Christian right leaders are abuzz today because a new online candidate guide that has been posted by Focus on the Family Action, the political arm of Jim Dobson’s conservative Christian empire. The webpage offers edited excerpts of recent webcasts with the Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins, explaining where the candidates stand on “pro-family issues.” The [...]

One real benefit of the Clintons’ double-team strategy here in South Carolina is the way in which it allows them to play good-cop, bad-cop. In what was billed as a major economic address at Furman University in Greenville this morning, Hillary Clinton did not make a single reference to any of her Democratic opponents, instead [...]

Jay has this week’s cover story on John McCain’s emergence from the political tomb. Where do you go when you’ve already come back from the dead? Florida, of course. In a dead heat with Mitt Romney in the polls here in the Sunshine state, McCain faces the first state which can’t be won with town [...]

Let me get this straight: Obama wins Iowa. In a desperate move–unprecedented for an ex-President in American politics–Bill Clinton decides to impede Obama’s momentum by inserting himself into the campaign. He attacks Obama on an almost daily basis, sometimes falsely. He makes a spectacle of himself. And then he blames the press for not covering [...]

In which the author contemplates which party has a better chance to become the Party of Ideas in 2008.

Everyone covering the GOP primaries is happy to have an excuse to finally get out of the cold, but Florida presents its own set of challenges and conundrums.

I won’t insert any what-happens-in-Vegas jokes here, but the Barack Obama campaign is not letting go of its accusations that Hillary Clinton’s campaign engaged in voter suppression last Saturday in Nevada. Obama lawyer Bob Bauer has now put forward the contentions in a formal complaint to the Nevada Democratic Party, in which he says the [...]