Mori Dinauer

Shocking, I know, but it appears that Barack Obama is not dividing the Democratic Party: Barack Obama has done poorly in the Democratic primaries with women, Catholics and others who will be pivotal in this fall’s presidential election. Yet early polling shows that with several of these groups, he’s competitive when matched against Republican John […]

After mounting a dubious argument on Monday for allocating Clinton more FL and MI delegates than she actually won (and methodically taken apart brick-by-brick at fivethirtyeight.com and our own Mark Schmitt), Lanny Davis now complains that Obama is deliberately taking action on the campaign to ruin his general election chances (if he’s the nominee, Davis […]

So much for the great wedge issue of aught-eight: A majority of registered Californian voters oppose changing the constitution of the most populous U.S. state to bar gays from marrying, according to poll released on Wednesday. The Field Poll survey found 51 percent against approving a possible November ballot measure to prohibit gay marriage, with […]

I’m certain that opportunism, rather than conscience, led Scott McClellan to publish his tell-all book now, rather than when it might have had more of an impact. But that does not necessarily mean, as Karl Rove seems to think, that McClellan is lying about what transpired in the Bush White House, particularly during the run-up […]

This editorial in National Review encouraging Congress to open currently off-limits locations to oil drilling puts in black and white the shortsightedness and unimaginative thinking going on in energy policy. What really gets me is the unwillingness to reach the logical conclusion that oil is a non-renewable resource — a fact they admit to in […]

Over the weekend, Bob Barr won the Libertarian Party nomination in Denver after five ballots were cast. I’m not about to wade into what this means for libertarian politics, but it is worth looking at the question of whether Barr would actually have an impact on the general presidential election. In Georgia, which Barr represented […]

Apropos of last week’s controversial and speculative “the Southwest is key” post, Greg Sargent reports that Obama will be touring New Mexico, Nevada and Colorado next week in an effort to solidify support there. I remain convinced that Colorado is a key state here (and I’m not the only one), and according to pollster.com, only […]

So some guy named Obama beat somebody named Clinton in Oregon yesterday. Big deal. The real action was the Democratic primary to determine who attempts to topple Republican Senator Gordon Smith, a potential pickup for Dems this November. State House Speaker Jeff Merkley won 45-42 against Steve Novick, and it looks as though Merkley is […]

Turns out that the Washington Post not only published an intellectually lazy opinion piece, but one that advocated something illegal. Commenter alkali points to US Code Title 18, section 599: Whoever, being a candidate, directly or indirectly promises or pledges the appointment, or the use of his influence or support for the appointment of any […]