We don't need intercepted dispatches to know there are intense discussions going on now about our national policy -- the marching orders are posted for all to see. In the past couple of weeks, Markos Moulitsas has openly instructed the followers of his blog, the DailyKos, against donating...

With billions of taxpayer dollars propping up the largest financial institutions amid news stories about record bonuses on Wall Street and forecasts for a "jobless recovery" at best, there are a lot of good reasons to doubt the core promises of the capitalist system these days. Populist anger abounds and...

The 2008 Political Play of the Year was Barack Obama's ability to unite political liberals and moderates in their opposition to the Bush/Cheney economic policies and military engagements. His short resume and soaring rhetoric (short on specifics) allowed him to maintain appeal to a loyal cadre of liberal volunteers (and...

Barack Obama's poll numbers are falling as Congress heads into recess without passing a sweeping health care reform bill. Some voters may believe the criticisms from the Republicans that the Democrats are plotting a government takeover of health care, while other voters may be lamenting that such ambitious plans...

Try telling conservatives that Barack Obama is no liberal and you just get blank stares. Reading their own talking points, they will never understand how one could possibly suggest that the president who has tripled the deficit and wants to socialize everything could be anything other than a liberal unless...

Without a doubt, it is good news that the major players in America's health delivery system have come together on a strategy to reduce the cost of health care by 2 trillion dollars over the next 10 years. Millions of American families and businesses have been struggling to keep up...

It's ridiculous, incredible! What the Democrats want to do now (in the narrative of conservatives) is absurd, laughable! Reading Miranda Rights to terrorists? Giving government bailouts to Starbucks? Regulating bovine flatulence? It's a national farce!

Actually Democrats are not for any of these things, and that is really the point....

Remember 1993? Snoop Dogg was on the radio. Grunge ruled the world of fashion, and one of the top movies was "Groundhog Day" where Bill Murray had to relive the same day over again until he figured out just what he had to offer the world and finally got it right. 

Barack Obama was elected in large measure because when the financial crisis became public just before the first scheduled presidential debate, voters appreciated that rather than the normal fight or flight response expected in a crisis and exhibited by his rival, John McCain, Obama's response was calm and reasonable.  Right...

Part 1: Criticism from the Right

These days everyone loves Barack Obama, right? Well actually no. Even though Obama's job approval and personal popularity ratings are very high for an incoming president, some people hold a negative view, and many commentators in newspapers and blogs...

Part 2: The Road Forward

Immediately after Barack Obama won the presidency commentators began interpreting the election and giving the new President advice.  Conservatives like Charles Krauthammer (who actually started spinning the election before the votes were cast), William Kristol, and House Minority Leader, John...

With Daniel Berrier of Electopundit

Part 1: Reading the Election

Barack Hussein Obama, the newly elected 44th President of the United States is almost certain to disappoint his most ardent supporters.

Obama will not be progressive enough for many of the people who backed him, and even if...

Daniel Berrier of ElectoPundit also contributed to this Post.

Part 5: 10:00 to the bitter end.

All times are Eastern Standard Time (EST).

10:00 PM: Polls close in Iowa (7), Montana (3), Nevada (5), North Dakota (3) and Utah (5). With the exception of Iowa,...

Daniel Berrier of ElectoPundit also contributed to this Post.

Part 4: 9:00 to 10:00

All times are Eastern Standard Time (EST).

9:00 PM: Polls close in Arizona (10), Colorado (9), Kansas (6), Louisiana (9), Minnesota (10), Nebraska (5), New Mexico (5), New York (31), Rhode Island...

Daniel Berrier of ElectoPundit also contributed to this Post.

Part 3: 8:00 to 9:00
All times are Eastern Standard Time (EST).

8:00 PM: Polls close in Alabama (9), Connecticut (7), Delaware (3), Illinois (21), Maine (4), Maryland (10), Massachusetts (12), Mississippi (6),...

Daniel Berrier of ElectoPundit also contributed to this Post.

Part 2: 6:00 to 8:00

All times are Eastern Standard Time (EST).

6:00 PM: Some polls close in Indiana and Kentucky. In both states a majority of voters live in the Eastern...

Daniel Berrier of ElectoPundit also contributed to this Post.

Part 1: Introduction

This is actually quite simple: CenteredPolitics.com places 259 electoral votes safely in Barack Obama's column based on a fairly conservative reading of pre-election polling. This puts Obama just 11 electoral votes short of the 270...

There is a lot of anger in the air right now. Republicans are angry with Democrats. Democrats are angry with Republicans. Both right and left are angry with the "main-stream media." Byron York reported a shouting match outside a McCain event. Someone fired a few gunshots at the...

Back in July, before either of the conventions, we wrote that this campaign would not be close unless John McCain could offer a credible plan to change the direction of the economy. Now that the third debate is behind us, and it is too late to offer a truly...

Democrats are high minded to a fault. The triple disasters of the last eight years, Iraq, Katrina and the economy, are the world's reward for Al Gore's high-mindedness late in 2ooo. But for those who believe in the high road, now is the time to reap our reward.

It's...