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  • Obama and White Men: Where's the Gap?

    Just watched a discussion on MSNBC where Andrea Mitchell and Jay Carney of Time were talking about the nasty rumors about Senator Obama and his wife on the Internets. Like the old should-this-be-an-issue-to-discuss-in-the-press Nightline shows, the segment managed to air the rumors while condemning them as unfounded (and condemning others [...]
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    Posted: June 12, 2008, 2:50pm EDT

  • Report: Clinton To End Campaign Friday

    Last night Senator Clinton told her supporters it was not yet time to make a decision about the future of her campaign. But tonight, ABC News is reporting that the former first lady's road to the Democratic nomination ends Friday. "ABC News has learned Sen. Hillary Clinton told supporters [...]
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    Posted: June 04, 2008, 8:11pm EDT

  • President Carter Throws His Support to Obama

    There are two living Democrats who once served as president, and one of them, Jimmy Carter, is ready to endorse Senator Obama. The Associated Press reported the news this evening. "The fact is the Obama people already know they have my vote when the polls close tonight," the AP [...]
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    Posted: June 03, 2008, 8:15pm EDT

  • Obama: America's First Jewish President

    Bill Clinton was America's first black president. Or so we thought. Until recently, John Edwards was running to be America's first woman president. Now, shocking word that Barack Obama may be in line to be America's first Jewish president. Discussing his affinity for Israel, Senator Obama tells the Atlantic magazine, [...]
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    Posted: May 12, 2008, 10:21pm EDT

  • Obama: America's First Jewish President

    Bill Clinton was America's first black president. Or so we thought. Until recently, John Edwards was running to be America's first woman president. Now, shocking word that Barack Obama may be in line to be America's first Jewish president. Discussing his affinity for Israel, Senator Obama tells the Atlantic [...]
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    Posted: May 12, 2008, 10:21pm EDT

  • GOP Official: Wright Will Not Be Used In Ads

    With a rebuke of state party officials for using Senator Obama's former pastor in a television ad, the Republican National Committee and the McCain campaign are beginning to define what will be fair game in a general election match-up with the Illinois senator. A Republican official involved in party strategy [...]
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    Posted: April 23, 2008, 1:29pm EDT

  • GOP Official: Wright Will Not Be Used In Ads

    With a rebuke of state party officials for using Senator Obama's former pastor in a television ad, the Republican National Committee and the McCain campaign are beginning to define what will be fair game in a general election match-up with the Illinois senator. A Republican official involved in party [...]
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    Posted: April 23, 2008, 1:29pm EDT

  • Faux 'Nazi Skinheads for McCain" Group Registers with IRS

    A political group registered last week with the Internal Revenue Service, "Nazi Skinheads for McCain 2008," is aimed at skewering the presumptive Republican nominee, not backing him, an organizer said yesterday. "I'm not a Nazi skinhead. I'm not a McCain supporter, either," an unemployed software designer from Jacksonville, Fla., [...]
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    Posted: April 22, 2008, 10:21pm EDT

  • Faux 'Nazi Skinheads for McCain' Group Registers with IRS

    A political group registered last week with the Internal Revenue Service, "Nazi Skinheads for McCain 2008," is aimed at skewering the presumptive Republican nominee, not backing him, an organizer said yesterday. "I'm not a Nazi skinhead. I'm not a McCain supporter, either," an unemployed software designer from Jacksonville, Fla., [...]
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    Posted: April 22, 2008, 10:21pm EDT

  • Which Clinton Pastor Was Obama Referring To?

    In a moment of last night's Democratic debate that hasn't drawn much attention, Senator Obama struck back against Senator Clinton's criticism of his former pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, by noting that her "former pastor" had publicly stood up for Rev. Wright. "But what I should also point out is that [...]
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    Posted: April 17, 2008, 3:15pm EDT

  • Which Clinton Pastor Was Obama Referring To?

    In a moment of last night's Democratic debate that hasn't drawn much attention, Senator Obama struck back against Senator Clinton's criticism of his former pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, by noting that her "former pastor" had publicly stood up for Rev. Wright. "But what I should also point out is that [...]
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    Posted: April 17, 2008, 3:15pm EDT

  • Clinton Backer Says of McCain: 'It's No Old Man's Job'

    WASHINGTON ? A prominent backer of Senator Clinton, Rep. John Murtha of Pennsylvania, veered a bit off-message when introducing her this morning in Washington, saying in regard to Senator McCain that the presidency is "no old man's job." Mr. Murtha, a congressman since 1974, noted that he had served with [...]
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    Posted: April 16, 2008, 1:02pm EDT

  • Clinton Backer Says of McCain: 'It's No Old Man's Job'

    WASHINGTON — A prominent backer of Senator Clinton, Rep. John Murtha of Pennsylvania, veered a bit off-message when introducing her this morning in Washington, saying in regard to Senator McCain that the presidency is "no old man's job." Mr. Murtha, a congressman since 1974, noted that he had served [...]
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    Posted: April 16, 2008, 1:02pm EDT

