An informed Seacoast region reader followed up and took me to task about my Feb. 18 column on Gov. Bill Richardson. You can see my response below.

Your article was very good, but I have a bone to pick with Richardson.

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Here's my regular Out on a Limb column for Feb. 18 about the potential and challenges of Democratic hopeful Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico

Here’s a 2008 New Hampshire primary pop quiz question: Which Democratic presidential hopeful has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize and is leading the charge to ban cockfighting in his home state?

Answer: Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico.

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Talked to a long-time Democratic Party campaign activist who said that Hillary is returning to the state so soon because "she's having fun."

Methinks her campaign wants to ride the wave of recent favorable poll national numbers that show her leading early and big over Obama -- and that her favorable/unfavorable ratings are looking very good. It also won't hurt that she can suck some campaign oxygen away from the other hopefuls such as Richardson and Kucinich. Richardson is making his first extended visit in the state Friday and Saturday and now he has to deal with Hillary being in the same Seacoast neighborhood as him.

Due to Senate vote on Iraq, Clinton is now only scheduled for a town-hall meeting at Dover High School Saturday morning

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Hey -- This is my latest primary contribution from the Feb .11 Portsmouth Herald...had an interesting conversation with John Edwards...enjoy-PP

John Edwards wasn’t having a banner day on the presidential campaign trail when I caught up with him last week. His campaign was dealing with the faux controversy over two recently hired bloggers. And then the price of this Democrat’s multimillion-dollar North Carolina home had become a pseudo wedge issue to undermine his born-again, economic populist message.

“It’s been a long day,” said Edwards, the former one-term U.S. senator from North Carolina, from an Oklahoma City airport — after starting the day in Detroit, a stop in Kansas City, and then on to Oklahoma before heading home.
I was interested in talking to Edwards, the son of a mill worker who grew up poor, about his flirtation with political suicide — his strategy of wading into the health-care swamp, a quicksand-laden pit into which good intentions stride confidently and often sink quickly.

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I'm still getting up to blog speed but here's a recent column of mine about presidential candidate Rep. Dennis Kucinich and the Iraq War.

Continue reading "Kucinich and the Cassandra Conundrum" »

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The Primary Pundit will cover the "under the radar" moments in the lead-up to the New Hampshire Presidential Primary. The focus will be on the people -- campaign workers, voters, and undocumented aliens from space -- rather than the candidates and their positions. I'll also be keeping an eye on the national media onslaught. The Pundit encourages reader input about their own adventures on the campaign trail. Who did you see? What did you think? What's exciting? What's bunk? And did the candidate have a YouTube moment?

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