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Every year, there are certain political races that become really important symbolically and substantively in terms of the impact that an election cycle has on the country's politics. In 1994, the fact that Republicans took out Speaker Foley and the giant presence of Gov. Cuomo added...

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The debate on my blog about whether anything has really changed in the presidential race is interesting, although it doesn't really matter a lot at this point- either way, this thing is now done. My own view is that had Hillary won Indiana big and pulled off...

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I haven't written much about the Rev. Wright thing because so many people have taken this topic on ad infinitum that there hasn't seemed much new to say. But with him doing his media tour thing, I thought I would weigh in on a topic not that...

No, I'm not talking about the daily Bush/McCain festival of fear about the scary terrorists. And, no, I'm not talking about the 3 AM phone call ad, either.

I'm talking about how many people I know, many superdelegates among them, who are scared to publicly support Obama because of the...

Today, OpenLeft.com and MoveOn.org are co-sponsoring a new petition to Nancy Pelosi, supporting her position on superdelegates and telling her that we'll back her up when she is threatened.

Matt Stoller noted yesterday a letter that 20 major donors and raisers to Hillary and other Democratic Party...

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Barack Obama's New Hampshire concession speech became one of the most important moments in this campaign. The speech was made into that powerful "yes we can" video and was downloaded and commented on a ton. What has been less commented on, but something which I think...

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Arianna Huffington and I were talking at the Take Back America conference, and she encouraged me to write a follow-up post about the decision I made a couple of weeks ago that I thought I would not end up making in this primary campaign: endorsing Barack Obama....

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I am about as old school as you can get. I started knocking on doors in campaigns 35 years ago, at the age of 12, and I still go out door-knocking at least a little bit every election cycle. I think that kind of person-to-person political work...

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As much as I oppose Bush, I have long argued strongly against pushing for the impeachment of Bush and/or Cheney. I argued that we would not be able to win an impeachment vote in the Senate, that the public wouldn't be with us, that it...

It's Blogosphere Day, and this year the cause the progressive blogosphere is coming together to support is ActBlue. Today, on OpenLeft.com, Matt Stoller, Chris Bowers, Tim Tagaris, and I are focusing on raising as much money as we can for ActBlue, which is one...

I had originally blogged on the launch of OpenLeft in this space, and I wanted to post again here because it was that piece that inspired me to do a post on OpenLeft.com yesterday I thought it would be good to let you all know about. A commenter,...

I wanted to let Huffington Post readers know that the new blog I wrote about last week here is now up and live. Stoller, Bowers and I are excited about the launch, and want to encourage you to drop by.

The blog is called OpenLeft.com, and if you...

I am a relative newcomer to the blogosphere, having just begun posting here at Huffington Post a few months back. I had been paying a lot of attention to the netroots movement for some time, but had never blogged. A friend of mine had told me to try my hand...

In a few days, the quarterly fundraising numbers for the presidential candidates are going to start being reported, and there will be huge doses of hype around who is ahead, and behind, and who is winning the "money primary." You can safely ignore most of it.

Clinton and Obama...

Arianna's brilliant post on Democratic Dinosaurs reminds me that conventional wisdom, labels that don't mean anything real, and dumb stereotypes frequently combine into a sort of toxic stew that keep people from understanding what is really going on. I thought I would be so kind as to sort all...

This new Bush analogy -- repeated by administration officials multiple times -- about leaving American troops in Iraq permanently, just like in Korea, is astonishing, one of the most bizarre and mind-blowing political statements I've heard in a long time. Americans by more than a two-to-one margin want us to...

I have been on the road a lot the last month. Among the places I've touched ground are Iowa, Nebraska, Florida, Georgia, Silicon Valley and San Francisco, Minnesota, Chicago, Boston, New York and, of course, the homeground D.C. metro area. In those travels, I've had the chance to talk politics...

You know, I'm a very pragmatic fellow. I get in trouble with some of my progressive friends for that sometimes. I have argued, for example, that we can push back against Bush on the Iraq war in a variety of creative ways. That we can strategically narrow his options...

I'll admit upfront that I am highly biased about the groups mentioned in the articles I link to below, that I've consulted for some of them, been a founding board member of others, been friends with the rest, but... I just have to say that it's nice that the mainstream...

I understand and appreciate the sentiment, but I personally think the approach as to what Dems should do next regarding Iraq as highlighted in the new Edwards ad -- just keep sending Bush the same bill over and over -- is politically dumb. Yes, we should keep standing up...