'Things To Worry About': The 2008 U.S. National Elections

This page is begun in February 2007, which is much too early to be bothering with background political matters – there is an illegal war to straighten out before even the primary elections that are fifteen months away. (The 'swift-boating' is already started by the neo-con fascists, as a diversion from the real, 'bread and butter' issues that matter.)

It is time to take the country back from the Carlisle Group, Halliburton, Kellogg-Brown-Root, Blackwater 'petroleum industrial complex' that pulls the strings attached to mouthpiece-puppet George Dubya Bush.
The impeachment of Bush & Cheney hinges on the people's will, expressed in the November 2006 national elections – the Democratic Party was given control of both houses of Congress by the People. Next go-round we need to replace more G.O.P. candidates and fellow-traveling Democrats.

Your country is calling for action, for a New Revolution, for a stand to defend and protect the U.S. Constitution against the fascists running the Bush Administration.
Any U.S. citizen who does not vote in the 2008 Primary and 2008 General Elections surrenders the right to call him-/herself an American.

BULLETIN May 2007: Well, maybe there won't even BE an election in 2008.
On 9 May 2007, President Bush signed a directive giving himself the power to run the entire U.S. government, single-handed. Yup, you can call it the 'Dictatorship Enabling Act of 2007'.
The official title is "National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive {N.S.P.D.-51 and H.S.P.D.-20}" and the link below is to the White House's oh-so-very-quiet press release.
www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/05/20070509-12.html

3 January 2008
Iowa caucuses for 59 Dem delegates & 41 GOP delegates [7 electoral]
RESULTS: Obama 37.6%, Edwards 29.7%, Hillary 29½%; Huckabee 34.4%, Romney 25.2%, Thompson 13.4%
NOTE: So far impossible to get full info, such as comparative plurality numbers (1/8)

8 January 2008
New Hampshire primary for 30 Dem delegates & 24 GOP delegates [3 electoral]
RESULTS: Hillary 39%, Obama 36½%, Edwards 17%; McCain 37%, Romney 32%, Huckabee 11¼%, Giuliani 8½%, Ron Paul 7.6%

15 January 2008
Michigan primary for 155 Dem delegates & 61 GOP delegates [17 electoral]
RESULTS: Hillary 55%, Undecided 40%; Romney 39%, McCain 30%, Huckabee 16%, Ron Paul 6¼%

19 January 2008
for 34 Dem delegates & 81 GOP delegates
Nevada [5 electoral] & South Carolina {GOP only}
NEVADA RESULTS: Obama 45% (13 del), Hillary 51% (12 del), Edwards 4%
S.C. RESULTS: McCain 32.2%, Huckabee 30%, Thompson 15.7%, Romney 15%, Ron Paul 3.6%

26 January 2008
South Carolina {Dem only} for 54 delegates
S.C. RESULTS: Obama 55.4% (25 del), Hillary 26.5% (12 del), Edwards 17.6% (8 del)

29 January 2008
Florida primary for 105 Dem delegates & 57 GOP delegates [27 electoral]
RESULTS: Hillary 49.8%, Obama 33%, Edwards 14.4%; McCain 36% (all 57 del),
Romney 30.1%, Giuliani 14.7%, Huckabee 13.5%, Ron Paul 3.2%

5 February 2008 - Super Tuesday
20½ states for 2,136 Dem delegates & 1,394 GOP delegates
Primary & caucus events take place in Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Idaho {Dems only}, Illinois, Kansas {Dems only}, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico {Dems only}, New York, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Utah, West Virginia {GOP split} [111+ electoral]
PARTIAL RESULTS 2/13: New Mexico's count of caucus & absentee ballots gives Hillary an 1,100 vote lead, BUT there are still 17,000 provisional ballots to be included.
In overall voting on Super Tuesday, 8.3 million Republicans voted versus 14.6 Democrats.

