Yesterday’s mini-Super Tuesday is over, but the next two weeks will have plenty of excitement. The Final Four may be down to three by the time these contests are over. Saturday, February 7 Michigan (128 delegates) will host its primary. Dean effectively ignored the seven Feb. 3 states so he could concentrate, in part, on […]
The Carpetbagger Report isn’t a shill for anyone, but I can’t help but wonder why Wesley Clark keeps getting the short end of the media stick. Salon, for example, ran a major feature this morning, taking a look at the race for the nomination. The headline: “And then there were two.” A big picture accompanied […]
I enjoyed the excitement of yesterday’s seven primaries, but ultimately, everything went pretty much according to plan. Clark won Oklahoma, Edwards won South Carolina, Kerry won everything else, and Dean lost everywhere. That was what the polls said was going to happen and, in this case, the polls were right. Kerry looks increasingly inevitable with […]
The one thing that frustrated me most about the media’s coverage of the 2000 election was the absolute disinterest about Bush’s record of military service, or in this case, lack thereof. Paul Begala once said he did a search comparing how many stories focused on Bill Clinton’s Vietnam draft record vs. Bush’s. I can’t personally […]
The Post’s Richard Leiby caught a fun Bushism from yesterday’s cabinet meeting at the White House. Terry Moran asked Bush, “Do you think that the country is owed an explanation about the Iraq intelligence failures before the election, so that voters have this information when they elect a new President?” Bush began by explaining how […]
The New York Times noted today that the Bush administration’s $2 trillion budget leaves out two extremely costly expenditures — the cost of military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Why does this sound familiar? Because they pulled the same exact stunt last year. In the 2004 budget, the White House left out money for Iraq […]
The good news about the most recent Newsweek poll was Bush’s approval rating dropping below 50%. The bad news was data showing continued wide-spread ignorance about Iraq, Saddam Hussein, and the war. When poll respondents were asked if Iraq had chemical or biological weapons before the March invasion, 55% said yes, only 32% said no. […]
While the primary process has put the divisions within the Democratic Party on display, there’s a little secret that often goes unnoticed — the fissures within the GOP are just as serious. And the far-right elements of the party aren’t just frustrated with Bush; they’re beginning to actively dislike him. There were several recent reports, […]
Three respected national polls — count ’em, three — show Bush’s approval rating dropping below 50% for the first time in his presidency. With that in mind, I hope we can finally put to rest this notion that Bush is a “popular” president whose second term is taken as fact. The latest Gallup poll pegged […]
The House Dems haven’t given up quite yet on the Nick Smith bribery scandal. Just when it looks nothing else is going to happen, the story gets revived! Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), the second highest-ranking Dem leader in the House, wrote to Dennis Hastert recently, warning, as the New York Times put it, that “Democrats […]