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• Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Moe: Super Tuesday Super Quiz

  So who's it going to be? You have just about 24 hours, you citizens of Super Tuesday states. Haven't you made up your mind?  Read More... Posted Feb 04 2008, 04:34 PM by Madeline Holler with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: candidates, Iowa, Democrats, Huckabee, republicans, undecided voters, eeny meeny miny moe, quiz, iowa caucus, obama

• SPF 50 for Campaign Trail Burns

  Political Nanny strongly suspects one of her GOP darlings is going to get severely burned in Florida on Tuesday. Which is why she is insisting ...   Read More... Posted Jan 28 2008, 02:50 PM by Madeline Holler with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: GOP, Rudy Giuliani, Hillary Clinton, Iowa, Democrats, Barack Obama, South Carolina, polls, florida

• Now Casting 'Election 2008: The Movie'

  Eventually, the 2008 Election is going to make a great epic movie. Sure, we don't yet know the ending. And yeah, so far the story centers mostly on the campaign and surprise Iowa win for a bi-racial Senator, and a pretty decent tearful plot-twist, courtesy of the ambitious, conniving, first woman to do anything important in this country ... ever! There's also the tension building over a New Hampshire comeback for the aging Republican stalwart. Comic relief/hints of horror from the fundamentalist Christian with populist appeal threatening the hopes and dreams of a Morman businessman with daddy issues. There's the 9-11 Mayor, the stinking rich son of a South Carolina mill worker and a second-rate actor on a ubiquitous television franchise to squeeze in there too.      Read More... Posted Jan 22 2008, 07:36 PM by Madeline Holler with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Kucinich, GOP, Rudy Giuliani, conservative, women in politics, candidates, Bill Clinton, election, Giuliani, Clinton, South, New Hampshire, Edwards, Iowa, Mormonism, Mitt Romney, campaign trail, Bill Richardson, Democrats, John McCain, Fred Thompson, Barack Obama, Political Nanny, campaign, Huckabee, Mike Gravel, first-spouse, Richardson, Hunter, Dodd, Law and Order, caucus, South Carolina, Joe Biden, wga strike, obama, Slate, Nevada caucuses, Nevada, mike huckabee, celebrities, Election 2008: the movie, movies

• Ultrasound Canceled! It's Still the First Trimester

  If only we could hold a sonogram wand against the belly of this election beast, the sex of the next president, and the size of his/her win, could be accurately predicted.   Read More... Posted Jan 10 2008, 05:20 PM by Madeline Holler with | with no comments Filed under: Republican, endorsement, women in politics, Hillary Clinton, ballot, candidates, vote, labels, media, election, Clinton, Independent, South, primaries, New Hampshire, Edwards, Iowa, campaign trail, Bill Richardson, Democrats, John McCain, Barack Obama, campaign issues, voters, Political Nanny, campaign, Richardson, poll, caucus, website, healthcare, John Edwards, South Carolina, polls, policy, CNN, CBS news, ABC, women candidates, undecided voters, iowa caucus, politico, obama, pundits, NYTimes, Slate, campaign trail of tears, surging, Nevada caucuses, Nevada, Chris Matthews, Maureen Dowd

• Candidates Play Musical Chairs

  When election officials pressed pause and the candidates scrambled to their seats last night, the line-up in that round of musical chairs reshuffled.   Read More... Posted Jan 09 2008, 08:22 AM by Madeline Holler with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Hillary Clinton, Clinton, primaries, New Hampshire, Edwards, Iowa, Barack Obama, Huckabee, McCain, John Edwards, South Carolina, florida, iowa caucus, ballots, campaign trail of tears, surging, musical chairs, Nevada caucuses, Michigan, Nevada

• Sensory Overload During N.H. Primary

  Seriously, Political Nanny is just waiting for a nationwide media meltdown. Reporters laying face down on the ground. Photographers throwing their equipment across the room. Candidates pounding their fists and bawling like babies. (That may have begun to happen already.) There's just so much going on, so much to say, so many ways to look at today's primaries in New Hampshire.   Read More... Posted Jan 08 2008, 04:07 PM by Madeline Holler with | with no comments Filed under: Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, Clinton, primaries, New Hampshire, Edwards, Iowa, Barack Obama, Huckabee, McCain, John Edwards, polls, iowa caucus, running low on ballots, ballots, campaign trail of tears, surging

• Break Out the Diapers: Candidates Demand a Change!

