Does Senator John Mccain have a vested interested in Budweiser ?

Does Senator John Mccain have a vested interested in Budweiser ?

see the family owned Hensley and Co., a Budweiser liquor distributorship.
and his pesonal stock holdings.


see his personal worth filing document at
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/congress/fin_dis/2006/m000303.pdf


Anheuser-Busch

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How many lobbyists work in John Mccain office? do they get federal paychecks too?

How many lobbyists work in John Mccain office? do they get federal paychecks too?



How many lobbyists work in John Mccain office?

who pays them ?
are they senate employees? federal paychecks?

is this a clever indirect way to skirt the lobbying issues?


www.mccainalert.com

whose private jet was Mccain on with that hot babe ?

whose private jet was Mccain on with that hot babe ?



and why was he given the use of the jet?

NY Times to publish articles link Senator Mccain to lobbyist

NY Times to publish articles linking Senator Mccain
to lobbyists.

President George H. W. Bush Endorses John McCain

President George H. W. Bush Endorses John McCain


At a press conference in Houston today, former President George H.W. Bush endorsed John McCain for president. President Bush made the following statement on his endorsement:


"Today we are living in a time of war, a new and vastly more complex time of war. We also have more important challenges at home, chief among them, we clearly need to address those parts of our economy that demand attention. And at this critical time in history, the key point I want to make is the United States of America cannot be permitted to falter. Part of our Republican creed is a prevailing sense of duty. In the coming election, we do not have the luxury of taking a pass on our unique role and responsibilities in the world. And the indisputable fact that unites the greatest number of Republicans, most independents and many good Democrats is the fact that no one is better prepared to lead our nation at these trying times than Senator John McCain.

"As someone who also helped lead our great Party at the RNC and later as President, I believe now is the right time for me to help John in his effort to start building the broad-based coalition it will take for our conservative values to carry the White House this fall. His character was forged in the crucible of war. His commitment to America is beyond any doubt. But most importantly, he has the right values and experience to guide our nation forward at this historic moment. So I am very proud to endorse John McCain for the presidency for the United States of America. Few men walking among us have sacrificed so much in the cause of human freedom, and I am happy to help this remarkable patriot carry our Party's banner forward."


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Stop the increases in foreign workers / amnesty

Stop the increases in foreign workers / amnesty
Congress needs to hear from you this week --

Just when you think the Big Business Lobbyists can't be any more callous ...

At the same time as reports that we may be in an economic recession and that the job market is getting more and more difficult for Americans, the magazines, newspapers and airwaves are filled with op-eds, editorials and articles quoting the business leaders and lobbyists saying we must import more foreign workers!

Both the Democratic and Republican leadership of U.S. House and Senate are right now conspiring to bring legislation to the floor to greatly expand the pool of foreign labor in this country -- even as they talk about the need for taxpayers to provide more unemployment compensation for all the Americans who are losing their jobs.

This kind of insanity is nothing new.

And it will never slow down unless we as a Lobby of the People mobilize in massive fashion to put an end to it.

Please go to your NumbersUSA Action Buffet corkboard and make sure you have taken all the actions we have provided you to stand up against this latest effort of the Big Business Lobby to depress wages and foist major new subsidies upon the taxpayers.

I have been working full-time on these immigration issues since 1991. The Big Business Lobby and its well-compensated friends in Congress always use every upturn in the economy to cry for more foreign labor because of perceived shortages. But they never change their tune when the economy turns down.
In every period of rising unemployment, the Big Business Lobby
continues to cry about terrible worker shortages and always
brings in hundreds of thousands of foreign workers during recessions.

Your NumbersUSA Capitol Hill Team has talked to a number of
people who
have been in high level Hill meetings where leaders of both
Parties have expressed
a desire during this time of economic turmoil to sneak through
giant increases of H-1B visas for foreign tech workers,
H-2B visas for foreign laborers, greencards
for permanent foreign nurses and a five-year visa for
12-20 million illegal foreign workers and their dependents.

