California Progress Report (Free subscription) | 07/13/2008
By Frank D. Russo California Secretary of State Debra Bowen has certified the June, 2008 Primary Election Returns and...
BTC News (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008
I voted for Barack Obama in the California primary because I thought that he represented the best chance, albeit a slim one, of electing from the two remaining candidates a president who might experience a Saul-and-donkey moment from which he would wake with a powerful social conscience. Instead, he appears set to preside over the [...]
Queerty (Free subscription) | 06/18/2008
Hoping to profit on the California’s gay marriage madness, San Diego-based Wellsford Realty offers newly weds this tantalizing offer: Whether choosing to make California their primary or secondary residence by buying a home in San Diego, domestic partners seeking to take advantage of the new Same Sex Marriage Law in California can now get their wedding [...]
The New Yorker - Arts and Culture (Free subscription) | 06/16/2008
On March 16, 1968, Robert F. Kennedy announced his candidacy for President. Eighty-two days later, on the night he won the California primary, he was shot dead. Clarke’s book is a ride inside the spinning bubble of that frenzied, idealistic, doomed campaign. His discussion of the politics of class . . .
Massachusetts Liberal (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008
Ask anyone who was around in 1968 what it was like and the answer will likely be "horrible." Martin Luther King Jr. shot and killed in Memphis in April. Robert F. Kennedy gunned down in Los Angeles after winning the California primary in June. Riots in urban neighborhoods and at the August Democratic convention in Chicago (the latter being a police riot ). Ask a political junkie when liberal started...
Fresh Bilge (Free subscription) | 06/08/2008
Is America going socialist? Or has Republican support collapsed because the party’s big spenders offer no clear alternative to socialism? A California primary suggests the latter is a more accurate assessment. I only regret that Tom McClintock missed his chance to become governor, when the ridiculous Arnold Schwarzenegger stood for the office. Republicans would be [...]
Hardblogger (Free subscription) | 06/06/2008
by Chris Matthews I was in Montreal forty years ago tonight. I turned on the radio in the middle of the night to find out who won the California primary.For several minutes I thought I was listening to a re-run of a broadcast five years before, about an assassination, about a Kennedy being shot. And then I realized I was listening to real life in real time. Incredibly, Robert Kennedy had been shot...
California Progress Report (Free subscription) | 06/06/2008
By Art Torres Chair California Democratic Party Forty years ago this week, Senator Bobby Kennedy won the California primary....
RealClearPolitics (Free subscription) | 06/06/2008
Politics is history in the present tense. And perhaps never more than at this moment. Barack Obama captured the Democratic nomination almost 40 years to the day after Robert F. Kennedy's assassination the night he won the California primary. RFK died on June 6th, 1968. And he will accept his party's nomination on another fateful day - the 45th anniversary of Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech...
Eye On The World (Free subscription) | 06/06/2008
On June 4, 1968, Kennedy scored a major victory when he won the California primary. He addressed his supporters in the early morning hours of June 5, 1968 in a ballroom at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. He left the ballroom through a service area to greet supporters working in the hotel's kitchen. In a crowded kitchen passageway, Sirhan Sirhan , a 24-year-old Palestinian, opened fire with a .22...
Random Rodricks (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
It happened 40 years ago today -- we woke up on the East Coast to the news that Robert F. Kennedy had been shot in Los Angeles after winning the California primary. He clung to life for a day, and died at 1:44 am on June 6. I was in eighth grade. It was the day of my eighth grade class trip -- to Freedom Trail in Boston. I spent the day among weeping teachers and tourists, people visiting historic...
LA Times (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
Hardly anyone voted in California's primary election Tuesday, but those who did seemed to be pretty grumpy. Voters are increasingly unhappy with the direction the state is taking, and the results brought some early signs that 2008 is shaping up to be a bad year for the political status quo.
Greg Laden's Blog (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
I remember being shaken awake by my father. He did not want me to miss an historic event. During the election campaigns, the television is always on in my house, this has been true since I was a kid and we first got a TV. So the TV was on and he knew Robert Kennedy had been shot, and he woke me up to make sure I knew what was going on. The next day, the same thing happened, this time with the news...
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog (Free subscription) | 06/04/2008
California State Senator Tom McClintock, R-Thousand Oaks last night during election night victory Photo courtesy of the Sacramento Bee Congratulations to Flap’s California State Senator Tom McClintock in his election victory last night in the California Primary Election. Tom who was raised in Thousand Oaks and served many years as its representiative in the California Assembly and [...]