  Candidates from both parties are beginning to sound like a room full of neglected toddlers wearing sagging, saturated diapers.     Read More... Posted Jan 06 2008, 11:35 PM by Madeline Holler with | with no comments Filed under: conservative, women in politics, Hillary Clinton, candidates, vote, election, Giuliani, Clinton, Independent, New Hampshire, Edwards, Iowa, campaign ads, Mitt Romney, campaign trail, Bill Richardson, Democrats, John McCain, Fred Thompson, Barack Obama, campaign issues, Political Nanny, campaign, 2008 election, Huckabee, McCain, Richardson, Thompson, John Edwards, debates, illegal immigrants, ABC, fundraising, undecided voters, change, obama

• Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Moe: Iowans Couldn't Decide for Dems Either

  Well, Republicans, you have a clear winner in Iowa. Democrats? Um, not so much.  Read More... Posted Jan 04 2008, 02:18 PM by Madeline Holler with | with no comments Filed under: candidates, Iowa, Democrats, Huckabee, republicans, undecided voters, eeny meeny miny moe, quiz, iowa caucus, obama

• Iowans Play Favorites. Political Nanny Still Doesn't

  Well, that was that. The candidates stepped out and tested the cold, cold waters of voter approval last night in Iowa.  Political Nanny stood at the side, waiting with towels and hot drinks and, for some, a soft hankie to cry in.    Read More... Posted Jan 04 2008, 12:34 AM by Madeline Holler with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Kucinich, GOP, Republican, gender card, Hillary Clinton, candidates, vote, election, Giuliani, Edwards, Iowa, Mitt Romney, campaign trail, Ron Paul, Bill Richardson, Democrats, John McCain, Barack Obama, voters, campaign, 2008 election, Huckabee, McCain, Mike Gravel, Hunter, Dodd, caucus, John Edwards, CNN, Americans, Oprah, republicans, undecided voters, iowa caucus, obama

• Election Milestone: Candidates Take First Steps In Iowa (Quick, Get the Camera!)

  Political Nanny is sitting on pins and needles, at once excited, deliriously proud of and terrified for her candidates. Today, the 15 reach such an important milestone: the Iowa caucuses. They look so grown up! It seems like just yesterday ...! It's all happening so fast (well, not really.)   Read More... Posted Jan 03 2008, 10:38 AM by Madeline Holler with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Kucinich, GOP, Rudy Giuliani, Christian conservatives, conservative, Hillary Clinton, candidates, vote, election, Giuliani, Clinton, primaries, New Hampshire, Edwards, Iowa, Mitt Romney, campaign trail, Ron Paul, Bill Richardson, Democrats, John McCain, Fred Thompson, Barack Obama, voters, Political Nanny, campaign, 2008 election, Huckabee, McCain, Hunter, immigration, caucus, healthcare, John Edwards, Americans, war, illegal immigrants, Joe Biden, fundraising, Ron Paul supporters, undecided voters, iowa caucus

• Naughty Chair: Mike The Scab on Leno

  Political Nanny does not approve of Mike Huckabee's decision to appear on Jay Leno last night. He essentially crossed a picket line to sit and chat with the NBC host. That said ...     Read More... Posted Jan 03 2008, 08:17 AM by Madeline Holler with | with no comments Filed under: Iowa, Naughty Chair, voters, Huckabee, iowa caucus, talk show, Jay Leno, late night, wga strike

• Nanny Cam: Hillary Kicks Off Letterman's Return

  Did you miss David Letterman last night? Yeah, Robin Williams doesn't do it for Political Nanny either. But Political Nanny did set the Nanny Cam up to follow her girl Hillary who made a last-minute appearance on the show. (Political Nanny will comb the Internet to find a better clip ... bear with her.)     Read More... Posted Jan 03 2008, 06:30 AM by Madeline Holler with | with no comments Filed under: Hillary Clinton, Iowa, YouTube, iowa caucus, david letterman

• Group Hug! Candidates Endorsing Candidates

  Political Nanny's pet presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich made a surprising demi-endorsement just a day and a half before Iowans kick off the voters' portion of the 2008 election program. Read More... Posted Jan 02 2008, 02:30 PM by Madeline Holler with | with no comments Filed under: Kucinich, endorsement, Hillary Clinton, vote, election, primaries, New Hampshire, Edwards, Iowa, campaign trail, Barack Obama, campaign issues, voters, campaign, 2008 election, caucus, healthcare, John Edwards, policy, War in Iraq, undecided voters, iowa caucus, politico, change

• Guess Who Ralph Nader Just Endorsed!

