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Usually the day after an election fight ends the victor can slap high fives and re-live the great moments of a winning campaign while the loser goes off to a corner for months to lick wounds, analyze what went wrong and hope history will prove them correct. But in this closely fought democratic battle for [...]
The Associated Press is reporting this morning (and Clinton camp denying) that Senator Hillary Clinton will tonight acknowledge that Barack Obama has claimed enough delegates to be the Democratic nominee for President. So at long last it appears this grueling contest may finally be over. Now the hard part – healing the fractured party. Again [...]
Yes. And I predict the end will come quickly, perhaps later this week. But, I know, I know: ‘What about all the Hillary Clinton supporters vowing to take their fight to the Democratic Convention in August?’ Fair point. I’ve been in both winning campaigns and losing campaigns, and as I’ve discussed before, there is nothing [...]
It may have taken a few years, but I finally have some respect for Scott McClellan, the former Bush White House Press Secretary. His new book (What Happened?), to be released in the next few days (some stores have them already – just ask Mike Allen of Politico), is a scathing insiders look from one [...]
It is very likely that tonight Sen. Barack Obama will capture the majority of elected and pledged delegates to the Democratic national convention. However, he’ll still be considerably short of hitting the magic number of 2,025, which is needed to nominate. This is a very critical juncture for the Obama campaign. More important than the [...]
The results in the West Virginia showed a problem for Barack Obama as he moves into general election mode against John McCain. However, yesterday’s endorsement by former North Carolina Senator John Edwards is step number one at fixing that problem. John Edwards is a walking, talking, living, breathing example of who Barack Obama will need [...]
Voters in West Virginia and Kentucky are heading to the polls right now to choose between Sen. Hillary Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama as the Democratic nominee. While the national media is focused on this race, I think it’s a bore. We know the outcome already: Hillary Clinton will win both states by double digits, [...]
As a young reporter covering politics in Louisiana, Arkansas and Texas, I stood in awe as I watched a young, vibrant and charismatic politician stand in the heart of Old Dixie and talk passionately about race relations in America and the importance of getting beyond the old racial divides which split our nation and made [...]
On the upside, I DID predict a split. On the downside (for my prognosticating abilities), I was wrong about Wednesday being Groundhog Day with another six weeks of campaigning. The clock is ticking and it may be a matter of days before Sen. Clinton recognizes the obvious and begins a move to the exits. This [...]
Unless you’ve spent time in Louisiana, it is likely you cannot pronounce his name. It doesn’t matter. Soon, all you’ll have to do is call him Congressman! Don Cazayoux has really accomplished the unthinkable in winning the 6th District of Louisiana’s House seat, a seat which had been in Republican hands for 33 years. This [...]
Will voters in North Carolina and Indiana bring some finality to the Democratic race for President? Don’t count on it. All indicators look to a split decision (www.realclearpolitics.com). The poll of polls shows a 7-point lead for Obama in NC and a 5-point lead for Clinton in Indiana. Unless Barack Obama can pull a rabbit [...]
The Rev. Jeremiah Wright has now forced himself back into the news by his self proclaimed redemption media tour. From PBS to an appearance in the lion’s den of the national media at the National Press Club in Washington yesterday, he has not only hurt his favorite candidate for president, Barack Obama, but has cast [...]
I told ya so. Hillary Clinton kept her campaign momentum yesterday with a 10-point win over Barack Obama in the Pennsylvania primary, keeping her and her supporters’ hopes alive for another few weeks. The underlying math, however, remains her greatest obstacle. After the big win she still trails Obama in pledged delegates, number of states [...]
Voters all across Pennsylvania are heading to the polls today in what appears to be near record numbers. In many ways it seems as if the Democratic nomination has come down to this all-important upper mid-west/east coast state that is so difficult to predict. Polls, as they have been since the beginning of this contest, [...]
After a week sitting in for my friend Bill Press on the nationally syndicated The Bill Press Show (www.billpresshow.com ), I have come to the same conclusion that DNC Chairman Howard Dean has: Democrats need a nominee and they need one as soon as possible! Everyday that the nomination fight goes forward John McCain has [...]
In an effort to take their successful negative campaign to the next sleazy level, the Clinton campaign stooped to compare the inspiring Democratic front runner Barack Obama to the political hack Special Prosecutor Ken Starr. Are you kidding me?! The Politico is reporting that chief hammer man for the Clinton’s, Howard Wolfson, made the comparison [...]
Barack Obama may sincerely want to change the bitter tone in Washington and across the country. He may indeed want to banish the politics of personal destruction and change the way Americans perceive their elected political leaders. But to do that he will first need to figure out a way to fight the same as [...]
For anyone (like me- read last post) who thought Hillary Clinton was plotting a graceful exit from the presidential contest should she lose in Texas or Ohio next week- think again. This past weekend HRC and her campaign team decided to dispel such talk and went for the jugular of front runner Barack Obama. The [...]
First, let me say that while watching last night’s debate, I knew I was seeing the next President of the United States. Whether Barack Obama’s momentum continues and he is the nominee, or if Hillary proves to be the real ‘Comeback Kid’ and wins decisively in Texas, Ohio and Pennsylvania and captures the nomination, BOTH [...]
Well the genie is out of the bottle for John McCain. If you missed it (highly unlikely, since it’s all over the place), The New York Times is reporting on a very special and ‘close’ relationship between McCain and a female lobbyist named Vicki Iseman who is 31 years his junior. All the cable chatterers [...]
Last night’s blowout win by Barack Obama in a state tailor made for a populist Clinton economic message could signal the beginning of the end for the New York senator’s ambitions. What I think all Democrats hope is that this does NOT mean she will unleash a PR nuclear war against Obama and Ohio. My [...]
Today, all across Wisconsin and Hawaii, voters are going to the polls,and Hillary Clinton’s campaign is hoping and fighting for a close second. In a state Clinton advisers originally wrote off, the Clinton campaign has gone into attack mode, alleging ‘plagiarism’ by the current Democratic front runner Barak Obama. With ‘Billary’ pummeling Obama as a [...]
So much for the theory that Barack Obama can’t win Latino voters, working class white voters and rural voters. In what could be the real turning point in the campaign for President, Barack Obama didn’t simply beat Hillary Clinton; he destroyed her campaign across the board in two big states that really matter. For the [...]
Big weekend for the Obama campaign and Hillary Clinton campaign goes through a shakeup. Realizing that she has lost front runner status with a weekend sweep of democratic primaries and caucuses Hillary Clinton is bringing in some new blood to try and get some energy back into the floundering campaign. Unfortunately replacing Patti Solis Doyle [...]
Well well well, Tsunami Tuesday hit and the race for the democratic nomination for President is no clearer today than it was before the first caucus-goer in Iowa strapped up his snow shoes and marched down to the town hall to cast his ballot. Both sides (Clinton and Obama) can rightly declare some measure of [...]
What will Mitt Romney wake up to tomorrow morning now that he’s dropped out of the Republican race for president? Will he be the Mitt Romney of old when he ran to the left of Ted Kennedy for Senate in 1994? Or will he remain the self styled ‘conservative alternative’ running as hard as he [...]
