Since March 3, the day before her dramatic "comeback," Hillary Clinton has repeatedly described herself and John McCain as the only candidates with the experience necessary to be commander in chief while simultaneously denigrating her … [Read more...]
Archives for March 6, 2008
Pennsylvania and Obama’s Big State Problem
Obama does have a big state problem. Its bizarre, but he wins really white and rural states, as he'll likely do in Wyoming this Saturday, and he wins states with large African-American populations. He does well in caucuses … [Read more...]
Mandates, politics, special interests
Reading the Washington whippersnappers today -- Matt Yglesias, Ezra Klein, Brian Beutler -- makes me think that most folks think about the politics of mandates backwards. We imagine that mandates will be politically controversial. That is … [Read more...]
Six weeks to figure out the future of the free world
To my mind, the biggest issues facing the Democrats at the moment are (1) will there be a unity ticket, and (2) what are we going to do about FL and MI? Let's take them in reverse order. The FL and MI situation is a big, big problem. … [Read more...]
Mass Bloggers Meeting, Saturday, April 19th
It's been a long time since we've all had a joint bloggers event, and it's time to change that. On Saturday, April 19th, Lynne, Mike and I are hosting a Blog Left Massachusetts event in Lowell. It's mainly going to be for fun, but we also … [Read more...]
Democratic Opportunity
Roll Call:The House seat recently vacated by former Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) is in danger of flipping to the Democrats in Saturday's special election, according to a poll conducted this week for Roll Call.The race is IL-14 and the … [Read more...]
An Open Letter to Members of the Democratic State Committee
My activism in the party has afforded me the opportunity to play a role at all levels of elective politics. I ran for an at-large seat on the Boston city council (in 2005, I lost by 2.5% points after earning nearly 30,000 votes as … [Read more...]
Boston Herald re-writes election results
This from the Boston Herald today: In New Hampshire, where Obama beat Clinton by 3 percentage points, Suffolk showed Obama winning by 5, compared with Zogby, which showed him leading by 13. http://www.bostonherald.com/ne... Figured I had … [Read more...]
Oh Canada! NAFTA-gate bites hand that feeds it…maybe
NAFTA-gate, as the Clinton camp calls it, may have been about them (or as much about them as Obama). Turns out the Canadian PM's Chief of Staff originally said that it was the Clinton campaign that had reassured the Canadian … [Read more...]
Why Hillary Shouldn’t Drop Out
Here, clearly, is the best and most easily understood reason for Hillary to stay in the race: Giants (10-6-0) 3 0 0 14 17 Patriots (16-0-0) 0 7 0 7 … [Read more...]