federal court, it almost seemed poetic that fellow GOP Sen. John McCain would call for Stevens to resign from the Senate. While the two men share their party affiliation, about the only ...
Blog Entries for Monday, October 27
Rev. Wright Is Back
After going completely underground since his infamous National Press Club appearance back in the Spring, it almost seemed like the controversy over the former minister of Barack Obama was going to stay on the QT through Election Day. But now a political action committee called the National Republican Trust has rolled out ...
One Week To Go
With a week to go, the story line of this Presidential race remains the same. Barack Obama has the lead in the polls, with his advantage anywhere from just a few points to double digits. The question is where things will stand one week from today. "It's just hard to ...
Sen. Stevens Guilty On All Counts
Just over a week from the elections, Republicans got another ball peen hammer to the head as Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska was convicted on seven charges of corruption stemming from gifts given to him by a home state oil company executive. For Stevens, it is doubly damning, as he ...
No Comment on Syria
The White House today repeatedly refused to publicly discuss a U.S. millitary raid into Syria along the Iraq border. Here is part of the transcript from Monday's White House briefing by Press Secretary Dana Perino. Q What is the likelihood of more raids into Syria like the one we saw ...
Blog Entries for Sunday, October 26
The Polls Stay On The Same Track
With eight days to go until Election Day, not much has changed in the last week or so in the Presidential race - at least as we can see it - from the public polls being released. For Team Obama, there are polls that show him with double digits leads ...
No Verdict Yet For Sen. Stevens
You think your candidate has some issues right now and might not win re-election? They don't have anything compared to Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska, whose corruption trial still isn't over in Washington, just eight days before he is up for re-election in his home state. On Sunday, the trial ...
Closing Arguments For Obama
With just over a week to go until Election Day, Barack Obama and John McCain will both be stumping for votes on Monday in the key battleground state of Ohio. Obama will use his lunch stop in Canton to make what aides say is his closing argument for 2008. In ...
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