  • Hoffa: Penn "Demotion" Not Good Enough

    The announcement from Senator Clinton's presidential campaign that Mark Penn has resigned as chief strategist is not enough to assuage one of Mr. Penn's top critics in the labor movement. The president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, James Hoffa, said through an aide tonight that the change is of [...]
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    Posted: April 07, 2008, 12:09am EDT

  • Hoffa: Penn "Demotion" Not Good Enough

    The announcement from Senator Clinton's presidential campaign that Mark Penn has resigned as chief strategist is not enough to assuage one of Mr. Penn's top critics in the labor movement. The president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, James Hoffa, said through an aide tonight that the change is of [...]
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    Posted: April 07, 2008, 12:09am EDT

  • Hollywood Comes to Senator Clinton's Aid, Again

    Senator Clinton is heading West to California next week and planning to draw on her Hollywood connections to refill her campaign's coffers in the lead-up to the April 22 primary in Pennsylvania. Hollywood types backing the April 3 fund-raiser in Beverly Hills include Jamie Lee Curtis, Mary Steenburgen, Ted Danson, [...]
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    Posted: March 26, 2008, 3:21am EDT

  • Hollywood Comes to Senator Clinton's Aid, Again

    Senator Clinton is heading West to California next week and planning to draw on her Hollywood connections to refill her campaign's coffers in the lead-up to the April 22 primary in Pennsylvania. Hollywood types backing the April 3 fund-raiser in Beverly Hills include Jamie Lee Curtis, Mary Steenburgen, Ted Danson, [...]
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    Posted: March 26, 2008, 3:21am EDT

  • Obamas Check 'Yes' and then 'No' on Public Financing

    Did the Obamas have a change of heart when it comes to the voluntary contribution to public financing of the presidential election campaign? The Obama campaign just released seven years of joint tax returns showing that the couple earned close to $1 million in 2006. The returns indicate that from [...]
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    Posted: March 25, 2008, 3:27pm EDT

  • Obamas Check 'Yes' and then 'No' on Public Financing

    Did the Obamas have a change of heart when it comes to the voluntary contribution to public financing of the presidential election campaign? The Obama campaign just released seven years of joint tax returns showing that the couple earned close to $1 million in 2006. The returns indicate [...]
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    Posted: March 25, 2008, 3:27pm EDT

  • Clinton: Not a Government Bailout

    Four words that are almost certain to be heard in the course of any mainstream Democratic proposal to address the mortgage and credit crisis are: not a government bailout. That was the line from Senator Clinton and her advisers as she laid out a proposal that could dramatically increase the [...]
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    Posted: March 24, 2008, 1:56pm EDT

  • Clinton: Not a Government Bailout

    Four words that are almost certain to be heard in the course of any mainstream Democratic proposal to address the mortgage and credit crisis are: not a government bailout. That was the line from Senator Clinton and her advisers as she laid out a proposal that could dramatically increase [...]
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    Posted: March 24, 2008, 1:56pm EDT

  • Senator Clinton's First Lady Schedules to Drop Tomorrow

    More than 11,000 pages of Senator Clinton's schedules from her eight-year stint as first lady are going to be released tomorrow by the National Archives, which operates the Clinton Presidential Library, a spokeswoman said today. The records are to be released simultaneously at the Clinton Library in Little Rock, Ark. [...]
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    Posted: March 18, 2008, 1:11pm EDT

  • Senator Clinton's First Lady Schedules to Drop Tomorrow

    More than 11,000 pages of Senator Clinton's schedules from her eight-year stint as first lady are going to be released tomorrow by the National Archives, which operates the Clinton Presidential Library, a spokeswoman said today. The records are to be released simultaneously at the Clinton Library in Little Rock, [...]
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    Posted: March 18, 2008, 1:11pm EDT

  • Paterson's Lone 'T' Trips Up Dems

    Memo to Democrats: The surname of the new governor of New York is spelled with one 't.' It may simply be a matter of a few sensitive computer keys, or a sign of how little known David Paterson is, that several Democrats ? including the party's national apparatus ? have [...]
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    Posted: March 17, 2008, 1:56pm EDT

  • Paterson's Lone 'T' Trips Up Dems

    Memo to Democrats: The surname of the new governor of New York is spelled with one 't.' It may simply be a matter of a few sensitive computer keys, or a sign of how little known David Paterson is, that several Democrats — including the party's national apparatus — [...]
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    Posted: March 17, 2008, 1:56pm EDT

  • Amid Re-Vote Stir, Dr. Dean Goes to Florida

    With high-stakes discussions ongoing about a possible make-up Democratic primary in Florida, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Howard Dean, is on the ground in the Sunshine State. Dr. Dean arrived in Fort Lauderdale this afternoon, coming from Alabama, according to a well-placed source. A spokeswoman for the DNC, [...]
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    Posted: March 12, 2008, 6:50pm EDT

