Spare Change for Hillary?
Every minute spent trying to fill Hillary Clinton's tin cup is a minute not spent raising that same money for Obama or myriad other candidates. She has sucked bank-fulls of cash out of the DNC donor rolls.
Every minute spent trying to fill Hillary Clinton's tin cup is a minute not spent raising that same money for Obama or myriad other candidates. She has sucked bank-fulls of cash out of the DNC donor rolls.
Horace McMillon | Posted 07.14.2008 | Home
When you run out of money you either fly coach (see John McCain), or drop out (see Joe Biden). You don't rack up a big debt expecting someone to bail you out after the fact.
Marshall Grossman | Posted 06.30.2008 | Politics
Those of us who want real change must hold with one hand to the absolute necessity of an Obama victory and with the other to the possibility that pragmatic cynicism may be precisely not the road to achieve victory.
RJ Eskow | Posted 06.02.2008 | Politics
The Party's failure to frame this issue effectively opened the door for some campaign demagoguery, which led in turn to the bitter demonstrations this weekend.
Diane Francis | Posted 06.01.2008 | Politics
This week will be great fun to watch because the delegate arithmetic simply doesn't work after Tuesday. Then, the real Hillary will be revealed in one of two scenarios.
AP | DAVID ESPO and JIM KUHNHENN | Posted 06.01.2008 | Politics
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Hillary Rodham Clinton won a lopsided, but largely symbolic victory Sunday in Puerto Rico's presidential primary, the fi...
AP | MATT GOURAS | Posted 05.30.2008 | Politics
HELENA, Mont. — Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday she expects uncommitted superdelegates to begin making the choice that will decide her marath...
RJ Eskow | Posted 05.29.2008 | Politics
Take Michigan: Even though it was an "election" worthy of Joseph Stalin or Saddam Hussein, with no major opponent on the ballot, 41% of voters chose nobody instead of Clinton.
Christine Escobar | Posted 05.23.2008 | Home
In Obama's hometown the big news this week was not his historic delegate lead. It was the R. Kelly underage porn trial, which is no knock on Obama, for what can compete anymore with a celebrity underage porn trial?
Thomas de Zengotita | Posted 05.20.2008 | Politics
These primaries seem to be a clash between those who didn't go to college and those who did. Parents who didn't go very often want their kids to -- who will then turn into Obama types.
Michelle Kraus | Posted 05.18.2008 | Politics
If we step back and really look at the Democratic presidential race for 2008, the gift bestowed by Hillary Clinton shines through. Her staying in the ...
Stacy Parker Aab | Posted 05.09.2008 | Politics
The dream may be dying. But there is no reason that this must be her last dream. Death may be about finality, but it is also about new beginnings.
Keli Goff | Posted 05.06.2008 | Politics
Here's a look at the top 10 people and moments that are helping the Democrats return to the glory days of loserdom.
Robert L. Borosage | Posted 05.06.2008 | Politics
If Hillary loses North Carolina tonight, it's over. Any superdelegate who is sentient and truly not committed should bring this thing to an end, by endorsing Obama as quickly as possible.
Erin Medlicott | Posted 05.06.2008 | Home
"This primary is a good thing. Democrats have developed a way to raise $100 million, 80 percent in donations under $90. We have millions more registered voters, 50,000 new Democrats in Nevada."
New York Times | ADAM NAGOURNEY | Posted 05.05.2008 | Politics
It's almost over. Well, not quite. But the Democratic presidential primaries taking place on Tuesday in North Carolina and Indiana have more delegate...
Bella DePaulo | Posted 05.05.2008 | Politics
Single voters play favorites, their favorites are Democrats, and there are about 92 million of them eligible to vote.
RJ Eskow | Posted 05.05.2008 | Politics
Under this proposal, the Democratic Party would only count the votes of Caucasians whose income level is considered to be "working class," and conservative - or, as the official put it, "culturally non-elite."
R.T. Eby | Posted 05.05.2008 | Home
So go ahead Indiana and North Carolina, step up and pull that lever for Clinton. You'll make Limbaugh's dream of riots in Denver come true, rhetorically if not literally.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 05.03.2008 | Politics
The assumption that all blacks scream with one voice for Obama is foolish, arrogant, and racially myopic.
RJ Eskow | Posted 04.25.2008 | Politics
It's becoming clear that Obama needs to do a better job speaking to the kind of voter once condescendingly described as a "regular person."
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 04.23.2008 | Home
Barack Obama's decisive Pennsylvania loss to Hillary Clinton was predictable and inevitable. Obama pretty much confirmed that when he tossed in the to...
Cenk Uygur | Posted 04.23.2008 | Politics
Obviously Clinton put herself in the ballgame by running an effective campaign and holding views that appeal to the voters. But after she crossed these thresholds, it has helped her that she is a woman.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 04.21.2008 | Politics
Politics being politics, money and favoritism are making a mockery of the ideal of letting superdelegates decide a nominee purely on their conscience and the best interests of the party.
Taylor Marsh | Posted 04.17.2008 | Politics
Finally Obama got real questions for which he should have had ready answers. Forgive me if all the blogospheric bellyaching permeating Democratic circles is not impressing me much.
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Keith Berner | Posted 07.18.2008 | Home