Sam Boyd

The most interesting story I’ve read today is this one from the Wall Street Journal about the ground game in South Carolina. The Obama campaign has eschewed the traditional strategy of paying local pastors to turn out the vote and instead built a new network from scratch. Clinton, meanwhile is going the traditional route. Only […]

I didn’t see all of last night’s debate (just when you’re sure debates are boring…), but watching the first few minutes (the whole thing is available on YouTube) it was akin to what I imagine it is like to watch your parents get a divorce — shocking, deeply uncomfortable and sad. A Democratic Party that […]

I’ve got a new piece up over at ourfuture.org on Bush’s statement of “principles” on President Bush‘s tax-cut stimulus plan (’cause that’s what it stimulates, not the economy): This brings us to the last and worst part of Bush’s speech, his call to extend his 2001 and 2003 tax cuts. He claims that uncertainty over […]

We’re in the calm before the storm again, but there’s some news coming out of Nevada. UNITE-HERE is running a brutal ad attacking Hillary Clinton for a supporter’s attempt to close caucuses on the Vegas strip (as Kate wrote earlier). The Edwards and Clinton campaigns are attacking Obama for condemning outside ads run on behalf […]

It’s a quiet day in campaigns, so why not wile it away reading a diverting discussion of the odd absence of the declining health of the economy in Democratic campaigns by Prospect founder Bob Kuttner. The other big news is that Saturday’s Democratic caucus in Nevada will be held partially in casinos on the strip […]

Michigan has delivered the latest interesting (I won’t say surprising since hardly anything is surprising at this point) primary result. As Rob Farley said earlier, it’s hard to see why Romney isn’t now viewed as the favorite. After all, he has a majority of the delegates (see Matt Yglesias). What’s more, he’s using a delegate-centered […]

Republicans go to the polls in Michigan today, well a few of them do anyway. Snowy weather is responsible as is the coldness of Republican voters towards their candidates. The other big political event today is the Democratic debate in Nevada which, unless NBC wins an appeal very quickly, will include Dennis Kucinich after he […]

The Michigan Primary is tomorrow, and while Hillary Clinton will face off only against a formidable candidate known as “undeclared” (the same guy beat Jimmy Carter in Iowa in 1976) the Republicans are all on the ballot. Mitt Romney is mobilizing all of his bamboozlement reserves in a last ditch effort to reinvigorate his flagging […]

The Campaign for America’s Future, the people who bring you the Take Back America conference, Rick Perlstein‘s blog and more, have launched a snazzy new web 2.0 magazine/blog thing. It combines CAF’s excellent research with a bunch of neat bloggers (Digby, Bill Scher, Perlstein and more) and user-generated content. It’s still new and shiny, so […]