The Carpetbagger Report

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 […]

For the better part of two months, after Barack Obama had already amassed a seemingly insurmountable lead over Hillary Clinton, the Clinton campaign worked aggressively to reframe the debate — Obama had the math, Clinton had the momentum. He had the numbers; she had the narrative. It now appears Clinton has neither. In one respect, […]

There was a small chance that the race for the Democratic nomination would effectively end this evening, in the event of an Obama upset in Indiana. Similarly, there was a small chance that Obama would be left reeling in the event of a Clinton upset in North Carolina. As far as we can tell, neither […]

Late last week, Hillary Clinton seemed to be taking something of a risk raising expectation in North Carolina, telling voters, “This primary election on Tuesday is a game changer. This is going to make a huge difference in what happens going forward. The entire country — probably even a lot of the world — is […]

Today’s edition of quick hits. * Death toll reaches 22,000 in Burma: “Homeless children watched Tuesday as solemn men unceremoniously dropped dead bodies into the river of this southern Myanmar township. The funeral-like procession to the river was one of the many disturbing images of the destruction left by Myanmar’s deadly cyclone.” * The president […]

Note to the Supreme Court: you messed up in a big way. About 12 Indiana nuns were turned away Tuesday from a polling place by a fellow bride of Christ because they didn’t have state or federal identification bearing a photograph. Sister Julie McGuire said she was forced to turn away her fellow sisters at […]

In about two hours, the first set of polls will close in Indiana, with the rest closing an hour later. In three-and-a-half hours, the polls will close in North Carolina. Various exit-polling data will no doubt be circulating beforehand, and most of the numbers will no doubt be wrong. The question, of course, is whether […]

Update: This post has been updated, expanded, and broken down by category. What we need, 2006 John McCain insisted, is a comprehensive approach to immigration reform “Our nation’s immigration system is broken. And without comprehensive immigration reform, our nation’s security will remain vulnerable. That is why we must act.” No, this is all wrong, 2007 […]

It’s been weeks since a corruption scandal humiliated the Bush administration, so I suppose we were overdue for news like this. Federal Bureau of Investigation agents raided the Office of Special Counsel here, seizing computers and documents belonging to the agency chief Scott Bloch and staff. More than a dozen FBI agents served grand jury […]

David Kurtz noted an email this morning from a reader who said, “[P]lease note that no one on television seems to be mentioning that the gas tax plan is also favored by a little known individual by the name of John McCain. You’d think, watching the teevee, that Hillary is the only person favoring this […]