The Carpetbagger Report

With just about all of the precincts reporting, Hillary Clinton has won Kentucky by about 35 points, 65% to 30%. That’s largely in line with expectations, consistent with recent polls, and not quite as lopsided as last week in West Virginia. We’re still about an hour away, meanwhile, from results from Oregon. Consider this an […]

As expected, the moments the polls closed in Kentucky, the networks called the state for Hillary Clinton. The votes are still being tallied, but it’s not close. That said, it probably won’t be a landslide on par with West Virginia. With about 48% of the precincts reporting, Clinton’s lead over Obama is about 20 points, […]

Today’s edition of quick hits. * There’s no shortage of support for Sen. Ted Kennedy this afternoon. * Except on the Free Republic threads, which were apparently so awful, site administrators had to shut them down. * I’m not sure if this is going to work, but Congress needs to look like it’s doing something: […]

This might be one of the greatest Fox News items of all time. Last night, Karl Rove appeared on Fox News’s “The O’Reilly Factor” to discuss President Bush’s interview with NBC and accusations that the network distorted Bush’s comments. Rove and guest host Laura Ingraham quickly attacked NBC’s ethics: INGRAHAM: Yes, well, Karl, this follows […]

Last summer, Mark McKinnon, the former chief media adviser to George W. Bush, and now a top aide to John McCain’s presidential campaign, admitted that he liked Barack Obama so much, he didn’t want to work on the campaign running against Obama and he wouldn’t create negative ads against the Illinois senator if he became […]

The McCain campaign has already fired four top aides and the man picked to manage the Republican National Convention because they were lobbyists with awkward clients in their past. Complicating matters is Charles Black, McCain’s senior strategist, whose work on behalf of some nefarious international thugs has prompted calls for his resignation. Today, however, the […]

The news out of Boston is discouraging: Sen. Ted Kennedy has a malignant brain tumor. Doctors for the Massachusetts Democrat say tests conducted after Kennedy suffered a seizure this weekend show a tumor in his left parietal lobe. Preliminary results from a biopsy of the brain identified the cause of the seizure as a malignant […]

Because Barack Obama has indicated he’d consider diplomacy with Iran as president, Republicans and other far-right voices have highlighted the bizarre inanities of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. This is the guy, the GOP argues, that Obama would be willing to chat with. But there’s actually some ambiguity to the point. In Iran’s system, Ahmadinejad may be president, […]

Yesterday, the feud was between Fox News and NBC News. Today, it’s between the White House and NBC News. (Insert joke here about the lack of distinctions between Fox News and the Bush White House.) The Bush gang, apparently, is all worked up over the “editing” of an interview between the president and NBC’s Richard […]

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: * Over the last 24 hours, there’s been some superdelegate news, with Obama picking up 6.5 new superdelegates (West Virginia’s Robert Byrd, Kansas’ Larry Gates, Washington’s Dwight Pelz, Alaska’s Cindy Spanyers and Blake […]