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: * On the superdelegate front, there’s been some movement since Friday at noon. If my count is right, Barack Obama has picked up four (Nevada’s Yvonne Gates, Virginia’s Jerome Wiley Segovia, Connecticut’s Nancy […]
The McCain campaign and its Republican allies really seem to believe Barack Obama’s willingness to talk to rival foreign governments is a serious issue that voters will reject. This seemed to begin in earnest, as a campaign matter, when Still-President Bush went after Obama in a speech to Israel’s Knesset, and it’s been a principal […]
There’s been quite a bit of talk this morning about reported changes in the Clinton campaign’s staff. Members of Hillary Clinton’s advance staff received calls and emails this evening from headquarters summoning them to New York City Tuesday night, and telling them their roles on the campaign are ending, two Clinton staffers tell my colleague […]
Update: This post has been updated, expanded, and broken down by category. It’s been about a month since we last explored John McCain’s many, many policy reversals (a.k.a., flip-flops), but thankfully, the Republican candidate running as a principled, consistent conservative, who refuses to pander or shift with the wind, continues to give us plenty of […]
By most counts, Barack Obama is about 46 delegates shy of the threshold needed for the Democratic presidential nomination. After tomorrow’s contests in Montana and South Dakota, he’ll probably be around 20 or so delegates shy of the magic number. So, if 20 or so superdelegates endorse Obama once the final primaries are complete, he’ll […]