Chris Cillizza over at The Fix has an intriguing post about Bill Richardson’s slow and steady progress towards the top tier of the Democratic field of presidential candidates. He’s raised a respectable amount of money, hasn’t spent it all, has a solid organization in Iowa and is polling a reasonably strong fourth both there and [...]
Joe Wilson endorses HRC. UPDATE:Officialish thing here. Via the INCREDIBLE HILLARY HUB!
This is the second notice I’ve received from CNN reminding/urging me to apply for credentials for the VERY IMPORTANT ULTRA COOL YOUTUBE DEBATE! It’ll be all internetty! For Re-Release: July 16, 2007 Press Credential Deadline for South Carolina Debate is THIS WEDNESDAY, July 18
That’s how much Barack Obama’s record-breaking campaign raised during the second quarter, according to this analysis by the Campaign Finance Institute. One of the most remarkable things about that number (as we have noted before) is how much of it–roughly one-third–came from small donors, who are not only a measure of early enthusiasm, but also [...]
I know, I know… But: The press shop of McCain ’08 just quit. I’m told the departures were amicable — more in sorrow than in anger, etc. McCain himself took the boys out a drink in New Hampshire Friday, where, my sources say, the mood was good if wistful.
Your eyes aren’t deceiving you. That’s how the headline reads above Bill Kristol’s piece in yesterday’s Outlook section of the Washington Post. Allowing that he’s exposing himself to ridicule, Kristol decides to take on not just conventional wisdom or the current polls but a growing consensus within his own party by suggesting that Bush’s presidency [...]
This is an excellent piece in the NY Times today about the tensions between the Sunni tribes recently recruited into the Iraqi police force and the Shiite-dominated Iraqi Army. And it raises the central moral question of the war: Does anyone doubt that these Sunnis and Shiites would be battling each other full-tilt if we [...]
