Democratic Nominee

When Obama speaks to a crowd, the audience feels his enthusiasm for working together to create a better America. They know he believes he was born in a beautiful place and is seeking help to make that place greater.

We'd heard it many times before--weeks, months even. We'd been fooled. And so, when the men and women on the TV began telling us that it was over this time, no really, we were naturally skeptical.

Kennedy was a dreamer and a social justice visionary. Kennedy lived and breathed the rough and raw world of politics and power, which Obama mastered in the tough training grounds of Chicago and Springfield.

Hilary Rosen: I Am Not a Bargaining Chip, I Am a Democrat: Senator Clinton's speech last night was a justifiably proud recitation of her accomplishme...

Obama has created a number of significant infrastructure pieces through his campaign, displacing traditional groups the way he promised he would by signaling the end of the old politics of division and partisanship.

August 28th will be the final day of the Democratic National Convention. Unless Hillary Clinton soon acquires the ability to perform miracles, the nominee giving the acceptance speech is going to be Barack Obama.

The Obama folks need to be very focused on gearing up their operation now. If the primary team needs vacations, fine, put people you trust into planning mode. This needs to happen now.

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.

Barack will most likely lose West Virginia and Kentucky, but each one will contribute more delegates to the final number he needs to clinch the nomination.

Lawrence O'Donnell: Hillary Will Drop Out by June 15: A senior campaign official and Clinton confidante has told me that there will be a Democratic n...

Obama pushed through and managed to reclaim momentum against the most popular Democratic brand in the world. And now, he's going to be widely regarded as the presumptive nominee.

Unfortunately these questions remain largely unanswered, almost two months after the last debate.

This is an interesting move for Clinton: it could truly be an effort to reunite the party by distancing herself from the mudslinging -- which will help the party whether she's the nominee or not.

That "graceful" exit 22% of the electorate have been waiting for all this time, as told to Jane Austen. "Sir, I shall stand in your way no longer..."

While Obama's recent controversy seems to be about race, it reinforces an equally potent political narrative that says deep down, Democrats and liberals don't really love America.

In the midst of a heated Democratic primary fight, Obama didn't go after Hillary Clinton. He went after John McCain. Can we have more of this please? Say, every day for the foreseeable future?

Why is Hillary the one people are calling on to step aside? Yes, she is behind in the delegate count, but not by that much. It's not like she's the Democratic version of Ron Paul.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Wednesday now is not the time for superdelegates to wade into the fight over the Democratic presidential nomination. "...

I might be super sappy, having cut my teeth in grassroots Texas politics three eventful decades ago, but I do believe both candidates keep getting better at their game.