Sam Boyd

The ever-awesome Dahlia Lithwick has a great column in Newsweek about Obama and affirmative action. Ben Smith has some interesting commentary on two maps aggregating Obama and Clinton‘s chances against McCain in all 50 states. Bill Clinton gets more than a bit upset when asked about Bill Richardson. Clinton has a new ad on the […]

The Politico looks at the Credentials Committee and finds Obama likely to have the votes he needs to prevent the seating of the Florida and Michigan delegations assuming he gets most of Dean‘s nominees (which is likely since Dean opposes seating those states’ delegations). Marc Ambinder has some quibbles and a good summary. Simon Rosenberg […]

Over at her excellent new blog, Kathy G. highlights some ways Hillary Clinton is like Nixon and shows why that’s not a bad thing. David Sirota has a long piece in In These Times arguing that Hillary Clinton is deliberately exploiting racial animus because she succeeds in states with some black people but not a […]

Regardless of whether there’s a superdelegate “convention” it seems that everyone agrees that once the last primaries are over on June 3rd all superdelegates should make a decision about who they support and do so publicly rather than wait for the convention (at least I haven’t heard anyone argue this is a bad idea). Howard […]

Think Progress runs down McCain‘s extensive connections to the oil industry and his record of supporting tax breaks for oil companies. You wouldn’t know it from your average newspaper, but in many ways the general election has already started. McCain is raffling off a seat on his press bus to top donors. I guess there’s […]

The Pennsylvania primary is still almost a month away. That’s easy to forget, but it’s essential because a lot of the punditry going on right now entails straight line projections from the present. For instance, at the height of the Jeremiah Wright controversy, people started talking about what would happen if Obama lost North Carolina. […]

It’s a quiet day in campaigns — maybe we’ve just run out of things to say. However, there are a couple of new developments including a new push by Clinton to promote economic issues. Chris Hayes brings us the latest in anti-Obama smears. The idea of a mini-convention for superdelegates is starting to take hold. […]

Bill Richardson endorses Obama, bringing with him his legions of supporters… or not. The CW seems to be that this may signal a shift among superdelegates towards Obama, but I doubt it. The Politico brings out the big guns (Jim Vandehei and Mike Allen) to point out that, despite what you’d think from reading media […]

Clinton “equivocates” on the desirability of Mountaintop removal mining. A poll shows Clinton doing better against McCain than Obama and suddenly Mark Penn thinks hypothetical matchups matter. Why anyone takes anything he says seriously at this point is beyond me. So far the only new information to come out of Clinton’s schedules as First Lady […]

Obama gave a big speech on Iraq today which included a bunch of sharp hits at McCain. McCain has actually said, falsely, that al Qaeda and Iran are working together four times — a mistake akin to saying the John Birch Society and the Weathermen were close allies in the sixties. Reverend Wright is defended […]