Barack Obama

The Democratic race is too close to call. It is entirely possible that the losing candidate will be supported by 49% of the voters and the delegates. It is also possible that one candidate could win the popular vote but lose the delegate contest. Amidst all this uncertainty, one thing...

Today marks the 47th and 48th primaries or caucuses for the Democratic presidential nomination. More than 90 percent of the delegates will have been chosen by tonight. By now, we all ought to know the drill.

The day begins with the Clinton campaign "leaking" something to the Drudge Report to...

Yesterday on MSNBC's Morning Joe, the eponymous Joe Scarborough and his colleague Mika Brzezinski were having an intellectual smack-down over Hillary's emblematic gas tax holiday scheme, and whether it grew from the candidate's desire to help the little guy or her own political future. Personally, I think it's the...

INDIANAPOLIS — Sen. Barack Obama's campaign hasn't announced this to the press yet, but their Web site this morning includes that graphic above marking a major milestone.

It's a nice piece of news for Obama on primary day - Indiana...

Of all the analogies Hillary Clinton could have picked last week for her attempt to win the Democratic nomination, it turns out that she couldn't have picked a worse one than Eight Belles, the filly who ran her heart out in the Kentucky Derby on Saturday, finished second behind the...

Republican presidential candidate John McCain feigned fury at Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama for voting against the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice John Roberts. This was not simply a cheap political shot at Obama, since Hillary Clinton, and 20 other Democrats also opposed Robert's confirmation. He didn't knock any of...

In case you missed the 10 minutes of live coverage it got on the cable "news" networks today, John McCain gave a speech on his judicial philosophy. Sadly, as I explain over at Robert Emmet, it seems to have been lifted whole from every other GOP speech touching on...

During a week of reverberations over the sayings of Reverend Wright, the political calculus in Clintonland hopefully reckoned that white voters would swiftly abandon the good ship Obama in a flight of fear following a paroxysm of soul-searching racial uncertainty.

The highly paid strategists of the Clinton campaign sharpened...

Zogby polls in the past week show steadily declining support for Hillary among women. Blacks, and under 70s. moving to Obama driving the change.

Zogby phone polls in Indiana and North Carolina suggest that women are deserting Hillary.

In the gender war, Obama seems to have made serious progress, holding the...

While Senators Clinton and Obama are struggling to reach the "little guys" in Indiana and North Carolina, an article by Ellen Goodman reminded me about some big guys who pose a danger to democracy.

Last year I wrote about the Supreme Court decision to make it impossible...

I always heard the phrase the Bully Pulpit without hearing the word "bully" in it.

The phrase, of course, simply means that the president has easy and frequent access to the American people to make his case. It seemed a logical and useful thing for the...