Oh, Florida. You have this need to be at the forefront of the political scene, though always for the wrong reasons. Much like a certain blond, southern, celebrity-train-wreck who can't resist the lure of flashbulbs, you are once again emerging, legs uncrossed and knickers missing, as the center of attention.

Being Hillary Clinton's campaign manager would not be the most enviable of jobs to hold at the moment. Clinton faces a struggle against the momentum that Barack Obama has been building the last few weeks. I am no expert in the political strategy game, but some solutions boil down to...

The main stream media must be experiencing a lull in political stories they feel are news-worthy (emphasis indicates disparate understanding of actual news-worthiness). We have been deluged with coverage that seems questionably relevant.

Example #1: Michael Bloomberg is not running for president. I'm sure we were all losing a lot...

We have all witnessed Hillary welling-up in public on the campaign trail. Her husband's interaction with an ABC reporter has been widely blown out of proportion. Even Obama, who has attempted to maintain some level of cool, has been the subject of fervent body-language speculation when he...

Recently, I started reading about the possibility of a troop draw-down in Iraq. Five of the twenty brigades ordered there could be pulled out by July. It isn't exactly a withdrawal on the scale that many of us would like to see, but it is something. And it is certainly...

"Who's winning, Mama?" my seven-year-old asks. "The donkeys or the elephants?"

I explain that we haven't come to that part of the race yet. We are still trying to figure out which donkey will go up against which elephant. I don't have much doubt who that elephant will be, but...

Living an ocean away from the U.S. makes me particularly anxious about Super Tuesday. Maybe I'm anxious because my husband is in the military and this entire election has significant meaning for us. Maybe my anxiety is due to the fact that I have to reconcile differing time zones with...