Friends, I know that all of this may seem too crazy to be true.
But please believe me that that the worse our country's economic
situation, the more your
congressional leaders see a chance to give their corporate sponsors
the huge foreign labor increases that the People's Lobby has been
blocking the last several years.

Send your faxes immediately. Remember that Monday is a federal holiday.
Wait to make your phone calls until Tuesday.

Congressional leaders hope you will be so busy worrying about
your own jobs that you won't notice them giving away millions
more through immigration increases.

OBAMA, THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE? YES HE CAN!

OBAMA, THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE? YES HE CAN!

By DICK MORRIS

Published on DickMorris.com on February 11, 2008.

I believe that Barack Obama will defeat Hillary and win the Democratic nomination. I think that this weekend's victories in states as diverse as Washington State, Louisiana, Nebraska, and Maine illustrates his national appeal and demonstrates Hillary's inability to win in states without large immigrant and Latino populations.

Hillary's results on Super Tuesday, which amounted to a draw with Obama, will be her high water mark and will represent the closest she will ever come to the party nomination.

Right now, CBS has Obama ahead in elected delegates with 1134, while Hillary has only 1131.By the time Virginia, Maryland, DC, Wisconsin, and Hawaii vote during the next week, Obama will have a lead over Clinton of about 100 delegates, even counting the super delegates who have thus far committed themselves.

March 4th will, at worst, be a wash for Obama with his probably wins in Ohio, Rhode Island and Vermont offsetting his probable defeat in Texas. (Although in Texas' open primary, Republicans and Independents may flock to the Dem primary to beat Hillary).

And then come a list of states almost all of which should go for Obama, including likely victories in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Indiana. By the convention, he will have more than enough delegates to overcome the expected margins Hillary may rack up among super delegates.

And don't bet on all the super delegates staying hitched to Hillary. These folks are politicians, half of them public office holders who are really good at reading the handwriting on the wall and really bad at gratitude for past favors.

Since 2004, I have predicted that Hillary Clinton would be the nominee. But, given the consistently amazing performance of Obama, his superior organizational and fund-raising skills, his inspiration of young people, and the flat and completely uninspiring performance by Hillary, it looks to me like it will be Obama as the Democratic nominee.


FOLLOW HILLARY CLINTON'S MONEY!

By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN

WHY HILLARY WILL LOSE

WHY HILLARY WILL LOSE

By DICK MORRIS

Published on TheHill.com
Hillary Clinton has blown an almost sure shot at the Democratic presidential nomination. Having surrendered the lead to Obama, she is not likely ever to regain it. It is a fantasy that the Ohio and Texas primaries will be a “firewall” to contain the flames of enthusiasm for Obama and reverse her defeats of February. Just as with Giuliani’s supposed Florida firewall, Hillary’s will crumble as Obama’s momentum carries him forward to the nomination.

Before Hillary lost her first primary or caucus, she lost the dialogue with the Obama campaign vis-à-vis the totally misguided decision to focus her message on experience, surrendering the ground of change to her opponent.

The more she tried to emphasize Obama’s inexperience, the more she seemed to fence herself into the status quo. That it was the status quo ante of the Clinton years, not the status quo of the Bush administration, made less and less difference as the campaign progressed.

She ran on a message perfect for a Republican primary — experience — and abandoned the key to winning a Democratic primary — the message of change — to Obama.

Her decision to rely on special interest political action committee and lobbyist contributions and to seed her war chest with the checks of maxed-out donors gave substance to Obama’s contrast of the status quo vs. change. With her chief strategist a lobbyist and her top campaign team all in the business, she was awash in associations that crippled her ability to fight for change.

Obama became the attraction in the race while Hillary recited her laundry list of proposals with a deadening monotony.

She could have waged a grassroots, small-donor, Internet campaign of change based on being the first woman running for president with a serious chance of victory. The charisma could have been hers, the excitement hers and the novelty hers. But by embracing experience and pretending to be safe and tested, she deadened the excitement her candidacy could have generated.