  • Amid Re-Vote Stir, Dr. Dean Goes to Florida

    With high-stakes discussions ongoing about a possible make-up Democratic primary in Florida, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Howard Dean, is on the ground in the Sunshine State. Dr. Dean arrived in Fort Lauderdale this afternoon, coming from Alabama, according to a well-placed source. A spokeswoman for [...]
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    Posted: March 12, 2008, 6:50pm EDT

  • Rangel Admitted to Hospital with 'Flu Symptoms'

    The dean of New York's congressional delegation and the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, Rep. Charles Rangel of Harlem, was taken to the hospital yesterday with what an aide described as "flu-symptoms." Mr. Rangel, 77, was feeling ill at his Manhattan home yesterday and summoned a doctor, [...]
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    Posted: March 05, 2008, 5:15pm EST

  • Rangel Admitted to Hospital with 'Flu Symptoms'

    The dean of New York's congressional delegation and the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, Rep. Charles Rangel of Harlem, was taken to the hospital yesterday with what an aide described as "flu-symptoms." Mr. Rangel, 77, was feeling ill at his Manhattan home yesterday and summoned a [...]
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    Posted: March 05, 2008, 5:15pm EST

  • Obama lawyer Ambushes Clinton Conference Call

    A lawyer for Senator Obama's campaign tonight ambushed a conference call convened by advisers to Senator Clinton who were accusing the Obama camp of "intimidation" during the Texas primary and caucuses earlier today. The Clinton officials said supporters of the Illinois senator had broken election rules by trying to sign [...]
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    Posted: March 04, 2008, 10:12pm EST

  • Obama lawyer Ambushes Clinton Conference Call

    A lawyer for Senator Obama's campaign tonight ambushed a conference call convened by advisers to Senator Clinton who were accusing the Obama camp of "intimidation" during the Texas primary and caucuses earlier today. The Clinton officials said supporters of the Illinois senator had broken election rules by trying to [...]
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    Posted: March 04, 2008, 10:12pm EST

  • McCain: Negotiations Needed Over Gaza Crisis

    The all-but-certain Republican nominee for president, Senator McCain of Arizona, is calling for negotiations to end the crisis caused by repeated missile attacks on Israel from Gaza and Israeli retaliatory military strikes on Gaza. "We want a ceasefire. We want negotiations," Mr. McCain said at a press conference today in [...]
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    Posted: March 03, 2008, 1:54pm EST

  • Amid Gaza Crisis, McCain Urges Cease-fire, Negotiations

    The all-but-certain Republican nominee for president, Senator McCain of Arizona, seemed to call this morning for negotiations to end the crisis caused by repeated missile attacks on Israel from Gaza and by retaliatory military strikes Israel has carried out in Gaza. However, his top foreign policy adviser Randy Scheunemann told [...]
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    Posted: March 03, 2008, 1:54pm EST

  • Amid Gaza Crisis, McCain Urges Cease-fire, Negotiations

    The all-but-certain Republican nominee for president, Senator McCain of Arizona, seemed to call this morning for negotiations to end the crisis caused by repeated missile attacks on Israel from Gaza and by retaliatory military strikes Israel has carried out in Gaza. However, his top foreign policy adviser Randy Scheunemann told [...]
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    Posted: March 03, 2008, 1:54pm EST

  • Aide to President Clinton Clears Mrs. Clinton's Schedules for Release

    A longtime aide to President Clinton, Bruce Lindsey, has finished his review of about 11,000 pages of schedules from Senator Clinton's time as first lady, a spokesman for Mrs. Clinton said today. "We've given the records back over to the archives," Mrs. Clinton's communications director, Howard Wolfson, said on ABC's [...]
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    Posted: March 02, 2008, 8:47pm EST

  • Aide to President Clinton Clears Mrs. Clinton's Schedules for Release

    A longtime aide to President Clinton, Bruce Lindsey, has finished his review of about 11,000 pages of schedules from Senator Clinton's time as first lady, a spokesman for Mrs. Clinton said today. "We've given the records back over to the archives," Mrs. Clinton's communications director, Howard Wolfson, said on ABC's [...]
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    Posted: March 02, 2008, 8:47pm EST

  • Gravel Fails in Bid to Muzzle Virtually Silent Pro-Clinton 527

    Ultra-longshot Democratic presidential hopeful Mike Gravel has failed in his bid to silence a so-called 527 organization formed by backers of Senator Clinton, the American Leadership Project. On Friday, a federal judge in Toledo, Ohio rejected Mr. Gravel's request for a temporary restraining order barring the group from running a [...]
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    Posted: March 02, 2008, 8:39pm EST