  Who cares what the governor of New Hampshire thinks, right? Or the editor of Iowa's largest daily. Or, sorry to say, Sean Penn. Political Nanny listens to Political Nanny when it comes to who she'll vote for in the primaries.    Endorsements, with a couple of exceptions, just haven't been that interesting. Until now ... Read More... Posted Jan 01 2008, 12:33 PM by Madeline Holler with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: GOP, Republican, endorsement, conservative, women in politics, Hillary Clinton, ballot, candidates, vote, election, Nader, primaries, Edwards, Iowa, campaign trail, Democrats, Universal Pre-K, campaign issues, voters, Political Nanny, campaign, 2008 election, working women, problems facing families, immigration, poll, caucus, Chuck Norris, healthcare, John Edwards, South Carolina, polls, gas prices, heating oil, pandering, debates, Americans, war, women candidates, Oprah, Maya Angelou, War in Iraq, republicans, undecided voters, iowa caucus, politico

• Candidates, Political Nanny Loves You. Now Change!

  Over the past three months, Political Nanny has grown to love her lot of disagreeable, argumentative, name-calling, cackling, power-praying little presidential candidates. They're approaching the first of many back-to-back primary election milestones -- only three days until Iowa! -- but have already blossomed into tough and sturdy and, how shall we put this, flexible campaigners.   But could they be better? Oh, couldn't we all. In the spirit of starting anew, Political Nanny has made some resolutions for the campaigning men and woman of 2008.    Read More... Posted Dec 31 2007, 07:00 PM by Madeline Holler with | with no comments Filed under: Kucinich, GOP, Rudy Giuliani, Republican, Pat Robertson, gay rights, pro-choice, women in politics, feminism, Hillary Clinton, ballot, candidates, Bill Clinton, election, Giuliani, Clinton, primaries, New Hampshire, Edwards, Iowa, campaign ads, Mitt Romney, Bush, campaign trail, Paul's supporters, Ron Paul, Bill Richardson, Democrats, John McCain, focus groups, Fred Thompson, Barack Obama, campaign issues, voters, Political Nanny, campaign, 2008 election, Huckabee, Tancredo, Mike Gravel, first-spouse, Hunter, Dodd, Muriel Gallo-Chasanoff, government, parents, immigration, caucus, healthcare, John Edwards, South Carolina, mortgage crisis, heating oil, hunger in America, pandering, debates, YouTube, Americans, campaign offices, Joe Biden, women candidates, Oprah, proxy, religion and politics, Alan Keyes, fundraising, Ron Paul supporters, audience plants, republicans, iowa caucus

• Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Moe: Undecided Iowans, You're Welcome (Now Vote!)

  Incredibly (or maybe not), Iowa voters from both parties are still mostly undecided. (So is Political Nanny, but she's not voting NEXT WEEK!)   So for her Iowa readers, and those in ...   Read More... Posted Dec 28 2007, 06:49 AM by Madeline Holler with | with no comments Filed under: Republican, candidates, vote, election, Iowa, Democrats, voters, 2008 election, republicans, undecided voters, eeny meeny miny moe, quiz, iowa caucus

• Naughty Chair: Sunday School Teachers Should Never, Ever Be Audience Plants. Ever.

