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Entries by Mayhill Fowler from 03/2008

Fatigue Hinders Obama Camp's Ground Game

| Posted 03.01.2008 | Huffington Post

The difference between the Clinton and Obama Texas ground games going into the Tuesday Two-Step is this: the Clinton field organizers don't know what...

Bill Clinton Goes Off Script In Texas

| Posted 03.02.2008 | Huffington Post

Bill Clinton has been peppering Hillary supporters in Texas with this warning, "And I can tell you that the other campaign believes Hillary will proba...

Confusion Rampant Over Texas 'Primacaucus' Rules

| Posted 03.03.2008 | Huffington Post

The Texas Two-Step is not a primary and a caucus. It is a primary and a "precinct convention." This terminology, alone, has Texans scratching their ...

The Obama Balloon Loses Air Over Texas

| Posted 03.04.2008 | Huffington Post

Before it ever happened, it's already over. That was the feeling last night at the small Obama rally in Houston less than twenty-four hours before th...

A Night at the Texas Caucus: Hurry Up And Wait

| Posted 03.05.2008 | Huffington Post

It was a waiting room in Limbo, act three of Jean Paul Sartre play. Most the four hundred in the cafeteria had fallen into resignation, if not coma. ...

Why Clinton Won Texas, And What That Means Going Forward

| Posted 03.07.2008 | Huffington Post

When Clinton hit him hard the week before the primary, he should have hit her back harder. That's what Texans wanted to see. Not surprisingly, the fence-sitters concluded that Obama did not have the balls.

San Francisco's Mayor Gavin Newsom Spills The Beans On Clinton Strategy

| Posted 03.10.2008 | Huffington Post

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom is one of the prettiest but alas not one of the sharpest in the Democratic pencil box. Chatting with local pundit Ph...

A Closer Look at Clinton's Foreign Policy Experience

| Posted 03.17.2008 | Huffington Post

Why has Hillary Clinton said she did more than she did, and what has compelled her to do so? What does this resume inflation suggest about any American future with her at the helm of our foreign policy?

Barack, Jeremiah and Jesus

| Posted 03.18.2008 | Huffington Post

If Obama can help white America understand why he sat in the pews of Trinity Church in Chicago for twenty years, then he may be able to hold his near-grasp of the Democratic presidential nomination.

TV Media's Willful Misunderstanding of Barack Obama's Race Speech

| Posted 03.21.2008 | Huffington Post

The very first thing that the controversy over Barack Obama's association with the Reverend Jeremiah Wright highlights is the failure of the national, and still largely white, media to interest themselves in the black church.

Perception of Electability At Stake For Obama In Coming Primaries

| Posted 03.24.2008 | Huffington Post

A sweeping defeat for Obama in Pennsylvania or a slow bleed through the last ten contests will plant the question of electability in the minds of some superdelegates.

Telling Tales About Her First Lady Travels: Where and Why Did Hillary Exaggerate?

| Posted 03.26.2008 | Huffington Post

Trips to more than eighty countries that are completely lacking in spontaneity and other possibility would quickly drive most people crazy. Hillary Clinton survived by telling herself more involving stories than what actually happened.

Obama Plays Nice In Pennsylvania

| Posted 03.31.2008 | Huffington Post

Two days before, Secret Service agents had talked to the owner and cased the place. He, of course, had been sworn to silence. The night before, a local agent (probably out of Harrisburg) had spent the night there.