Michigan, the Ford State

It shall be interesting to see which of the Republican candidates pull out a victory tonight in Michigan. Huckabee is in a real solid position right now. If he can place at least second, he will have a chance to make an impact in the South starting with the lower Carolina. Huckabee is an evangelical candidate and they are politically more powerful in the South. If he hangs in the election long enough they will be almost be obligated to vote for him. What interesting is how they never mention Ron Paul. The media doesn't want him to do well for reason. He receives minimal effort from them.

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Kerry's endorsement

Can Kerry's endorsement help? Is he trying to position himself for a VP role. He probably needs someone older to run with him.

Obama is down with JayZ and Kanye

Obama has apparently met with two important figures in hip hop music. I think he has taken a far different approach than many of the other African Americans in politics. Jesse Jackson and Mr Sharpton came from the church and begun their campaign shrouded in blackness. Many of them built their campaign momentum at activities targeting other African Americans.

This can sometime scare other groups away especially the conservatives. Barack has not done that. He has not even targeted us. The fact that he met with JayZ and Kanye to target youth may mean that is going to start spending some time in the churches because the black evangelicals is where the mature votes come from. He has had success without relying on black people. There is chance that he may start doing some damage once he get into areas of higher black populace. I think he can flank the rest of the candidates like William Wallace did in Braveheart. That was the best flank demonstration in war based theatrical history.

African Americans can give him a boost because they are currently splitting the vote 50/50 between he and Hillary. We like the Clintons because they have demonstrated their concern for the community via Bill's policies. Obama is not the clear cut leader in the African American community. Not yet anyway.

Al Gore still makes the best running mate even though Mr. Kerry just cosigned.

"I've met with Jay-Z; I've met with Kanye. And I've talked to other artists about how potentially to bridge that gap. I think the potential for them to deliver a message of extraordinary power that gets people thinking (is massive)," Obama told Jeff Johnson during BET's political special What's In It For Us?.

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Rudi Who?

We have not seen Mr. Giuliani at all. Either he is extremely arrogant and does not feel he needs to try yet, or he is done. I think it's the latter personally. The 911 boat just lost its steam.

Every breath you take

Have you watched CNN lately? They have changed their format. I think the blogs have changed the way big media reports the news. At first the impact was only felt by web based news, but it now seems like the television news is reporting the same sensationalized way as the web. The problem is that they are not natural and remind one of their old relative trying to dance to a modern song(like Norv yesterday).

They are making such a big deal about Iowa that it's annoying. Hilary didn't cry. She got a little emotional but it was good thing and not something to blow out or proportion. The media is trying to paint a picture that she is desperate and are trying to betray an misstep that she makes. Based upon CNN, all of America's race problems are solved because Iowa has voted for Obama. Obama is half white and non African American. If America can't find something in common with him, they are stupid.

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The Black Republican

What ever happened to JC Watts? He was kinda cool. It was always neat to see him. He was like the a black spot on the big white wall.

There has been some recent development in regards to your comment about me being a liberal that wants to secretly be a conservative. My response was the the fact that I was the opposite and the description better suits you. I am actually a conservative that wants to be liberal.

My father and I discussed this concept. He better fits the liberal description, which is why he raised me from a conservative perspective. During Christmas time he asked me how come I was so racially sensitive. I said, "I'm black I supposed to be". He laughed and said "Just because you are black doesn't mean you can relate". He then said, "I raised you like a little white kid, so where did that ability to relate come from". My father was a school district superintendent of a multicultural district and he could recognize different parenting styles amongst his students. So when he says he raised me like a white kid, he probably did. From a personal standpoint, I was raised very similar to the kids in my neighborhood(once we moved out of the bad one), which was 93 percent non minority, so I can agree with is statement. I get my point of view from within and based upon how people treat me. I can relate innately so to speak.

What's funny is that my father and I like the Republican candidates more even though we will most likely vote for the black guy. I would vote for McCain if he were younger. He has been my favorite politician the last 3 years. I like Ron Paul but he is probably difficult to work with. My father likes Huckabee and agrees with his concepts. I actually like him too for his 'F' policies. I actually blogged about two of the 4 'F's: Faith, Family, Friends, Football. Huckabee uses 2 of those four 'F's that define CampTrotter which are Faith and Family.

We like the conservatives more but will probably vote for Obama.
Why? Because I want to see a brutha win! If Barack wins I am closer to my dream of having a chocolate dark, ball-headed, earing wearing, gold toothed president. You know, someone that resembles Chad Johnson!! When that happens, we have overcome.

I like this dude

I'm a big fan of Mr. Ron Paul. He's fun to watch.
I don't really know why I like him because I am not in agreement with all of his policies. I think because he sticks to his code and hasn't wavered yet.



I think I like him because he seems fundamentally objective.
He is about solving problems while being completely devoid of emotion and even compassion sometime. I think it's ok to take campaign money from shady sources if your plan is to do good with that money. It's a Robin Hood concept.