by john nelson [courtesy of Blog for America]

As someone who has closely watched Presidential campaigns since 1960, I have seen a lot of crazy behavior; but I have seen more crazy behavior in one day from Hillary, than I have in the last 48 years combined.

- NAFTA Gate - It's pretty clear that the Clinton campaign set this up; and that Hillary flat out lied about it. This must backfire on her.

- Comparing Senator Obama to Ken Starr. This is nuts. Just because the Obama campaign wants her to make public their taxes and the donations to the Clinton Library and open up the papers from the Presidential years. She has her own rules and says whatever she wants about anyone. She is acting just like the Bush White House.

- Ann Lewis, accusing the Obama campaign of being negative! Are they all nuts!

- Three times (at least) praising Senator McCain over Senator Obama. This is unheard of, even in the most contentious races I have seen.

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by Brian Leubitz [courtesy of Calitics - Front Page]

by Brian Leubitz [courtesy of Calitics - Front Page]

by E J Zipprich [courtesy of Blog for America]

Well, our true progressive voice has step aside. Sadly, John Edwards lost out to the media. The media has chosen Hillary & Obama. There are your choices against McCain and Romney, the media's other darlings.

This is a greater reason for you to attend Wednesday's DFALink meeting. What do we do now? Talk to other progressives about the two choices left in the race and determine who is the more progressive candidate. Let's throw our support into our congressional and local races since both remaining presidential campaigns are well funded & organized.

Monmouth for Democracy will meet at Racioppi's Kitchen 107 Oakland Street, Red Bank, NJ.

 Ed Hughes will moderate the discussion starting at 6:30. Please "chip-in" for Food & drink at about 12 bucks! 

by Robert in Monterey [courtesy of Calitics - Front Page]

[courtesy of The California Majority Report]

Let me get the disclosure out of the way: I lived in New Hampshire for 13 years, worked on five presidential campaigns (Gary Hart twice, Mike Dukakis, Paul Simon, Bill Clinton), was a state legislator for six years, and chairman of my county's Democratic Committee for a couple of terms. So, yeah, I admit I'm a little biased. But in my view, the real action in the presidential race isn't going to be in Iowa, it's going to be in the Granite State. Here's why.

It's an election, not a caucus. That means secret ballots, and none of this huddling in one corner of a room stuff. So there's no peer pressure, neighbor vs. neighbor dirty looks, or trying to raid votes from someone who doesn't meet the threshold. You pull the curtain and vote. Or you file an absentee ballot. And what voters do in the privacy of a polling booth or on the ballot at home sometimes is a lot different from what they often tell pollsters or will do in a caucus.

[courtesy of California Progress Report]

By Thomas Gangale

Well, sports fans, we have a problem. It's those Damn Yankees. They look like they could go all the way in 2008. Again. Don'cha just get tired of them winning the World Series all the time?

But, we could throw them a real knuckle ball. Here's an idea. Let's change the rules for every game that's played in Yankee Stadium. The changes won't affect any other stadium in the Major Leagues.

Now, anywhere else, when a team wins a game, it get a "one" added to its win column, and when it loses, it gets a "one" added to its loss column. It doesn't matter whether it's squeaker or a laugher; a win is a win. This is known as "winner take all."

But, in Yankee Stadium, this is how it's going to work: every inning will have a winner. So, if the Yankees get two runs in the third inning, and the visitors score only one, the Yankees win that inning. If both teams score the same number of runs in an inning, that inning goes to the overall winner of the game. This is called "allocation by inning."