My name is Catherine Morgan, I'm a writer, nurse, mother, and founder of "The Political Voices of Women". This is a blog dedicated to inform and educate the voting public through articles, ideas, and links. It's also a way of giving myself a voice, rather than just sitting back and watching politics and my opinion go by.
--- I am now also at the Care2 Election Blog.
I don’t normally think endorsements are all that important. However, when the family of President John F. Kennedy endorses a candidate, I think that’s a pretty big deal. Especially, when they are comparing that candidates to one of America’s most beloved presidents. Both Sen. Kennedy and Caroline Kennedy, have just announced their support of Barack Obama.
I think this endorsement is huge for Obama, and I also think it could hurt the Clinton campaign more than people realize. Of all the endorsements, I believe this one has the power to move large groups of voters away from Hillary and to Obama.
As the House planned a vote Tuesday on a plan that would speed rebates of up to $600 to most income earners — more for couples and families with children — the Senate was planning to draft its own measure with the add-ons, said senior Senate aides in both parties, speaking on condition of anonymity because the package is not yet final.
The move was in defiance of admonitions from the Bush administration not to risk derailing the deal with changes, and it threatened to slow what was shaping up as an extraordinarily rapid trip through Congress for the stimulus measure.
Adding rebates for senior citizens living solely off — who are ineligible under the plan hatched by House leaders and the White House — would likely mean doling out smaller rebates overall, shrinking the size of the payments from $600 to $500, according to a senior Senate aide.
Even though I didn’t do the early voting thing here in Florida, roughly 750,000 other voters did. This could throw a real monkey wrench into the outcome of our primary. Talk about a pollster and pundit nightmare.
Now the question is – How will this early voting affect the results of the primary? Take Giuliani. When early voting began, he looked like a ’shoe in’, but his performance in the Florida debate was less than impressive.
“Rudy’s people have aggressively worked the absentees, particularly in South Florida,” said Sally Bradshaw, a longtime Florida Republican operative who is running Mr. Romney’s campaign here. “It makes sense for them to do so. They knew Rudy was not strong in the early primary states and they needed people to vote for Rudy before the results from that state came on.” — Read full article at The New York Times
That’s exactly why I’m not really a fan of early voting – what if by election day you want to change your mind? I tend to make my mind up only shortly before election day. [Example: As of today, I am still somewhat undecided about who I will be voting for tomorrow.] But, even though it’s not right for me, I wouldn’t want to get rid of early voting, I like that it allows for more voter participation. And the extra bonus of confusing the pollsters, is kinda fun too.
Even though Giuliani has slipped badly in the polls, if his campaign was successful in getting out the early vote, he still has a chance here. And, the pollsters have had Hillary leading for the Democrats…But, Obama actually has had campaign ads running here (when no other Democrat has). Plus, with his momentum from South Carolina, who knows? Obama could still have a chance here on Tuesday.
So, it should be interesting to see how this all shakes out on Tuesday. Personally, I’m still mad about the whole “punishment” thing by the DNC over moving up our primary. And, I’m generally not happy with any of the three Democrats, because of their lack of desire to stand-up to the DNC. In a way, I don’t really look at my vote on Tuesday as a vote for a specific candidate, so much as a vote to show the DNC that Florida is relevant.
