Herewith, a half dozen suggestions of things Herewith, a half dozen suggestions of things Barack Obama could do this week to improve his chances on Super Tuesday: For the next week, only refer to the Clintons in the plural, as in “The Clintons” or “my three opponents in this race, John Edwards and The Clintons.” […]
Thomas Schaller
Thomas F. Schaller is an associate professor of political science at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and author of The Stronghold: How Republicans Captured Congress but Surrendered the White House.
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THERE ARE OTHER 2008 CONTESTS, YA KNOW
It’s hard to peel away from the presidential race, and I’m as guilty as anyone else, but there are some interesting developments in what might be called the “Pending Republican Open House Seat Disaster of 2008” chronicles. First, New York Republican It’s hard to peel away from the presidential race, and I’m as guilty as […]
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Super Surrogate
Whether Bill Clinton is a liability or an asset to his wife’s presidential campaign, his role, and his actions, are unprecedented.
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LUCKIER IN LOVE THAN IN CHARLESTON
Bill Clinton did three events yesterday, and at the first, in Charleston, he got into a widely-reported tussle with reporters pressing him over whether he’s been too rough and too public in his comments about Barack Obama. I missed that event, but caught him at the second stop, in rural Kingstree. You can bet the […]
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A THOUSAND LIES ON POINT.
There are many differences between the first and second Bush administrations, but none more revealing than the fact that we’ve gone from Bush 41 “thousand points of light” to Bush 43’s “thousand lies on point.” OK, Bush-the-Younger and company came up 65 short, but 935 rounds up close enough to 1,000 … and surely some […]
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EDWARDS STAYS TRUE TO FORM.
I’m in South Carolina now, following I’m in South Carolina now, following John Edwards the next couple of days, trying to figure out what the story is with his presidential campaign and where he goes from here. He won the Palmetto State four years ago, but now trails both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Though […]
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DICK MORRIS IS RIGHT ABOUT THIS
Dick Morris isn’t often right, but he is today. John Edwards has done a great service to this primary campaign–heck, on both sides–with his powerful and passionate message about inequality: economic as well as political inequality, and how the two are fundamentally linked. He is surely entitled to a key job—Attorney General at the very […]
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A FINAL PREDICTION
If I were a smart-aleck blogger, which I guess I am, here’s what I’d write about myself today: So, Tom Schaller, who compared Hillary Clinton to a cyborg and prematurely announced the end of the Clinton Era at 9:34 EST on Saturday night–three days, mind you, before all but the potentially critical absentee votes in […]
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CLINTON’S STAIRCASE.
After watching what has happened in Iowa and especially here in New Hampshire, the metaphor for the Clinton campaign that repeatedly floods to mind is that of the cyborg After watching what has happened in Iowa and especially here in New Hampshire, the metaphor for the Clinton campaign that repeatedly floods to mind is that […]
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BRADLEY ON OBAMA
So So Bill Bradley gave an impromptu pep talk to about 80 Barack Obama volunteers in a small, business courtyard just off Main Street in downtown Concord. Standing on a granite bench, he was really quite moving. (Our our Mark Schmitt might have got a bit misty, if he were there.) After talking about Obama’s […]