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Veep Sweeps Week
With the Democratic presidential nomination seemingly in hand, Sen. Barack Obama announced this week that he has tapped veteran Democratic operative Jim Johnson to head his Vice-Presidential selection committee. The Republican nominee, Sen. John McCain, has already been busy vetting potential running mates. His campaign announced that the Senator will be hosting three frequently mentioned […]
McCain Gives and McCain Takes
Republican presidential nominee John McCain has been giving a series of speeches recently to both define himself to the general electorate and highlight his positions on issues that he intends to campaign on in the fall. The speeches also have the added benefit of generating news coverage for McCain as the Democratic primary race […]
Clinton Would Break the Party to Save It
The Clinton campaign has confirmed that it plans to use a May 31st meeting of the Democratic Party’s Rules and Bylaws Committee to try and seat the entire Michigan and Florida delegations at the Democratic National Convention in Denver this August. The campaign estimates that seating of the entire delegations from the two disputed […]
Obama Doth Protest Too Much
Was it a setup? That’s the question on cynical political observers’ minds after watching the Barack Obama and Rev. Jeremiah Wright saga play out on television this week. Wright, pastor of the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago and Obama’s spiritual mentor, returned to the national spotlight with a series of media appearances during […]
The Candidate and the Speech
The candidate stepped in front of a supportive crowd to deliver a speech on race. Earlier, his campaign had been confronted by racially tinged and inflammatory remarks made by someone not formally affiliated with the campaign in the heat of a national discussion on race relations. But he didn’t take the easy way […]
Obama 2012
As the Democratic Party primary hurtles toward the oblivion of a brokered nominating convention in August, concerned party insiders and heavyweights have begun to talk openly of finding a way to settle the titanic struggle between Sen. Hillary Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama. The talk at first was that Clinton should drop out of […]
McCain Needs a Breakthrough
Sen. John McCain, the all-but-nominated Republican candidate for president, caused a minor stir last week when he challenged Sen. Barack Obama on the latter’s claim that he would send U.S. troops back into Iraq, “if al-Qaeda is forming a base” there. McCain mockingly informed Obama that al-Qaeda was in Iraq and attempting to do just […]
Let the Campaign Begin
Sen. John McCain’s victories in the Potomac primaries of Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia all but end the Republican primary race. McCain will be the nominee and there is nothing Gov. Mike Huckabee, the last man standing in the struggle to be the conservative alternative to McCain, can do about it. McCain acknowledged as […]
Is It Giuliani Time?
With the Republican presidential race turning to winner-take-all Florida and its fifty-seven delegates, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s controversial strategy of ignoring the early primary and caucus states gets put to the test. When last the Republican field heard from Giuliani, he was the leader in the national polls and favored in futures markets […]
A Long Year’s Journey Into Night
When the presidential campaigns started almost one year ago, the conventional wisdom was that the frontloading of the primary calendar would produce a lightning fast nomination process, followed by a long general election campaign. But after the first two contests, on both sides, the election is shaping up to be a long, drawn out […]
