Just up on Time.com is this story I have written on Hillary Clinton’s not-quite-fired former chief strategist, the complications that come with all of his outside work and some questions that have been raised about his research methods. As I was writing the story, I happened to come across another story that Michael Duffy and [...]
In no small part, I guess, because people like me keep fueling it. But this answer to a running-mate question today from Reuters’ Arshad Mohammed was hardly what you would call Shermanesque: Let me just say, first of all, that Senator McCain is an extraordinary American, a really outstanding leader, and obviously, a great patriot. [...]
Not sure if this was expected or known in advance, but the announcement today that Elizabeth Edwards is joining the Center for American Progress as a senior fellow is striking in two ways. First, it’s great for CAP. Think tanks don’t often get the benefit of having famous and well-liked authors or thinkers on their [...]
At 2pm today, I’ll be on a Talk of the Nation panel talking about something that hasn’t gotten a lot of coverage lately: The state of political coverage. Adding to the headspinning symbolic veritgo: We’ll be broadcasting live from The Newseum, where — as you may have heard — my slippers represent the end of [...]
Senator Hillary Clinton just wrapped up her turn asking questions of General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker. In tone, demeanor and command of the facts, she was – I thought – very impressive. Without grandstanding, she fufilled her oversight role and made some soberly effective points about the failures of the surge and the problems with [...]
Interesting and informative liveblogging of the Petreaus and Crocker testimony at Democracy Arsenal. A deceptively simple but incisive point: Petraeus and Crocker have no problems projecting out the potential implications of leaving Iraq – but they refuse to make projections of what staying will look like. The NY Times is keeping a more straightforward account [...]
SCOOP! The Swamp blog has uncovered rare documentary evidence that the notoriously camera-shy (and reserved) HRC campaign chairman Terry McAuliffe is, in fact, an Obama supporter! Of course! I mean, he’s never been really definitive about his preference — there’s always been some wiggle room in there. I’m sure the campaign is devastated by this [...]
One bit of conventional wisdom in this election (which both the Obama and Clinton campaigns have bought into) is that the number of states holding caucuses (a less democratic procedure, for many reasons) have given Obama a real advantage. Today, liberal activist and Obama supporter Glenn Hurowitz and Wharton professor Gregory P. Nini–whose research on [...]