9 February 2008
for 232 Dem delegates & 85 GOP delegates
Kansas {GOP only}, District of Columbia {Dem only), Louisiana [9 electoral],
Nebraska {Dem only}, Washington {Dem only}

12 February 2008 'Beltway Primary'
for 201 Dem delegates & 119 GOP delegates [23+ electoral]
District of Columbia {GOP only), Maryland, Virginia

19 February 2008
for 119 Dem delegates & 80 GOP delegates
Hawaii {Dems only}, Washington {GOP split}, Wisconsin [10 electoral]

4 March 2008
for 447 Dem delegates & 265 GOP delegates [61 electoral]
Ohio, Rhode Island, Texas, Vermont

11 March 2008
Mississippi primary for 41 Dem delegates & 38 GOP delegates [6 electoral]

22 April March 2008
Pennsylvania primary for 183 Dem delegates & 74 GOP delegates [21 electoral]
RESULTS: Clinton won 55% to Obama's 45%, but Obama still ahead on delegates

6 May 2008
for 189 Dem delegates & 126 GOP delegates [26 electoral]
Indiana & North Carolina

13 May 2008
for 37 Dem delegates & 33 GOP delegates
Nebraska {GOP only} & West Virginia [5 electoral]

20 May 2008
for 117 Dem delegates & 75 GOP delegates [15 electoral]
Kentucky & Oregon

3 June 2008
for 44 Dem delegates & 84 GOP delegates [6+ electoral]
Montana, New Mexico {GOP only}, South Dakota

National Convention of the Democratic Party
25-28 August 2008 in Denver, Colorado

National Convention of the Republican Party
1-4 September 2008 in Saint Paul, Minnesota

Finally! Regime Change in The United States!
The new Democrat President wiil be sworn into office on 20 January 2009

Well, Gore co-won the Nobel Prize, and loves what he is doing to save the planet, so he is basically
a kind of Last Resort for the Democratic Party (to be called up in case of emergency).
So I'll go with EDWARDS - KUCINICH for now, or even EDWARDS - DODD.
... so I cut all the Gore links and created an Al Gore, Jr. Page at Spirit of America {1 January 2008)

Then Edwards announced the 'suspension' of his campaign on 30 January 2008 (just before the huge Super Tuesday elections). The best remaining choice is Barack Obama, so I'll go with OBAMA - DODD or OBAMA - KUCINICH.

Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois

Original comment: Nah. Obama is being made into a celebrity by the fascist-owned media as a diversion, and thoroughly-racist America is not ready to elect a black to the White House. Feb 2008 comment: With Edwards out, that leaves the best ticket as Obama-Dodd or Obama-Kucinich.
official Barack Obama presidential campaign website
entry at Wikipedia

Unity '08 Party
Unfortunately, this group has the potential to mess up the 2008 election, as did Ralph Nader in 2000 & 2004.
(The good news is that there are only 115,000 Unity08 members as-of Nov 2007.)

John 'Dr. Strangelove' McCain of Arizona
McCain sewed up the Republican delegate count in March.

When Bush & Cheney are impeached or resign, the backup plan is
to appoint McCain & leave him as President (to run as an incumbent), after which
he will pardon the Bush-Cheney-Rove-Libby-Rice-Rumsfeld gang.

Stop John McCain 2008 website
entry at Wikipedia

Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware
dropped out of the Democratic race after the Iowa caucuses January 2008

official Joe Biden presidential campaign website

entry at Wikipedia

billionaire New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg
Bloomberg switched to independent on 19 June 2007; he has not yet declared a run for President,
but if he does he will act as a Nader-like spoiler taking votes away from the Democratic candidate

John Edwards of North Carolina

Edwards has a very solid following, but was shunned by the Media Cartel; he withdrew from the race just before the Super Tuesday primaries
entry at Wikipedia

ethically-sanctioned former House Speaker Newt Gingrich
announced 28 September 2007 that he will not run for President
entry at Wikipedia

Rep. Tom Tancredo of Colorado
dropped out 20 December 2007 and endorsed Mitt Romney
entry at Wikipedia

former Governor Tom Vilsak of Iowa
dropped out of race 23 Feb 2007; endorsed Hillary Clinton 23 March 2007
entry at Wikipedia

2008 U.S. Senate Races
One-third of the members in the Senate run for re-election in each 2-year cycle.

ANY Democrat vs. Sen. Ted Stevens [GOP AK]
F.B.I. agents searched the home of Sen. Stevens on 30 July 2007 as part of the Bill Allen bribery investigation.