  • Gravel Fails in Bid to Muzzle Virtually Silent Pro-Clinton 527

    Ultra-longshot Democratic presidential hopeful Mike Gravel has failed in his bid to silence a so-called 527 organization formed by backers of Senator Clinton, the American Leadership Project. On Friday, a federal judge in Toledo, Ohio rejected Mr. Gravel's request for a temporary restraining order barring the group from running a [...]
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    Posted: March 02, 2008, 8:39pm EST

  • Spitzer Might Stump for Clinton 'If This Continues'

    Governor Spitzer made a rare foray into campaign surrogate work for Senator Clinton this afternoon, and it may not have gone entirely as planned. At various points during a conference call with reporters, he referenced the possible demise of Mrs. Clinton's campaign, begged off an appearance in Ohio tomorrow, and [...]
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    Posted: February 26, 2008, 4:27pm EST

  • Spitzer Might Stump for Clinton 'If This Continues'

    Governor Spitzer made a rare foray into campaign surrogate work for Senator Clinton this afternoon, and it may not have gone entirely as planned. At various points during a conference call with reporters, he referenced the possible demise of Mrs. Clinton's campaign, begged off an appearance in Ohio tomorrow, and [...]
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    Posted: February 26, 2008, 4:27pm EST

  • Clinton Fund-Raising Watch

    Advisers to Senator Clinton are now openly blaming a lack of resources for their failure to fight Senator Obama's presidential campaign more aggressively in caucus states and elsewhere. They are also intent on not being outgunned by Mr. Obama in the remaining contests. To that end, the Clinton campaign has [...]
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    Posted: February 20, 2008, 1:11pm EST

  • Bush Mistakes Sharpton's Daughter for Wife

    President Bush was coasting through a list of greetings for prominent African American leaders at a White House ceremony this afternoon when he came to one of his fiercest critics, Reverend Al Sharpton. "Reverend Al Sharpton, and his wife Dominique ? Reverend, it's good to see you.," Mr. Bush said. [...]
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    Posted: February 12, 2008, 6:32pm EST

  • Clinton Sets Low-Dollar Fund-raiser for Women at Hunter

    UPDATE: Senator Clinton's schedule seems to have been reshuffled and the event described below is now set for the previous evening, February 20, at 7 P.M. Still $50 and up. Still women. No word yet on whether it will be at Hunter or somewhere else. Stay tuned. Original post follows: [...]
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    Posted: February 12, 2008, 2:12pm EST

  • Romney Shutters Campaign

    Mitt Romney announced today that he is dropping out of the presidential race, clearing the way for Senator McCain to advance towards the Republican nomination. "If I fight on in my campaign all the way to the convention--I want you to know I've given this a lot of thought?I'd forestall [...]
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    Posted: February 07, 2008, 12:58pm EST

  • Calif. Exit Polls Might Be Off

    Exit poll results are suggesting a solid win for Mrs. Clinton in California, but the numbers showing her prevailing or tying in all age groups, including 18-29 year olds, are surprising and might suggest something is a bit off in the exit poll sample. More evidence the CA exit poll [...]
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    Posted: February 06, 2008, 2:33am EST

  • Watching California? Watch Edwards.

    While a lot of news outlets are dropping the vote count for John Edwards from their graphics, that tally is critical to knowing how Senator Clinton is faring there. In early returns, Mr. Edwards had 10% to 15% of the vote. That signals that those early votes were almost entirely [...]
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    Posted: February 06, 2008, 12:29am EST

  • Mass. Governor for Obama: "Enough with the Clever Side of Politics"

    Governor Patrick of Massachusetts is rallying Barack Obama supporters by reminding them of the tough campaign the Clintons ran against Mr. Obama in South Carolina. "Do you remember South Carolina?" Mr. Patrick asked a crowd estimated at 10,000 in Boston late Monday night. "It got as nasty and mean as [...]
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    Posted: February 05, 2008, 12:39am EST

  • Amid Restraint, President Clinton Takes Swing or Two at Obama

    President Clinton barnstormed through California today pressing the case for his wife on the eve of tomorrow's Super Tuesday primary, but he couldn't help taking a couple of swings at her rival for the Democratic nomination, Senator Obama of Illinois. Mr. Clinton's most direct swipe at Mr. Obama came at [...]
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    Posted: February 04, 2008, 7:04pm EST

  • Limbaugh Defends Clinton and Obama on Iraq

    Talk show host Rush Limbaugh is so exasperated about Senator McCain's surge in the Republican presidential contest that he is coming to the defense of Senators Clinton and Obama. On Mr. Limbaugh's program today, he said people should not be rushing to back Mr. McCain over issues of national security. [...]
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    Posted: February 04, 2008, 5:27pm EST

  • Lieberman: McCain Could Keep Bloomberg Out of Race

    Senator Lieberman says the increasing likelihood that Senator McCain will win the Republican nomination could keep Mayor Bloomberg on the sidelines of the presidential race this fall. "My feeling all along has been that if he ran, it would be because he had a real reason to run, and [...]
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    Posted: January 31, 2008, 3:21pm EST

