Nora McAlvanah is a Senior Editor at the National Journal's Hotline where she writes the humorous and irreverent, daily news summaries, Wake-Up Call and Last Call. Prior to that, Nora was responsible for planning and producing Hotline’s daily web-based program, Hotline TV. She is also a regular guest host on the XM Radio show, “POTUS ’08,” and a contributor to National Journal, Campaigns & Elections, “Real Clear Politics” and “Atlantic Online."

Blog Entries by Nora McAlvanah

What About a 3 PM Phone Call?

1 Comments | Posted January 6, 2009 | 02:49 PM (EST)


Leon Panetta's selection as CIA chief not only is being criticized on its own merits, but also is being panned as a procedural blunder, a gaffe that highlights the charges of inexperience that plagued Obama in the early days of his campaign. The fact that Dianne Feinstein, the incoming Chairman...

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The Primary Punishment

Posted May 30, 2008 | 06:09 AM (EST)


MI and FL broke the rules; but only because they were swimming in IA and NH's pool

When the DNC primary commission met in 2005 to discuss changing the nomination calendar they anticipated a great number of problems, but today's current situation was the last thing they could have envisioned....

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Against All Odds

Posted April 30, 2008 | 09:11 PM (EST)


No doubt about it, Hillary Clinton's odds remain long in North Carolina. Just ask Erskine Bowles, who lost two Senate bids because of his connection to the Clinton administration, or ask Bill Clinton himself who lost the state twice. Or better yet, just look at the demographics. Clinton has yet...

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