Wednesday Morning Roundup

Democrats

Barack Obama - The Sun gives a brief overview of Barack Obama’s life and candidacy…

Bill Richardson - A anti-death penalty bill in the New Mexico legislature threatens to put Bill Richardson between a rock and a hard place. He’s always supported the death penalty, according to the article, though, so I would expect him to veto it as such if it came to that… A touching story of the long, slow journey of one senator’s dream to ban cockfighting, and how Gov. Richardson’s eventual support in the end (after wavering all of his first term) was crucial.

Christopher Dodd - Chris Dodd is behind in the polls - he’s even behind Joe Lieberman, who isn’t even a Democrat officially and isn’t running. Ouch.

Dennis Kucinich - Kucinich will be on community TV in Portland, Oregon promoting his idea for a Dept. of Peace. Here’s video of him on Hannity and Colmes last night.

John Edwards - Edwards went to a fundraiser Monday night. Also, there’s a story of a somewhat plausible way for Edwards to get ahead in the Democratic primary. I’m not sure it will work, but it might be possible.

John Kerry - Kerry gave his opinion on the pending global warming legislation sponsored by McCain, Clinton and Obama: it doesn’t go far enough. I doubt any of them is going to lose sleep over the rebuke.

Republicans

George Pataki - Pataki was speaking in Naples and would not rule out a run at the Presidency.

John McCain - Romney and McCain had dueling announcements of support yesterday; Romney announced Zrizona supporters, McCain announced supporters in the county Romney is visiting on Thursday… Why the general lack of news for McCain compared to other candidates (look at how few times he’s been mentioned comparatively on the right sidebar since this site launched)? Mostly because McCain is biding his time and waiting for the opportune moment to announce…

Mike Huckabee - Huckabee hired directors for his campaign in Iowa. Huckabee was in Des Moines, Waukee and Urbandale yesterday and will be in Grinnell, Iowa City, Cedar Rapids, Tipton and Bettendorf today… Yesterday, he said that he wanted Republicans to be Republicans. “I think if people look at my record, they see there’s a consistent and authentic conservative record that was translated into action,” Huckabee stated. “I think at times it’s almost as if we’ve been seen that we’re not the party that’s on the front burner for education reform, for health care reform.”

Mitt Romney - Romney and McCain had dueling announcements of support yesterday; Romney announced Arizona supporters, McCain announced supporters in the county Romney is visiting on Thursday… The abortion isse will not go away regarding Mitt Romney; some people are convinced - and some are not convinced.

Rudy Giuliani - Giuliani attended a fundraiser in Palm Springs, California.

Sam Brownback - Reminder: Brownback is in Michigan today… Brownback wants to focus on building bridges on consensus, and is building his campaign around human trafficking, climate change and poverty. I’m not sure those three issues will send him shooting to the top of the polls. Also noted on the page is that Brownback was actually dis-invited to the National Review dinner that Romney was keynote speaker of this past weekend.