  • Cheney Turns to Rush to Boost FISA

    Rush Limbaugh took a time-out from his lament over Tuesday's election results to take a call from Vice President Cheney. The veep was looking to pressure Congress to act on surveillance legislation that has been hung up over a provision that would give telephone companies immunity from about 40 pending [...]
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    Posted: January 30, 2008, 3:15pm EST

  • Limbaugh: "The Base Has Fractured"

    A defensive Rush Limbaugh, one of Senator McCain's biggest detractors, just delivered what he called a "non-concession speech" in response to Mr. McCain's win in Florida Tuesday. "Yeah, it looks like McCain's pretty far down the line now to having wrapped this up," he said on his popular conservative radio [...]
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    Posted: January 30, 2008, 12:53pm EST

  • Parsing Bill: "Hit Job" Edition

    President Clinton's claim Wednesday that he was on the receiving end of "a hit job" from Senator Obama's campaign is being treated in news accounts as a mysterious reference and perhaps evidence that the former president is coming unglued. Even Senator Clinton sounded baffled when asked about the remark in [...]
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    Posted: January 24, 2008, 2:11pm EST

  • Stars Coming Out for Hillary, Again

    Hollywood is making another big fund-raising push for Senator Clinton on the figurative eve of California's February 5 Democratic primary. Some real Hollywood heavyweights are hosting the January 31 evening reception with and for Mrs. Clinton at the Beverly Wilshire hotel, according to an invitation obtained by The New York [...]
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    Posted: January 22, 2008, 1:33pm EST

  • Obama Mailer Hits Back at Clinton on Abortion

    Senator Obama is hitting back at Senator Clinton's attacks on his abortion rights record in a new mailer sent to Nevada homes today. "Hillary Clinton is making misleading attacks on Barack Obama's 100% pro-choice voting record," one side of the mail piece reads. The other side: "Hillary Clinton's false attacks [...]
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    Posted: January 16, 2008, 6:18pm EST

  • In Testy Exchange, President Clinton Defends Suit Over Nevada Voting

    At a stop in Oakland this afternoon, President Clinton vigorously defended a lawsuit challenging Nevada's decision to permit casino workers to join presidential caucuses at their workplaces, even as he denied that he or his wife's campaign had anything to do with the litigation. He argued that the casino caucuses [...]
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    Posted: January 16, 2008, 3:56pm EST

  • Kucinich Denied Debate Slot

    The Nevada Supreme Court has just cancelled a lower court's order that guaranteed Rep. Dennis Kucinich a slot at tonight's Democratic debate in Las Vegas. NBC set and then altered its ground rules for who could participate in the debate. Mr. Kucinich said that broke a contract with him, but [...]
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    Posted: January 15, 2008, 8:22pm EST

  • Senator Clinton Sets Capitale Cash Bash

    Senator Clinton has set what's billed as her last fund-raiser in New York before the Super Tuesday primary. Tickets for the January 24 reception at the Capitale Restaurant on the Lower East Side start at $1000. In a measure of the campaign's need for cash to survive what could be [...]
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    Posted: January 15, 2008, 7:59pm EST

  • AFSCME's New Ad for Hillary in Nevada

    The American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees is up with a new TV ad in Nevada that features women praising Senator Clinton for showing her softer side recently on the campaign trail. "I didn't know how personal this was for Hillary," one woman says in the ad, which [...]
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    Posted: January 15, 2008, 7:07pm EST

  • Bloomberg on Polling Effort: 'I'm Not a Candidate'

    Mayor Bloomberg, facing reporters for the first time since the Associated Press reported on Wednesday that he is conducting extensive polling and voter analysis in all 50 states, denied yet again that he is a candidate for president and ducked three questions about the polling effort. "No matter how many [...]
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    Posted: January 14, 2008, 2:14pm EST

  • President Clinton Does More Damage Control on Black Radio

    In an interview Monday, President Clinton mounted a less-than-vigorous defense of comments a prominent supporter of Senator Clinton's presidential bid, Robert Johnson, made which many interpreted as a reference to Senator Obama's admission of drug use during his younger years. The interviewer, Roland Martin of WVON-AM in Chicago, played Mr. [...]
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    Posted: January 14, 2008, 9:03am EST

  • Hillary to Spend Nevada Caucus 'Eve in San Francisco?

    Senator Clinton is planning to be in San Francisco the evening before the critical January 19 Nevada caucuses, according to a Northern California labor group. The Instituto Laboral de La Raza claims on its Web site that Mrs. Clinton is a confirmed speaker for the Latino labor rights group's dinner [...]
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    Posted: January 13, 2008, 7:35pm EST

  • "Driving Mrs. Hevesi" Makes It to N.H.