She got a reprieve by winning in New York/New Jersey and in California/ Arizona largely on the strength of Latino and immigrant voters. Their concentration in five key states (75 percent live in California, New York, Illinois, Florida and Texas) gave her a draw on Super Tuesday. But too many of her votes come from Hispanics who fear blacks and from older whites who harbor residual racial feelings. Her and Bill’s heavy-handed attempts to polarize the election racially died on Super Tuesday in an avalanche of votes from white states like Utah, Idaho, Colorado, Kansas, North Dakota and the like.

As the election turned from Super Tuesday to the heartland, where there are few Hispanics or new immigrants, Hillary’s campaign has lost its momentum and its prospects of victory. Obama’s victories in Maine, Nebraska, Louisiana and Washington state, and his probable wins in Virginia, D.C. and Maryland, show how complete is his mastery of states without immigrants blinded by the Clinton name to sustain it. Hillary’s hopes for victory in Wisconsin, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana and North Carolina are a fantasy. The Latino population in those states is well below 10 percent and not enough to carry her to victory.

The super-delegates will not be enough to reverse Obama’s primary and caucus victories and they will run for cover and join the Obama bandwagon anyway.

Besides losing the rhetorical battle, Hillary will have nowhere near the money that Obama will have. Her preparations for a short war based on maxed-out donors and old politics were disastrously shortsighted, while Obama wisely cultivated online contributors who can regenerate with the click of a mouse.

When Barack Obama beat Al Gore to the punch and jumped into the presidential race while the former vice president was still deciding what to do, it seemed that Hillary had virtually wrapped up the nomination. While Gore could have beaten Mrs. Clinton, it seemed unlikely that a senator with two years’ service under his belt could do so.

But the mistakes and strategic errors of the Clinton campaign gave Obama an opening that he exploited masterfully. It is Obama’s charisma that is winning this election, but it was Clinton’s mistakes that opened the door.

HILLARY CLINTON GOOFS AGAIN!

HILLARY CLINTON GOOFS AGAIN!

By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN

Published on FOXNews.com on February 15, 2008.

Who was it that defined neurosis as repeating the same mistake again and again, and expecting a better outcome each time? That’s really what the Clinton campaign is doing in its post-Chesapeake primary strategy. Now Hillary defines Obama as the candidate who makes speeches, while she is the one who provides “answers” and “solutions.”

Why is Hillary embracing this new line? It’s not that she has any great record of solutions or answers of which to boast, but rather that she wants to highlight Obama’s lack of a legislative record. Once again, she and her campaign geniuses are making the same mistake they made when they decided to use the experience as their defining difference with Obama. It’s not that she had much, but they sensed an opportunity to highlight that he had even less.

Of course experience not only didn’t work. It backfired massively. By co-opting the experience tag, Hillary bought into the status quo and left Obama to be the agent of change. A candidacy that could have excited tens of millions of women, the first serious prospect of a female president, became merely a boring part of the status quo, shorn of its novelty.

Hillary’s claim to be the solution-person won’t work either for the same simple reason: She hasn’t passed any. If she were McCain, she could tout a long history of legislative success on key issues and herald her ability to pass bills and engineer progress. But she hasn’t done that. She hasn’t walked the walk so now she cannot talk the talk.

As a first lady, Hillary’s sole important legislative involvement came during the first two years of her husband’s presidency when she sought to pass her ill-conceived health care reform, an effort that failed so miserably that it cost her party control of the House of Representatives for the first time in 40 years. Between 1995 to 1997, she was largely absent from the White House, traveling the world, promoting her best selling book and helping to raise funds. She never attended strategy meetings and her only intervention in the singular legislative achievements of Bill’s administration — welfare reform and the balanced budget deal — was privately to urge a veto of the former and to oppose the latter because it provided for a cut in the capital gains tax. Hillary returned to the White House in 1998 to oversee the defense to the Lewinsky scandal and the impeachment attempt, but the Clinton administration essentially folded its legislative efforts during those years and hung on for dear life. No portfolio of accomplishments there.

