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Florida And Michigan Asked For This

Joshua Rosenstock — Sat, 31 May 2008 14:35:14 +0000

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Thoughts On Florida And The Race

Joshua Rosenstock — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:41:09 +0000

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Coming To Their Senses?

Joshua Rosenstock — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 22:11:15 +0000

It appears that the good folks in Michigan and Florida are poised to heed some good advice and reschedule their primaries. There is no reason that the millions of Democrats that reside in both of these crucial states should be disenfranchised for failing to follow arcane party rules.

Florida And Michigan Should Reschedule Their Primaries

Joshua Rosenstock — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 14:19:48 +0000

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Rudy And Edwards To Drop Out And Florida Thoughts

Joshua Rosenstock — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:28:11 +0000

Last night’s Florida primary taught us several things:

1.) Rudy’s ridiculous strategy of completely ignoring Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina predictably backfired. Now the Mayor will endorse Senator McCain in an attempt to freeze out the hard-to-like Romney. Today’s photo-op at the Reagan Library may propel Giuliani to a seat in McCain’s cabinet (Homeland Security Secretary?).

2.) Mike Huckabee’s victory in Iowa appears to be a fluke, once again raising questions about why the first caucuses were so overcovered by the mainstream media.

3.) John Edwards has a great message but is not the best messenger, especially in light of the superior oratorical skills of Obama. He may have a promising future as attorney general or Supreme Court justice in the next Democratic administration.

4.) The Florida Democratic Party (among other state parties) has no regard for equity, justice or the right of its members to participate in the candidate nominating process. The rules that punish the voters because the state party leadership yearns to be a more active participant in the national picture is draconian and should be revisited. Is there anything more un-American than disenfranchising hundreds of thousands of voters for actions beyond their control?

5.) Seven years after the infamous ballot counting nightmare, it is inexcusable that areas in the Sunshine State (particularly Putnam County) still experience technical problems with the voting process. Whatever happened to the election reform we were all promised?

Rudy Should Fire His Campaign Strategists

Joshua Rosenstock — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:26:13 +0000

Whomever thought it was a good idea to completely ignore Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina in favor of campaigning solely in Florida should be fired quickly. I wonder if the same knuckleheads will retain positions at Giuliani Partners when the former Mayor of America returns to the executive suite sometime in the next few weeks. The feelings of New Yorkers about Rudy has spread to the rest of our fellow countrymen, as evidenced by his poll numbers dropping like flies the past 90 days. Apparently, the more Americans got to know him, the less they liked him. No wonder he was hiding out in South Florida where he can take his paranoid anti-terrorism message to old, retired New Yorkers. How embarrassing it will be when he comes in a distant third behind Romney and McCain, two candidates that actually campaigned in the aforementioned early nominating states and have realistic shots at the nomination. As usual, Rudy boasted while his audience looked the other way (or possibly fell asleep considering it was Broward County).

Winning Florida Won’t Save Rudy

Joshua Rosenstock — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:21:12 +0000

About a dozen senior campaign staffers for Rudy Giuliani are foregoing their January paychecks, aides said Friday, a sign of possible money trouble for the Republican presidential candidate.

“We have enough money, but we could always use more money,” contended Mike DuHaime, Giuliani’s campaign manager and one of those who now is working for free. “We want to make sure we have enough to win.”