Ends and beginnings bring out the best in political writers. Last night produced two pearls. Ron Fournier, the AP’s reigning master, comes through with this obit of the Clinton campaign. And Michael Powell gets his second person reporter voice into a narrative front page Obama profile in the New York Times. Both are worth the [...]
At least, it looks that way, though as one Clinton associate notes: “It’s not done with Bill or Hillary Clinton until it’s done.” Sources have confirmed to me the news, first reported by ABC, that Hillary Clinton is likely to drop out of the race by the end of the week. The decision comes after [...]
It’s a regional thing. TIME’s incomparable Jackson Dykman laid it out in a series of fascinating maps. Techno-whiz* Feilding Cage made it all work for the web. * The High Sheriff informs me the proper title is “interactive graphic designer.”
Patrick Ruffini, of the new group blog “Turning Right,” is one of the smartest GOP 2.0 bloggers I’ve read. He seems to be way ahead of the conservative curve when it comes to the intersection of politics and the internet and in calling foul on conventional wisdom. Knowing that, his analysis on just how wildly [...]
In the competition among despairing Republicans to sound the loudest alarm about the party’s prospects in the fall elections, retiring Virginia congressman Tom Davis has his eye on the prize. There’s something about retiring that transforms some politicians into non-stop truth-telling machines. Davis, who ran the National Republican Campaign Committee from 1998-2002, appeared before reporters [...]
Obama team responds, sorta, to McCain’s proposed joint town halls: “As Barack Obama has said before, the idea of joint town halls is appealing and one that would allow a great conversation to take place about the need to change the direction of this country. We would recommend a format that is less structured and [...]
She took at least a bit of Joe’s advice: “It has been an honor to contest these primaries with him. It is an honor to call him my friend. And let me be very clear, I know that Sen. Obama will be a good friend to Israel.”
He writes about last night’s episode here, and picks out this interesting moment: CNN’s pundits, on the other hand, were pretty much agog. Gloria Borger related an email from a Hillary supporter explaining why she had not conceded her loss or endorsed Obama: “This needed to be her night,” she quoted. To her left, Jeffrey [...]
I suspect this statement was aimed at Hillary Clinton, more than those remaining 115 or so supers: Washington D.C. – Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, DGA Chairman Joe Manchin and DNC Chairman Howard Dean today issued the following statement: “We have come to the end of an exciting primary and caucus [...]
