Now that the outcome of the battle for the Democratic nomination has been settled beyond a reasonable doubt, it's worth looking systematically at the major factors that gave victory to Obama. After all, fifteen months ago, conventional wisdom viewed Obama as an audacious long shot. The very idea of...

Barack Obama's landslide victory in the North Carolina Primary, coupled with Hillary Clinton's microscopic win in Indiana settled the outcome of the battle for the Democratic Nomination. The results made it both mathematically and politically impossible for her to wrest the nomination from Obama. They also eliminated the underpinning...

Barack Obama will provide a far more compelling contrast with John McCain in the fall election than will his rival for the nomination, Hillary Clinton. Here's why:

The polling shows that McCain is currently running substantially ahead of a "generic" Republican candidate in the fall match-up for president....

In a number of recent primary contests, white rural men have tended to support Hillary Clinton over Barack Obama. And the renewed focus on the views of Obama's Pastor, Rev. Wright, certainly doesn't help. But the notion that Obama "can't appeal" to white rural men sells short both Barack...

Read more reactions from Huffington Post bloggers to the Pennsylvania Primary results

The Pennsylvania Primary was Hillary Clinton's last chance to deliver a game changing blow to Obama's campaign for the nomination. She failed to deliver.

Pennsylvania provided her with her final real opportunity to knock...

For the last several weeks we have been inundated with statements from the Clinton Campaign (and some media pundits) arguing that their incessant attacks on Obama's patriotism, their use of McCarthyite "guilt by association", and attempts to make Obama look like a "cultural elitist" are all justified because "the Republicans...

Americans United for Change (AUFC), the group best known for leading the fight to defeat the President's effort to privatize Social Security in 2005, has launched new radio spots targeting key Republicans as part of its ongoing "Bush Legacy Project". The spots, called "Two Peas in a Pod", make...

The only way for Hillary Clinton to win the Democratic nomination would be a precipitous collapse in Barack Obama's candidacy. Obama's pledged-delegate lead is virtually insurmountable. And Super Delegates seem increasingly inclined to go with the pledged-delegate winner.

Rather than respect the outcome of the primaries, the Clintons...

McCain doesn't lack "chutzpah." Yesterday his campaign actually accused Barack Obama of being an "elitist" for saying that it's not surprising that people in small Midwestern towns are bitter after seeing their standard of living systematically destroyed over the last three decades.

Damn right they're bitter; they have...

None of the presidential candidates has experience managing a large executive branch agency or serving as governor. Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John McCain have all served as legislators, but never in executive office.

The largest organization any of them have led is their respective campaigns. So if you...

The Clinton campaign's only remaining argument for her superior "electability" rests on the contention that her ability to win primaries in states like Ohio and Pennsylvania makes her more "electable" in the general election.

There are many reasons why this argument is fallacious, including the fact that, in the...

Yesterday John McCain did his best to redecorate his unvarnished neo-con foreign policy positions, vowing to be more "collaborative" with American allies. However he dresses up his positions with phrases like "realistic idealist" he is as firmly committed as ever to continuing the fundamental policies of the Bush administration that...

The handwriting is on the wall. It is virtually impossible for Hillary Clinton to overcome Barack Obama's insurmountable lead in pledged delegates.

The party's superdelegates are faced with only one choice. They must decide whether to ratify the outcome of the primaries and support the candidate with the most pledged...

Barack Obama's March 18th speech on race in America was game-changing, and very likely will be remembered as historic. Here's why.

In electoral politics -- particularly presidential politics -- people don't vote based on the issues or positions of the candidates. They vote based on their assessment of...

In the end, the contest for the Democratic presidential nomination is about whether Democrats want to go back to the nineties, or forward into the future.

For Democrats interested in building a strong, progressive party throughout America, it's useful to remember what the 1990's were like.

When Bill...

Last Saturday a political "earthquake" struck in the ex-urban Republican leaning 14th Congressional District of Illinois. Democrat Bill Foster won the special election to replace retired former House Speaker Dennis Hastert who had represented the district for two decades. The district voted heavily for George Bush both in 2000 and...

New survey data demonstrates in detail why Clinton's "big state" primary wins mean nothing when it comes to victory in the general election.

SurveyUSA has just released state-by-state results of a 30,000 respondent nation wide survey comparing Barack Obama's and Hillary Clinton's chances against John McCain.

Bottom line: this...

The Clinton Campaign's post March 4th message is to forget about the delegate count and nominate Hillary because she can win the big states Democrats need in November. That argument simply doesn't hold up to scrutiny. Here's why:

1) Most of the "Big States" she has won are not battleground...

Hillary Clinton would make a competent, solid, predictable, progressive president -- and would be a welcome contrast to the dark years of the Bush presidency.

But in 2008, America needs more than a competent, progressive chief executive. We need a movement to fundamentally change how things are done in...

Hillary Clinton generated another telling campaign moment Saturday as she waged her finger and angrily said, "Shame on You Barack Obama". Her statement came after increasingly effective attacks by Obama on the Clinton administration's North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) -- a pact that is widely despised by...