Kate Sheppard

The solution to the Michigan/Florida delegate situation that The solution to the Michigan/Florida delegate situation that Rob mentions has one major problem: Who’s going to pay for these caucuses? The DNC suggested this alternative to Florida months ago, when their Republican-controlled state legislature first changed the date of the primary. According to Florida Democrats I […]

The plan fell two votes short of the 60 votes needed to end debate and move it to a vote later this week. This was the version including all the green tax incentives. Who’s to blame? Well, Republican senators in general, but specifically, we could put some of the blame on John McCain, who didn’t […]

The primaries might be getting a bit tiresome for us political folks, but we can probably bet that Puerto Rico is pretty excited about how things are shaping up. As The primaries might be getting a bit tiresome for us political folks, but we can probably bet that Puerto Rico is pretty excited about how […]

It seems Wall Street is realizing that investing in coal-fired power plants is a bad long-term strategy, and that a cap on carbon emissions is inevitable. Three of the biggest investment banks — Citigroup, J.P. Morgan Chase, and Morgan Stanley — announced this week that they’re creating new environmental standards that will make it more […]

I have to join I have to join Ezra in berating Romney‘s “crazy uncle” approach to the call and response. Getting his crowds to yell “They haven’t!” has been his take since his failure in Florida last week, and it offers a pretty poignant contrast to something like Obama‘s “Yes we can!” refrain. It’s sort […]

While we’re waiting on California (and may continue waiting until tomorrow), it appears there’s been some While we’re waiting on California (and may continue waiting until tomorrow), it appears there’s been some trouble with ballots in the state. A “crush of new independent voters” caused confusion at the polls, with poll workers not being clear […]

As As Dana just noted, this seems to be emerging as a two-man race between McCain and Huckabee on the GOP side. We were joking earlier in the office about a Huckasurge, but he does appear to be making a comeback tonight, having claimed Arkansas, West Virginia, Georgia, and Alabama. The pundits keep noting that […]

Oklahoma, Tennessee and Arkansas have been called for Oklahoma, Tennessee and Arkansas have been called for Clinton, and her campaign sent out an email a little while ago proclaiming that “We’re very excited that Hillary Clinton has added a third red state in her victory column … With these important victories, Hillary Clinton has demonstrated […]

The The Romney campaign was still sending out robocalls in Georgia after 6 p.m. tonight, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. His last-ditch effort there claimed that “Mike Huckabee and John McCain have joined forces to insure that the conservative agenda gets derailed during today’s primary voting,” and urged voters not to “let liberal John McCain […]

They’re They’re calling Georgia for Obama, with 53 percent to Clinton‘s 37 percent at current count. This isn’t a huge surprise, but what is interesting is his share of the white vote there, countering the news media meme after South Carolina that he could only carry African American voters. Exit polls show him carrying 43 […]