The presidential primary in West Virginia was certainly a high-profile contest, but the eyes of the political world were largely focused further south, where a special election in Mississippi was poised to tell us a whole lot about the Republicans’ congressional strategy for 2008. A few months ago, GOP congressional leaders came up with a […]
Following up on the last item, by any realistic measure, Hillary Clinton’s landslide victory in West Virginia, while impressive, has not changed any of the metrics of the Democratic race. Barack Obama currently leads in pledged delegates, superdelegates, popular votes, states won, fundraising, and poll numbers. Clinton won big in a state where she was […]
Bill Clinton, campaigning in West Virginia last week, argued that Mountain State voters could “make the earth move” and fundamentally change the nature of the Democratic presidential race if they supported his wife with 80% support and a turnout of 600,000 voters. Needless to say, yesterday’s results were impressive for the Clinton campaign, but not […]
It took about a second or two after the polls closed in West Virginia for the networks to call the state for Hillary Clinton tonight, surprising absolutely no one. Hillary Rodham Clinton coasted to a large, but largely symbolic victory in working-class West Virginia on Tuesday, handing Barack Obama one of his worst defeats of […]
Today’s edition of quick hits. * Horrific devastation in China: “The toll of the dead and missing soared as rescue workers dug through flattened schools and homes on Tuesday in a desperate attempt to find survivors of China’s worst earthquake in three decades. The official Xinhua News Agency said the death toll exceeded 12,000 in […]
John Nance Garner, a former House Speaker who became one of FDR’s vice presidents, is widely credited with having said that the VP’s office isn’t worth “a warm bucket of spit,” though reporters are rumored to have changed the spelling of the last word to make it appropriate for publication. Of course, that was nearly […]
At this point, reporters really are building up expectations for the media firestorm that John McCain will face. Eventually. During a Washington Post online discussion today, a questioner wondered why Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) is running close to Sens. Barack Obama (D-IL) and Hillary Clinton (D-NY) in polling despite “discontent” with the direction of the […]
A couple of the new national polls out today point to a lot of Dems who seem to think Hillary Clinton would be a fine running mate. The latest numbers from Gallup point to a majority of rank-and-file Dems who like the idea of an Obama/Clinton ticket. A new Gallup poll shows 55 percent of […]
John Hagee, a televangelist sought out by John McCain for political support, has repeatedly gone after the Roman Catholic Church, calling it, among other things, “the great whore” and “a false cult system.” As of today, Hagee feels bad about it. John Hagee, the controversial Evangelical pastor who endorsed John McCain, will issue a letter […]
About a month ago, Joe Lieberman explained that he’s open to delivering the keynote address at the Republican National Convention in September. “If Sen. McCain, who I support so strongly, asked me to do it, if he thinks it will help him, I will,” Lieberman told The Hill. (His remarks came just days after Lieberman […]