From this week’s dead tree edition, five up and coming Dems you may not have heard of, but odds are you soon will.
By popular demand (or least by commenter Kathy’s demand), here’s the seating chart. And as best I can recall from my brief glimpse of the floor yesterday, it would appear that commenter Trifecta nailed it. Rhode Island is indeed seated where I think Delaware originally was. Ah, if only it had been Jack Reed…
When McCain’s campaign started attacking Obama with jokes about Britney Spears and Paris Hilton, the Obama folks got all indignant. McCain was taking the “low road,” they said, “the same old politics.” Obama wasn’t about that kind of political combat, they argued, because he doesn’t just want to change the occupant in the White House, [...]
Yesterday, I noted that the Delaware delegation had just about the worst spot in the convention hall. Today, the DNC announces: ***MEDIA ADVISORY*** 2008 CONVENTION AMERICANS COMING TOGETHER FOR CHANGE Photo Opportunity Deleware Delegation ‘Sign Moving’ In Pepsi Center 9:15 am MT – Sunday August 24th DENVER– One day after Barack Obama named Joe Biden [...]
This long, excellent piece by David Leonhardt about Barack Obama’s economic philosophy is the responsible alpha to overpowering sludge-pile of irresponsible omegas that define political coverage in latter-day America. In fact, the length and complexity of the piece itself defines the dysfunction of our political culture: the problems we face are difficult and unprecedented, require [...]
From the AP’s Liz Sidoti: Obama has 14 states firmly in his column and three leaning his way, for a total of 228 electoral votes, while McCain has 17 states in hand with seven angled toward him, for a total of 200 electoral votes, according to an Associated Press analysis of state polls as well [...]
I spent some time yesterday talking about this with Obama campaign officials and some of the party bigshots what are starting to gather here in Denver. Here’s what they think.
