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Clinton doesn't help Obama with his electoral map in November. He needs someone who has both pull in the states he wants to win and who can help repair rifts with rural white voters. Two names immediately come to mind.

Now that the Michigan primary controversy may be resolved, Hillary Clinton has upped the ante, issuing what seems a hastily penned open letter to Obama, accusing him of impeding the process.

Americans love both winners and quixotic heroes who do great things in a losing cause. Last night in Pennsylvania, Hillary Clinton was both: she won and so continues on in her sad adventure.

Here is the full audio from Senator Barack Obama's fundraiser hosted at a home in Pacific Heights, San Francisco on Sunday, April 6, 2008.

So, seeing Pennsylvania (and her shot at President, at least this election cycle) slipping away, Clinton's folks announced yesterday that she WILL debate him in North Carolina as well.

Today I asked Clinton Communications Director Howard Wolfson directly whether Clinton, next week, would make public all her tax returns from 2000 through 2006. He promised that she would. If the Clinton campaign keeps its word, Pennsylvania voters will have much more insight into where her interests and loyalties lie before they vote next month.

The controversy with Rev. Wright, for better or worse politically, strips away the fantasy some voters may have entertained that Barack Obama was just a white man in blackface, utterly isolated and insulated from the racial struggles of the nation where he spent most of his life.

Our media is in a terrible state when ordinary citizens doing a Google search can do a better job than some of the highest paid "journalists" in the country.

The very first thing that the controversy over Barack Obama's association with the Reverend Jeremiah Wright highlights is the failure of the national, and still largely white, media to interest themselves in the black church.

One of the most interesting things to me about a Barak Obama presidency is that he would bring with him, as an African American, an internalized awareness of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's indignation and anger.

Obama offers a theology grounded in a process, not an outcome: to work out salvation with fear and trembling. His professed beliefs puts him at odds not only with the president, but his own pastor.

Many in the media noted Barack Obama's speech yesterday morning was reminiscent when Mitt Romney tried to address concerns about his Mormon faith. But is that comparison actually warranted?

The infusion of race into the campaign of Senator Obama past yesterday will serve no purpose other than to continue to pour salt into a wound that has now been postured for healing, paving the path to a more perfect union.

If Obama can help white America understand why he sat in the pews of Trinity Church in Chicago for twenty years, then he may be able to hold his near-grasp of the Democratic presidential nomination.

I guess you were right, Ms. Ferraro. One African-American man is lucky - to have you around helping him out, that is.

Today I spent my morning in the midst of the media feeding frenzy camped outside of Eliot Spitzer's home in Manhattan.

In interviews with OffTheBus this past week, California superdelegates undercut media-generated dramatic narratives about how the Democratic nominatio...

With the Democratic presidential race heading toward a possible climax Tuesday as four states including Texas and Ohio conduct their primaries, the la...

To help launch the HuffPo's Superdelegate Investigation Project we headed here to talk with the man who had a hand in creating the system, political consultant Tad Devine... and even he thinks now is the time to "take a step back and take another hard look at our nominating process."

We intend to track the results of the popular vote district-by-district, the allocation of pledged delegates, how the superdelegates are pledged and eventually how they will vote. There's two ways you can join directly in this effort.

It seems that McCain has figured this out, and he's decided to do whatever possible to tilt the remaining Democratic contests in Senator Clinton's favor and to thwart Senator Obama, McCain's greater general-election threat.

Republican presidential contender Mike Huckabee started out his evening speech on Super Tuesday with two Biblical references, when in fact, his Biblic...

Already Obama has subverted expectations by being a contender in California at all.

Whatever the merits or possibility of a united Democratic ticket, one conclusion seems inescapable: Clinton needs Obama more than Obama needs Clinton.

This election season, pundits have repeatedly said, "If anyone could possibly lose this election for themselves, it's the Democrats." If our pick is Clinton, that prophecy may just become reality.