With a 10-point win in Pennsylvania, following a similar win in Ohio, Hillary Clinton can legitimately state that she has momentum going her way. Plus, her campaign claims that they received some $10 million in contributions in the 24 hours following polls closing in the state, including 60,000 donations from...

Hey, what about the Democratic debate on ABC the other night? I know that Charles Gibson and George Stephanopoulos are being raked over the coals in many quarters for their line of questioning which tended toward the muckraking end of the spectrum. To be fair, I have seen Democrats...

Like many others I was surprised to read Mayhill Fowler's account of the Obama fundraiser last week. But unlike many who read the article it never occurred to me to question her journalistic integrity or why she was at the fundraiser. My initial reaction was as a Democrat: Why...

Why Younger Women Aren't Supporting Hillary
Carlotta Cooper

I used to teach freshman English at a local college. If there was one thing I dreaded more than grading essays it was the couple of weeks I was required to spend teaching my students about literary criticism. I derived no...

There's a reason why Hillary Clinton gets a surge in fundraising everytime some Democratic party leader or insider calls for her to drop out of the race: it pisses people off. In particular, it upsets the people most likely to support her -- working class Democrats and older white women...

I was rather alarmed Friday to read the following paragraph in a Reuters news story:

A Reuters witness said Mehdi Army gunmen had seized control of the southern city of Nassiriya. A hospital source said 15 people had been killed and 50 wounded in clashes in the town.

My...

How Low Can They Go?
Carlotta Cooper

From the "How low can they go?" file, a couple of people recently have referenced Bill Clinton's Lewinsky affair, as if that episode somehow tarnishes Senator Hillary Clinton. At Butler University a student in the crowd asked Chelsea Clinton if the affair...

Iraq: An Unhappy Anniversary
Carlotta Cooper

Hillary Clinton can't buy a headline this week. That old saying that "no news is good news" does not apply to political campaigns. On the day that Barack Obama gave his speech about racial unity in America, I sat down to listen to...

Racial Unity: How Will It Play In Pennsylvania?
Carlotta Cooper

The issue of race is front and center in the Democratic primaries right now thanks to several recent events. Prompted by a need to more deeply explain the Rev. Jeremiah Wright's fiery rhetoric and his thoughts on the subject...

Is Geraldine Ferraro Right?
Carlotta Cooper

For more than one generation of women Geraldine Ferraro was an inspiration in 1984. My mother, in her 40s, and I, still in college, both cheered her selection as Walter Mondale's running mate, and laughed at every feisty remark she made on the...

When Good Campaigns Go Bad
Carlotta Cooper

Stress can do bad things to people, especially, apparently, in the midst of elections. That's what we all discovered as we read Samantha Power's comments about Hillary Clinton in The Scotsman.

After losses in Ohio and Rhode Island, and losing the...

People have discussed lots of things about the Democratic primaries and the contest between Senator Obama and Senator Clinton: change vs. experience, demographics, delegates and superdelegates, media bias, the historic nature of the race and the identities of the candidates, for example. More than anything else, perhaps, I hear and...