You may think you’ve heard and read all you care to about the presidential candidate “cattle call” at last weekend’s Democratic National Committee winter meeting (I sure did), but Harold Meyerson adds his typically insightful analysis in today’s Washington Post op-ed, where he explains how the presentations of the three leading …
Senate Republicans find themselves in a world of hurt over today’s headlines declaring that they have blocked debate over Iraq policy. They are still getting the hang of being in the minority, and it is dawning on them that when the subject at hand is an unpopular war, it’s not a good idea to shut things down with an argument over …
After Roger Simon raised the possibility that Obama and Clinton would skip some of the early candidate forums and debates, Hotline now reports that Clinton will indeed attend the first of them, a Carson City, Nevada, forum on Feb 21. It’s going to be a long, long campaign season for the 2008 hopefuls, who will be seeing a lot of each …
Terry Jeffrey’s article in National Review is a sign of what’s ahead for Rudy Giuliani in the GOP primary.
Today’s Washington Post has a preview of the Bush budget, in which the costs of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are projected at $145 billion in the coming year, drop to $50 billion in 2009 and $0 after that. Does OMB have a secret plan to end the war? Hope they tell the Pentagon about it.
In this campaign memo, Rudy Giuliani’s almost-campaign offers data to show their man is “uniquely positioned” in the Republican field. But you’ve got to wonder how some of those numbers–especially that eye-popping 76% approval among evangelicals–would hold up in the heat of a Republican primary, where his rivals would be certain to …
The view from a row in front of where Joe was sitting:
I, too, was struck by the quiet power of Obama’s speech. Quiet, literally. He didn’t have any of the hokey theme music the others did. His supporters didn’t even have any signs to wave. At some points during his speech, the crowd got so quiet that the only sound you heard was the …
I interviewed Hillary Clinton yesterday for a story that appears in the latest issue of TIME (fuller transcript here). Two things stood out to me. First, that Senator Clinton has distanced herself significantly from her husband on the issue of free trade. Here, for instance, is what she had to say about NAFTA, one of Bill Clinton’s …
Some of the thoughtful commenters to my earlier posting about the Kerry donors rushing to Obama have asked for a further discussion about the role of money in the 2008 presidential race, and why we in the media cover it so closely. The simple fact is, it matters more than it ever has, for reasons–mostly, a fast and brutal calendar–that …
In a presidential campaign where the table stakes are expected to be $100 million or higher, John Kerry’s decision not to run in 2008 is turning out to be a financial windfall for Barack Obama. I’m told he is picking up some of the biggest names from Kerry’s massive fundraising operation. Just a few who have flocked to the junior Senator …
My former colleague John Dickerson doesn’t recall things quite the way Fleischer testified. The discrepancy is good news and bad for the Libby defense.
The brand-new Hillary Clinton presidential campaign already feels like a White House operation. Even in a state where voters pride themselves on a famously blase attitude toward people who think they want to be President, she counts as a celebrity. On Saturday, the campaign booked a school gymnasium that could fit 1,800 for her first big …
This post is for the political horserace fans out there in Swampland. Everyone else may want to move on to the next post:
After a day following Mitt Romney through Waterloo and Dubuque (and getting a really interesting tour of an ethanol plant–wish I could have brought my 10-year-old son), I’m beginning to wonder whether this first …
