presidential race

The Iowa Independent’s Lynda Waddington attended a GOP picnic in eastern Iowa on Friday, where Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.) — frequently mentioned as a potential 2012 presidential candidate — addressed the audience before heading to a campaign event for Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa).
Declaring that resistance from Republicans and conservatives in the coming months would determine [...]

Manny Miranda, the chairman of the Third Branch Conference and the author of a letter that has asked Senate Republicans to consider a “Democratic filibuster” against Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, just spoke at a Heritage Foundation luncheon for conservative bloggers. One point he hammered home was that questions about Sotomayor’s 2001 “wise Latina” speech [...]

Jonathan Martin plugged this speech from A.B. Culvahouse, the head of Sen. John McCain’s 2008 vice presidential vetting project, and it was a fascinating look into how such decisions are made. Point one: Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) was seriously enough considered by McCain for the vetters to look into state “sore loser” laws that would [...]

I hadn’t watched John Ziegler’s interview with Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin about the mean mainstream media because one of the fringe benefits of the Obama-Biden victory was the right to not listen to Sarah Palin. Watching it now, though, is jarring.
The through-line of the Palin iconography that materialized on the campaign trail like some kind [...]

Who knows if this is true, frankly. But at The Huffington Post, Lawrence O’Donnell kinda-sorta says that Colin L. Powell, the former general and former secretary of state, is on the verge of endorsing Sen. Barack Obama.
How does O’Donnell know this? He never makes that clear, preferring to write with a cat-got-a-canary coyness that suggests [...]

For a random person with no role in the presidential election, William Ayers has drawn plenty of political attention lately. We try to focus on real issues here at The Washington Independent, but this site has still plunked down a few paragraphs on Ayers, and one from Matthew DeLong actually anticipated the Obama campaign’s [...]

Via our sister site, The Minnesota Independent. As the McCain campaign circles the wagons around it’s likely vice presidential nominee, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin — who is scheduled to speak tonight at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul — a couple of “hot mics” over at NBC picked up a brutally candid conversation between [...]