TER has been an on and off concern - mostly off - during 2008.
Without doubt, this has been a momentous year all around.
The course of our country and the world has been changed by the global financial crisis, which is in fact a housing crisis. Fortunately, this country chose wisely [...]
Al-Qaeda, in the person of #2 man Ayman al-Zawahiri, has broken its silence on the United States Presidential election. In 2004, Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden made a notorious statement in advance of the voting between President George W. Bush and Massachusetts Senator John Kerry. That statement is thought to [...]
As someone who started supporting Barack Obama's Presidential candidacy in 2007, I am naturally delighted with the results in the Presidential election.
The President-Elect may end up with 365 electoral votes out of 538 - all of the states won by John Kerry four years ago, plus Iowa, New Mexico, Colorado, [...]
At 11:00 PM Eastern Time tonight, November 4, 2008, MSNBC projected that Barack Obama would win the states of California, Oregon, Washington, and Hawaii. With the 77 electoral votes from these states added to the 207 already projected to be won by Obama, [...]
At 10:00 Eastern, MSNBC called Iowa for Obama and Utah for McCain. Earlier, MSNBC called Texas for McCain. At this point, Obama has 207 electoral votes, 63 short of victory. With victories in California, Oregon, Washington, and Hawaii, Obama would have 77 additional electoral votes for a total of 284 [...]
MSNBC called Ohio for Barack Obama at 9:20 Eastern this evening. Assuming that Obama wins the remaining Kerry states plus Iowa and New Mexico, Barack Obama will have a minimum of 284 electoral votes - 14 more than needed for victory. Barack Obama will be the President-Elect of the United [...]
At 9:00, MSNBC called New York, Rhode Island, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan for Obama, and Kansas, North Dakota, and Wyoming for McCain. With Alabama and Georgia going for McCain, the Electoral College stands at 175 for Obama and 70 for McCain.
Earlier, Kay Hagan was projected the winner of the Senate [...]
MSNBC called South Carolina shortly before the hour, but with the 8:00 poll closings, Connecticut, Delaware, DC, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Hampshire, and Pennsylvania have been called for Obama, and Oklahoma and Tennessee have been called for McCain. We stand now at 103 electoral votes for Obama [...]
CNN and MSNBC have called Vermont for Obama and Kentucky for McCain. McCain leads 8 to 3 at the moment. Indiana is too close to call. MSNBC has also called Mark Warner the winner of the Senate in Virginia. No surprises so far.
[...]The Eisenthal Report is coming to you tonight from the residence of Blair and Mark Stephens, known in West Brookfield as the "hosts with the most."
Here, an election night crowd, mostly supporters of Sen. Barack Obama and other Democrats down-ticket, awaits the first results with anticipation and no little nervousness.
If [...]
Total Popular Vote: 141,000,000
Obama: 75,000,000 (largest in U.S. History)
McCain: 65,000,000 (second largest)
Obama Electoral Votes: 338*
McCain Electoral Votes: 200*
New Senators - all Democrats - Merkley (OR), Begich (AK), Udall (CO), Udall (NM), Franken (MN), Hagan (NC), Warner (VA), and Shaheen (NH).
*When the Electoral College votes next month, [...]
With two days left before Election Day, it remains clear that barring an historic upset, Barack Obama will be elected President of the United States on Tuesday.
The scale of an upset that would put John McCain in the White House is apparent by a look at the state-by-state polling numbers. [...]
This is the amount of popular votes I believe Barack Obama will receive - within 500,000 - after all votes are cast. What do you think?
[...]The fact that the 2008 Presidential election looks like no other Presidential election in United States history is almost a commonplace.
Next Tuesday, the United States is likely to elect its first African-American President - and its first Roman Catholic Vice President. If this happens, it will be based in large [...]
This morning, I saw one reason why the Presidential campaign of Republican nominee John McCain may be headed for a spectacular defeat.
I was getting on the Massachusetts Turnpike (I-90) at Exit 7 in Ludlow. For those of you not intimately familiar with Massachusetts geography, Ludlow is in western Massachusetts next [...]
