Once again, it is time for a look at Presidential preferences based on the number and demographics of viewers watching the 2008 political campaign through the eyes of the cable networks. Once again I'm assuming that Fox viewers are Republicans, and the people who watch CNN and MSNBC are Democrats....

The President and Congress have finally allowed us to allocate $700 billion to a policy, about whose success they are, at least reasonably, doubtful. They have to do it, they say, to save Wall Street. Before they go any further, they should enact new regulations to better protect us all...

Let's Look at the Record

Last night, Joe Biden said:

"Look, the people in my neighborhood, they get it. They get it. They know they've been getting the short end of the stick. So walk with me in my neighborhood, go back to my old neighborhood...

Back in the 1990s, when George W. Bush was running the Texas Rangers, before he was running the United States of America, he attended a meeting of major league owners to discuss "revenue-sharing." The meeting was intended as an introduction to the subject and an instructional guide to how it...

I came to work this morning wearing my "McCain 2000" hat. I'd really like to vote for the 2000 version of McCain. I'd also probably like to vote for the 2016 version of Barack Obama, and might even wear his "Obama 2016" hat, but that one's not available yet. Our...

Not since 1956 have I felt so ashamed of my country as I do today. Page one of The New York Times headlines:

Bitter Refrain
Amid Retreat:
Where is U.S.?

One Georgian soldier, "his face a mask of exhaustion", cradling a Kalashnikov, said 'We...

It took my good friend Norman Horowitz to use the word "reinforcement" instead of "surge" in his Huffington piece this week, to remind me of the power of words. Twenty or so years ago, a staunch conservative with whom I was working on a project advised me that to "name"...

It's now a full month since Jacques Steinberg, The New York Times television reporter, wrote a piece entitled "FoxNews Finds It's Rivals Closing In". Gist of the piece: "Both CNN and MSNBC have added viewers at far more dramatic rates" than Fox. His report covered the first 6 months of...

Dear Barack,

Your campaign seems intent upon losing the 2008 Presidential election. It's not enough to waffle back and forth about setting a date certain for withdrawal of US troops from Iraq. It's not enough to vote for granting immunity to telephone companies that have eavesdropped on all of us...

Having grown up in the age of urban machine politics, I pay close attention to "ethnic voting." There are those who think those days are long gone, but I believe that ethnic voting remains one of the most important factors in American politics. So I am somewhat surprised that I...

The only time I ever shook hands with Tim Russert was, back in 1984, Larry Grossman, then president of NBC News, a former PR man himself, introduced me to Tim as a new NBC hire. I was honestly shocked. In those days, network news departments did not hire political operatives....

Senator Obama recognizing the accuracy of the above statement, moved in on the Democratic National Committee yesterday changing its rules so the committee will no longer accept donations from federal lobbyists or political action committees. He's keeping Howard Dean on as party chairman, but is sending in his own operatives...

In the 20th century world of machine politics, political machines survived on the principle that "it's better to lose an election than to lose the party". The Clintons and Terry McAuliffe lost the National Democratic Party to Howard Dean & Co. after John Kerry lost to George Bush in 2004....

Obama's supporters fall into three categories: blacks, youth and the ABCs -- Democrats who are for Anybody But Clinton. Blacks, I understand: what race would not be proud if one of its members might become President of the United States. The young I also understand: they live on hope, the...

Never has the month of May been so good for the cable news networks as this year. FoxNews primetime ratings are up 10 percent year-to-year, CNN's are up 59 percent, and MSNBC's 50 percent. Among adults 18-49 and 25-54 the numbers for CNN and MSNBC are even better. CNN is...

Why is it that the Democratic Party chooses the path of greatest difficulty in every election? 2008 is a year when the Democrats should be a shoe-in. The Republican incumbent has almost doubled our national debt, almost halved the value of our dollar and our savings and led us into...

In 2004 twenty-one percent of the votes for John Kerry were cast by black voters, and before the 2008 primary campaign Hillary Clinton was the favorite to get them all. Wasn't Bill called the "first black President of the United States"? Hadn't he established his office in Harlem just to...

It was forty-eight years ago in West Virginia that John Kennedy won the state primary and proved that a Catholic could carry an overwhelmingly Protestant state. That victory assured him of a huge lead over Lyndon Johnson going into the Democratic Convention, but no one suggested that Johnson withdraw from...

On Monday, April 13, Richard Butler, a British journalist working for CBS, was "rescued" by Iraqi forces from a house in Basra where he had been held for two months after being kidnapped. He was "in very good health condition, mentally and physically," according to the Iraqi Defense Ministry.

On...

A year and two months ago, after the Reverend Wright was disinvited to deliver the invocation prior to Senator Obama's presidential announcement the New York Times reported that, "Mr. Wright expressed disappointment but no surprise that Mr. Obama might try to play down their connection." He told The Times that,...