ANY Democrat to fill the open Idaho Senate seat
Sen. Larry Craig [GOP ID] was arrested in June 2007 at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport on suspicion of lewd conduct,
and pled guilty in August 2007 to a misdemeanor charge of disorderly conduct; he is under pressure to resign {we shall see}.

ANY Democrat vs. probable retiree Sen. Thad Cochran [GOP MS]
ANY Democrat vs. probable retiree Sen. Trent Lott [GOP MS]

ANY Democrat to fill the seat of retiring Sen. Chuck Hagel [GOP NE]
former Secretary of Agriculture Mike Johanns is running for the GOP nomination

ANY Democrat vs. Sen. Michael Enzi [GOP WY]
ANY Democrat vs. appointed Sen. John Barrasso [GOP WY] in the special election in 2008

2008 U.S. Congressional Races
Everybody in the House of Representatives has to run for re-election every two years.

Rep. Henry Hyde [GOP IL-06] died 29 November 2007
ANY Democrat for the open seat in IL-06

on 17 August 2007, incumbent Dennis Hastert [GOP IL-14] announced his retirement;
the Special Election will be 5 February 2008
2008 Democratic primary candidate John Laesch for the open seat in IL-14

John Laesch for Congress in Illinois in 2008

ANY Democrat vs. Congressman Roy D. Blunt [GOP MO-07]
under investigation for ties to Tom DeLay

2008 Democratic primary candidate Martin Heinrich {for Wilson's open seat in NM-01}
also attorney Jon Adams and former state Health Secretary Michelle Lujan Grisham
are running in the Democratic primary for NM-01
Sheriff Darren White & State Sen. Joe Carraro are running in the G.O.P. primary for NM-01

	"Grand Illusion: The Untold Story of Rudy Giuliani and 9/11" [2006] by Wayne Barrett & Dan Collins Harper 8x5¼ pb [7/2007] for $10.17 HarperCollins 9x5¾ hardcover [8/2006] for $17.13
	"Rudy!: An Investigative Biography of Rudolph Guiliani" [2000] by Wayne Barrett, assisted by Adam Fifield Basic Books 9x5¾ pb [5/2001] for $16.00 Basic Books 9½x6½ hardcover [7/2000] out of print/used
	"The Full Rudy: The Man, The Myth, The Mania" [2002] by Jack Newfield Nation Books mass pb [5/2007] for $10.39 Nation Books 7¾x5 pb [12/2002] for $11.95

	"From Hope To Higher Ground: 12 STOPS To Restoring America's Greatness" [2007] by Mike Huckabee Center Street 9x6 hardcover [1/2007] for $13.59
	"Character Makes A Difference: Where I'm From, Where I've Been & What I Believe" [2007] by Mike Huckabee B&H Books 8¼x5½ pb [6/2007] for $9.59

	"Leading By Example: How We Can Inspire An Energy & Security Revolution" [2007] by Bill Richardson Wiley & Sons 9¼x6¼ hardcover [10/2007] for $17.13
	"Between Worlds: The Making of An American Life" [2005] by Bill Richardson Plume 12½x8 pb [3/2007] for $12.48 Putnam 9x6¼ hardcover [11/2005] for $17.13 Penguin audio CD [11/2005] for $25.04

Things To Worry About2008 U.S. National Elections

Things To Worry About
2008 U.S. National Elections