The campaign of Republican Presidential nominee John McCain has seized on remarks that Joseph Biden, the Democratic Vice Presidential nominee, made last week. At a Seattle fundraiser, Biden said that "it will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama...we're going to have an international crisis to test the [...]
Electoral-vote.com observed today that Republican Presidential nominee John McCain and Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin have been traveling to states like Maine, Minnesota, and New Hampshire - states that the Republican ticket is very unlikely to win at this point -and not traveling to Nevada and North Carolina [...]
A couple of years ago, when Gerald Ford became the longest-living former President, The Eisenthal Report tried to put President Ford's longevity into perspective. TER noted that if Abraham Lincoln lived as long as Ford, he would have lived into the 20th century, and if Theodore Roosevelt had lived as long [...]
A couple of years ago, when Gerald Ford became the longest-living former President, The Eisenthal Report tried to put President Ford's longevity into perspective.
TER noted that if Abraham Lincoln lived as long as Ford, he would have lived into the 20th century, and if Theodore Roosevelt had lived as long [...]
With the Dow Jones Industrial Average having dipped below 8,000 today (a little before 2:00 PM EDT), a question occurs to me.
What if the 1929 stock market crash had happened one year earlier - in October 1928? Would we have had President Alfred Smith instead of President Herbert Hoover?
[...]Tonight's Presidential debate in Nashville, Tennessee, had great importance for both Sen. Barack Obama (endorsed by TER) and Sen. John McCain, but more was at stake for Sen. McCain, who has been falling steadily behind Sen. Obama in national and state-by-state polls over the past few weeks.
While McCain scored some [...]
In December 2007, The Eisenthal Report endorsed Barack Obama for President of the United States. TER reiterates that endorsement - emphatically.
During this campaign, Sen. Obama has continued to demonstrate those qualities of leadership, intellect, and eloquence that were so attractive in December 2007. As [...]
Tonight's Vice Presidential debate between the Republican nominee, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, and the Democratic nominee, Delaware Senator Joseph Biden, offered much spirit and drama, but did not change the dynamic of the Presidential campaign 33 days before Election Day.
Governor Palin offered spirit and spunk, if not much in the [...]
The Eisenthal Report urges a "no" vote on Question 1, which will appear on ballots statewide in Massachusetts on November 4.
Question 1 would eliminate the state income tax. The effect of this measure would be highly disruptive, at best, and conceivably catastrophic for this state. The state budget of the [...]
A few days ago, Nate Silver at FiveThirtyEight.com made a very interesting observation about how the Presidential election might unfold in a state that is sure to be carried by Republican nominee John McCain.
Nebraska is one of two states - Maine is the other - that allocate their [...]
CNN has just announced the death of Paul Newman, one of the greatest American actors of his generation. Newman, who had been reportedly fighting cancer for some time, succumbed to the disease at the age of 83.
It is sometimes difficult to see the historic passing of a generation. The passing [...]
If the first Presidential debate, held tonight at the University of Mississippi, changed the dynamic of the Presidential campaign at all, it was to stop the bleeding of the campaign of Republican nominee John McCain.
In the past two weeks, Sen. McCain has gone from strong positions in national and state-by-state [...]
Sen John S. McCain III (R - Arizona), the Republican nominee for President, announced today that he was suspending his Presidential campaign in order to "focus on the economy" and participate in the congressional debate on the financial bailout package proposed by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Fed Chairman [...]
1. This post is an experiment - my first from my mobile phone - we'll see how this works. 2. The state-by-state presidential polls have been all over the place. A week ago, Barack Obama had a lead of 57 electoral votes with 67 tossup votes. A few days ago, John [...]
It seems obvious to all observers that the U.S. Presidential election could be very close.
Current state-by-state polling numbers indicate 264 electoral votes for Sen. Barack Obama, 207 electoral votes for Sen. John McCain, and 67 electoral votes in six states considered to be "tossups" - Colorado, Florida, Montana, Nevada, [...]
When the 44th President of the United States takes office this coming January, one of his first meetings with a foreign leader is likely to be with the Prime Minister of Canada; it is possible that the Prime Minister with whom President Obama or President McCain meets will not be [...]
In looking at state-by-state polling data - the only polling data that matter in a Presidential election - I continue to confirm a belief that is weeks, if not months, old - that this is Sen. Barack Obama's election to lose.
