Barack Obama

A senior campaign official and Clinton confidante has told me that there will be a Democratic nominee by June 15. He could not bring himself to say the words "Hillary will drop out by June 15," but that is clearly what he meant. I kept saying, "So, Hillary will drop...

The encouraging lesson from Obama's huge win in North Carolina and near-win in Indiana is that perhaps the fear card no longer trumps all others. The Bush presidencies were fueled by what Jonathan Alter of Newsweek recently called, "underinformed voters," explicitly voting against their own economic interests, often for reasons...

The Democratic campaign grinds on, and it's wearing us all down. Two months ago, there was a rather good-natured rivalry between the Clinton and Obama folks. Many of us in the Obama camp respected Hillary Clinton's policy substance and agreed with most of her policy positions. Many us were sad...

Ever since this campaign shifted into overdrive, I've been wishing it was like some sort of Time Traveler's Checkerboard. If we could plug some dynamics of this year into 2000, or 2004, imagine how much less glum we'd all be now, as Americans, and how much less grim our circumstances...

We might have heard the preamble to the most important endorsement of the Democratic Primary last night when Senator Hillary Clinton promised to back the Democratic nominee, "no matter what." It's now time for Hillary Clinton to think through what that will entail. After having spent months and millions trying...

There have been a few super-duper delegates so far. Will more of them announce themselves and when they do, will they totally change the primary race?

What makes a person a super-duper delegate? Simple. A super-duper delegate's vote is worth two votes.

This is not a category the DNC has...

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...

You have to give Hillary Clinton's team credit for one thing: they have masterfully played the perception game. It might have been all smoke and mirrors, but they have done their job of keeping people confused and distracted them from what really matters.

The reality is that: 1. She has...

Whether your heart lies with Clinton or Obama your head has to know tonight was a night for the junior senator from Illinois. Tonight, Monday Night Football's Dandy Don Meredith returned for a one night performance: "Turn out the lights, the party's over, they all say good things must end."

For weeks Sen. Clinton and her supporters taunted the Obama campaign by asking, "Why can't he close the deal?" Fair question. If Obama is going to be the nominee, they argued, why can't he deliver some more decisive wins?

After tonight's results the question has to be reversed: Why couldn't...

Hillary canceled her interviews with the morning talk shows and is hunkering down in the war room reassessing the new situation.

The election did several things for the Obama campaign:

1). It defeated the myth that Barack Obama is an "elitist" because he received 36 percent of the...

If Indiana is a toss-up between the two contenders for the nomination to the Democratic Party, then Sen. Obama's appearance on Meet The Press on Sunday should give him the much needed boost he needs to narrow the gap in the primary. In a rather confident and forthright manner, Sen....

Prior to the Iowa caucuses, I warned that no matter what the outcome of the ensuing contests, the Clintons would never, ever, drop out of the race ("If Obama Wins Iowa, Gore May Become President," January 2, 2008).

They have now proved that by declaring they would invoke the nuclear...