His critics say Rudy Giuliani has just one message, which is to remind voters incessantly of 9/11 and his role on that horrible day. Which brings us to the latest missive from Rudy’s campaign, this notice of a union endorsement….. International Brotherhood of Police Officers Local 911 Endorses Giuliani for President Daytona Beach, FL – [...]
Eleven and a half months ago – and God, I can’t believe it’s been that long – I watched Barack Obama rally a crowd of nearly 3,000 at Columbia, South Carolina’s convention center. It was the week after he’d entered the race and pundits were still amazed at the size of the audiences he could [...]
A brief written account here. And here’s a video of McCain telling Phil Gramm about how he came to ask for ABBA’s “Take a Chance on Me” as his exit music. (He mentions “Johnny B. Goode” as the usual number; they also, for the record — and as my piece reports — used the theme [...]
The Washington Post has a lengthy oped today from Frederick Kagan, General Jack Kean and Michael O’Hanlon about the “success” of the surge. And while it’s more nuanced than the simplistic–We’re Succeeding!–line that John McCain is peddling on the campaign trail, it is still blindly and deceptively optimistic, given the staggering complexities of the situation [...]
Politico.com has a behind-the-scenes look at the Clinton ground game by Las Vegas Sun reporters J. Patrick Coolican and Michael J. Mishak.
Barack Obama at Ebeneezer Baptist Church. Rather than merely linking to it, I thought it would be appropriate to publish every word. I do this in memory of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the greatest moral leader of my lifetime: The Scripture tells us that when Joshua and the Israelites arrived at the gates of [...]
In the beginning, Hillary Clinton told no stories. She was all policy, all the time. And, as I traveled about Nevada with her on Friday, her stump speech was still a hearty meal of mind-numbing programs and proposals–but it was far more compelling now, leavened, as it has been, increasingly, since Iowa, with stories about [...]
Widespread electronic voting machines problems hit South Carolina’s seaside towns Saturday, causing election officials to enlist sheriff’s deputies to rush additional paper ballots to polling places, according to Horry County Republican Party officials. The officials said they were confident that nearly every person who wanted to vote was able to cast a ballot. “People who [...]
It’s raining really hard this morning here in Columbia, and snow is expected in the socially conservative northern part of the state. All of this could put a damper on turnout, which has already shown signs of being pretty lackluster, with absentee balloting being no better than average in two of the three largest South [...]
I arrived yesterday in the Palmetto State ahead of the Democratic and Republican primaries here and I was surprised to see on tv today a commercial for Buddy Witherspoon, a conservative Republican and Lexington orthodontist who is challenging Senator Lindsey Graham in the GOP primary here. The fact that Graham has a challenger is no [...]