In looking at Dave Leip's Atlas of Presidential Elections, [...]
This has been quite a week - in this country's politics and for me, personally.
Sen. Barack Obama officially became the Presidential nominee of the Democratic Party - the first African-American to win this in history. The vote making Obama the nominee - and Obama's speech accepting the nomination - occurred [...]
I have created a new prediction market on the Inkling platform.
For those of you not familiar with prediction markets, these are Internet platforms that attempt to arrive at consensus predictions of future events. They function like stock or bond markets. An "investor" can "buy" stock in a given [...]
Friends,
It is well past July 1 and I am still contemplating the future of The Eisenthal Report. I announced a hiatus in May shortly after I was elected to the West Brookfield Board of Selectmen. I thought I would be able to make a decision about the future of [...]
With my election earlier this week to the West Brookfield Board of Selectmen, I am thinking carefully about my priorities. While I do that, I have decided to put The Eisenthal Report on hiatus. I have not decided how - or in what form - The Eisenthal Report will continue. [...]
I was elected yesterday to the West Brookfield Board of Selectmen.
On a beautiful spring day, 621 of West Brookfield's 2,159 registered voters, about 28 percent of the total, went to the polls - a very impressive turnout for a local election in which there was one race to be decided. [...]
With three days to go to West Brookfield's annual town election, two area newspapers have stories on the race for Board of Selectmen - in which I am one of the contestants.
The Quaboag Current ran profiles of the candidates for the West Brookfield race, as well as races [...]
This week's edition of the Spencer New Leader, a weekly newspaper that serves the Route 9 corridor west of Worcester, has responses that my opponent and I gave to a questionnaire that addresses our qualifications and our positions on issues that affect West Brookfield. The responses are on [...]
The Quaboag Current, a weekly newspaper that covers West Brookfield and other nearby communities, ran interviews with me and my opponent in the edition that came out on Friday. These interviews, which begin near the top of the front page, were fair and well-presented. There was one minor factual [...]
Welcome to those of you who came here because of the article in the Spencer New Leader about my campaign website, David for West Brookfield.
The focus of this blog generally is the whole world of politics, public policy, and culture, but recently my focus has been mostly on [...]
Readers of TER will have noticed that I have not posted in the past week.
There have been some interesting and important events that have been worthy of comment. The Massachusetts House passing new revenue measures this week is an example. However, my focus has been mostly on my own race [...]
MassInc, the Massachusetts Institute for a New Commonwealth, is holding a high-profile panel discussion this coming Thursday on the politics of the budget difficulties facing Massachusetts.
The panelists include former Senate president Thomas Birmingham, former Senate Ways and Means chairwoman Patricia McGovern, former secretary of Administration and Finance and [...]
Today is an important anniversary for me.
Twenty-four years ago today - April 2, 1984 - I was elected to the School Committee in Sharon, Massachusetts. I had turned 22 the previous November - and so was the youngest elected official in the history of the Town of Sharon to that [...]
This week, two local newspapers included stories that mentioned local campaign-related activities.
The Spencer New Leader included an article (page 2) on the shape of the May 6th election. It confirmed that the only contest in West Brookfield will be the race for Selectman. The election for Regional School [...]
Former Sen. Mike Gravel, who has been a candidate for the Democratic Presidential nomination, announced yesterday that he is leaving the Democratic Party and joining the Libertarian Party.
Gravel, who was a Senator from Alaska from 1969 to 1981, had gotten some attention from Democratic voters, but not much support [...]
This week, my campaign for a seat on the West Brookfield Board of Selectmen launched a campaign website.
David for West Brookfield (http://www.david4westbrookfield.com) is not as fancy as the sites for some candidates for higher office, but it tries to convey some of the same kinds of information - [...]
Arthur C. Clarke, one of the great science fiction writers of all time, died this afternoon (U.S. time) at his home in Sri Lanka; he was 90.
His most famous work was the novel and film, 2001: A Space Odyssey, but he was known also as a futurist, who [...]
On Thursday afternoon, Sen. John Kerry (D - Massachusetts) held a "blog conference" with a number of Massachusetts bloggers, including Bob Neer of Blue Mass. Group, Mike Ball of Marry in Massachusetts, and this observer - Bob actually liveblogged the session.
