Kyle Bell

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Lessons from Washtenaw County

January 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

I’m just now looking at election results from last week’s Michigan primary. The Democratic side was only a symbolic vote, as the state was stripped (along with Florida) of all of its delegates due to their moving up the primary past February 5, which broke party rules for all states except Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada [...]

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Change is Coming

January 9th, 2008 · No Comments

Just five days after winning a historic victory in nearly all-white Iowa by 9%, Barack Obama fell just 2% of beating Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire. I won’t lie, I didn’t expect him to lose. I thought a big win was coming, but it didn’t happen tonight. Let’s keep this loss in context: 1. Barack [...]

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Obama Wins Iowa; Hillary 3rd

January 4th, 2008 · No Comments

As I said yesterday, history would be in the making today. The state of Iowa has handed the first win to a black presidential candidate in United States history. Hillary Clinton, long touted as the so-called “front-runner” lost decisively as a distant third. As John Edwards so eloquently said, “the status quo lost and change [...]

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Iowa Eve Predictions

January 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

Tomorrow, voters go to the polls in the state of Iowa to decide who will lead America post-Bush. After millions of dollars on ads, dozens of debates, hundreds of town hall meetings by all of the candidates and nearly a full year of campaigning, including a frantic push these past two weeks during the holiday [...]

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