Headline I wish I’d come up with, from the NYT’s Timothy Egan: “Goodbye Rudy, Tuesday.” For 50 days, Giuliani has had the Sunshine State nearly to himself. In advance of the presidential primary on Jan. 29, he’s sucked up to the Cuban vote in Miami, pandered in Cape Canaveral about the space program, tried to […]
A couple of days before the Republicans’ New Hampshire primary, ABC hosted a debate for the GOP field, during which every candidate on the stage attacked Mitt Romney. Huckabee hit him on Iraq, Thompson hit him on healthcare, Giuliani hit him on immigration, and McCain hit him on everything. Romney wasn’t actually leading in the […]
Today’s edition of quick hits. * Market watching these days is enough to give someone whiplash: “Wall Street swung between steep losses and large gains Wednesday, as investors wrestled with fears that a recession in the United States is inevitable. Each of the major indexes at times were down more than 2 percent, including the […]
This is a very pleasant surprise. My friends at Brave New Films recently launched a campaign to target sponsors of right-wing shock-jock Michael Savage’s nationally syndicated radio show. If you’re not familiar with Savage, imagine what Rush Limbaugh would sound like with twice as much hate and half the sense of humor. Media Matters has […]
In an interesting piece for The American Prospect, Paul Waldman argues that Barack Obama’s presidential campaign prepared for a lot of possibilities, but “there’s one thing it doesn’t seem they prepared for: Their main opponent, Hillary Clinton, is running like a Republican. And it appears to be working.” [H]er campaign has begun to appear more […]
Facing a looming deadline, the Senate is poised to take up the Bush administration’s surveillance bill, again. The sticking point is over providing retroactive immunity for telecommunications companies that cooperated with Bush’s warrantless-surveillance scheme, again. With time running out, the landscape appears discouraging. Senate Democrats concede that they probably lack the votes needed to stop […]
I suppose it’s only natural for partisans in a presidential campaign to look across the aisle and wonder, “Which one of our candidates would the other side least like to face?” It’s hardly a foolproof way of looking at a race — partisans give head-fakes, and more importantly, they can be wrong. Having said that, […]
This item from The Onion is obviously a parody, but as Homer Simpson once said, “It’s funny ’cause it’s true.” After spending two months accompanying his wife, Hillary, on the campaign trail, former president Bill Clinton announced Monday that he is joining the 2008 presidential race, saying he “could no longer resist the urge.” “My […]
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: * Barack Obama has already been doing pretty well in South Carolina if the polls are any indication, but it won’t hurt to pick the endorsement of The State, South Carolina’s largest newspaper. […]
In light of some of Barack Obama’s religiously-based appeals, we talked a bit yesterday about where the line is, and whether the senator has a reasonable defense (he’s the target of a coordinated smear campaign) to justify more religious rhetoric than Democrats are accustomed to hearing. If the comments section and reader emails are any […]