This morning, George Stephanopoulos said uncommitted superdelegates supporting Barack Obama “will come three, four, five at a time, and this nomination will be locked up.” We’re still a ways from a “locked up” nomination, but there was some movement on the superdelegate front today, and Obama appears to have a net gain of four for […]
Hillary Clinton hosted a press conference in West Virginia this afternoon, and she certainly didn’t sound like a candidate on the verge of dropping out. TPM posted this video excerpt. On her first point, Clinton said she’d remain in the presidential race “until there’s a nominee.” Like Greg Sargent, I found the phrase a little […]
House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) recently delivered a major-league pep-talk to his Republican caucus, which was very well received. GOP lawmakers gave Boehner a standing ovation, and were all smiles as they looked ahead to the rest of the year. They were led to believe that tying Dems in congressional races to Obama and […]
About six weeks ago, on “Meet the Press,” the NYT’s David Brooks raised an interesting comparison regarding Hillary Clinton. “I think she should slow down the campaign, run what Mike Huckabee ran, a dignified campaign, not attacking her opponents, go through North Carolina and then get out. She really has very little opportunity to win.” […]
Obviously, the central focus on yesterday’s primaries in North Carolina and Indiana was the Democratic presidential race, but there was a down-ballot contest that I’ve been keeping an eye on — Rep. Walter Jones Jr. (R-N.C.) was facing a primary challenge. Now, I disagree with Jones on almost every issue I can think of, but […]
Over the weekend, the NYT’s Frank Rich raised a few eyebrows when he highlighted the disconnect in the media between Obama’s relationship with his controversial former pastor (Jeremiah Wright) and McCain’s relationship with a crazed televangelist (John Hagee). Rich’s point was both provocative and persuasive — that the media obsesses over Wright and gives McCain […]
Today’s installment of campaign-related news items that wouldn’t generate a post of their own, but may be of interest to political observers: * Former South Dakota Sen. George McGovern, the Dems’ 1972 presidential nominee, this morning became the first prominent Clinton supporter to urge her to drop out of the race. McGovern added that he […]
Three months ago, on Super Tuesday, Terry McAuliffe, Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman, was asked about the state of the candidate’s finances. “Look, if there’s one thing Hillary Clinton doesn’t have to worry about, it’s money,” McAuliffe said. Shortly thereafter, the campaign acknowledged that Clinton had loaned herself $5 million. We learned this morning that it […]
On MSNBC last night, Keith Olbermann asked Tim Russert whether the race for the Democratic nomination is over. Russert’s response became one of the more talked-about quotes of the evening. For those of you who can’t clips online, Russert responded, “We now know who the Democratic nominee is going to be, and no one’s going […]
Whether Hillary Clinton decides to keep fighting until the convention or not, today is likely to be an unpleasant day for the New York senator. If her win in Pennsylvania gave her a ticket to Indiana and North Carolina, Clinton’s showing yesterday may have given her a ticket home. Clinton advisers acknowledged that the results […]