This was the second "blog conference" held [...]
This morning, I delivered my nomination papers for Selectman in West Brookfield, Massachusetts to the Town Clerk's office.
I expect no problems gaining a place on the May 6 ballot. However, I also expect now that there will be a contest for the seat. A former member of the Quaboag Regional [...]
In the wee hours of this morning, most of the United States moved to Daylight Savings Time (DST).
For a number of years, DST began the first Sunday in April. This year, Congress approved an earlier start date for DST - the second Sunday in March. The rationale for this was [...]
At this point, around 2,500 pledged delegates to the Democratic National Convention - a little over three-quarters of the total - have been chosen.
Only 138 pledged votes separate Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. Hillary Clinton. According to CNN, Sen. Obama has 1,328 pledged delegates to Sen. Clinton's 1,190. If [...]
TER now takes its monthly look at virtual markets. These are markets found on the Internet in which participants invest virtual money - no real cash - to make predictions or to assign value. These markets function like real stock and bond markets. If participants invest more in a given [...]
Results from today's balloting in Rhode Island, Vermont, Ohio, and Texas have gone as earlier expected as of this writing.
As of 10:30 PM, Eastern Standard Tine, CNN has projected that Sen. Barack Obama has won in Vermont and that Sen. Hillary Clinton has won in Rhode Island. [...]
The Concord Coalition has released an issue brief analyzing President Bush's budget for the fiscal year that will end on September 30, 2009 - the last budget that President Bush will submit.
According to the Coalition, the Bush budget
remains faithful to the themes advocated by the administration throughout [...]
The momentum toward Sen. Barack Obama seems to have slowed or reversed with the approach of tomorrow's "Junior Super Tuesday" Presidential primaries in Texas, Ohio, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
Sen. Obama clearly leads only in Vermont. Texas is considered a "toss-up" state - as it has been now for a [...]
Tomorrow will be the 75th anniversary of the inauguration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt as the 32nd President of the United States.
Roosevelt had been elected the previous November in a landslide over the incumbent President, Herbert Hoover, winning 42 of the 48 states. The nation was facing [...]
The March/April edition of Foreign Affairs has a number of noteworthy pieces.
Larry Diamond, a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, has written on Democratic Rollback. Diamond argues that the trend toward democratization among the countries of the world, which was strong from the 1970s to the 1990s, has [...]
As has been widely reported in the media, the Massachusetts House of Representatives has approved legislation that would exempt property taxpayers who are 65 and older from paying increases in property taxes that are attributable to operating overrides or debt/capital exclusions of levy limits under the Massachusetts [...]
With less than two weeks remaining until the Presidential primaries in Texas, Ohio, Vermont, and Rhode Island, signs are clear that momentum is continuing toward Illinois Senator Barack Obama - and away from New York Senator Hillary Clinton.
As shown in Dave Leip's Atlas, Texas, Ohio, and Vermont are now [...]
The contest between Sen. Hillary Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama for the Democratic Presidential nomination illustrates for this observer what distinguishes the American Presidency from other high leadership positions around the world.
Sen. Clinton certainly has a formidable grasp of the wide range of national policy issues - very possibly more [...]
CNN has projected that Illinois Senator Barack Obama will win the Democratic Presidential Primary in Wisconsin and Arizona Senator John McCain will win the Republican Primary.
The Republican result is not unexpected. The Democratic result was less of a foregone conclusion. Recent polls showed the state was trending toward [...]
Kathleen Conley Norbut, a member of the Monson Board of Selectmen (and fellow blogger), is considering a run for the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
Norbut, a Democrat, is exploring a run in the Second Hampden District, which has been represented for the past 17 years by Republican Mary [...]
Sometimes, in the real world of commerce, markets become "out of whack" with each other; we see this in markets for all kinds of commodities, including bonds, precious metals, and foodstuffs.
We are seeing a major inconsistency among prediction markets on the Inkling platform. The inconsistency is in markets predicting [...]
As of this writing, it looks increasingly likely that the November election campaign for President of the United States will be waged between Republican Senator John McCain of Arizona and Democratic Senator Barack Obama of Illinois.
