New Politics

Why Chase The Center When You Can Rendezvous with It?

Darin Murphy | Posted 07.07.2008 | Politics

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Darin Murphy

The movement that Obama created launched his campaign to a higher altitude than the conventional path. Now he needs to stay on message, keep making sense and let the center catch up with him.

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Hey Kids, Let's Fire Steny Hoyer

Marshall Grossman | Posted 06.23.2008 | Politics

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Marshall Grossman

So why, when in more and more districts, a vote to fund the war is a greater threat to incumbency than a vote to end it, do Hoyer and Pelosi still carry Bush's brackish water?

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More Evidence of An Obama Bounce, Other Thoughts on The Fall Election

Simon Rosenberg | Posted 06.12.2008 | Politics

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Simon Rosenberg

There should no longer be any doubts about Obama's ability to put together a winning coalition; polls show that this electorate will look very different from any pollsters have seen before.

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On The Road Again (How The Press Led Us Astray)

Beth Arnold | Posted 05.08.2008 | Politics

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Beth Arnold

Obama blew many of the old political rules to smithereens, and this new landscape is fresh and exciting to much of the electorate. In the end, the Clintons' politics come off as So Last Century.

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Obama and the New Politics

Larry Abrams | Posted 04.25.2008 | Politics

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Larry Abrams

Obama's campaign is not first time "New Politics" have been invoked in the Democratic party -- another example is the nomination of George McGovern in 1972.

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