The News About Senator Bob Casey Endorses Barack Obama

Pennsylvania Senator, Bob Casey has announced that he will endorse Democrat Barack Obama in his race for President. The endorsement will come as Obama begins a six-day campaign through Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania’s April 22 primary is the next big primary in the nomination battle between Senator Barack Obama and Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Clinton holds the lead in recent polls of Pennsylvania voters, but Senator Casey’s endorsement of Obama could carry special weight with critical Catholic voters. Catholics make-up more than 30 percent of the state. Senator Bob Casey is Catholic and is known for his opposition to abortion. His support could help Barack Obama make headway with Catholic voters.

That’s the news about that. I hope the news about you is good news.

If you like this story  Subscribe in a reader and never miss a post.

The News About Obama And Clinton Claims Of Misdoings In Ohio And Texas

Yesterday my home state of Ohio and Texas had their primary elections and caucuses. In both states one or the other of the two Democratic candidates, Obama and Clinton, had complaints about the voting system.

In Ohio Barack Obama successfully filed a court complaint asking that some polling places be kept open late because of ballot shortages. In Texas Hilary Clinton may mount a legal challenge to the state's caucus results. Texas has a two-step election, a primary and a caucus. Clinton won the primary, but it looks like Obama has won the caucus. Clinton is claiming that Obama supporters illegally obtained caucus packets in several precincts throughout the state.

It’s all very confusing and a Clinton supporter even introduced a resolution to abolish the caucus system. Maybe the system should be abolished, but to abolish it in the middle of an election would be unfair.

That’s the news about that. I hope the news about you is good news.

If you like this story  Subscribe in a reader and never miss a post.

The News About Super Tuesday

Well, the biggest primary of the season has ended and although there was a decisive winner for the Republicans the Democratic race is still on the line. John McCain was the definite winner of the Republican race and this would usually mean he would get the Republican nomination, but the win wasn’t big enough for him to clinch the nomination.

On the Democratic side the race came down to Clinton and Obama as expected. Clinton won the states that had the most delegates, but Obama won the smaller and mid-sized states giving him 14 states to Clinton’s 8.

With no decisive nominee for either party on Super Tuesday, the biggest primary ever in the US, the candidates look ahead to next week’s primaries in Maryland and Virginia.

That’s the news about that. I hope the news about you is good news.

If you like this story  Subscribe in a reader and never miss a post.

The News About The New Hampshire Primary

Well, the results of the New Hampshire Primary are in and Hilary Clinton pulled a surprise upset over Barak Obama. McCain was able to pull out a win from the Republican Primary. But no matter how you look at the primaries the big news is going to be from the Democrats between Obama and Hilary Clinton. Never before in history has been a black candidate and a woman candidate running at the same time and that is one for the history books.

What is even bigger news is the fact that they are both front-runners for the office of President for their party. If either one wins their party nomination and then goes on to win the Presidency, it will be a history making event and it will truly mark a change in the way America thinks about race and gender.

The next primary is Michigan on the 15th of this month.

That’s the news about that. I hope the news about you is good news.

If you like this story  Subscribe in a reader and never miss a post.

The News About Obama And Huckabee

The news was great in Iowa for Barack Obama and Mike Huckabee yesterday as they both won their caucuses. The reason the win was great is because they both won out over the front-runners of their respective parties. A big factor in the Huckabee win might have been that more than half of the Republicans said they were either born-again or evangelical Christians. The fact that Huckabee was a former preacher turn politician may have been a big help in winning this caucus.

Obama’s victory gives his campaign more hope as he beat out the Democratic front-runner Hilary Clinton. Obama spoke a lot about hope in his victory speech and the change in how the American people are thinking. “We are one nation, we are one people and our time for change has come." is one of the statements Obama made in his victory speech.

This was a critical first test in the run for the office of President it also narrowed the field of Democrats running for the office as Senators Joe Biden and Christopher Dodd dropped out shortly after the outcome was clear.

That’s the news about that. I hope the news about you is good news.

If you like this story  Subscribe in a reader and never miss a post.

The News About The Iowa Caucus

Well, today is the day that the Democratic and Republican Presidential candidates pounce on Iowa to hold their caucuses. Each group trying to persuade Iowans to pick someone from their party to be the one candidate to run for President against the other party’s chosen candidate. All but one of the candidates was in Iowa campaigning yesterday. Mike Huckabee choose to go on Jay Leno’s Tonight Show and play bass guitar and trade jokes with Leno.

The difference between a caucus and a primary election is that in a primary, voters secretly fill out ballots and leave. In the caucuses, they are required to come and stay for several hours, and there are no secret ballots. In the presence of friends, neighbors and occasionally strangers, caucus members vote with their feet, by raising their hands and moving to different parts of the room to show their support for one candidate or another.

It will be interesting to see which candidates form each party gets the nod from Iowans tonight and then it’s on to the Wyoming caucus.

That’s the news today. I hope the news about you is good news.

If you like this story  Subscribe in a reader and never miss a post.