Vote Anti Incumbent

Obama easily defeated Hillary Clinton in the SC primary. Does this mean it is over for Hillary Clinton?  Clinton is leading in states like California and New York.  But Southern states may vote for Obama.

Comment: Interesting that Southern states vote for a black man and so called “liberal” states do not.

80 percent of Africian Americans voted for Obama.

Comment: Now that he won SC, that should give the signal it is OK to vote for Obama. This may pick up steam.

SC Polls now say US ready for a black or female president.

Comment: After George Bush, why not?

In SC, Economy and health care are top concerns, even above Iraq.

Ron Paul was in second place in Nevada, ahead of all other Republicans except Romney.  I really consider Ron Paul to be the only anti incumbent in the 2008 presidential race.  It is nice to see him do well.  He is doing better than some of the other Republican candidates who were sneering at him during the debates. Go man!

To me, Ron Paul makes the most sense when talking about the economy, one of the hot issues right now.  We have really gotten ourselves in a mess and those in charge are talking about more of the same, to fix the mess. We need someone like Ron Paul to steer a better coarse.

CNN reports Sen. John McCain was the projected winner of South Carolina’s Republican primary Saturday night despite a strong showing by former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee among the evangelical Christian voters who dominated the day’s turnout.

Comment: How can McCain win over someone who dominated the day’s turnout.

Exit polls found self-described evangelical Christians made up nearly 60 percent of the vote, and Huckabee — an ordained Baptist minister who emphasized his conservative Christian credentials — was the choice of 40 percent of those voters. But he took only 12 percent of the nonevangelical vote, while McCain took 40 percent and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, 21 percent

Comment: So Huckabee took only 12 percent of the nonevangelical vote.  Sounds like reverse vote against the dominating evangelicals.  They have been in power, or their man Bush has, for a long time and I think people don’t like the way things are going.

In 2004 John Edwards won this South Carolina primary.  Will he do it again in 2008?  Latest polls show Edwards in third place with Clinton second, and Barack Obama winning South Carolina primary.

On the Republican side, SC looks to put the skids on John McCain just like they did in 2004.  Latest polls show Romney in second place with Huckabee winning the South Carolin primary. The SC primary is this Sat. Jan 19, 2008.

Here in Georgia, which will vote their primary on Super Tuesday, hardly anything being heard from the Presidential candidates.  Rudy Giuliani was in Atlanta a couple of weeks ago, but I have heard no TV or Radio ads. No buzz at all.  I did see Ron Paul homemade banner on the GA 400 overpass yesterday. That’s about it.  Actually it is kind of nice. We will enjoy the silence while we can.  

Reports out this morning indicate Senator Kerry endorsing Barack Obama as well as the culinary union in Nevada.  This Obama campaign is is picking up stream with these two endorsements.

CNN TV is reporting that New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg may enter the Presidential race as an Independent.  The report says he is spending millions of his own money in polling across the country to get a feel for his possible entering as an Independent candidate. 

This follows Business Week’s prediction that Bloomberg will run for president, entering in February. So this prediction is right on course. Way to go Business Week.

If true, candidate Bloomberg would certainly shake things up, in an already shaky line up.

Hillary Clinton only has a 3 percentage lead with 75 percentage of precincts counted.  Overall counting Iowa, Clinton and Obama in a tie. Obama’s win in Iowa certainly helped increase his showing in New Hampshire, I think.  Now for South Carolina it is going to be the Democratic winner….. who knows… no one. As stated before, polls are not accurate. Usually the one ahead in the polls…. will not in fact be the winner.

It is clear now that Barark Obama is the anti incumbent candidate on the Democratic party side in this election. As evidence, most independents voted for him, women and minorities. He got quite a start winning Iowa and reportedly may do quite well in New Hampshire. Well shall see on Tuesday.

Ron Paul is the anti incumbent candidate on the Republican part side. He is shunned by the news media, TV and right wing radio.  He has a grass roots support from intelligent people and a big following on the Internet. He speaks straightforward and is clearly not part of the Establishment.

There seems to be no third party independents anymore.  I don’t even know who the Libertarian candidate is or was.  Funny, I voted for the Libertarian candidate last presidential election, but do not even know the candidate for the 2008 election.

Could Michael Bloomberg be an anti incumbent candidate? Hardly. He could be an Independent Party candidate but Mr. Mayor, Mr. Owns Everything could hardly be anti incumbent.

I scrolled down the posts I made recently and here is a post about a poll on Dec 25th, a few days ago.

 A new American Research Group poll in Iowa shows Sen. Hillary Clinton expanding her lead in the last week. Clinton now leads with 34%, followed by John Edwards at 20%, and Sen. Barack Obama at 19%.

What a joke.  Hillary came in third place, not first place.  Clinton expanding here lead. Not! What does this say about polls.  Polls mean nothing. Polls are incorrect and misleading.  The only poll that counts is the one on election day taking place at the voting booth.  End of story.

 Had to share this prediction from Business Week via Yahoo.

Bloomberg’s Historic Run
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg will enter the Presidential race in February, after it becomes clear which nominees will get the nod from the major parties. His multiple billions and organization will impress voters — and stun rivals. He’ll look like the most viable third-party candidate since Teddy Roosevelt. But Bloomberg will come up short, as he comes in for withering attacks from both Democrats and Republicans. He and Clinton will split more than 50% of the votes, but Arizona’s maverick Senator John McCain, will end up the country’s next President.

Wow! That would be something to shake things up a bid. Bloomberg would be the anti incumbent candidate of 2008 (but not anti establishment).

Per CNN, Huckabee’s victory in Iowa can be attributed to his overwhelming support among Christian evangelical voters and women, according to CNN analysis of entrance polls.

Well that answers the question, will Evangelicals still have the power at the voting booth after putting George Bush in office. Remember this from 2004: According to surveys of voters leaving the polls, Bush won 79 percent of the 26.5 million evangelical votes.

Per the WSJ.com Voter interviews also suggested Mr. Romney’s Mormon faith may have been an issue. Many Christian conservatives view the religion with suspicion. Mr. Huckabee’s campaign drew a large number of evangelical Christians, who made up nearly 60% of all Republican caucus-goers, a sharp jump from the last competitive contest in 2000.

 Yes they do still have the power.  With the low popularity of President Bush, you would have thought it could have been a bach lash against putting another of the evangelical movement’s men in office.  But even the evangelicals were getting disgruntled with President Bush, not doing enough for them.

Looks like we are heading for more of the same.  Too bad Mr Jerry Fawell is not around to afford Mr Huckabee a great photo op about now.