The president of the country, whose seal is emblazoned on your correspondent's passport, took some heat from the right during his 2008 presidential campaign when his bride, Michelle Obama, said, "for the first time in my adult life I am proud of my country because it feels like hope is...

Dear Mr. President:

Remember, during the 2008 presidential primaries, the constant screeching national media presence from lawyer-lobbyist Lanny Davis? Yeah, him. The guy who night after night went on every cable TV channel to scream that Obama wasn't electable, that Obama couldn't win swing states, that...

Despite the best efforts of what I call "the Oligarch Diaspora" to flood the Internet with near identical messages that the Honduran coup "is not a coup" and that was a "constitutional succession" (cough, cough) dressed in the blue-and-white flag of Honduran democracy, the coup regime bared its fangs today....

Caroline Kennedy's open support for marriage rights for gays and lesbians in an era when top liberal Democrats can't bring themselves to support it offers the best antidote to the Rick Warren blues yet.

It is in the very best of Kennedy traditions: they're...

The reports that Caroline Kennedy is interested in New York Governor David Paterson's appointment to replace Senator Hillary Clinton in the US Senate have created a fascinating set of reactions that in some cases have resonated inversely with the dynamics of the Democratic presidential primaries of 2008.

Eleven years ago, on December 22, 1997, paramilitary troops in earshot of a federal military base massacred 45 unarmed civilians -- mostly women and children -- as they prayed in a Church in the Mexican town of Acteal. The gunmen -- every major human rights and media organization now...

Crossposted from The Field.

"When we have an announcement about Cabinet appointments, we will make it. There is no doubt that I think people want to know who's going to make up our team, and I want to move with all deliberate haste, but I...

The three big-name candidates mentioned for Obama's potential Secretary of State are New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, Massachusetts Senator John Kerry and Indiana Senator Richard Lugar.

(You can probably ignore the right-wing efforts to put peter-principle hacks like Rand Beers and Richard Holbrooke on the short list:...

(Cross-posted at The Field.)

Steve Hildebrand (in the photo above), deputy campaign manager for the Obama campaign, just announced at the Netroots Nation convention a "three-day massive voter registration drive for Labor Day weekend, after the Democratic National Convention."

"Thousands upon thousands of volunteers will go register...

Two weeks ago, The Field -- reporting on the US presidential election -- moved to a new location:

http://narconews.com/thefield

It's been quite the ride. The former host, on June 11, censored us, then disappeared six months of archives from public view, then re-routed the site to the...

Cross-posted from The Field.

(Please note and fix blogrolls and links: The Field has moved across another border to a new home: www.narconews.com/thefield.)

Today marks the opening round in a very "outcome determinative" contest among the US presidential candidates to either frame a clear position on immigration reform...

One of the most lastingly significant developments of the late Democratic primary campaign is how, from March 4 to June 3, a nationally-syndicated right-wing Republican radio talk show host kept the Democratic contest alive. But all bad things must...

"It's up to us to choose
Whether we win or lose
And I choose to win."

- Mary J. Blige

Karen Tumulty begins her wrap-up of the Democratic nomination contest with this story:

Barack Obama...

1. Denial: "But Senator Clinton hasn't conceded yet! She doesn't admit that she's lost! She keeps moving the goal posts, continues playing the race card, it therefore must not really be over for her. We need her permission to move on!"

2. Anger: "If the rest of you don't lash...

Today marks the 47th and 48th primaries or caucuses for the Democratic presidential nomination. More than 90 percent of the delegates will have been chosen by tonight. By now, we all ought to know the drill.

The day begins with the Clinton campaign "leaking" something to the Drudge Report to...

I turn on the TV, read the political columnists (and a significant number of analytically-challenged bloggers, too) and all I hear is a bunch of white folk prattling on about their favorite narrative: "Obama's losing white voters!"

They've swallowed the Clinton racially-obsessed spin, hook, line and sinker. Some, because they...

As with at Wednesday's Obama event in San Marcos, The Field showed up punctually at tonight's Clinton Event at Hemisfair Plaza in San Antonio, at five o'clock, to place an advance eyeball on the scene.

After all, these two events tonight -- Obama was in nearby Selma -- serve...

The talk of politics this afternoon is an AP story reporting that some Democratic National Convention "superdelegates" that had been supporting Clinton are moving into the "undecided" category or now supporting Obama.

It's a great story, so why does the AP's...

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A total of 322 pledged delegates are available in today's Democratic primary in California: 241 from Congressional districts, and 81 at-large pledged delegates that will reflect the total statewide vote percentages.

But 32 of California's 53 districts have an...

So many polls, so little time...

The polls are all over the map, and I mean literally all over the map: from California to New York Island! The only way to read them is to compare them with what was going on two weeks ago -- in which Clinton...