Clinton Has Only One Plausible Path to the Nomination

Posted: 08 Mar 2008 12:50 AM CST

Barack Obama won 11 out of 11 primaries and caucuses from Super Tuesday to Feb. 19. Hillary Clinton won three out of four contests on March 4. Suddenly, the look and feel of the...

Clinton Pounces

Posted: 07 Mar 2008 03:12 PM CST

From earlier today: At a news conference at the Train Depot in Hattiesburg, Miss., where she held a rally to finish a two-day trip to Mississippi, where she is not expected to fare well in Tuesday's...

Hillary Mentions Dream Team - Again

Posted: 07 Mar 2008 12:34 PM CST

For the second time this week, Hillary Clinton spoke about a possible unity ticket: "I've had people say, 'Well I wish I could vote for both of you. Well, that might be possible some day. But first I...

The Threshold Card

Posted: 07 Mar 2008 11:14 AM CST

At a press conference yesterday Hillary tossed out the "Commander in Chief Threshold" card: I assume this is the Exhibit A of the kind of strategy that Jon Chait finds "pretty repulsive." The obvious...

Power Out at Obama HQ

Posted: 07 Mar 2008 10:56 AM CST

No, it's not an electrical problem, but a much more potent political crisis that's knocked Power out at Barack Obama's headquarters. Responding to harsh criticism from Hillary Clinton's campaign for...

The Story of Lazarus

Posted: 07 Mar 2008 08:14 AM CST

Maeve Reston of the Los Angeles Times has written what I would rank as one of the best pieces of the entire 2008 election thus far. McCain's rise from the political dead is one of the most remarkable...

The Daily 2008

Posted: 07 Mar 2008 07:20 AM CST

On this day in 1876 Alexander Graham Bell patented the telephone. He was 29. On to today's top stories: "Obama Raises $55 Million in February" (Jim Kuhnhenn, Associated Press) What's losing Ohio and...

Ammo Dump

Posted: 07 Mar 2008 07:32 AM CST

More ammunition for Barack Obama in this morning's USA Today: LITTLE ROCK - Federal archivists at the Clinton Presidential Library are blocking the release of hundreds of pages of White House papers...

TGIF for Rezko

Posted: 07 Mar 2008 06:03 AM CST

No session in the Rezko case today, the trial will resume on Monday. The Chicago Tribune is running "gavel-to-gavel" coverage, and from their handy summation of yesterday's testimony we learned that...

Hillary: No Do-Over in Florida

Posted: 06 Mar 2008 05:40 PM CST

US News' Ken Walsh asked Hillary Clinton about the possibility of "do overs" in Michigan and Florida. Clinton responded: I would not accept a caucus. I think that would be a great disservice to the 2...

Dean Kicks It Back To States

Posted: 06 Mar 2008 01:47 PM CST

DNC Chair Howard Dean made the morning rounds and answered the question everyone's asking: What about Florida and Michigan? (Note, it starts at about 2 minutes in.) Maybe Dean has no choice in the...

Ready or Not

Posted: 06 Mar 2008 12:39 PM CST

Oy. Obama foreign policy advisor Susan Rice commits original sin on Tucker Carlson's show: (via The Caucus) Here's the full 8-minute interview with Rice, courtesy of the folks at MSNBC. The...

Math Problems

Posted: 06 Mar 2008 12:37 PM CST

I always hated math, which may explain why I'm not totally convinced by Jonathan Alter's ongoing experiment with the delegate calculator. Alter's piece is essentially a summation of the Obama...

The Chicago Way

Posted: 06 Mar 2008 10:48 AM CST

John Kass of the Chicago Tribune goes in search of an answer to the question: What is the Chicago Way? Great stuff:...

How Liberals Play Race Politics

Posted: 07 Mar 2008 12:25 AM CST

"All is race," wrote Benjamin Disraeli, "there is no other truth." What Disraeli meant by race is what Winston Churchill meant when he spoke of "our island race" -- a tribe, an ethnic...

How Does Obama Feel About America?

Posted: 07 Mar 2008 12:30 AM CST

Barack Obama's words are often attractive but oddly concealing. His speeches are all balm and mood. It's all very well to seek, as Obama claims, to transcend old categories, to reject the "old...

Obama Needs a New Speech

Posted: 07 Mar 2008 12:30 AM CST

WASHINGTON -- With arithmetic on his side, Barack Obama still should be heavily favored to win the Democratic presidential nomination. But Obama does have a problem: The world-class orator, attacked...

Crime and Punishment for Reading

Posted: 07 Mar 2008 12:30 AM CST

WASHINGTON -- If an author can't make the Oprah cut, the next best thing may be getting censured by a university. Ever heard of Todd Tucker? Didn't think so. Obviously, some have because...

Dean Certainly Has Chutzpah

Posted: 07 Mar 2008 12:34 AM CST

You've got to give Howard Dean credit for chutzpah if nothing else. But he might want to wonder if the White House is worth fighting with your own folks over a few (million) shekels. The Democratic...

The Myth of America's Unpopularity

Posted: 07 Mar 2008 12:35 AM CST

WASHINGTON -- The one goal that unites and explains the Democratic approach to foreign policy is this: America must try -- urgently and desperately -- to be more popular in the world. "The...