Polls are closed, and NYT is saying Obama is making a stronger than expected showing. It could be a long night, which means it sounds like a perfect opportunity to open a comment thread. UPDATE: Clinton wins. Waiting to see how big. UPDATE2: The Secretary of State’s latest tabulation.
Investigative reporter David Barstow took questions from readers about his remarkable story in Sunday’s NYT. Some highlights: Q. Thanks for this one Mr Barstow. I guess if I have a question it’s: What took you so long? — Daniel Abraham, Long Beach, Calif. A. Thanks for the question, Mr. Abraham. This article would have come [...]
This afternoon, Bill Burton, the Obama campaign’s spokesman, sent this statement out response to the new conservative independent expenditure campaign attacking Obama as weak on crime. The anti-Obama effort, which has not yet announced its budget, is being led by Floyd Brown, who created the Willie Horton ad in 1988. Floyd Brown and the garbage [...]
What is it about Bill Clinton that he needs to make headlines whenever his wife seems to be doing well? I’m watching Clinton on TV denying that he said what he said yesterday–that the Obama campaign played the race card against him. Amazing. Clinton still doesn’t get the real problem here. He was (a) a [...]
I know it’s Earth Day. John McCain reminded me, the “Today Show” reminded me, heck, Crate & Barrel just sent me an e-ad reminding me that I can celebrate Earth Day by “refresh[ing] your drink with our exclusive 100% recycled hand blown glass.” I didn’t realize, however, until Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton reminded me, [...]
Foreign policy is not something that I have an especially sophisticated understanding of, but, well, I’m not sure how sophisticated this is, either: “I want the Iranians to know that if I’m the president, we will attack Iran (if it attacks Israel),” Clinton said in an interview on ABC’s “Good Morning America.” “In the next [...]
• “SDS was fueled by the “high-octane naïveté of self-important young people [who wanted to] sweep away the elites — military, business, political — and replace them with a new elite: students.” [Chronicle Review] • “He would tell you, ‘I don’t think you should get on this one, this one is too close to where [...]
It’s worth taking a moment to note here that while tomorrow’s headlines will almost certainly be about the popular vote, the delegate math in Pennsylvania is (as it was in Texas) an entirely different proposition–and it could take a while to sort that one out. Areas with strong Democratic performance in the past get extra [...]
Just so everyone knows, I polled a bunch of journalists last night and we decided that Hillary needs to beat Obama by at least six points in Pennsylvania for it to be a win. You say a win is a win is a win? Ha, ha. A win is what we say it is. By [...]
The man who brought us Willie Horton is back. Floyd Brown, who created the 1988 political ad, has announced the beginnings of a multi-pronged, long-range independent expenditure campaign against Barack Obama. He has started four organizations to serve as front groups, plans to blast out a fundraising email to between 3 and 7 million conservatives, [...]