    The "Driving Mrs. Hevesi" scandal has made it to New Hampshire, and it is being used to target Mayor Giuliani. A stack of anti-Giuliani flyers were found laying on a camera riser at a rally for Senator McCain in Concord, N.H., yesterday afternoon. The flyers juxtaposed pictures of Mr. Giuliani [...]
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    Posted: January 08, 2008, 10:17am EST

  • President Clinton Sees Post-Iowa 'Tidal Wave,' Faults Press for Obama 'Fairytale'

    Just hours after his wife got choked up on the campaign trail, President Clinton showed anger and frustration as he complained that the press has given a free pass to the nascent front-runner in the Democratic presidential contest, Senator Obama of Illinois. "It is wrong that Senator Obama got to [...]
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    Posted: January 07, 2008, 10:12pm EST

  • Indy Campaign Vet Says Bloomberg Could Win

    At former senator David Boren's forum on bipartisanship and political independence at the University of Oklahoma there is chatter galore about a possible presidential bid by Mayor Bloomberg. Dean Barkley, a former senator who ran the campaigns of independent Minnesota governor Jesse Ventura and an independent candidate for governor of [...]
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    Posted: January 07, 2008, 1:13pm EST

  • Senator Clinton's Labor Friends Dip Toes in Nevada

    Will Senator Clinton's friends in labor and elsewhere stand by her as her campaign hits some rough sailing? The American Federation of Teachers, which reported spending about $880,000 for mailers and radio ads in support of Mrs. Clinton in Iowa and New Hampshire, is gingerly stepping into Nevada, which votes [...]
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    Posted: January 07, 2008, 12:37pm EST

  • Romney Concedes Massachusetts to Clinton

    Mitt Romney says he won't win his home state in November if he is the Republican nominee for president. Asked Thursday in a radio interview if he would prevail in Massachusetts in a match-up with Senator Clinton, Mr. Romney replied, "Oh, I can't imagine doing that. I don't think so.?It's [...]
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    Posted: January 03, 2008, 5:04pm EST

  • Romney Camp Chafes at Huckabee Shitck

    Mike Huckabee's comic, aw-shucks shtick seems to be wearing on Mitt Romney's campaign. A spokesman for Mr. Romney, Erich Fehrnstrom, sounded less than impressed with Mr. Huckabee's humor and guitar-playing on NBC's "Tonight Show" Wednesday. "It was hard to tell the difference between the person who makes a living telling jokes [...]
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    Posted: January 03, 2008, 3:54pm EST

  • President Clinton Predicts Huckabee Win in Iowa

    One of the nation's top political handicappers, President Clinton, is predicting that Mike Huckabee will win the Republican presidential caucuses in Iowa Thursday. "Governor Huckabee has got a little hometown pride going because it looks like the Iowa Republicans are going to give him the caucus," Mr. Clinton said Wednesday [...]
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    Posted: January 02, 2008, 7:14pm EST

  • Union Goes After Obama Health Plan on Web

    The New York Sun has located the mysterious online component of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees' campaign against Senator Obama's health care plan. It can be viewed here. [...]
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    Posted: December 27, 2007, 7:29pm EST

  • Will Edwards Get Blame for Pro-Clinton Union's Attack?

    A major union, Afscme, is going after Senator Obama of Illinois with a negative mail piece that Iowa voters may conclude came from John Edwards. "Barack Obama's health care plan is not up to the job," the mailer says. It goes on to note that "John Edwards has said 'as [...]
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    Posted: December 20, 2007, 12:33am EST

  • Sharp New Military-Themed Ad for Senator Clinton

    Senator Clinton is putting up a new television ad in New Hampshire that manages to convey--in the matter of 30 seconds--bipartisanship, gratefulness to the military, her commitment to health care issues and her ability to get things done. It's no accident that the spot, which touts her cooperation with Senator [...]
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    Posted: December 18, 2007, 1:42pm EST

  • Union Sets Tangle with Obama Over Health Plan

    A large union supporting Senator Clinton's presidential bid, the American Federation of State County and Muncipal Employees, is preparing to go after Senator Obama over his health care plan. AFSCME's political action committee has spent about $34,000 so far on an anti-Obama mailer to Iowa voters, according to a report [...]
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    Posted: December 17, 2007, 7:09pm EST

  • McCain Had Lieberman All to Himself

    When it came to an endorsement, Senator McCain had Senator Lieberman all to himself. An aide to the Connecticut lawmaker told The New York Sun yesterday that of all the presidential candidates on both sides of the political aisle, only Mr. McCain had actively sought his support. That underscores not [...]
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    Posted: December 17, 2007, 2:55pm EST

  • Iowa Dems Say Press Exaggerating Rural Impact

    With less than three weeks to go to the Iowa caucuses, the state's Democratic Party says prominent members of the national press are misstating the way delegates are allocated and exaggerating the impact of sparsely-populated rural areas. In its latest issue, touting the possible impact of John Edwards's appeal in [...]
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    Posted: December 17, 2007, 12:38pm EST

