TNR’s Jonathan Cohn noted a story today from University of Chicago professor Harold Pollack, who volunteered for the Obama campaign over the weekend. I spent today canvassing in Schererville, Indiana, with my 11-year-old. We were trolling neighborhood garage sales talking with people as we went door to door. In Indiana, people sell hot dogs, coffee, […]
The headline on Bill Kristol’s NYT column today reads, “McCain-Jindal?” It suggests to the reader that the column is about John McCain considering Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal for the Republican presidential ticket, as has been rumored elsewhere. As it turns out, the first three-fourths of Kristol’s column was actually about Jeremiah Wright and Barack Obama’s […]
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: * The Clinton campaign seems to be raising expectations regarding North Carolina, where Obama has been considered the favorite. Clinton said on Friday, “This primary election on Tuesday is a game changer. This […]
The Chicago Tribune’s Steve Chapman posed an interesting question in his column over the weekend about John McCain having a Bill Ayers-like problem of his own. Can a presidential candidate justify a long and friendly relationship with someone who, back in the 1970s, extolled violence and committed crimes in the name of a radical ideology […]
Last week, an NBC/WSJ poll found that voters are far more concerned with John McCain’s closeness with George W. Bush than Barack Obama’s closeness with Jeremiah Wright, despite the media emphasis on the latter instead of the prior. With that in mind, perhaps the results of the new NYT/CBS poll shouldn’t be too surprising. A […]
We learned two weeks ago that an American company is moving forward with a half-billion dollar project: the Baghdad Zoo and Entertainment Experience, a “massive American-style amusement park that will feature a skateboard park, rides, a concert theatre and a museum. It is being designed by the firm that developed Disneyland.” Baghdad’s “Entertainment Experience” will […]
I have to admit, watching the race for the Democratic presidential nomination the past several days has been slightly less annoying. It’s been far from perfect, of course, but Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have been talking more about actual policy differences, and less about nonsense (take your pick: flag pins, Wright, Ayers, bitter, etc.) […]