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Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Your Morning News 2.26.08

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Obama Yearbook

According to a new poll by the New York Times, Democrats think that Senator Obama has the best chance of beating Senator McCain. The poll also shows him with a national lead over Hillary Clinton. According to the poll, Senator Obama has broadened his coalition and is gaining support from demographics like lower-income workers and women that had previously been strong for Senator Clinton. Your best bet here is to say that national polls don’t matter since they don’t reflect Ohio and Texas (the next big primary states) where Senator Clinton still has a lead. That kind of thing always sounds smart.

Senator Clinton, Mortgages, and North Korea after the jump


Apparently, Senator Obama is doing so well because he talks so pretty. The Washington Post details Senator Obama’s rhetoric-fueled campaign in a longer piece that also talks with historians and experts on rhetoric. You can skip this, but it is interesting for Obama completists.

The Clinton campaign isn’t taking this sweet-talk surge in the polls lying down. According to Clinton aides, they are in the middle of launching a 5-point attack on Senator Obama. What it boils down to is that the campaign is going to use every line of attack it can think of between now and March 4. As part of this “strategy,” yesterday Senator Clinton compared Senator Obama to President Bush in saying that we already know the cost of having a President who is clueless about national security. This is one of those things that would be hard to discuss at work. The Clinton supporters will say she has a point, the Obama supporters will say she will do anything to get elected, the McCain supporters will say she has a point (they are already geared up for the general), and the Ron Paul supporters will try to tell you about the gold standard.

Senate Democrats have proposed a new measure that would allow judges to rewrite the terms of a mortgage during a bankruptcy proceeding. Mortgage lenders are saying that would make them raise rates to compensate for the additional risk. I doubt this will come up at work, since no one (least of all me) knows enough about it to really understand the issue.

Finally, file this one under, “we arn’t that different after all.” The New York Philharmonic Orchestra performed in Pyongyang, North Korea Tuesday night. It was the first-ever performance by a U.S. Orchestra in North Korea.

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