I’m sure this is simply a coincidence, but the Center for Responsive Politics has discovered that the candidate who gets their support tends to be the one who gave them the most money:
For those elected officials who had endorsed a candidate as of Feb. 25, the presidential candidate who gave more money to the superdelegate received the
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Canadian TV (CTV) caused a kafuffle yesterday when they reported that a “senior member” of Obama’s campaign called the Canadian Ambassador to the U.S. Michael Wilson to warn him that the Illinois Senator would be taking some “heavy swings” at NAFTA but not to take such language too seriously as it’s all just “campaign …
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A tour of the ethnic groups:
Excellent reporting from the Washington Post on the not very happy members of the Sunni Awakening Councils.
The local election law–the most important piece of legislation passed by the Iraqi parliament–is shot down by the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council, the Shi’ite faction favored by the U.S. Fears that …
Back when I was a cub reporter at a newspaper bureau in Easthampton, Mass., my colleague and I would play this game: First, come up with an obscure 10-dollar word, then see which one of us could get it past our editors and into the paper. The planning was always more fun than the execution. I think the best I ever achieved was “dun,” …
In the new issue of dead-tree TIME, I take a look at the role that Bill Clinton–once considered his wife’s best asset–has played in putting her campaign into the predicament in which it now finds itself. Also, what he is privately trying to do to fix it.
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John McCain continues to fight a different war in Iraq than…the U.S. military. It is a simple war of good v. evil, us v. Al Qaeda. There are aspects of truth to what he says–we’ve had good success this past year in the fight against the local branch of Al Qaeda, which the military calls Al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI). But we’ve had that …
This analysis, passed along by GWU’s John Sides, confirms what we’ve been hearing anecdotally: Early voting in Texas does not bode well for Hillary Clinton. It is up dramatically in counties with large African-American populations, as well as those with more highly educated and affluent voters–in other words, in areas that would be …
He’s for Clinton. He’s for Obama. He’s for Clinton. He’s not saying. And, wait, yup, he’s for Obama.
John Lewis FINALLY makes up his mind, telling the Atlanta Constitution Journal that neither Clinton nor Obama are returning his calls at this point.
“I did it because I felt I had to support Mrs. Clinton because of our friendship,”
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The House Oversight Committee has just asked the Justice Department to investigate Roger Clemens for perjury and making false statements.
We believe that his testimony in a sworn deposition on February 5, 2008, and at a hearing on February 13, 2008, that he never used anabolic steroids or human growth hormone, warrants further
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Charlie Black is a lobbyist, and he’s kind of a big deal. He runs an entire firm, BKSH & Associates, that represents companies as varied as General Motors, AT&T and the steel industry. He is hard wired to the Republican power grid, the kind of guy who is on the short list people call when they want to find out what is happening in the …
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There will be plenty of eulogies from people who knew William F. Buckley better than I did–and certainly from those who agreed with him more than I did. But he was an honest man, an actual conservative–who, in the end, was quietly appalled by George W. Bush’s radicalism, in Iraq and when it came to the federal budget. He was a lovely …
A major figure in 20th century American political culture has died. William F. Buckley, Jr., godfather of the modern conservative movement and founder of National Review, was 82. We can expect abundant metaphors in the obituaries pointing out how Buckley’s death coincides with the waning and, in some views, the collapse of the movement …
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Juan Cole says all that needs to be said about Barack Hussein Obama’s lovely name. But, of course, more will be said, most of it garbage and innuendo. My guess is, the only way to confront this incipient, embarrassing know-nothingism is to do exactly what Cole has done here…and to make the name as familiar, and unthreatening, to …
