What do you do when you don’t get your way? Cry conspiracy. You already knew this was coming. According to democratic hopeful Mike Gravel NBC and the Democratic National Committee are colluding to knock him out of the presidential race. And why would they go to so much trouble? Because Hillary is the most popular candidate, and he aggressively confronted her at the last debate. Or maybe because NBC is owned by General Electric, who is one of the major defense contractors supporting the Iraq effort, and Gravel has spoken sharply against the war. That’s quite a victim card that he’s playing, isn’t it? Read his entire response.
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NBC News political director Chuck Todd has blocked Democratic hopeful Mike Gravel from participating in the next televised presidential debate. The Democratic debate is scheduled to take place in Philadelphia on Oct 30.
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Senator Clinton has been the leading Democrat for a number of weeks, and the gap has been widening in recent weeks. The primaries are approaching so other Democratic hopefuls are feeling the heat. This week while speaking at Drake University Barack Obama accused Clinton of being part of a congress that failed the public by leading the nation into war with Iraq.
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Today on the campaign trail in Iowa, Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton unveiled her retirement proposal to address the failing Social Security system and its affect on Americans. In her plan she proposes spending billions per year to create retirement accounts similar to 401k’s for all.
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Democratic hopeful Barack Obama is proposing a 35% decrease in the amount of foreign oil that we use, according to Bloomberg. In a speech intended for a New Hampshire audience, Obama says
“Our energy problem has become an energy crisis because no matter how well intentioned the promise, no matter how bold the proposal, they all fall victim to the same Washington politics that has only become more divided and dishonest.”
Obama’s proposed solution is to reduce dependence on oil and create jobs by investing $150 billion in environmentally friendly industries over a 10 year period.
Hillary Clinton took the lead from John Edwards in an Iowa poll over the weekend. Over the summer she and husband Bill Clinton have made a number of campaign trips to Iowa. Obama and Edwards remain within striking distance. Clinton trailed both other leading Democrats in the last poll, which was taken during May.
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You’ve no doubt heard Presidential hopefuls thrash Dubya about the war in Iraq for the past couple of years. They’ve been shaking their fingers as long as we’ve been there. Now that they’re getting serious about taking over the oval office, the top three Democratic candidates concede that they can’t promise a complete exit from Iraq. In a New Hampshire Democratic debate held on Wednesday night, candidates Clinton, Obama and Edwards each stated that they could not commit to a complete troop withdrawal within their first Presidential term. Two candidates did, however, promise a complete troop withdrawal in the debate, Christopher Dodd and Bill Richardson. Its very curious that the top three make no guarantees.
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The Washington Post recently reported that last week President Bush invited select news anchors to an off-the-record luncheon prior to his nationally televised address on Iraq.
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Syndicated radio host Dr Chuck Baldwin recently published an essay in which he declares that former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani would be worse for America than Senator Hillary Clinton.
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Next Candidate To Drop: Mike Gravel
There are currently eight candidates running for the Democratic nomination for Presidency. With more than a year to go before the election, there is still a lot of time for upsets, but one candidate seems to be having difficulty getting started. Since he announced, Mike Gravel’s performance has followed a flat line.
Though he was the among the first to announce his candidacy, he has raised the least of all candidates. The fund race has gotten a much earlier start this year than in previous elections, so the $238k that he has raised might look like a nice chunk of change. Compare that with Clinton’s $45M of cash on hand. Every other candidate (Democratic and Republican) has already spent more than Gravel has raised. In fact, most of the candidates currently have more cash on hand than Gravel has raised thus far.
Not coincidentally, Gravel has also consistently been lowest in the polls. With seven other Democratic hopefuls, two of which are the top two candidates in the polls, its is difficult to imagine Gravel becoming a serious contender.
I predict that Mike Gravel’s time in the limelight is waning, and that he will be the next candidate to drop.
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