From Arianna Huffington’s Memo to Obama: Moving to the Middle is for Losers: “I can unequivocally say: the Obama campaign is making a very serious mistake. Tacking to the center is a losing strategy… Running to the middle in an attempt to attract undecided swing voters didnt work for Al Gore in 2000. It didnt [...]
From NY Times’s Democrats in Delicate Talks to Unify Party: “With the help of one of Washington’s best-connected lawyers, Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton are negotiating a thicket of complicated issues, like how to repay Mrs. Clinton’s campaign debt and her role at the Democratic convention.”
From Frank Rich’s Do Angry Clinton Women Love McCain?: “The myth of Democratic disarray is so pervasive that when ‘NBC Nightly News’ and The Wall Street Journal presented their new poll results last week, they ignored their own survey’s findings [and] dwelled darkly on Mr. Obama’s ‘problems with two key groups’: white men…and white suburban [...]
From Tom Friedman’s Obama’s Rise Has Muslim World Giving America Another Look: “It would not be an exaggeration to say that the Democrats’ nomination of Obama as their candidate for president has done more to improve America’s image abroad…than the entire Bush public diplomacy effort for seven years. Of course, Egyptians still have their grievances [...]
From Frank Rich’s One Historic Night, Two Americas: “All presidential candidates, Mr. Obama certainly included, are egomaniacs. But Washington’s faith in hierarchical status adds a thick layer of pomposity to politicians who linger there too long. Mrs. Clinton referred to herself by the first-person pronoun 64 times in her speech [last Tuesday], and Mr. McCain [...]
From the Democractic National Committee’s Press Release, Democratic Party Will No Longer Accept Washington Lobbyist Donations: “Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean and the Obama for America Campaign today announced that the DNC will no longer accept Washington lobbyist donations, making the same commitment as Barack Obama, the presumptive Democratic nominee for president.”
From Slate’s Hillary Clinton didn’t lose the race for the nomination. Barack Obama won it.: “Here’s my two cents, idiosyncratic as they may be: According to the chart, Clinton’s national poll average was basically unchanged between the beginning of October and the middle of May, starting at about 41 percent and ending at about 42 [...]
From RenaRF’s My Math Beats Up Clinton Math.: “[While Clinton's math excludes the fourteen caucus states], you can see in MY math the totals for the primary contests and then the totals for the caucus contests. So pulling it ALL together (drumroll please):
When you use Clinton’s own criteria and apply that criteria fairly, Obama clearly [...]
From a NY Times’ Op-Ed, Kennedy Talked, Khrushchev Triumphed: “Senator Obama defended his position [to negotiate with U.S. enemies] by…enlisting Kennedy’s legacy: “If George Bush and John McCain have a problem with direct diplomacy led by the president of the United States, then they can explain why they have a problem with John F. Kennedy, [...]
From Progress Illinois’s Obama Over The Top: How New Voters Could Redraw The Electoral Map: “These projections illustrate the extraordinary level of flexibility enjoyed by the Obama campaign as they head towards the general election. Rather than focusing on simply winning Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Michigan, they have a big enough war chest and a broad [...]
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