Thomas Schaller

Oh, this video about President Bush’s golf sacrifice for the troops is simply too precious not to send along. (Hat tip to my friend Oliver Griswold for alerting me to it. Warning: There are a coupla naughty words in there.) –Tom Schaller

I’m biased because I’ve known Tom Sheridan for a few years now and, by sheer coincidence, I happened to be having dinner with him, his partner (who is my real estate agent) and his cousin last night when this profile of him first posted on The Hill’s website. But there’s no denying that the progressive […]

I don’t know who is heckling I don’t know who is heckling John McCain during his economic speech this morning in Washington, but it really needs to stop. Every time the cameras and microphones pick up the sights or sounds of somebody shouting at McCain, followed reflexively by boos from the rest of the attendees, […]

Let’s stipulate right off the bat that there were some Let’s stipulate right off the bat that there were some unacceptably nasty comments, images and videos used to denigrate Hillary Clinton because she was a female candidate for president or just because she was a woman, period. But was sexism the reason for her failed […]

The New York Times has produced this stunning graphic of the location and magnitude of support for both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama (click for a larger version). You can see it for yourself and read the interesting captions, but the one that stood out most to me is that Obama’s overall net lead in […]

I should have gotten around to nakedly self-promoting this earlier in the week when it first posted, but I did one of those I should have gotten around to nakedly self-promoting this earlier in the week when it first posted, but I did one of those Salon “conversations” on the subject of race and the […]

Put aside message and money, and one realizes that Put aside message and money, and one realizes that Barack Obama won this thing because his strategists and field team, led by David Plouffe and aided considerably the Hildebrand-Tewes consulting team and a dose of targeting genius from Strategic Telemetry’s Ken Strasma, created a strategy designed […]

I’ve long been an advocate of candidates running together as a presidential and vice presidential slate through the primaries, something only I and Chuck Todd in this town seem to think makes sense. (I wrote a piece in 2005 advocating this strategy. He did too but the link is broken.) Anyway, now that Barack Obama […]

A few television commentators remarked last night on the fact that Barack Obama didn’t talk much about himself in his St. Paul speech. Oddly, last night was one moment when he would have been given wide berth for self-absorption on the level of, say, what Hillary Clinton delivered. (Go read friend-of-the-Prospect Mike Tomasky’s piece in […]