the country, he would have announced Hillary the morning following the last primary.
Anything he does now is for himself, and Hillary deserves so much better than that. She is a tireless worker for all the people of this country. She's not a wildcard,
John P.O.W. McCain’s failure to remember the number of houses he owns has caused an emergency alert to go out to the wingnutosphere. As a result, some of our favorite bloggers have pulled themselves away from Faux News and their microwaved Hot Pockets
BENTON - As a freshman state senator in 2003, Gary Forby knew just where to turn when he had a question about the inner workings of state politics.
He turned to the senator next door, then-state Sen. Barack Obama. Now, Democratic Party's presumptive
We know this because -- irrespective of this election cycle's historic it's-about-time Dem nomination of a nonwhite guy who, we know from that GOP ad, is a rock star the likes of which we haven't seen since the pre-slammer days of Paris Hilton --
Spakovsky, a former Justice Department official who pushed for the approval of a Georgia voter identification law that critics claimed made it difficult for poor people and the elderly to vote, was hired in July as a special assistant for the
Shortly after Barack Obama joined the Senate in 2005, the University of Chicago Medical Center promoted his wife. She hired the firm of David Axelrod, who later became Obama's chief strategist.
Candidates agree on 4 debates. McCain and Obama have agreed on three presidential debates and one VP debate, starting on September 26. -- RealClearPolitics
McCain rules out single term presidency. McCain has ruled out pledging to serve only one term as
Crikey reader Tom McCardell has been less than impressed with the TV coverage of the Beijing games:
What Glenn Dyer and various gloating Channel 7 execs fail to realise is that the ratings are so strong because of the enormous public interest in the
I am always fascinated by what is described as a "compromise" in politics. Is it a compromise when the Democrats demand a bad policy, and they get some of it? It's still bad, and saying no to bad policy is not being "unreasonable." More important,
Battle lines are being drawn; strategy is in play as Democrats in the Missouri House insist they are serious about taking back the majority from Republicans.
House Minority Leader Paul LeVota (D-Independence) plans on being House Speaker next year. To