Dana Goldstein

That’s the post-Mississippi pledged delegate count as emailed out by the That’s the post-Mississippi pledged delegate count as emailed out by the Obama campaign this morning, excluding Michigan and Florida. Meanwhile, in the morning press release wars, Team Clinton releases a letter campaign manager Maggie Williams sent to Obama counterpart David Plouffe, demanding support for […]

Who said it, and when? In this election they will speak endlessly of risk; we will speak of progress. They will make accusations; we will make proposals. They will feed fear; we will appeal to hope.” No, it’s not Barack Obama. It’s Dick Cheney, at the Republican National Convention in 2000. Just one of the […]

By now, you know he’ll soon become the nation’s third fourth African American governor in history, that he’s legally blind, and that he ran the New York Marathon in 1999. Prior to serving as lieutenant governor, Patterson was the state senate minority leader. He represented Harlem in that body for 21 years. What issues matter […]

Over at The Atlantic, that’s Ross Douthat‘s fun idea: He could govern from the center-left and try to revive the Rockefeller-Republican brand for a new era of Democratic dominance. Or he could govern from the right, picking fights with blue-state interest groups in the hopes of retooling his image with conservatives in time for the […]

Speaking to the California Daily Breeze, Geraldine Ferraro, the Democratic vice presidential candidate in 1984 and a feminist trailblazer, said Barack Obama‘s success is dependent on what she seems to understand as the novelty of his racial identity: If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position. And if he was […]

The implosion of Eliot Spitzer looks fated to become one of the more dramatic downfalls in American political history. It was Spitzer’s reputation as a tough-as-nails, populist prosecutor of Wall Street misdeeds that attached to him what, with 20-20 hindsight, were totally outrageous expectations: First Jewish President. Savior of Democratic Populism. Tamer of Corporate America. […]

There’s been a lot of thought-provoking analysis this election season of the role of gender in the political process, much of it written by women. It’s proof, I think, that I was onto something way back in 2006 when I argued that as women ascend to positions of prominence in government, women’s interest in following […]

Obama supporters I’ve heard from are pissed — really really pissed — about Samantha Power‘s exit from the campaign. Yes, this is an unfortunate turn of events: Power, an anti-genocide expert critical of the Iraq War, is — and I think will continue to be — a key voice for change within the Democratic Party […]

Basically, the biggest, according to Zeke Vanderhoek, the founder of a New York City 5th-8th grade charter school that will open its doors in 2009 with a minimum teacher salary of $125,000. Nationwide, the average salary for a middle school teacher is less than $50,000. Vanderhoek’s project is profiled in today’s Times. His school will […]

After making vitriolic anti-Hillary Clinton comments to The Scotsman, foreign policy adviser Samantha Power resigns from the Barack Obama campaign. Here’s the statement: With deep regret, I am resigning from my role as an advisor the Obama campaign effective today. Last Monday, I made inexcusable remarks that are at marked variance from my oft-stated admiration […]