His blowout victories yesterday in the Potomac Primaries have prompted Barack Obama’s campaign to finally embrace his frontrunner status. After weeks of downplaying expectations, even before contests where he led in the polls by 20+ percentage points, Obama campaign manager David Plouffe today said: “We believe that it’s next to impossible for Senator Clinton to [...]
Nearly lost in all the presidential primary news is the fact that two longtime congressional incumbents in Maryland–one of each party–were defeated by primary challengers who had big assists from outside organizations and the netroots. It’s the first time this has happened in this election cycle, but perhaps not the last: Maryland Democratic Rep. Al [...]
One of the meta-themes of the Democratic race has been the inability of either candidate to poach heavily from his/her opponent’s most reliable voting blocs. Virginia — a primary, mind you — seems to be ending that narrative. Exit polls show Obama won majorities of women voters, white male voters, voters earning under $50,000 and [...]
Filmed (“filmed”?) in the MSNBC green room. Meta!
That GOP pal weighs in to further the “we’re not afraid of Obama” meme: General elections aren’t Democratic primaries. Voters [vote on] their physical and economic security. Republican arguments typically appeal to more voters on those two issues… On national security, obviously, where we will have a considerable advantage, and on the choice between smaller [...]
• “The Senate today … will vote to legalize warrantless spying on the telephone calls and emails of Americans, and will also provide full retroactive amnesty to lawbreaking telecoms, thus forever putting an end to any efforts to investigate and obtain a judicial ruling regarding the Bush administration’s years-long illegal spying programs aimed at Americans.” [...]
So I was talking to a friend about how excited I was to be voting today: It’s actually going to count! Even though I live in DC! And my friend says, “DC is, like, 60 percent black. Obama’s gonna win. That doesn’t count.” I understand that the results are likely a foregone conclusion, but to [...]
Oh2dc, I think, tried to dig up the Mr. Show sketch I was talking about yesterday (the one about adults being all “hey, kids!”). I couldn’t find it, but, in the spirit of Potomac Primary day, I present this election-themed sketch: Also: UPDATE: Thank you Disenfranchised_Libertarian! Thank you! Hey Ana (and others) – It’s not [...]
Conventional wisdom has it that McCain’s only hope to win in the general election is for Hillary to undemocratically wrest the nomination from Obama, which would depress Democratic turnout in the general and provide McCain with an unpopular opponent. A Obama nomination would have too much emotional momentum, too much excitement, and contrast all-too-favorably against [...]
It turns out not all famous conservative talkers are McCain bashers. In an op-ed this morning, Ollie North comes to the defense of his fellow Naval Academy alum and tells reluctant conservatives not to do to McCain “what GOP ‘moderates’ did to me” in North’s failed 1994 bid for a U.S. Senate seat in Virginia. [...]
