Bloomberg a GOP Spoiler

According to a new poll if NYC Mayor, Michael Bloomberg, entered the race with Rudy GOP Giuliani and Democrat Sen. Hillary Clinton running as the candidate for their perspective parties, Giuliani is the one that comes out hurting..

A Quinnipiac University poll in AP stated:

THE NUMBERS - WITHOUT BLOOMBERG

Rudy Giuliani, 47 percent

Hillary Clinton, 44 percent

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THE NUMBERS - WITH BLOOMBERG

Rudy Giuliani, 36 percent

Hillary Clinton, 36 percent

Michael Bloomberg, 18 percent

COMPLETE RESULTS: http://www.quinnipiac.edu/x1299.xml?ReleaseID1080

Clinton Continues to Court the Latino Vote

Hillary Clinton continues to try to win the Hispanic vote. Here is a press release distributed today.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, July 3, 2007

Contact: Fabiola Rodríguez-Ciampoli, (703) 875-3408
frodriguez@hillaryclinton.com

Clinton Campaign Launches

Bilingual Social Networking Web Page

Effort Will Help Expand Outreach To Hispanic Voters

Hillary Clinton's campaign is making history today by launching a bilingual social networking page expanding on its efforts to reach Hispanic voters across the nation. The new website hosted by the online community MyGrito.com builds on the campaign's efforts to engage these important voters and find new ways to continue her conversation with Americans throughout the country.

Clinton 's bilingual social networking effort is focused on maximizing her outreach to communicate directly with supporters by providing regular campaign updates, including information about the campaign activities and photos and video from events.

"Latino voters will play a key role in this election and my campaign is committed to reaching them in innovative ways," Clinton said. "This is an exciting initiative that will help us expand our outreach efforts."

To visit Hillary Clinton's website on MyGrito.com go to:

http://www.mygrito.com/profile.php?sub_section=username&id=HillaryClinton

Relevant Facts and Figures

• 78% of Latinos who are English-dominant and 76% of bilingual Latinos use the Internet, compared with 32% of Spanish-dominant Hispanic adults.
• 76% of U.S.-born Latinos go online, compared with 43% of those born outside the U.S.
• 80% of second-generation Latinos, the sons and daughters of immigrants, and 71% of third generation Latinos go online.
• 89% of Latinos who have a college degree, 70% of Latinos who completed high school, and 31% of Latinos who did not complete high school go online

Source: Pew Hispanic Center

Fred Thompson In the Hot Seat with Cubans

During a rare "campaign" stop in South Carolina the "non-candidate" GOP Presidential candidate tried to assert his conservative credentials to southern voters. The former Tennessee Senator spoke on a variety of subjects, including taxes, iraq and made the horrible mistake of tying illegal immigration with Cuban exiles....

Here is the speech on You Tube:


Senator Hillary Clinton quickly attached Fred Thompson, stating:

"I was appalled when one of the people running for or about to run for the Republican nomination talked about Cuban refugees as potential terrorists," Clinton told Hispanic elected officials. "Apparently he doesn't have a lot of experience in Florida or anywhere else, and doesn't know a lot of Cuban-Americans."

Hillary has been the candidate, on either political side, to obtain the most Hispanic support. Clearly she capitalized on the opportunity to obtain extra brownie points in the Cuban community, where her husband is loathed because of Elian Gonzalez and the Wet Foot Dry Foot Policy.

Soon after the Clinton statement, Thompson posted on his campaign blog saying he had been referring to Cuban spies, not immigrants. "Our national security is too important an issue to let folks twist words around for a one-day headline," Thompson said in his post. "Cuban-Americans are among the staunchest opponents of illegal immigration, and especially so when it's sponsored by the Castro regime."

The gaffe by Thompson was a mistake, he must have misspoke, yet you must wonder, who if anyone, is counseling him on the diverse Hispanic community and the Cuban-American constituency.

Thompson, who has become a conservative blog regular, has a long history of being hard on Fidel Castro and supporting Cuban exiles. Earlier this year he had a virtual fight with Micheal Moore. Thompson was attacking Moore's Sicko, for its erroneous portrayal of the Cuban health care system.

Giuliani Leads Presidential Candidates in Swing States

Our friends at PolitcalWire.com posted encouraging news for Republicans, a fellow GOP is ahead of all other White House hopefuls in key swing states

According to the latest Quinnipiac Swing State Poll, former New York Mayor, Republican Republican Rudy Giuliani leads Senator Hillary Clinton (HRC) and all other Democrat candidates in some of the nations most competetive states, Florida (20% Hispanic population), Ohio (2.3% Hispanic Popultion), and Pennsylvania (4% Hispanic Popultion)

• In Florida, Giuliani leads Clinton, 49% to 41%.
• In Ohio, Giuliani leads Clinton, 46% to 41%.
• In Pennsylvania, Giuliani leads Clinton, 47% to 43%.

Key finding: Al Gore is the strongest Democrat against Republican challengers in most swing state match ups.

Florida primaries:

• Democrats: Clinton 36%, Gore 15%, Obama 13%, Edwards 11%
• Republicans: Giuliani 38%, McCain 15%, Romney 7%, Gingrich 6%, Thompson 5%

Ohio primaries:

• Democrats: Clinton 37%, Edwards 17%, Obama 14%, Gore 11%
• Republicans: Giuliani 23%, McCain 21%, Gingrich 9%, Thompson 8%, Romney 6%

Pennsylvania primaries:

• Democrats: Clinton 36%, Gore 14%, Obama 14%, Edwards 13%
• Republicans: Giuliani 29%, McCain 17%, Gingrich 10%, Thompson 6%, Romney 5%.

Campaigning in a New World

A new video is making its rounds on the internet and some political pundits are saying it may be a "watershed moment in the 21st century media and political advertising."

The anti Hillary Clinton video is a play on the classic 1984 television ad that introduced Apple computers to the world. The internet only, 74 second video is suppose to be a pitch for Democratic Illinois Sen. Barack Obama.

Yet according to the New Politics Institute, a think tank in San Francisco, they state the video is really the introduction of "a new era... a new wave of politics... because it's not about Obama... It's about the end of the brodcast era."

The article posted by the SFGate.com states:

The compelling "Hillary 1984" video recently introduced But some say the ad is just the latest attempt by outside activists to influence political campaigns -- or the newest way for campaigns to anonymously attack their opponents.

The video is a sophisticated new take on director Ridley Scott's controversial Apple ad that caused shock waves with its premiere during the 1984 Super Bowl, and shows the same blond young female athlete running with a sledgehammer toward a widescreen -- where an ominous Big Brother figure drones to a mass of zombielike followers.

But this time, the woman is wearing an iPod -- and has her candidate's slogan on her chest. And the Big Brother -- whose image she defiantly smashes with a wave of her sledgehammer -- is Clinton, the Democratic presidential front-runner.

The tagline for the attack: "On Jan. 14, the Democratic primary will begin. And you'll see why 2008 won't be like 1984."

An updated Apple symbol -- transformed into an O -- is followed by the dramatically emerging logo: BarackObama.com.”

Interestingly enough the person who posted the video on Utube is called ParkRidge47, Park Ridge is a suburb of Illinois and 47 (as in 1947) is the year that Hillary was born.

Watch it for yourself at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6h3G-lMZxjo

What will be next??