In the Senate, she has largely spent her time raising funds for herself and other Democrats (in hopes of attracting the votes of super delegates) and promoting her best selling memoir Living History. In part because of a lack of attention and also because of the Democrats’ minority status during much of her Senate tenure, she has passed very, very little of note.

Her legislative accomplishments in her first term in the Senate were almost entirely symbolic. She renamed a courthouse after Justice Thurgood Marshall. She passed a resolution honoring Alexander Hamilton and another celebrating the win of a Syracuse University lacrosse team. She renamed post offices, founded a national park in Puerto Rico and expressed the sense of the Senate that Harriet Tubman should have gotten a federal pension 150 years ago.

Her only actual legislation included one bill to increase nurse recruitment, another to aid respite time for Alzheimer’s care givers and another to expand veterans’ health benefits, a paltry output for six years’ service.

In her second term, she has spent full-time campaigning for president and has the worst attendance record of the three senators now still in the presidential race.

So who is she kidding? If she wants to hit Obama with a negative based on his inexperience and limited legislative record, she should go right ahead. But to pretend that she is the “solutions” and “answers” person while he gives speeches is absurd.


EVEN IN TEXAS: ADVANTAGE OBAMA

By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN

Published on DickMorris.com on February 15, 2008.

While polls still show Hillary leading Obama in Texas and also in Ohio, her lead will likely fade and likely disappear by the time their primaries are held two weeks hence.

If Obama wins in Wisconsin, he’ll probably also carry Ohio, a state with very similar demographics. Neither state has much in the way of Hispanic voters (Only 2% of Ohio is Latino) or recent immigrants, the two key groups that gave Hillary the edge in California, Arizona, and New Mexico.

Go to DickMorris.com to read the rest of this blog!

Mccain at 72, looks like an old burnout standing next to Romney

"Crash" Mccain at 72, looks like an old burnout standing next to Romney.

"crash" was a name given to Mccain by his fellow naval pilots,
he ahas trashed a few jet planes.


do you really want Mccain in the presidential cockpit?

another anti Mccain website

another anti mccain website

very interesting material

From the Desk of: Steve Elliott

From the Desk of: Steve Elliott,

As you know, Congressman Duncan Hunter has been amongthe strong advocates for the border fence and stoppingillegal immigration. That is why I want share with you my interview withHunter regarding his recent endorsement of Mike Huckabee. Go here to listen: http://www.firesociety.com/blog/107/22149/?src=111 Before I continue, please understand that Grassfire.org doesnot endorse or oppose candidates. In addition, I personallyhave not endorsed any candidate for president. ed, many citizens concerned about illegal immigrationhave rightfully had serious reservations about Huckabee'spast actions and the veracity of his current positions onthese issues. That's precisely why I wanted to hear fromCongressman Hunter.

I too wanted to know how he reconciledHuckabee's questionable record as governor on immigration withHuck's very strong campaign platform. + + Immigration Issues Heating Up I also asked Rep. Hunter about his new bill that seeks tooverturn the Hutchison amendment which was snuck into theomnibus spending bill just before Christmas and guttedthe Secure Fence Act. I told Rep. Hunter that Grassfire will soon be launching amajor grassroots campaign to overturn the Hutchisonfence-gutting amendment. Be watching for that in the coming week.


