One of the more extraordinary stories of the Obama campaign has been playing out behind the scenes over the past week as the candidate has been working on a daily basis to try to calm things down in his father’s homeland and his grandmother’s home, Kenya, where a contested election has led to riots. On [...]
Hunting the elusive McBama (also known as a “unicorn”): The guy in the purple “I’m a health care voter” shirt stands up to ask a question at a John McCain town hall in Exeter, N.H. “I am embarrassed by our current administration,” he begins, before he is interrupted by applause, “Why can’t this country get [...]
Bill Clinton on his wife today: “I wish I could make her younger, taller…a man.” Part II: Bill Clinton at Dartmouth College tonight “This campaign is playing out exactly as I thought it would.All the pundits, as usual, are wrong. I always [told Hillary] ‘You’ll have a hard time winning the primaries, but if you [...]
Joe makes some great points, and it’s a reminder to all of us that these moments don’t always get the same reaction from the public that they do out of the assembled media. We feed on each other’s reactions sometimes, and tend to make spot judgments that prove to be totally off the mark. I [...]
Caitlin Thompson and I went to a McCain town hall yesterday, and this is what we saw:
David Von Drehle writes in with a scene from a Romney rally: A candidate never knows, when inviting questions from the audience, what might come up. In one of the last Q&As of the long New Hampshire campaign, Mitt Romney was asked what he would do, as president, about the pet population crisis. “I was [...]
I think I’ve now been asked 53 times whether Hillary Clinton’s emotional moment helps her, hurts her, will cause the ozone hole to expand and the polar ice caps to melt. Who knows? My reaction was that she’s exhausted, in a tough race and held things together very well under the circumstances. In any case, [...]
Wanted to add a quote from that exchange with McCain that didn’t get captured on video. Responded to Ramesh’s question about staying in Iraq for “a hundred years,” he said, we’d stay there as long as needed, whether that’s [exact quote here] “one hundred years, one thousand years, ten thousand years or until the earth [...]
Having covered a few of these presidential elections, it strikes me that there is a different feel to the crowds that show up to hear the candidates in the early weeks of 2008. In past elections, when you talked to people who were interested enough in the election to come out and hear the candidates, [...]
