Matt Bai

Sen. Barack Obama is ending this campaign just like he started it — as the coolest guy in the room.
Obama’s calm vibe is a recurring theme in campaign coverage. Flying on his plane this season, I have often been struck by his relative serenity amid his hard-working aides, amped supporters and the constant surveillance of [...]

Matt Bai’s long article on Sen. Barack Obama in this Sunday’s New York Times Magazine is already reverberating among news junkies. There’s plenty of political and racial points to debate.
One passage really caught my eye,  because I attended the same small-town Obama event in southwestern Virginia that Bai describes. Pardon the long excerpt, but Bai [...]