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Close the Deal? Not so fast.
Filed Under (Pennsylvania, Analysis, 2008 Presidential Race, *Top Stories) by jfbarnett on April-23-2008


John Logie, professor of Rhetoric at the University of Minnesota, comments about the rhetoric of the 2008 presidential race.

Over the past week, leading up to the Pennsylvania primary, I’ve begun to hear representatives of the Clinton campaign and even Senator Clinton herself begin to try to push the idea that because Barack Obama has not yet hit the “magic number” of delegates he needs to end the primary season, that he is somehow unable to “close the deal.” In my role as a scholar of rhetoric, I feel the need to call a foul here.

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Poll Watching And A Small Room For Clinton
Filed Under (Pennsylvania, 2008 Presidential Race, *Top Stories, Video) by mmcintee on April-22-2008

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The turnout was high in white wealthy areas and low in poor minority areas in Philadelphia. When Clinton claimed victory, it looked like a packed room on TV, but there was a reason. The UpTake’s Noah Kunin gives us the big picture of the small room.

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Live Updates from Pennsylvania
Filed Under (Pennsylvania, 2008 Presidential Race, *Top Stories) by Noah S Kunin on April-22-2008

I’ll be sending along Twitter updates until more people wake up. In the meantime you can also check out an interview I conducted with Tom Elko of Minnesota Monitor to hear some of my off camera analysis of the Pennsylvania Primary.

 



    A quick summary of the turnout in Philadelphia and its western suburbs (steady but not record breaking…yet) and a quick interview with Babette Josephs of the PA State Govt. Comm. on the voting machines being used in this area.

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    Watering the Pennsylvania Grassroots
    Filed Under (Pennsylvania, 2008 Presidential Race, *Top Stories) by Noah S Kunin on April-21-2008

    In the last minute adrenaline fueled rush for volunteers on election day, the Obama and Clinton campaigns use dramatically different tactics for volunteer recruitment.

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