In a shocker surprise endorsement, Maria Shriver — First Lady of California and Ahh-nold’s wife, just showed up at the Michelle Obama, Oprah, Caroline Kennedy rally in Los Angeles. She’s taking the stage now, more to come. Update: Now that I’ve finally made it to LAX… Shriver, wearing a suede brown western-style jacket, explained her [...]
All this talk about a “pause” in the troop reductions has me wondering whether things are starting to go south in Iraq again. First, there’s the obvious: the twin pet-market bombings in Baghdad today apparently carried out by women with Down syndrome. This, I’m sure, will give hawks greater screech when it comes to staying-and-fighting [...]
It’s been six months since the last congressional corruption scandal (ahem, Senator Stevens?). So for those who might have be thinking the Abramoff era was coming to an end, today’s statement out of the National Republican Congressional Committee should perk you up. From NRCC Chairman Tom Cole: ”As part of our ongoing efforts to institute [...]
Obama this morning held a press conference with reporters in Los Angeles where he made it clear that he believes that the increasingly likely candidacy of Senator John McCain in the GOP race will help Obama win the Democratic contest. Obama made his case on two fronts. First, that his early opposition to the war [...]
On Thursday afternoon, political reporters across the country received a gushing email from the Republican National Committee, with a big picture of Barack Obama next to the words “Obama: Most Liberal Senator In 2007.” It was a reference to the National Journal, Washington’s big-deal political trade magazine, which released its annual bipolar rankings of the [...]
In the cover story of the issue of dead-tree TIME that hits newsstands today, our colleague David Von Drehle takes a sharp look at the youth vote. In election and after election, campaigns have talked about getting these elusive voters to the polls, but Barack Obama seems to have found a way to do it–at [...]
