March 27, 2008 – 12:22 pm
In his Washington Post elections blog, Dan Balz writes:
Long before wrapping up the Republican nomination, McCain made clear that against either Clinton or Obama, he would cast the campaign as a contest between liberalism and conservatism. He has strayed from Republican orthodoxy at times in his career, and has irritated his own party repeatedly by [...]
March 12, 2008 – 12:09 pm
From Alternet’s Looming Threat for Dems: People Against the War Prefer McCain as President: “the polling numbers from late February and early March already show a less logical, more disturbing trend. A clear majority still think the war was a mistake. But when the question is which candidate will do best handling the war, McCain [...]
From Gary Hart’s Breaking the Final Rule: “By saying that only she and John McCain are qualified to lead the country, particularly in times of crisis, Hillary Clinton has…severely damaged the Democratic candidate who may well be the party’s nominee, and, perhaps most ominously, revealed the unlimited lengths to which she will go to achieve [...]
February 22, 2008 – 01:09 pm
There were a few things that interested me during last night’s debate, and if you can’t blog about what interests you, what else should you blog about?
First, there was the tone of the debate. Senators Obama and Clinton were civil to each other throughout the debate, and at times, they were downright friendly; but there [...]
February 19, 2008 – 03:21 am
From Stanley Fish’s When Identity Politics Is Rational: “We should distinguish, I think, between two forms of identity politics. The first I have…named ‘tribal’; it is the politics based on who a candidate is rather than on what he or she believes or argues for…The second form of identity politics is what I call ‘interest’ [...]
February 18, 2008 – 11:32 am
From Frank Rich’s The Grand Old White Party Confronts Obama: “[T]he so-called millennial generation (dating from 1982) is the largest in American history, boomers included, and…roughly 40 percent of it is African-American, Latino, Asian or racially mixed. One in five millennials has an immigrant parent. It’s this generation that is fueling the excitement and some [...]
February 14, 2008 – 01:15 pm
From Alternet’s Obamanomics: Barack Talks Tough on Trade: “Obama declared, ‘(When) I am president, I will not sign another trade agreement unless it has protections for our environment and protections for American workers. And I’ll pass the Patriot Employer Act that I’ve been fighting for ever since I ran for the Senate — we will [...]
February 12, 2008 – 01:12 pm
From Alternet’s My Brother the Superdelegate (and Why I Don’t Trust Him to Pick the Next President): “My brother Rahm Emanuel is a superdelegate. I love my brother, and I trust my brother. But I gave up letting my brother dictate my life since he determined whether he got the top or bottom bunk in [...]
February 11, 2008 – 12:56 pm
Paul Krugman writes in his NY Times Op-Ed, Hate Springs Eternal, “Supporters of each [Democratic] candidate should have no trouble rallying behind the other if he or she gets the nod. Why, then, is there so much venom out there? I won’t try for fake evenhandedness here: most of the venom I see is coming [...]
February 7, 2008 – 03:56 pm
From the Rutland Herald’s Quirk may put Vermonters in election spotlight: “Tiny Vermont with its late primary would usually have little say over who the Democratic presidential nominee will be. But by a weird quirk of political circumstances, three Vermonters — four if you include top Democrat Howard Dean — have an outside chance of [...]
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