Presidential Primaries

I had put off this post as I was worried about jinxing the race but as it looks like we’re pretty safe I feel good finally posting about this. Perhaps its being a product of Tobacco Row but for some reason my picks seemed to naturally fall into brackets. So here are my thoughts on Obama’s picks for his running mate.

My criteria were to include a combination of traditional regional argument, helps his perceived inexperience, and fits his theme of "Change".

The "brackets" after the fold.

Second meeting of Cabarrus For Obama, a group in Cabarrus County, NC dedicated to supporting Barack Obama and getting out the vote for the May 6th primary.

I returned on Tuesday from Ohio, where I volunteered for Sen. Obama's campaign in the frozen city of Cleveland. Hundreds of volunteers from all over the country descended upon the state to help out the Obama campaign.
What follows is the story of my journey in a winter wonderland.

Getting to Cleveland was no small feat. As the person who I stayed with told me, "February is the worst month to come to Ohio". I wish they had told me sooner.

This past weekend I flew to Chicago to help a Belgian TV News crew make a report on the Barack Obama campaign. As you might know, Chicago is Obama's hometown and it's here that his political campaign started.
We visited the National Obama Volunteer headquarters and went to the communities where Obama was a community organizer some 25 years ago.

When I landed, the contrast between Charlotte and Chicago couldn't have been any bigger. In Charlotte it had been a balmy 60 degrees, in Chicago it was 30 and there was at least 10 inches of snow on the ground. The skyscrapers were hidden in a dense, low hanging cloud cover and it gave the whole city a weird kind of atmosphere.

Apparently the Hillary Clinton campaign has started using a song by the dutch rockband Golden Earring called "when the lady smiles".
The problem is that they apparently didn't bother looking at all the lyrics of the song and obviously never watched the video that accompanied it.

The victory on Saturday in South Carolina wasn't a surprise to all the volunteers who had been working for the Obama campaign there, but the extent of the victory was.

For the past few weeks I was one of thousands of volunteers working all over the state of South Carolina to make sure we got the result we saw on Saturday evening.
I'll try to give you a little peek behind the scenes of the campaign from my personal view.

As you might know by now, I've been spending some of my time as a volunteer for the Barack Obama campaign in South Carolina.
I thought you might be interested in knowing what I'm doing there.

The Obama campaign has several field offices scattered all over South Carolina.
The main Headquarters are of course in Columbia, but I go down to the Rock Hill field office, since that's the closest. It takes me about an hour and 15 minutes to get there. I mainly go down there on the weekends, but I've also managed to squeeze in a few evenings now and then.

With Iowa and New Hampshire so close, I thought it would be interesting to hear people's thoughts on the presidential primaries. Several candidates seem to be able to put forward plausible paths to victory.