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Poem inspired by an observation made by Mike Murphy, a former John McCain strategist
Pablo Manriquez | Posted 08.17.2009 | Politics
However it's fed to the media, what Democrats see in comprehensive immigration reform is 12 million potential votes. Unless Republicans prefer losing elections, they should stand with Obama on immigration reform.
Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 08.01.2009 | Politics
The sniping between McCain staffers and Palin defenders has only gotten worse since Todd Purdum's lengthy Vanity Fair article slamming Sarah Palin cam...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.29.2009 | Politics
The Republican Party is in such a state of disrepair and scandal that television news hosts can't keep track of which prominent figures are dealing wi...
James Warren | Posted 07.15.2009 | Media
This may be a golden era of betrayal. Bernie Madoff, Eliot Spitzer, Chris Brown, Rod Blagojevich, Alex Rodriguez and Mel Gibson are among the liars and cheats who've hurt their biggest fans and chums the most.
TIME | Mike Murphy Monday, Jun. 22, 2009 | Posted 07.13.2009 | Politics
Despairing Republican friends have been asking me what I think we should do to rebuild the GOP and begin our certain and inevitable comeback. My answe...
AP | VALERIE BAUMAN | Posted 05.25.2009 | Politics
GLENS FALLS, N.Y. — Almost a month after a special election in a heavily Republican congressional district, the Democratic candidate claimed vic...
USA Today | Posted 05.23.2009 | Politics
The hand counts and courtroom squabbles may be dragging on in the New York District 20 race, but at least one prominent Republican says the election i...
Rick Horowitz | Posted 04.09.2009 | Politics
In case you thought it was only the CPAC crowd arguing that Obama was the second coming of "European-style socialism," Murphy wanted you to know precisely which slice of Europe they had in mind.
William Bradley | Posted 04.02.2009 | Politics
Every other year, including this, has seen the tarnished Golden State holding at least one statewide election. This May 19th it's another special statewide election, the fourth of the Arnold Era.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 04.02.2009 | Politics
This past week's Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington D.C. was supposed to mark the beginning of the reemergence of the conservative...
Mark Nickolas | Posted 11.09.2008 | Politics
Back in June, many of us laughed and laughed at the idea that John McCain and the RNC was putting the top staff to Rudy Giuliani's disastrous presidential campaign to run the general election ground game.
William Bradley | Posted 11.03.2008 | Politics
So, you think it looks really good for Barack Obama. Well, maybe so. Yet, Obama can still lose this. Though I'm not planning to head over to Vegas to shoot craps (John McCain's favorite) on that deal.
Lee Stranahan | Posted 11.02.2008 | Politics
Palin seems to have done well enough in her gubernatorial debates but that's not because the format suited her better. It's because the debates weren't about national or international affairs.
William Bradley | Posted 10.04.2008 | Media
What a bizarre week for Obama to mount a counter-programming effort. He has the RNC and Hurricanes Gustav and Sarah. It's going pretty well for him -- not that he has all that much to do with it.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.04.2008 | Politics
Now, the only question is: "What was Peggy Noonan thinking when she filed this column for the Wall Street Journal this morning?
Huffington Post | Posted 10.04.2008 | Media
Update: Peggy Noonan addressed the open mic incident in the Wall Street Journal, and claimed that the "It's over" remark was not in reference to the M...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.04.2008 | Politics
Here's the new advertisement from the McCain campaign, "Alaska Maverick," which extends the GOP's last ditch efforts to keep the "experience" argument...
Todd Gitlin | Posted 10.02.2008 | Media
In terms of attention seized, McCain-Palin "won the weekend." Whether they won supporters is more doubtful. Judging from the top two Sunday shows, they didn't impress.
Huffington Post | Posted 09.27.2008 | Media
In what may have been a moment of an unknown open microphone during Wednesday night's DNC coverage on MSNBC, anchor Keith Olbermann vocally asked to w...
Morgan Warners | Posted 08.11.2008 | Media
Murphy, as a professional political operative, could not possibly be unaware of the racial implications of what he said, could he? He might as well have said, "stay in your place."
Adele Stan | Posted 08.29.2008 | Politics
I'll be surprised if McCain doesn't pick a woman. I've long speculated before that such a move would make good sense as McCain seeks to appeal to swing voters.
William Bradley | Posted 07.18.2008 | Politics
Schmidt's experience with Schwarzenegger tells him about the problems with the conservative base as the candidate runs a campaign aimed at independents.
William Klein | Posted 07.18.2008 | Politics
There's something wrong when a campaign's consultants and strategists get their names written in the paper as often as the candidate.
New York Times | Adam Nagourney | Posted 07.17.2008 | Media
Mike Murphy, Senator John McCain's longtime adviser and friend who had been rumored to be joining the McCain campaign as a chief strategist, said Tues...
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Gershon Hepner | Posted 08.29.2009 | Politics