Mexico's Calderon in the U.S. today All this is happening while Mexican president Felipe Calderonis visiting the U.S. Why would he come in the middle of a hotlycontested primary election? One analyst says the trip is "tomake sure he puts Mexico on the next president's desk and eventry to shape the bilateral agenda." Of course, the mainstream media is trying to say immigration isnot such a big deal to Americans anymore -- that last summer'suprising against the amnesty bill was just a bunch of hot air. I think it's time once again to make all these guys feel the heat! Thanks for the stand you are taking. Steve Elliott, PresidentGrassfire.org P.S. I would enjoy getting your feedback regarding my interviewwith Duncan Hunter, and what he had to say. Go here to listen to the interview:

http://www.firesociety.com

Mexico's President Calderon Tours U.S. Cities

Mexico's President Calderon Tours U.S. Cities To Promote Changes In U.S. Immigration Policy

There's another political campaign taking place across the United States this year, as Mexico’s President Calderon and Mexican Consulates in cities across America attempt to influence U.S. Immigration Policy.



"[W]e should have made (President Calderon) register as a lobbyist before he ever came into the United States, because, of course, that is what he is doing here. He is lobbying for an open-borders bill." Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO) 2/12/2008

As Mexico's President tours cities across the U.S.,
FAIR wants all Americans know that he is here to campaign for changes in U.S. immigration laws.

PRESIDENT CALDERON'S FEBRUARY 2008 TOUR SCHEDULE


Be sure to visit the FAIR website this week for updates on the Calderon tour of the U.S. at www.fairus.org/calderonvisit




Mexican consulates stationed here in the U.S. are lobbying our local, state and federal governments to change U.S. immigration laws!

The Mexican consuls are working out of 47 consulate offices in the U.S. lobbying for illegal immigrants and operating sophisticated public relations campaigns.

The fact is they are directly engaging in American politics.

"Wherever there is a Mexican, that is Mexico"
Mexico's president Calderon September 2, 2007



Dallas Morning News, 10/4/2007
This blatant interference by the Mexican government in our
internal policy debate is something the Mexican government would never tolerate in its country.

We cannot allow another government to defend and promote the
interests of its people who have illegally entered our country
and broken our laws.

It's time for all Americans everywhere to join together and
DEMAND that Mexican Consular officials stop lobbying to
change United States policies and end this practice immediately!

Take Action Now!
Your action is needed immediately. So take a moment now to:

Contact your elected officials and ask them to get the State
Department to demand that Mexican consular officials stop
lobbying against U.S. immigration policy AND


Support FAIR's efforts to alert and inform all Americans about these
activities, and other attempts by pro-amnesty and open-border advocates to change U.S. immigration laws and reward illegal activity, with a generous
contribution.
Granting amnesty to illegal aliens has been the goal of open-border
advocate groups for many years. Now they have unified and enlisted the support of the Mexican government ... and here's what they're planning to do:

Create an anti-defamation league for illegal immigrants;


Increase spending by Mexican Consulates in the U.S., especially
in areas like North Texas where illegal immigration from Mexico has been overwhelming local towns;


Launch a media campaign aimed at undermining anyone who opposes
uncontrolled illegal immigration. (source: Dallas Morning News 10/4/2007)


The only way this scandal of the Mexican government interfering with American immigration policies and enforcement of our laws will be stopped
is the same way we stopped destructive amnesty legislation from
being passed in 2007 and the lack of U.S. government border security...

AMERICANS MUST DEMAND IT!

Thank you for your support!

oh no, John "crash" Mccain to visit Virginia Aviation Museum

oh no, John "crash" Mccain to visit Virginia Aviation Museum

head ups in VA.



John Mccain has trashed 5 naval planes in his career.

WASHINGTON - Republican Sen. John McCain will return to Virginia on Monday for a campaign rally in Richmond on the eve of Tuesday's primary, his campaign announced.

After kicking off his Virginia campaign Friday with an appearance in Norfolk, McCain plans to return to the state for a rally at the Virginia Aviation Museum at Richmond International Airport.

Obama beats "Crash and burn" McCain in fresh poll

Obama beats McCain in fresh poll

will mccain "crash and burn" the GOP in November

Obama has a narrow lead over John McCain


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Teamster vs Mexican truckers ? another bbroder issue

Teamsters want DOT secretary canned over Mexican truck pilot
-- Today's Trucking News

Teamsters air campaign against Mexican trucks
San Diego Union Tribune, United States - 2 hours ago

By Paul M. Krawzak
COPLEY NEWS SERVICE

3:46 p.m. February 6, 2008

WASHINGTON - The Teamsters have launched a blistering radio
and direct-mail campaign calling for the firing of U.S.
Transportation Secretary Mary Peters, who they blame for
continuing a program that allows Mexican trucks to travel
throughout the United States.

