Word: louisiana
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...guess being there until five in the morning in vampire makeup is memorable enough.” Though the group does not consider the film a political movie, many of the participants are Obama supporters. The presidential candidate had a stellar weekend, winning primary contests in Washington, Louisiana, and Nebraska on Saturday and the Maine caucuses last night. “There’s just this energy about him,” said Lawson, who voted for Obama in the primaries. “He’s very positive.” The creators also hope Obama would...
...Tuesday's D.C., Maryland and Virginia Democratic Potomac Primaries will be casting votes that "actually matter," but yesterday's results among Republicans show that even if a party's nomination is all sewn up, votes can still matter quite a lot. John McCain's losses in Kansas and Louisiana - and his narrow win in Washington State - suggest that, at the very least, the Republican Party will not be able to begin preparing for the general election as soon as leaders would like. At worst, Mike Huckabee's insistence on staying in the race undermines McCain's precarious status...
Obama's recent successes, in fact, don't just speak to his popularity as a Democratic candidate. A close look at his victories show a fundamental shift not just in who's winning but in who is voting for the winner. Obama's victory in Louisiana could be, if one were especially cynical, written off as success with "black voters." But what of Nebraska, just to take one example? Obama won the state 68 to 32; he won Nebraska's second congressional district 77 to 23. And while it's true that this district (my home district...
...original version of this article contained a quote by Kevin Mulcahy, a political science professor at Louisiana State University, that "Almost all of the states that Senator Obama won on Tsunami Tuesday were caucus states." In fact, Obama won seven primary states and six caucus states on February...
...states where she's running television ads, and she spent both Thursday and Friday campaigning in Tacoma, Seattle and Spokane. Her husband was originally scheduled to visit the state, but at the last minute the campaign sent Hillary Clinton herself, dispatching the former President to Louisiana instead. Clinton has the support of much of the political establishment in the state: both of Washington's senators, Maria Cantwell and Patty Murray, have endorsed her. But Governor Christine Gregoire came out Friday for Obama in a surprising, potentially crucial endorsement...