Today's RCP Articles

Republican Race Twists & Turns Even Before Bhutto Assassination
Posted: 28 Dec 2007 12:52 AM CST
Even before the death of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto on Thursday, there were signs of continued churning in the GOP race, with Arizona Senator John McCain pulling even with and ahead of...


The Legacy of Benazir Bhutto
Posted: 28 Dec 2007 12:50 AM CST
AVON, Colo. -- Try to imagine a young Pakistani woman bounding into the newsroom of the Harvard Crimson in the early 1970s and banging out stories about college sports teams with the passion of a cub...


When an Assassin Succeeds
Posted: 28 Dec 2007 12:41 AM CST
The roll call of U.S. allies in the Middle East and its neighborhood has always read like a target list: Maliki, Karzai, Sistani, Musharraf. One bullet or one suicide blast could wipe out all our...


A Crisis Intrudes On Iowa
Posted: 28 Dec 2007 12:40 AM CST
DES MOINES, Iowa -- The assassination of Benazir Bhutto came as a brutal reminder of the gravity of the decision Iowa's voters will be rendering in their caucuses next Thursday night. Its impact may...


What the Campaign Vets Are Saying
Posted: 28 Dec 2007 12:36 AM CST
LOS ANGELES -- At Christmas dinner at my friend Lynne's, the talk was politics. What else? Scattered around the room were veterans of more campaigns than anyone wanted to count, and the best news,...


Obama & the Burden of Liberalism
Posted: 28 Dec 2007 12:33 AM CST
"If you want conventional Washington thinking, I'm not your man. If you want rigid ideology, I'm not your man. If you think that fundamental change can wait, I'm definitely not your man. But if you...


The Real World Intrudes
Posted: 28 Dec 2007 12:25 AM CST
The next to last assassination attempt on Benazir Bhutto came on Dec. 13, when a man in the crowd got the former prime minister's attention. He was holding a 1-year-old baby -- Bhutto said later she...


Annus Horribilis Ahead?
Posted: 28 Dec 2007 12:20 AM CST
With the New Hampshire primary on Jan. 8, and the Iowa caucuses dead ahead, the nominees of both parties may be known in two weeks. Surely, after Feb. 5, when a slew of primaries are held, both races...


My 'Persons of the Year'
Posted: 28 Dec 2007 12:20 AM CST
WASHINGTON -- While I was in Fallujah, Iraq, embedded with a U.S. Special Operations Command Task Force, Time magazine gave Russian President -- and soon to be Prime Minister (and long to be ruler)...


Iowa And New Hampshire: Same Old, Same Old
Posted: 27 Dec 2007 09:00 AM CST
One definition of crazy is to keep doing diligently the same thing over and over when it's not working. By that definition America's presidential primary system is seriously loony, for with respect...


How McCain Wins
Posted: 27 Dec 2007 08:11 AM CST
If you've been watching the news or reading the paper in the past couple days, you're sure to have noticed a new tone emerging when reporters and pundits discuss John McCain. "He can win", "McCain...