The campaign marks the latest effort to end the
controversial, five-month-old, cross-border trucking project
promoted by the Bush administration.

In the radio ad, which will start running Thursday on the
self-described "progressive" Air America radio network, the
blaring of a horn and sound of a crash precede a call to
"fire" Peters.
The ad proclaims that Peters has ignored a law passed last
year to end the program. The ad is expected to run one week.

Teamster leadership said it is firing off 250,000 letters to
union members who live along the U.S.-Mexican border or haul
freight to generate opposition to the program.

The union also is targeting Peters in her home state of
Arizona, where the transportation chief has been mentioned
as a possible gubernatorial candidate in 2010.

"Part of what we want to do is make it clear that there is a
political price for doing this," said Teamsters spokeswoman
Leslie Miller.

Brian Turmail, a Department of Transportation spokesman, was
dismissive of the attack.

www.signonsandiego.com/news/mexico/20080206-1546-cnsmextruck.html



Teamsters Launch Major Campaign to Fire US Transportation
Secretary
-- Earthtimes

all 28 news articles »

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I wonder if Air America's Thom Hartman's vigorous
Campaign against Mexican immigration has something
to do with this?

Thom Hartman, like talk radio for smart people.
--Doug

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PURE Republicanism?? It's now clear.
Six years of PURE Republicanism - BOTH houses
AND the Prez. Pure as it gets.
So?
Are you better off now than seven years ago?
Are you proud with what they have done to
America and her reputation? ...Your reputation?
...all that sleaze, lies and bribery? Proud?

If actions speak louder than rhetoric, then
name ONE good thing about Republicanism.
Just one.

Just one *real* thing.

Can't do it?
So? Your Republicanism more like a bad habit then?
Pure empty feelsgoodism?

was John Mccain's only job in the private sector was on his wife's payroll?

was John Mccain's only job in the private sector was on his wife's payroll?


Looking at his disclosure records I can only see a salesman job
for a beer distribing company in Arizona owned by his wife.


I think the GOP is dead in November if they run
with John "crash and burn" Mccain.

I think he has exhausted the POW/hero status.
That was the 5th plane he lost, yet the media won't discuss it.
He was captured by the enemy.


Time will tell..............

Huckabee kicks Mccain's ass in Kansas and Louisiana

Huckabee kicks Mccain's ass in Kansas and Louisiana

The former Arkansas governor beat McCain in Kansas nearly 3-1.

Huckabee also took Louisiana, narrowly edging out McCain, according to CNN projections.

BARACK'S ROAD TO VICTORY

BARACK'S ROAD TO VICTORY

Is Hillary Clinton bi-coastal? Can she win in America's heartland?

These questions surface in the wake of her victories in New York-New Jersey-Massachusetts and in California-Arizona and her defeats everywhere else except in her former native state of Arkansas and its two next-door neighbors, Tennessee and Oklahoma.

In the first flush of her California victory, it seemed Clinton had a clear path to the nomination. But the picture looks different on closer examination a day later.

While she was winning the dwellings of America's elite, Obama was sweeping everyplace else - Utah, Idaho, Minnesota, Illinois, North Dakota, Kansas and Colorado, many of them states with virtually no black population. And his success in Missouri, Alabama and Georgia show that he continues to dominate Southern states with their large minority populations.

Why is Clinton doing so poorly in the heartland? There, away from the liberal media and establishment bias and from the coastal immigrant and Latino concentrations, she seems at a loss. Aside from her core white-women constituency, these voters are really supporting the memory of Bill's presidency more than the prospect of a Hillary administration.

