Not-for-much-longer DNC Chairman Howard Dean just held a conference call with America’s bloggers — or, as Gov. Sarah Palin would have it, “kids in pajamas sitting in the basement of their parents’ homes.” Over the rumble of the washing machine, I asked him about the successes and failures of More…
Following their high-profile meeting today in Chicago, President-elect Barack Obama and his former rival, Sen. John McCain, issued this statement:
Republican party officials filed a federal lawsuit on Thursday seeking to overturn the ban on “soft money,” or unlimited campaign contributions, that is the primary law their presidential candidate, Sen. John McCain, was famous for.
As the Wall Street Journal reports today, the Republicans, after losing the presidency to More…
PHOENIX — In late February 2007, when Illinois Sen. Barack Obama asked for a private meeting with Arizona Democratic Gov. Janet Napolitano, it was the ambitious, smart and politically savvy Napolitano who was making political history. She was the nation’s first woman chair of the National Governors Assn.
Three months More…
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin made lemonade out of lemons today by auctioning off on the Internet the fancy wardrobe purchased for her failed vice-presidential run, and raking in more than a million dollars — which she immediately donated to the Needy Governors’ Winter Clothing Fund.
The feisty four-eyed political phenomenon More…
A number of sites have featured a hypothetical electoral map entitled “This Is What the 2008 Electoral Map Would Look Like if the Election Were Decided by 18-29 Year Olds.” Needless to say, it’s a very blue map.
I spent the weekend poring over the CNN exit polls More…
The stunning run of leaks against Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin from the anonymous ranks of McCain campaign aides has finally elicited a response in kind. Members of the Palin entourage, who, while stunningly garbed in Dolce, wou
ld not allow their names to be used, have fired back against charges More…
Many are fascinated by the behind-the-scenes campaign news/gossip reported in Newsweek’s election special. One of the more interesting tidbits to me was that both candidates were somewhat uncomfortable with the format of the presidential debates.
Newsweek reports this quote from Barack Obama while he was preparing for a debate — More…
While much of the Republican establishment bloviates about the injustice of President-elect Barack Obama’s selection of Rep. Rahm Emanuel for his chief of staff, the younger, smarter elements within the GOP are getting to work. Their mission: modernizing the Republican Party by eliminating the structural and technological More…
OK, with the caveat that exit polling is voodoo and probably reflective of a Democratic bias, there’s something interesting in the guts of CNN’s exit poll from Tuesday.
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