Texas: Down Ballot

Texas is not accustomed to playing such a crucial role in picking a Democratic presidential nominee. But Texas Democrats are looking at the race from another perspective as well: Which Democratic presidential candidate is mostly likely to help local candidates in a state that has been hostile territory for Democrats? It is a crucial question [...]

Westerville: Part Two

Following up on Karen’s post. The program at Westerville Central High began an hour late, due, in part to Obama’s tardiness from this morning and to the time it took for him to greet inside and outside overflow supporters here. Yesterday, the campaign ran out of the 1,700 tickets they allotted for this “smaller” town [...]

Youngstown

So that last stop in Westerville was not an aberration. With less than 48 hours to go before two primaries in which her campaign’s survival is very much at stake, Hillary Clinton is indeed much more combative than I have seen her before in this race–and so are her audiences. The crowd in a high [...]

Outrageous

This is an unbelievable (and not in a good sense) editorial by Charlotte Allen in the Washington Post today. The basic gist: women are silly for liking Obama and expressing it (or expressing enthusiasm in general for anything). Hillary Clinton is a terrible candidate and women on the whole are dumb. Two excepts: Take Sen. [...]

Westerville: Part One

By a weird scheduling fluke, both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama will be appearing in this small town outside of the Columbus today, at separate high schools and just a few hours apart. I’m with Clinton; Jay Newton-Small is with Obama. So that gives us a chance to give our Swampland readers the kind of [...]

Dickersonian

It still means something. (A history of the term here.) (And, just to be fair, Josh Green pinch hits for Wolfson here.)