Obama is winning the primaries among younger, better-educated, less-immigrant populations. Among these groups, the future matters more than the past, and the record of Bill Clinton's administration and the implications of a Hillary presidency are separate and distinct.

Older and less-educated voters' memories of '90s glory are buoying Clinton's candidacy.

But the Northeast and California have already voted. Now the race turns to the heartland, where Obama's advantage may come into play; he's running well in "flyover country."

Over the next two weeks, nine states with as many total delegates as California will cast their votes. Obama should win Louisiana, Virginia, Maryland and Washington, DC, because of their large black populations. His Midwest strength could well give him victories as well in Nebraska and Wisconsin.

Washington state and Maine could go either way. And Clinton's strength among California Asians probably means she'll win Hawaii. But Obama will probably creep up in delegates as February unfolds.

Then come the real heartland primaries on March 4 - Texas and Ohio. Obama's strength in the Midwest augers well for Ohio. Clinton has yet to demonstrate an appeal in this region, while Obama's wins in Illinois, Minnesota, North Dakota, Missouri and Iowa indicate real regional strength.

In Texas, the Hispanic vote will be key. Clinton carried California even though Obama won among both blacks and whites. She prevailed among the third of ballots cast by Latinos. To carry Texas, Obama will have to close the gap among Hispanics. His support for driver's licenses for illegal immigrants - which, at latest count, Clinton opposes - will probably be key in any drive to capture their votes.

Clinton continues to run the same campaign she always has, based on her inherited experience and her laundry list of proposed government programs. Obama, meanwhile, is inspiring voters to rally to his cause. As the race moves to Middle America, the Illinois senator may have the advantage.

And the super delegates - party poobahs who gain delegate status by virtue of their office? They may well tend to vote for Clinton. But only if the popularly elected delegates split fairly evenly do they dare tip the convention in her favor.

If they reject the voters' will and jam Hillary Clinton down their throats, they'll have hell to pay, just as the Democratic Party elite did in 1968 in Chicago's streets.

So the Democratic race is far from over. Obama could yet pull it off.


THE HISPANIC FACTOR EMERGES AS KEY

By DICK MORRIS

Published on DickMorris.com on February 7, 2008.

The Fox News exit polling in California’s Democratic primary underscores the key role of Hispanic voters in awarding the triumph to Hillary Clinton. As Texas looms as the next major contest on March 4th, the lessons learned in California will be very important.

How odd is it that Obama tied among whites and carried blacks but lost California? The key is that she won Latinos by 2:1 and they constituted one third of the vote in the primary. In Texas, their role will be similar and their impact on the race might be the same if Obama cannot turn them around.

Why the Latino support for Hillary?

IS HILLARY JUST BI-COASTAL?

IS HILLARY JUST BI-COASTAL?

By DICK MORRIS

Published on DickMorris.com on February 6, 2008.

As impressive as Hillary’s win in California is, her Super Tuesday performance raises the question: Is she a bi-coastal phenomenon? Is flyover country Obama-land?

Hillary won New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Arizona and California. But in the heartland in between, she only carried her once-native Arkansas and its next door neighbors Tennessee and Oklahoma. But Obama carried Illinois, Alabama, Minnesota, North Dakota, Colorado, Missouri, Kansas, Utah, Idaho, Georgia, and Delaware.

Can Hillary win the states in the middle?

During the next two weeks, we will hear from Virginia, Nebraska, Louisiana, and a host of small states whose total vote equals that of California.

By the time the delegates are chosen from California, Hillary’s lead will be about 150-200 votes, not an insurmountable margin and one largely based on her lead among super delegates. Now comes two weeks of voting by small states, the largest being Washington State, which collectively have as many delegates as California. They are: Louisiana, Nebraska, Maine, DC, Maryland, Virginia, Hawaii, and Wisconsin. Obama should run well in most of them.

And then comes the decisive test on March 4th in Ohio and Texas. There the heartland will register its vote and Hillary needs to raise her game to prevail.