  Hillary, Hillary, Hillary. Trust yourself, honey. You’re not shrill, your not too hard, your fine. Your smart, your nice, your serious, you can laugh (and every woman out there knows it's not a cackle, it's a laugh). Political Nanny is proud of you for who you are, you don't have to change, you don’t have to go on a nice tour to show people you care. However, she understands why you might. Political Nanny loves that you work so hard.   But Political Nanny does not condone this habit ...   Read More... Posted Dec 20 2007, 06:23 AM by Madeline Holler with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Hillary Clinton, Iowa, campaign trail, Naughty Chair, Muriel Gallo-Chasanoff, audience plants

• Rudolph, With Your Campaign (Not So) Bright

  Political Nanny loves all her charges unequally, she really does. But it’s not what you think. She doesn’t love her boys and girl based on family background or affluence or which color figure they choose for Candyland or which side of the gameboard they like to sit on, right or left. She loves them for who they are. Which is why she’s in a bit of a panic for one of her secret favorites:   Read More... Posted Dec 19 2007, 06:36 AM by Madeline Holler with | with no comments Filed under: Rudy Giuliani, New Hampshire, Iowa, Mitt Romney, polls, fundraising, florida

• Nanny Cam: Squeezing in Some Quality Time with Joe

  Keeping track of 16 candidates isn’t easy and giving each of them the same amount of alone time with Political Nanny is pretty impossible. One of those frequently neglected is Joe Biden (though Mike Gravel is certainly overlooked the most). Biden is never the first to come to mind when thinking of the Democratic contenders. But that doesn’t mean he isn’t worth listening to. Read More... Posted Dec 11 2007, 09:34 PM by Madeline Holler with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Iowa, campaign ads, 2008 election, debates, Joe Biden

• Hillary and Barack: My Campaign Proxy Can Beat Up Yours!

  Actually, this weekend's playground scuffle wasn’t even close. Barack Obama turned loose his sandbox bully and crushed the other Democratic campaigns this weekend by turning all eyes toward him.   Read More... Posted Dec 10 2007, 05:57 AM by Madeline Holler with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Hillary Clinton, Iowa, Barack Obama, South Carolina, Oprah, proxy

• Mommmm, Can We Watch Oprah and That Oba ... Oba ... Oprah Guy?

  No one knows the influence of TV characters like a person in charge of young children. Read More... Posted Dec 07 2007, 07:02 AM by Madeline Holler with | with no comments Filed under: primaries, Iowa, Barack Obama, caucus, South Carolina, Oprah

• Second-Best Democrat Could Win Iowa

  Like the runner-up in the 1984 Miss America pageant, the second-choice Democratic candidate in Iowa might end up winning the contest -- in this case, the state party's presidential nomination.   How? Secret nude photos of a top candidate?   Read More... Posted Nov 24 2007, 01:16 PM by Madeline Holler with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Hillary Clinton, Edwards, Iowa, Mitt Romney, Democrats, Barack Obama, Huckabee, Dodd, poll, caucus

• Nanny Cam: Caucusing is Easy. Watching a Self-Mocking Bill Clinton is Too.

  Political Nanny is embarrassed to admit that she has never really understood caucusing. Even those many years ago, when she nearly became a delegate in her home state’s very last presidential caucus ever (it later switched to primaries), she didn’t have a clue and was simply interested in following around this hot-headed, tight-panted young Democrat. But things didn't work out as planned, and, consequently, "attend caucus" will never be checked off her list. However, thanks to a self-depricating Bill Clinton and a pack of sweet & twangy, corn-fed Iowans, Political Nanny finally understands the caucus! Turns out ...   VIDEO AFTER JUMP    Read More... Posted Nov 16 2007, 10:33 AM by Madeline Holler with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, Political Nanny Cam, Iowa, Democrats, caucus

• Nanny Cam: Take That, Healthcare Hoarders

  Today, John Edwards will start airing an ad in Iowa where he threatens to take away healthcare benefits from ... VIDEO AFTER THE JUMP  Read More... Posted Nov 13 2007, 06:12 PM by Madeline Holler with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: primaries, Political Nanny Cam, Edwards, Iowa, campaign ads

• Two Minutes in the Naughty Chair: Clinton’s Planted Question-Asker

  Political Nanny has already put Hillary Clinton and her campaign aides in the Naughty Chair for planting questions (and answering them) at a recent campaign stop in Iowa. Now it’s time for the college student who agreed to be the plant to do some quiet, self-reflection in our designated seat. Muriel Gallo-Chasanoff, Grinnell College sophomore, went to CNN with her story, saying …   Read More... Posted Nov 13 2007, 02:19 PM by Madeline Holler with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Hillary Clinton, Iowa, campaign trail, Naughty Chair, Muriel Gallo-Chasanoff