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Bill Clinton: “If we were under the Republican system, which is more like the Electoral College, she’d have a 300-delegate lead here.” First of all, as Kate noted, the Republican system is actually a great deal more complex, but just for the sake of argument, let’s assume that Bill was talking about a winner-take-all system […]

Apparently stymied by the Herculian task of actually electing him as president, some supporters of Ron Paul have proposed the next best thing: creating a gated community of Paulites in which they will “live by the ideals of freedom and liberty.” The process is forming a co-op of people buying shares in the community and […]

If Hillary Clinton wins tomorrow’s primary, it won’t be because of a cash advantage — she started April with about a fifth of Barack Obama‘s $42 million. Nor will it be for newspaper endorsements. Obama’s got eight. Hillary, one. McCain on Hagee: damned if I do, damned if I don’t. Frank Rich has good summary […]

If you think that travesty of a “debate” couldn’t get any worse, get a load of the backstory on one of those “man-on-the-street” questions from Wednesday night: Nash McCabe is the voter from Wednesday night’s presidential debate who noted that Barack Obama doesn’t usually wear a flag pin and asked, “I want to know if […]

A Washington Post/ABC News poll has found that the net negative view on the economy has reached an astounding 90 percent (that’s 51 percent who rate it “poor” and 39 percent who rate it “not so good.”). More interesting, when the “what is the single most important issue in your choice for president?” question comes […]

Dan Blaz joins David Brooks in putting a positive spin on last night’s debate: Barack Obama got the first real glimpse here Tuesday night of what he will face if he becomes the Democratic presidential nominee. Between now and November, the most important question he will be forced to answer is: Who is Barack Obama? […]

Missed this earlier in the week, but apparently John McCain has asked his top donors to dole out a little more America’s Mayor: “We need to help Mayor Giuliani retire his debt as soon as possible so we can move forward with everyone spending 100% of their time helping to get John McCain in the […]

If you can stomach it, give this high-larious If you can stomach it, give this high-larious dystopian short story over at National Review a read. It concerns the ruminations of a penniless, divorced and bitter Bill Clinton, now President Obama‘s “Heartland Ambassador,” as he reminiscences the good old days when Rush Limbaugh was still on […]

Um, I’m not clear on how “Nonpolarity” differs from multipolarity in this Richard Haass piece. He writes, “In contrast to multipolarity — which involves several distinct poles or concentrations of power — a nonpolar international system is characterized by numerous centers with meaningful power.” So the difference is between “several” and “numerous” sources of power? […]

A.J. Rossmiller writes on the “myth of meritocracy” in the blogosphere and accurately describes the lay of the land, in my view. But his analysis of the blogging elite is a bit incomplete. In the beginning he notes that “all of the most popular liberal blogs have writers who are, for various reasons, able to […]