Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Your Morning News 2.27.08
Posted by Josh in Barack Obama, Debates, Economy, Election 2008, Google, GOP, hillary clinton, john mccain, Polls
Senator Clinton and Senator Obama met in Ohio last night for what will likely be the final debate of the Democratic primary. This was the most confrontational of the debates and the candidates sparred over a variety of issues, including health care, foreign policy, and NAFTA. Senator Clinton needed to knock Senator Obama off his stride, and while she dominated the debate it doesn’t appear that she made anything stick. If the debate comes up at work and you are unsure who the person you are talking to is supporting, it is always safe to criticize the moderators, who were their usual bizarre selves. Some examples of the moderators drinking problems where convoluted hypotheticals on Iraq and a question about rejecting the endorsement of Louis Farrakhan. Thank GOD I know where they stand on that. You can check out a full debate transcript, but I have no idea why you would want to.
McCain, Google, and the GOP after the jump
As the Democrats figure out who they are going to run, the Los Angeles Times is already beginning the general election. They prominently featured a poll today that pit both of the potential Democratic candidates against McCain in hypothetical head-to-heads. McCain beat them both and the poll also went on to say that McCain has high favorability ratings and high ratings on his ability to handle the Iraq War. One of the best way to sound like you know a lot about politics is to dismiss polls with a sniff and an airy flip of the hand. If someone asks you why, say either A) Sample size B) Questioner bias C) This is a bad time to conduct a poll.
The economy continues to be… less than ideal. Yesterday we saw falling house values and rising inflation (for those keeping score, those two things shouldn’t be able to happen at once) and today we see that gas prices are going to be going up. Oil is past the $100/barrel and we could see $4/gallon gas by spring.
Just because it is always good to keep tabs on our future overlords, Google shares tumbled yesterday after their revenue projections were cut.
Finally, filed this under “there is no law,” the GOP has said that they are not going to comply with a Congressional requests to retrieve thousands of e-mails sent by White House staffers using GOP e-mail accounts. Essentially, the public will never see many of the e-mails sent during the run up to the Iraq War. This is too bad, because 2003 really was the hayday of Chuck Norris jokes,