  • Clinton Says Beijing Might Blackmail America Over Taiwan

    When Senator Clinton sat down for a "conversation" with Warren Buffett on Tuesday in San Francisco, there was a lot of discussion from both of them about the dangers and deleterious effects of America's surging trade deficit and national debt, as well as the ownership of much of that debt [...]
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    Posted: December 13, 2007, 3:00pm EST

  • Stephens, Childs Fund Club's Slam of Huckabee

    A television ad criticizing Republican presidential candidate Michael Huckabee's willingness to raise taxes as governor of Arkansas is being funded largely by an Arkansas banker, Jackson Stephens Jr., and a Massachusetts financier, John Childs. ClubforGrowth.net, which placed the ads, told the Federal Election Commission Monday that they are backed [...]
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    Posted: December 12, 2007, 3:06pm EST

  • Anti-Hillary Ad Opens With Puny Buy

    A liberal political group's TV ad attacking Senator Clinton as a waffler is up on cable TV in Iowa with a buy about the size of a single check to one of Mrs. Clinton's fund-raising receptions. A report filed today with the Federal Election Commission shows that the political action [...]
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    Posted: December 09, 2007, 6:33pm EST

  • "Huckaboom" Coaxes No Regret From Brownback

    When Senator Brownback of Kansas endorsed Senator McCain exactly a month ago, he passed over his ideological soul mate, Michael Huckabee. In the weeks since, Mr. Huckabee has surged in the polls and into a virtual tie for the lead in Iowa, where Mr. McCain is languishing. So, does Mr. [...]
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    Posted: December 06, 2007, 5:31pm EST

  • CBS Debate Nixed Over Likely Strike

    The Democratic presidential candidates' debate scheduled for December 10 in Los Angeles has fallen victim to the possibility that the invitees wouldn't have shown up due to a likely strike. The Democratic National Committee, which was sponsoring the debate in connection with CBS News, announced the cancellation this evening. A [...]
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    Posted: November 28, 2007, 5:57pm EST

  • Clinton Camp Flubs, Fixes Retort to Obama

    Forty-six minutes. That's how long it took for the Clinton campaign to correct an assertion that Senator Clinton had served "on the Armed Services Committee for close to seven years," according to the time stamp of two e-mails the campaign sent. For the record, Mrs. Clinton became a member of the committee in [...]
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    Posted: November 27, 2007, 7:33pm EST

  • Clinton Camp Flubs, Fixes Retort to Obama

    Forty-six minutes. That's how long it took for the Clinton campaign to correct an assertion that Senator Clinton had served "on the Armed Services Committee for close to seven years," according to the time stamp of two e-mails the campaign sent. For the record, Mrs. Clinton became a member of the committee in [...]
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    Posted: November 27, 2007, 7:33pm EST

  • Senator Clinton Sets More Coast Fund-Raising and a Buffett Reprise

    The frigid Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primaries are nearly upon us, but Senator Clinton is planning to spend a bit of time next month fund-raising in the warmer climes of California. One gathering, in San Francisco on December 11, will be a reprise performance by a billionaire investor, Warren [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2007, 2:02pm EST

  • $1M Sikhs-for-Clinton Fundraiser Scuttled "for Security Reasons"

    A $1-million fund-raiser Sikhs were planning to hold in Bakersfield, Calif. on Sunday morning for Senator Clinton's presidential campaign has been abruptly canceled, or at least postponed, people familiar with the event said Friday. The invitations said both Mrs. Clinton and President Clinton were to attend, a rare occurence that [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2007, 5:22pm EST

  • Obama Tests Anti-Clinton Jabs in San Fran

    One night before another nationally-televised debate among the Democratic presidential candidates, Senator Obama was in San Francisco testing out some anti-Clinton rhetoric at a fundraiser/rally with thousands of his supporters. In a 35-minute speech, Mr. Obama took swipe after swipe at Senator Clinton, but never actually mentioned her by name. [...]
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    Posted: November 15, 2007, 2:25am EST

  • Rudy Balks, Then Offers to Mediate Writers' Strike

    Mayor Giuliani, who's on a campaign swing through Southern California today, initially had nothing at all to say about the writers' strike that has put thousands of people out of work in the Los Angeles area, threatens the employment of thousands more, and could do hundreds of millions of dollars [...]
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    Posted: November 13, 2007, 6:58pm EST

  • Records Come Out on Clinton's 'Enforcer'

    The logjam holding back records from President Clinton's library finally seems to have broken with the release of more than 2000 pages of records about a top aide to Mr. Clinton, Evelyn Lieberman. Ms. Lieberman is best known for her efforts, as deputy White House chief of staff, to oust [...]
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    Posted: November 11, 2007, 12:02pm EST

  • "Breakthrough" Seen on Clinton Library Records

    The process for releasing records from President Clinton's library in Little Rock seems to have gathered speed in recent days as the issue hit center-stage in Senator Clinton's presidential bid. "We have had a breakthrough," a National Archives spokesperson, Susan Cooper told The New York Sun this afternoon. "There should [...]
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    Posted: November 08, 2007, 5:28pm EST

  • Will Timing Soften Hillary's Flub?

