John McCain, for all of his flaws and troubles, has assembled a professional team of advisors and consultants. Most of them are high-priced lobbyists, which, while raising ethical questions, reminds us that this is a crew that knows how to play to win. And I can probably imagine their thinking going into last night. Barack […]
I was talking to some friends early last night, and they asked what I expected Hillary Clinton to do and say when she took the stage in NYC. At that point, it was already clear that Barack Obama had clinched the Democratic nomination, so it was really a matter of how Clinton would handle the […]
It’s hard to overstate how exceedingly unlikely this was. When Barack Obama launched his presidential campaign in February 2007 — it seems like years ago — he was a candidate to be taken seriously, but hardly the likely nominee. Obama not only faced a popular former senator who was the VP candidate one cycle earlier, […]
It was hard to predict this outcome 16 months ago, and yet, here we are. Sen. Barack Obama has clinched the Democratic nomination for president, according to CNN estimates, making him the first African-American in U.S. history to lead a major-party ticket. Obama picked up a slew of superdelegate endorsements on Tuesday. Those endorsements, combined […]
Today’s edition of quick hits. * This afternoon, the Obama Campaign announced a series of pledged Edwards delegates have now committed to vote for Obama, bringing Obama just 16.5 delegates shy of the magic number of 2,118. * Jimmy Carter will formally endorse Barack Obama later today or tomorrow. * As for the two very […]
It’s hard to say with any certainty just how many Clinton supporters are prepared to vote against the candidate who agrees with her on almost everything, and for the candidate who disagrees with her on almost everything. But when it comes to the candidate herself, Hillary Clinton is willing to say what a handful of […]
It’s tempting to ignore most of Rush Limbaugh’s nonsense, but this one’s both more offensive and more important than most of the garbage he shovels. On the June 2 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio program, while discussing Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential candidacy, Rush Limbaugh asserted that the Democratic Party was “go[ing] with a veritable […]
The AP seems to be having an awkward day when it comes to calling the Democratic presidential race. In the late morning, the AP reported that Hillary Clinton will concede in her speech in NYC tonight. Within minutes, Clinton campaign officials insisted that the report was simply wrong. Now the AP is reporting that Barack […]
Pepperdine’s Doug Kmiec, a conservative Catholic, raised quite a few eyebrows earlier this year when he endorsed Barack Obama for president. There have been several relatively high-profile Republicans to throw their support to Obama (some have taken to calling them “Obamacans“), but Kmiec was especially surprising. Kmiec, after all, is also a staunch Republican who […]
For over eight years now, we’ve been hearing that Democrats have been losing presidential elections because people don’t want to have a beer with the party’s nominees. This always struck me as an odd formulation, not the least of which is because George W. Bush is a recovering alcoholic who wouldn’t share a beer with […]