Thomas Schaller

Concord is a bit nuts early this afternoon. There was the Huckaburger event. McCain’s folks are readying right now for a 2 p.m. speech across the street in front of the state house. Obama’s and Clinton’s volunteers were outside with signs doing visibility, and I caught an impromptu volunteer rally speech by Obama endorser Bill […]

With New Hampshire voters headed to polls tomorrow, I think the key questions on each side are these: With New Hampshire voters headed to polls tomorrow, I think the key questions on each side are these: 1. If Barack Obama wins, as he is now expected to do, what sort of margin ratifies the narrative […]

I haven’t seen I haven’t seen John McCain yet, and regret that I missed his press conference in Urbandale on the eve of the Iowa caucuses. McCain didn’t spend much time in Iowa, but he’s all over the place here in New Hampshire. Tomorrow, he is holding rallies in seven major New Hampshire cities, starting […]

So I went to see Hillary at the Nashua North High School where Barack Obama spoke yesterday. A German reporter I know who was at both events said that his crowd was bigger, though some said hers was bigger at the start. But here’s what’s not in dispute: Hers was much, much smaller at the […]

When the final analysis of this Democratic primary is written, the story will be that a black man and white woman had a very similar, but not identical task: make their identity part of, but not the whole of the change they offered, and to sell that change by making it palatable to the country, […]

Isn’t it amazing, as Isn’t it amazing, as Harold hinted at below, that Obama is such a phenomenon at this point that you have Republicans complimenting him? Is it possible for one candidate to win two debates in a single night, even if he’s only entered in one? What’s also clear to me is, a […]

… I take an opportunity during one of the next tense exchanges and just say this: I’ll respond in a second, but I want to pause a moment to say something about Sen. Clinton. She was not only one of the most influential and important women in American history last century, but with her Senate […]

It’s now a tag-team WWF match: Change v. More of the Same Old Experience. Isn’t it amazing that Obama and Edwards are using precisely the same slogan that the Bill Clinton “war room” used daily to pump itself up and enthrall the voters 16 years ago? The ironies abound. –Tom Schaller

Wow. Get your kids out and put them in front of the TV: The Clinton Era officially ended at 9:34 p.m. EST when Edwards paired with Obama to bury Hillary as a non-agent of change. Wow, again. —Tom Schaller

Outside the Manchester Radisson I saw Outside the Manchester Radisson I saw Duncan Hunter being trailed by a media contingent of … none. So I went outside to see if I could get him to say something about the John McCain comeback and whether nominating the Arizona senator might spell doom for a party because […]