If the New Hampshire Democratic Party’s 100 Club dinner is any bell weather – Barack Obama will handily win here. When Obama, the dinner’s last speaker, took the stage the crowd surged forward chanting “O-bam-a” and “Fired Up, Ready to Go!” So many people pressed toward the stage that an announcer asked people to “please [...]
In this week’s issue of dead-tree TIME, I take a look about New Hampshire’s much talked-about “undeclared” voters and discover … they are Democrats.
Those words, spoken by Bill Clinton, sum up the enormous challenge facing Hillary Clinton as she tries to halt Barack Obama’s Iowa momentum in New Hampshire. Five days is a blink of an eye; ten days a languorous stroll by comparison. She needs to change the narrative, give voters in New Hampshire a reason to [...]
You could tell things were different the instant he came to the back of the bus. Always a bit of a wisecracker, McCain was positively giddy, bouncing in his seat and miming a boxing stance at the mere mention of Mitt Romney. Asked about the spin coming out of Romney’s campaign, that people voted for [...]
The Edwards campaign has started attacking Obama as a tool of the corporate interests. In fact, Obama did negotiate a deal–with corporate interests–that enabled the Illinois legislature to take a baby step toward expanding coverage. It would not have happened if Obama had followed the Edwards screw-you-corporate-pig theory of negotiation…But then, I don’t believe for [...]
I have a piece on John McCain and the improbable fact that he just might be on the verge of becoming the GOP frontrunner again.
The good news: When the Clinton press plane landed at 4 a.m. this morning in Manchester, the campaign had arranged for plenty of cars for hire to take us to our hotels. Bad news: The drivers (not the campaign) charged us $150 apiece for a 10-minute ride. NOTE TO HIGH SHERIFFS: I’ve got a receipt.
is making it pretty clear that things are about to get a lot rougher.
And a new day. Update: I wrote this in the heat of the moment after midnight last night without checking the entry poll numbers. Josh Marshall points out that second-choicers seemed to go to Edwards. Not sure how extensive or accurate the entry polling was, but it does seem clear that I was wrong to [...]
Greetings from Manchester, New Hampshire where, bleary-eyed, the Edwards caravan arrived this morning. At a rally Elizabeth Edwards likened her husband to Seabiscuit — the famed Depression-era race horse who overcame all kinds of handicaps to win race after race. “You saw how much attention some candidates got, how much money,” she said. “Well, it [...]
