Kate Sheppard

Chris Cillizza gives us a breakdown of the candidates’ positioning in the Super Tuesday states, noting that Barack Obama has 19 offices in 13 states that have primaries on Feb. 5 while Hillary Clinton only has five offices in those states. His locations include places like Montgomery, Tuscaloosa and Birmingham, Ala., in addition to Los […]

Mitt Romney‘s remarks about Muslims not meriting a spot in his hypothetical cabinet (which he’s attempting to cast as a misrepresentation, despite the fact that multiple parties have confirmed the account and even noted that his remarks on the subject have been even more inflammatory at other points), are of course particularly salient in light […]

Hillary Clinton dined with New Hampshirites yesterday, and the Post says it’s part of her plan to build up a “firewall” in the state should Iowa go wrong. Tom Tancredo says boot the Mexicans, but keep their enchiladas. Ron Paul has won the endorsement of a Nevada brothel owner. Dennis Hof owns Moonlite BunnyRanch, outside […]

Mark Halperin is skeptical of the influence of Oprah‘s tour dates with Barack Obama, positing that they’ll be attention-getters, but not vote-getters: So yes, expect loud, rousing rallies in all three early voting states when Oprah Winfrey comes to town with her friend Barack Obama in early December, with gobs of media attention, raucous crowds, […]

Chris Hayes‘ fabulous piece on email smear campaigns gave a lot of attention to how the “Barack Obama is a secret Muslim schooled in a madrassa” meme got started, but it appears the same theme is metastasizing into more right-wing smears. What might be the latest tripe being fed into the machine came up in […]

SEIU is still putting on the heat as private equity firm The Carlyle Group attempts to finalize the buyout of HCR ManorCare, but in recent weeks, they’ve been joined by state regulators who are growing increasingly concerned about the effects the buyout might have on care in their 552 facilities around the country. The concerns […]

The Bush administration has asked a federal judge to delay hearings in a lawsuit challenging the legality of their plan to crackdown on immigration via their “no-match” rule (see this piece for some background) that would require employers to fire employees within 90 days if they can’t produce a valid Social Security number, or else […]

Newsweek seems to think that Rudy Giuliani‘s seamy past (and present) is a positive attribute: The proximity of good and bad, even in Giuliani’s own family, seems to have given rise to his inflexible public code but more relaxed personal one—a bifurcation that will only become more important in the next 10 weeks or so, […]

This article on Bill Clinton campaigning for Hillary Clinton in Iowa (via Andrew Sullivan) highlights this quote from the current Clinton candidate last week: “As someone said the other day, there seems to be a pattern: It takes a Clinton to clean up after a Bush.” Sure, it’s supposed to be funny. But I like […]

As I’ve mentioned a few times now, Edwards has been all over the Thanksgiving hook this week to talk about his policies on poverty and hunger. Today he released his plan to fight hunger in America, which includes some of the obvious ideas – raise the minimum wage, cut taxes for low-income workers, improve public […]