I'm wondering if anyone, particularly fans of the late great NBC series "The West [...]
CNN projects that Sen. Barack Obama will win the Democratic Presidential Primary in Virginia, one of the "Potomac Primary" states that voted today. Polls in Maryland and Washington, D.C. close at 8PM Eastern Time.
On the Republican side, Virginia is competitive at this point between Sen. John McCain and former Governor [...]
Official observance of Abraham Lincoln's bicentennial year begins today with events in Kentucky, where America's 16th President was born. The Lincoln Bicentennial Commission has planned many events over the next year, leading up to the 200th anniversary of Lincoln's birth on February 12, 2009.
As [...]
Primaries and caucuses over the next four days could confirm a national trend toward Sen. Barack Obama in the contest for the Democratic Presidential nomination.
Over this weekend, the States of Washington and Maine hold caucuses. Then, on Tuesday, the states of Maryland and Virginia and the District of Columbia hold [...]
While former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney formally ended his presidential candidacy this week, that candidacy had not been viable for some time; indeed, it could be argued that Mitt Romney's candidacy never gained viability.
Almost three years ago, The Eisenthal Report included a piece called Romney's Path; it laid [...]
In the run-up to today's voting, Idaho had been considered a "toss-up" and Colorado had been polling for Sen. Hillary Clinton.
[...]If CNN's projections are correct, Sen. Barack Obama will win two states that had been considered "toss-ups" in recent polling - Connecticut and Kansas - and one state that had been showing poll leads for Sen. Clinton - Minnesota.
[...]CNN has projected that Sen. Hillary Clinton will win the Massachusetts and New Jersey Democratic Presidential Primaries. While there had been some movement toward Obama in both states in recent days, Clinton had long been strong - and remained so at the end. Town by town results in Massachusetts are [...]
CNN projects that Sen. Barack Obama will win the Alabama Democratic Presidential Primary. Until quite recently, this was considered a "toss-up" state.
[...]CNN projects John McCain as the winner of the New York Republican Presidential Primary.
[...]...can be found for the Democrats and the Republicans.
Among the communities going for Obama - Amherst, Andover, Belmont, Boston, Brookline, Cambridge, Cohasset, Concord, Deerfield, Duxbury, Greenfield, Hadley, Lenox, Lexington, Newton, Northampton, Somerville, Sudbury, Sunderland, Wayland, and Wellesley.
Among the communities going for Clinton - Adams, Attleboro, Auburn, Brockton, [...]
At 8:00 PM EST, CNN has projected that Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain will win their parties' Presidential primary in Illinois.
Obama had been expected to carry his home state - he had been leading consistently in the polls. For McCain, this is a key victory. Until recently, Illinois [...]
Moments after the polls closed at 7:00 PM EST, CNN has projected that Sen. Barack Obama will win the Georgia Presidential Primary.
Georgia is one of two states in which Sen. Obama has been consistently leading in recent days - the other is Illinois. Polls in nine states, including [...]
"Super Tuesday" Presidential primary voting starts in 24 states in just a few hours.
On the Republican side, the momentum toward Arizona Senator John McCain has become more evident in the past few days. States that had been considered "toss-ups," like Illinois, Missouri, and Tennessee are now polling more or [...]
Today is the third anniversary of The Eisenthal Report.
Over the past three years, TER has had 926 posts and almost 55,000 visits. This means that I've averaged about six posts - and more than 500 visits - per week - not bad for a blog that is, as a [...]
At the end of the week, two local media outlets here in the Quaboag Hills carried the announcement of my candidacy for a seat on the West Brookfield Board of Selectmen - the Spencer New Leader and the Quaboag Current.
In the run-up to "Super Tuesday" - now only two days away - polls are showing some movement from Sen. Hillary Clinton to Sen. Barack Obama; the question is whether this momentum will be enough for Sen. Obama even to remain competitive after Tuesday,
TER now takes its monthly look at virtual markets. These are markets found on the Internet in which participants invest virtual money - no real cash - to make predictions or to assign value. These markets function like real stock and bond markets. If participants invest more in a given [...]
