I recently said that one shouldn't be too harsh on the Clinton campaign, but this may have been premature:Good lord, let鈥檚 see if I have this right. The Clinton campaign decides to cede every post-Super Tuesday state to Obama under the theory that Texas and Ohio...
To step back a bit from the radical uncertainty espoused in my last post, let me say that I strongly agree with Hilzoy, Peter, and Matt on this point; the.
Prediction 1: If Obama wins the nomination and loses to McCain, Clinton supporters will angrily claim vindication, saying that it was obvious all along that Obama couldn't win. Prediction 2:.
In the thread below, commenter Dr. Zen suggests that Obama's apparent level of appeal to self-identified Republicans is a reason to be suspicious of him. This is becoming something a regular theme in case against Obama, followed by a suggestion that his rhetoric about bipartisanship and...
Today is the 65th anniversary of Joseph Goebbels' notorious Sportpalast speech, in which he called for "total war" against the Bolshevik peril, which had just turned back the German armies.
Apparently, pledged delegates totals are illegitimate, because some states have open primaries. Consequently, it is the responsibility of the superdelegates to overturn the preferred pledged delegate candidate if another candidate.
I wish I was making this up, but:The inference is that by winning the small red states with caucuses, but not the big blue states like California and New York, Obama is likely to repeat McGovern's blowout in the general election.[...]Any thoughts on the validity of...
A little Sunday morning Clemens-related levity.
When I picked up the New York Times last weekend, I thumbed through the sections, skimming the headlines and plotting out my reading plan. That is, until I came upon.
Congratulations of a sort are in order for Kosovo. As I understand it, a number of Western countries will shortly recognize the independence declaration, to the chagrin of Serbia and Russia. Serbia has a variety of means through which to play the spoiler, but will almost...
So Grover "Drown the Government in a Bathtub" Norquist looks forward to the possibility of depicting Barack Obama as a "shady Chicago socialist" in the general election. An impressive and.
I would like to think that this is too obvious to need pointing out, but as Hilzoy and Cole note, the idea that there's some nefarious sexism lurking in Obama's.