Yeah, yeah….I know everyone’s crazed about the New Hampshire primary, but this New York Times piece about tensions between Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and “President” Mahmoud Ahmadinejad seems a significant bit of good news. The story, essentially, is that with the US intelligence community’s NIE on the Iranian nuclear program …
The Other Effect of a Hillary Loss in NH
I just got a call from a conservative marketing consultant I know. He is in a panic. “I am in the midst of a major crisis with a lot of people,” he said. “Hillary Clinton is going to die today. Do you know what that means for conservative fundraising all over America?”
I do. Big trouble. For most of the year, Hillary has been the only …
Pondering Hillary
Have some downtime today while my two candidates (McCain and Romney) drink coffee and recharge their batteries (as it were). Sitting with a conservative opinion journalist, talk turned to Hillary. “I can’t believe the glee with which the press corps treating the Hillary implosion,” he said. “You know, I’ve always thought that you …
SwampCast Bulldog Edition: State of NH
Watch Scherer predict… in bed!
UPDATE: Or just watch it here:
SwampCast Extra: Huckamob in Concord
I have a new theory about New Hampshire primary politics. The most powerful player is … the fire marshal.
Fellow swamper Michael Scherer, videographer Caitlin Thompson and I went up to Concord yesterday afternoon to catch Mike Huckabee at an event where they were going to name a hamburger (a Huckaburger) in his honor. When we got …
Trail Notes
As the good citizens of New Hampshire turn out in what are expected to be record numbers on this balmy winter’s day, a couple of notes from the end of the trail:
– I was traveling with the McCain campaign yesterday — part of it with the candidate on the Straight Talk Express, the other part on the press bus, which broke down on the …
Hillary to Obama: You’re No MLK
Hillary Clinton’s Dash for Cash
Political donors are the ultimate in fair-weather friends, but Hillary Clinton, having spent big and come up empty in Iowa, has never needed them more. And that could be a problem.
Obama’s Other Life
One of the more extraordinary stories of the Obama campaign has been playing out behind the scenes over the past week as the candidate has been working on a daily basis to try to calm things down in his father’s homeland and his grandmother’s home, Kenya, where a contested election has led to riots.
On January 1, two days before the …
McBamas
Hunting the elusive McBama (also known as a “unicorn”):
The guy in the purple “I’m a health care voter” shirt stands up to ask a question at a John McCain town hall in Exeter, N.H. “I am embarrassed by our current administration,” he begins, before he is interrupted by applause, “Why can’t this country get Osama bin Laden? I need
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Oh Be Quiet
Bill Clinton on his wife today: “I wish I could make her younger, taller…a man.”
Part II: Bill Clinton at Dartmouth College tonight
“This campaign is playing out exactly as I thought it would.All the pundits, as usual, are wrong. I always [told Hillary] ‘You’ll have a hard time winning the primaries, but if you get nominated, you’ll
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