Ugh. The numbers are terrible. Tied at 43-43 only a little four months from Election Day. Why can't he close the deal? Why with an economy in the crapper aren't more people coming to his campaign? He should be up by at least 20.

43-43. So said a New...

The Vice Presidential pick for both the Democrats and Republicans has become more of a media fascination than any time in modern history, because each of the remaining candidates has some divisions to sew up within their own party. Senator McCain needs to take someone to make conservatives happy, "they"...

It started with a phone call.

In the 1960 campaign, when Martin Luther King was jailed for protesting segregation, Jack Kennedy picked up the phone and reached out to Coretta Scott King.

Martin Luther King, Sr., a lifelong Republican (as many African Americans were at the time) was so...

It's not very often that I'll compliment John McCain, but his campaign's strategy over this now-infamous North Carolina GOP ad hitting Obama is one shrewd move.

Some pundits have caught on, but only half-way.

It's true that the damage has been done by the ad just being out there...

It's funny how the punditry works, sometimes.

Over a month ago, I wrote an op-ed for the Philadelphia Daily News, warning Democrats that a prolonged primary would destroy the party's chances to win in November. I followed it up ten days later a with a post here that compared...

Back in the late 1990s, I joined a small but growing group named "Censure and Move On." At that time, when the internet was a relative toddler, Wes Boyd and Joan Blades had an idea. In the midst of the impeachment of President Clinton, they would use email and the...

Watching the consternation among the TV pundits on Barack Obama's "bitter" comments is getting downright hilarious. After days of near universal agreement that this was going to absolutely crush Obama, how more than one pundit said this was the "greatest present ever given to Hillary Clinton," it turns out that...

Reporters got an interesting response when Senator Hillary Clinton was asked in Pittsburgh about Sam Stein's bang-up reporting that connected the dots in Bill Clinton's work to promote the Colombia Free Trade deal. Reports Newsweek, "First, Clinton giggled. Then she laughed. She waved her arms in the air....

If you're as pathetic as I am, you keep cable news on all day while you work. Watching the coverage from cable news, especially CNN and MSNBC, I've found it curious that there has seemed to be a shift in coverage over the last month or so.

As Senator Obama...

The media fascination with the daily head-to-head between Senators Obama and Clinton is somewhat humorous to me, because it begins to take on the feeling of who wins goes on to be president. Not so.

The most important indicator of where the election is heading is the long-term trends --...

Forget "Tonya Harding." With the latest NBC/WSJ poll , it is becoming even more evident -- this campaign is turning into a murder-suicide. Chris Dodd sees it. Howard Dean sees it. Superdelegates see it. I wrote about it more than a week ago in the...

Number one rule in politics and life -- when you're in a hole, quit digging.

This weekend, on Meet the Press, Governor Ed Rendell, a Hillary supporter I twice worked for, got caught in a logical quandary. If Barack Obama is so inexperienced as to not even be qualified to...

NEW YORK/O'Reilly News Service - At approximately 9:00 last evening, the forces of Supreme Father Generalissimo O'Reilly stormed the center of the Godless ACLU, liberal New York City, and declared victory in the War on Christmas.

In a victory broadcast to the people, our beloved said, "All...

If politics were sports (forgive me for using the most hackneyed cliché to kick this off), then the 2008 race would be akin to a league right after a new revenue-sharing plan. The trend in sports has tilted towards creating more parity among the teams, trying to ensure that coaching...

Bill O'Reilly won't let it go. Despite the fact that hate-filled comments were found on his own website, despite that a couple of his own advertisers have pulled out, he just won't stop cherry picking some comments on DailyKos to smear the entire half-million person community.

Look, it's a free...

Piggybacking on Carl Pope's blog today, something dawned on me watching the Live Earth concerts this weekend, and the inevitable right-wing, Drudge-driven bitter response. That is, far too often those who want to curb climate change fall into the trap of entering into the energy lobby's talking points,...

Dear Ann,

A few years ago, when I was press secretary for Howard Dean, I lashed out at you for making fun of the tragic death of the Governor's brother, Charlie Dean . Boy, was I wrong. In fact, I am writing this open letter to you, to tell...

I'm no scientist, that's for sure. Before September 11th, my knowledge of air quality related to deadly health problems was limited to trucks contributing to asthma rates for kids in New York. But even my feeble, right-brained mind was able to grasp what I learned just weeks after the fall...

...because last night, he made a giant poop right on my face.

Last night's finale was great... for a season finale, not a series finale. Sure, I've read all the critics and some blind fans who try to reconcile the cop-out end of The Sopranos with "art," but I'm not...