The withdrawals of former Senator John Edwards and former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani from the Presidential race have changed the dynamics of the races for the Democratic and Republican nominations for President.
Clearly, the Democratic race has become essentially a two person race between Sen. Hillary Clinton and Sen. [...]
This morning's Worcester Telegram and Gazette includes an item about my candidacy for Selectman in West Brookfield.
Like many newspapers, the T&G includes in its online edition a space for comments. I have already used this feature to clarify some of the points made in the article. My comment was [...]
I released the following statement today to local media outlets around West Brookfield.
David M. Eisenthal announces his candidacy for a seat on the West Brookfield Board of Selectmen.
Eisenthal, 46, is seeking the seat to be vacated by outgoing Selectman John Tivnan at the May 6, 2008 town election. “John Tivnan [...]
Sen. Barack Obama's substantial win in Saturday's South Carolina primary was absolutely essential to his remaining a viable candidate for the Democratic Presidential nomination.
Beyond this, it is difficult to tell yet whether this win - along with some key endorsements from Caroline Kennedy and Sen. Ted Kennedy - will [...]
A few hours ago, something happened in Barrow, Alaska for the first time in several weeks - the Sun rose.
At 1:12 PM Alaska Standard Time (some four and a half hours ago at this writing), the Sun rose on Barrow, which is the northernmost settlement on the North American [...]
The Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center (MBPC) yesterday released an initial assessment of the fiscal conditions facing the Massachusetts state government for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2008.
According to MBPC, the Commonwealth faces a structural budget deficit in excess of $1.1 billion. About $760 million of this [...]
21 years ago today, one of the most bizarre events in recent American history unfolded in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania - the televised suicide of Pennsylvania state Treasurer R. Budd Dwyer.
Last year, TER offered an extended commentary in advance of the 20th anniversary of this horrific event. As it happens, [...]
Former Tennessee Senator - and Law & Order star - Fred Thompson has dropped his bid for the Republican Presidential nomination.
Thompson came in third in the Iowa Caucuses and the South Carolina Primary - and got only one percent of the vote in the New Hampshire Primary. He [...]
Results in today's Nevada caucuses and South Carolina primary may have brought one party's nomination contest closer to resolution, but left the other party's contest no closer.
New York Senator Hillary Clinton has won today's Nevada Democratic caucuses. Following her victory in the New Hampshire primary ten days ago, Sen. [...]
Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick announced yesterday that he will file legislation to change the state's tax code as it applies to businesses.
This legislation would close so-called corporate tax loopholes, but also implement a phased reduction in corporate tax rates.
Governor Patrick proposed closing tax loopholes last year as a way [...]
The race for the Republican Presidential nomination stands at a crucial moment.
Each of the three major state contests so far has been won by a different candidate - former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee won the Iowa caucuses, Arizona Senator John McCain won the New Hampshire Primary, and former Massachusetts Governor [...]
Early this month, TER discussed the importance of organ donation - something that had great personal importance for this observer; my wife was about to receive a new kidney in a transplant from a live donor - her first cousin.
She has now had her transplant - late last [...]
Massachusetts Senator John Kerry, the 2004 Democratic nominee for President of the United States, has announced his endorsement of his Senatorial colleague from Illinois, Barack Obama, for the 2008 Democratic nomination for President.
In an address delivered in Charleston, South Carolina. Sen. Kerry said that
I believe that more than anyone else, [...]
CNN reports this evening that New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson will drop out of the contest for the Democratic Presidential nomination.
Richardson, who served as United Nations Ambassador and Secretary of Energy under President Bill Clinton, finished fourth in both the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary.
Richardson's withdrawal would [...]
The Republican (Springfield) reports this morning that plans to reopen a Franklin Delano Roosevelt museum in Chicopee, Massachusetts have apparently fallen through.
Joseph Plaud, the founder and director of the Franklin D. Roosevelt American Heritage Museum, had announced in May 2007 his plans to reopen the museum [...]
As of this morning, one measure of the conventional wisdom about the New Hampshire Democratic Presidential Primary, Blue Hampshire's Prediction Market at Inkling, was very bullish about the chances of Sen. Barack Obama to win the primary.
Sen. Obama was trading at above $95 per share - implying a [...]
