Obama’s campaign manager David Plouffe spent a little over an hour briefing the Washington press corps at the DNC today. In a tone that could only be described as confident, Plouffe laid out their General Election strategy in a power point slide show. Here’s a brief summary: 1) Hold the states that Kerry won in [...]
I write about the stupidity of Blackberry politics, the AP writes about two candidates failing the authenticity contest, Jay Newton-Small has a piece today about how Obama may be acting like the “typical politician” he rails against. Now Dan Balz weighs in on the same theme, also hoping for better: Gone in the early stages [...]
I’ve been reluctant to comment on the terrific job of negotiating with the North Koreans that Christopher Hill has done–mostly because of a conflict of interest: my son, a foreign service officer, has been on Hill’s staff for the past year. But the kid is moving on to his next assignment and so I feel [...]
Jay might think that a terrorist attack (heaven forfend, etc) would “probably” benefit McCain, but polling on the issue in terms of party* suggests the odds are even — granted, the data are a year old, but it’s not like the Republicans have gotten more popular during the interval. What’s more, if we take the [...]
