Here’s what’s happening with five weeks until election day. Obama‘s lead is moving beyond measurable to solid. He is achieving in some polls the talismanic mark of 50 percent. He is opening leads in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Florida, Missouri. Two days ago, a GOP House of Representatives, egged on by phone callers roused up by right …
The first Obama-McCain debate was held late on a Friday–a weird time. Both men did well, but I scored it a narrow win for McCain–he seemed to drive the discussion more. Obama was learned and reasoned in his responses, but never–has never yet–wheeled on McCain and gone from defense to offense in a response. He …
Last night, “under the cover of drakness” as NBC’s David Gregory hyperdramatically set the scene, Barack Obama met with his defeated rival Hillary Clinton–much like Jack Mahone met with his defeated rival Godwin Pope in the opening pages of The Coup! Okay, okay, so they met a Diane Feinstein‘s house, and not in a parking …
After the results of yesterday’s Indiana and North Carolina primaries, everybody now knows what everybody has known since March–the game is over. Hillary made a charge in Pennsylvania and won a lot of respect, but let’s face it–whatever she won came at a high cost to her, and to Obama. Now she talks about slogging …
It’s not exactly an iron law, but for the last quarter century, it’s been a pretty good rule of thumb: when the American people go into the voting booth, they vote for the candidate with whom they would most like to have a beer.In 1980 and 1984, they picked breezy Ronald Reagan over pious Jimmy …
December seems like an eon ago, but it’s really been less than six months since everyone was feeling misgivings about the front-loaded primary season we were about to enter. You remember what was being said—that things were going to happen with lightening speed, that the front-runners possessed overwhelming advantages in name recognition and money and …
The other day on Slate, Yale law professor Akhil Reed Amar proposed this novel idea: Not only could Barak Obama and Hillary Clinton share the Democratic ticket, but they could have a kind of alternating co-presidency, where one would serve as president, then resign in favor of the other, who would appoint the just resigned …
It’s true that Hillary Clinton could still win the Democratic nomination this year, but it’s also true that I could be elected Pope. Any Catholic male over the age of 7 is eligible, and I’ve got that covered. But to be the democratic nominee, you need to have a majority of the delegates, and Hillary …