Despite significant internal and external objections, the North Carolina GOP still plans to run a controversial ad next week that includes the comments of Jeremiah Wright. Both John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee, and Mike Duncan, the national party chairman, have called for the ad to be pulled. On Thursday afternoon, a McCain aide was [...]
Jeremiah Wright is back, and unrepentant. Here’s part of what he has to say for himself: The blowup and the blowing up of sermons preached 15, seven, six years ago and now becoming a media event, not the full sermon, but the snippets from the sermon and sound bite having made me the target of [...]
Not exactly winning over any more of the clingy God-and-guns blue collar crowd, but perhaps the first candidate to completely dominate the coveted Adderall-and-iPhones hipster crowd, Obama has been endorsed by Superchunk and Arcade Fire. They’ll be playing at a North Carolina “early vote” rally May 1 and 2.
Per McCain’s senior adviser, Charlie Black, who was just now reading through his BlackBerry. “The ad has been pulled,” he said. “I don’t think it ever ran, except on the web.” UPDATE: The North Carolina GOP says that Black’s report is not true. “I don’t know where that’s coming from, but it’s not the case,” [...]
Well, at least they were thinking ahead: The CIA concluded that criminal, administrative or civil investigations stemming from harsh interrogation tactics were “virtually inevitable,” leading the agency to seek legal support from the Justice Department, according to a CIA official’s statement in court documents filed yesterday. It’s a grimly unsurprising article, one that makes clear [...]
Clinton raised the $10M that Terry McAuliffe promised. $10M, with an average donation of $100. Or so she says.
Over at Huffpost, Sam Stein has an interview with former Swampland guest blogger Mudcat Saunders on Obama’s difficulties with white working class voters. He blames part of it on trade, and has this to say on “bittergate”: “I think it is absurd,” Saunders said of “bitter-gate.” “I think it is the prevailing wisdom of the [...]
Via Andrew. It’s amazing how many Americans I meet actually believe this swill. Incredibly depressing, and it’s only just begun.
I’ve been talking to people on both Democratic campaigns, and Democratic leaders who aren’t taking sides, to try to figure out how and when this race is likely to be over. In the dead-tree TIME that comes out tomorrow, I have a story about the three scenarios.
