Many of my LA friends and neighbors are in swing states right now, going door to door for Barack Obama. (Even my pal, notorious campaign curmudgeon and Huff Post Off The Bus editor, is in Nevada canvassing.)

For a variety of reasons, however, I am compelled to remain in California.

In a very odd moment I happened to catch at FOX News post-debate Tuesday night, conservative pollster Frank Luntz, who had gathered together a focus group of supposed undecideds to watch the debate, asked for a show of hands as to who won the thing. ("How many thought McCain won?...

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Why are so many progressives unhappy with the thought of Hillary Clinton becoming the Democratic nominee? Here's a perfect case in point:

This past weekend all the Democratic presidential wannabes spoke...

The following piece is published on the author's blog, WitnessLA, as well as OffTheBus.

Watching the YouTube/CNN debate on Wednesday night, I was appalled to realize that if I alone was charged with choosing the next president of the United States, and the only possible POTUS...

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The best line of the night in Thursday's Las Vegas debate--in terms of zinger value, anyway--came when CNN's Campbell Brown asked Hillary Clinton about a recent speech that Hil gave...

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OffTheBus recently caught up with Fatima Bhutto, Benazir Bhutto's niece, whose father died under questionable circumstances at the hands of the police force under her aunt's rule.

Fatima...

The following piece is published on Witness L.A. as well as OffTheBus.

A bare two months out from the first of the presidential primaries, the pollsters, plus the majority of the media, have all but called it for Hillary---and her recent prevarications and school-marmish lectures during the...

The following piece is published on the author's blog, WitnessLA, as well as OffTheBus.

It has been clear for some time that, whenever she debates her democratic rivals, Hillary Clinton is determined to position herself as the toughest guy in the room. But, now that---rightly...