    The question of tonight's Democratic debate: How does the fact that Senator Clinton's big screw-up of the night took place with five minutes left in the two-hour debate diminish its impact? First editions of newspapers and the first rounds of wire stories were long gone by the time Mrs. Clinton [...]
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    Posted: October 31, 2007, 1:27am EDT

  • Bloggers' Notebook: Potential First Spouses

    Five of the potential first spouses who could occupy the White House in 2009 were publicly auditioned Tuesday by California's first lady, Maria Shriver, at an annual conference she holds to discuss women's issues. Ms. Shriver, a former NBC broadcaster, had done her homework and conducted modestly-pointed questioning of Ann [...]
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    Posted: October 24, 2007, 12:51am EDT

  • Hollywood for Hill

    Senator Clinton's campaign is out with a new video featuring director Rob Reiner. You can see it here. It's not exactly "When Harry Met Sally," but has some amusing vignettes. The only wince-inducing moment in the short is when a young white woman cheers for "Hill dizzle in the White [...]
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    Posted: October 09, 2007, 12:18pm EDT

  • George Allen Supports Fred Thompson

    With or without an endorsement, the person Fred Thompson owes the most to this election season is former Virginia senator George "Macaca" Allen. If not for Mr. Allen's implosion in 2006, he would have been reelected to the Senate and crowned the presumptive standard-bearer for the continuation of the Bush [...]
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    Posted: October 08, 2007, 4:15pm EDT

  • Political Video of the Weekend: Fred Thompson on SNL

    Fred Thompson makes his first appearance (as a Darrell Hammond impression) on Saturday Night Live. The joke? Fred Thompson is lazy: "How badly do I want to be your president? On a scale of 1 to 10, about a 6." [...]
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    Posted: October 08, 2007, 10:45am EDT

  • Thompson's Florida Fade

    Last month, the Insider Advantage poll had Fred Thompson and Rudy Giuliani tied in Florida. Now, Mr. Giuliani's pulled ahead decisively: Giuliani: 29% Thompson: 19% Romney: 16% McCain: 10% My sense is that despite a decent showing in the polls, the Thompson campaign has really gotten off to a weak [...]
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    Posted: October 05, 2007, 6:56pm EDT

  • Political Video of the Day: Log Cabin Republicans for Romney (Not Really)

    The Log Cabin Republicans have launched an ingenious ad, which will be running on Fox News nationally and in Iowa: Note what the ad doesn't touch: gay issues. It sarcastically endorses his once-upon-a-time support for abortion rights, opposition to the NRA, and bashing of Ronald Reagan. But, on the [...]
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    Posted: October 04, 2007, 3:28pm EDT

  • The Numbers: GOP Edition

    GOP frontrunner Rudy Giuliani once again* is the frontrunner in the cash chase: Giuliani: $10.5 million ($16 million cash on hand) Romney: $10 million raised, plus $8.5 million of his own money ($9 million cash on hand) Thompson: $9.3 million ($7 million cash on hand)** McCain: $6 million ($3.6 million [...]
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    Posted: October 04, 2007, 2:46pm EDT

  • Dobson's Threat

    James Dobson, head of the tax-exempt Focus on the Family, issues a rather explicit political threat to Rudy Giuliani today in the New York Times: "If the major political parties decide to abandon conservative principles, the cohesion of pro-family advocates will be all too apparent in 2008." Meanwhile, Fred Thompson [...]
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    Posted: October 04, 2007, 11:14am EDT

  • 'McCain Death Watch' Death Watch: Bloomberg Edition

    Another McCain comeback story, this time from Bloomberg News. Yet, the basic dynamic of this race remains the same, as does the fact that Mr. McCain won't win. Mr. McCain has jumped in some polls, especially as compared to July. But this just puts him right back where he was [...]
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    Posted: October 04, 2007, 11:02am EDT

  • The Thompson Record

    Fred Thompson's record is exceedingly thin... but at least he doesn't remember it! [...]
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    Posted: October 03, 2007, 6:21pm EDT

  • Ron Paul Tops $5 Million for the Quarter

    Ron Paul has topped $5 million for the third quarter. That means he's outraised Mike Huckabee by about $4 million. He's also competitive with John McCain (and, really, doing better than McCain financially when debt is taken into account) and Bill Richardson. I still see no indication that Mr. Paul [...]
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    Posted: October 03, 2007, 6:12pm EDT
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