From President Jimmy Carter’s diary, Monday, August 11, 1980: Monday evening the convention began. There were heated debates on the rules question. When the vote came we did better than we had anticipated, getting 1,935 votes–about a 700+ vote margin over Kennedy. He called me shortly afterward to say he was going to withdraw his [...]
The money quote of the trailer for Sarah Palin’s new TLC reality show is “I’d rather be doing this than in some stuffy old political office. I’d rather be out here being free.” Either Sarah Palin has a poll that says Americans really want to elect a president who would rather be fishing, or the [...]
The excellent T.A. Frank reviews last night’s Reid-Angle debate and finds that the Senate Majority Leader has only a passing familiarity with English as it is spoken by his constituents. This is a chronic problem for Democrats, especially those who really care about the details of the legislation they are passing: they speak legislatese, a [...]
Despite all the hullaballoo about the potential for voter intimidation on Nov. 2, there is a greater danger to the integrity of the midterms–one that has received far less attention. As I write in a Time.com piece up today: During next month’s midterm elections, 33 states will allow a few million military and overseas voters [...]
A while back, when I was writing a piece about California’s races for Senate and governor, I was struck by how often the candidates talked about their pasts — both boasting about their own and questioning each others’. The pillar of Republican Senate hopeful Carly Fiorina’s résumé is her time in the business world; she [...]
The head of the controversial Office of Congressional Ethics, Leo Wise, announced today he’ll be leaving the office he helped to create to join the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi created the office two years ago in a bid to “drain the swamp” and tighten ethics standards. For [...]
I was struck by this comment by a voter in today’s New York Times account of last night’s U.S. Senate debate in Delaware: While Mr. Coons had broader range on issues and current events, he sometimes seemed mean-spirited. When Ms. O’Donnell asked whether a company he was connected to would benefit from the clean energy [...]
Exactly one week after a federal judge in Michigan ruled that health reform’s individual mandate is constitutional, a federal judge in Florida has decided it may not be. In a decision that clears that way for summary judgement hearing scheduled for Dec. 16, Judge Roger Vinson said the following charges made in the lawsuit have [...]
For the first time, TIME has assembled a roster of this year’s rising political stars–40 candidates, strategists, leaders and office-holders under 40 years of age. You can check out the list, which includes micro-profiles and honoree interviews, here. Best choice? Worst choice? Who’d we miss? (Bonus: Time.com has also put together a gallery of the [...]
