Mark Penn: The Poll is Half Full!

Clinton campaign just sent this out: Memo from Mark Penn: Where Is The Bounce? Two polls that had the race within a few points before the Iowa caucuses have the race tied after the Iowa caucuses. In today’s CNN/WMUR poll, Hillary Clinton and Senator Barack Obama are tied at 33 percent – their last two [...]

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Huckabee’s Photo-Op Campaign

When the railbirds close the book on the 2008 Republican nomination fight, someone will have to figure out whether or not Mike Huckabee’s photo-op campaign made any sense. Here he is, as talented a political orator as America has seen in a decade, and he spends much of his day creating fun pictures for the [...]

Obama’s Nashua Event

I ended up going with Joe to the event which was so big — they expected 1,500 and got more than 3,000 – the campaign had to open up a second gymnasium where the overflow crowd watched on a hastily set-up monster tv screen. “We needed a bigger boat,” Obama joked, taking the stage, promising [...]

Clinton, Hillary

My colleague Nancy Gibbs and I* next went to Durham to await Hillary Clinton at an event she had scheduled for undecided voters. The venue was a little restaurant called the Bagelry, which could hold about 50 people. There were more reporters and camera crews there than voters–and the voters included some people who told [...]

Obama

I had planned to attend his rally at 10 a.m. at a Nashua high school, but can’t get anywhere near it. Traffic is quite literally backed up for miles. The parking lot was full an hour before the event, and people were standing in line in the snow. Joe is there, so he can tell [...]