Whether they end up with 56 seats, 57, or more, the Democrats in the Senate will control the fate of President Obama’s legislative agenda.
CNN’s Dana Bash has an interview: BASH: One more question about the election that just ended yesterday. If you look at some of the polls and you talk to people who are really crunching the numbers and specifically who voted what way and who was swayed one way or the other. Independent voters, suburban voters, [...]
From TIME’s Amy Sullivan: Barack Obama is going to win by such a comfortable margin—flipping what looks to be nine states into the Democratic column—that the battleground counties we profiled in TIME over the past few months weren’t exactly pivotal to the outcome. But how and why they broke does give us some sense of [...]
The end of a long campaign. One other thing: this is a country whose President-elect’s middle name is Hussein. That is a fact to be celebrated. I received an email from a young friend, an entrepreneur in Kabul, this morning. He said, “We are all smiling now,” and he attached a Pakistani press clipping–the Taliban [...]
The due date for the arrival of the second child for Obama campaign manager David Plouffe and his wife Olivia Morgan was last Saturday. UPDATE: Obama campaign strategist Anita Dunn writes: Our director of advance, Emmett Belliveau, who was the person in charge of Grant Park, became a first time Dad 10 days early on [...]
AP Uncalls Minnesota Senate Race WASHINGTON The Associated Press is uncalling the Minnesota Senate race. Republican Sen. Norm Coleman finished ahead of Democrat Al Franken early Wednesday in the final vote count, but his 571-vote margin falls within the state’s mandatory recount law. That law requires a recount any time the margin between the top [...]
This is a photo that Barack Obama took with his traveling press pool yesterday in Indianapolis, shortly before his campaign plane took off for the very last time.
ABC reports that Obama has asked Rahm Emanuel to be his chief-of-staff. No word if Emanuel will accept. As I type this I’m in a bus heading for Obama’s home where we are told he’ll spend the morning taking his girls to school and running errands. And so begins the first day of in the [...]
From my story just posted on Time.com: John McCain ended his campaign as he began it: On his own terms, in front of a relatively modest crowd. Before hundreds of Republican activists, the GOP nominee refused to play to partisan passions or score political points. In blunt terms, he praised the historic significance of Barack [...]
