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The series of nine general election polls that I chronicled yesterday showed Barack Obama declining in general election numbers, but the first questio...

Michael R. Steed is a member of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) from Chevy Chase, Maryland, and as such is also a "superdelegate." As the f...

There is no other living writer on Earth that attracts the strange attention -- from the press and from allegedly celebrity-hating intellectuals -- that Hitchens does.

Commentary on Obama's speech has focused largely on his main theme of racism, yet the more perfect union he envisions is not merely about race relations becoming warm and fuzzy.

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?

According to a CNN poll 71 percent of Americans now think that our spending in Iraq is partly responsible for the economic troubles in the United States. Only 32 percent now support the war. What took them so long?

Barack Obama spoke with eloquent words about our need to overcome the racial stalemate that exists in this country. But how will voters in Pennsylvania react to the issue of race being inserted into their primary?

Obama has tapped into a deeply felt societal sentiment that now is one of those moments that calls for something more than progress at the rate of one step forward, two steps back. Is he the one to lead us?

The reporting on Rezko has actually taken a similar pattern to past reporting on Clinton "scandals" like Whitewater. Now that Obama has outlined his relationship with Rezko in great detail, it is time to put the story to rest.

March 18, 2008 (New York City): Barack Obama may have Oprah Winfrey pulling in big audiences to his fundraisers, but now Hillary Clinton's gotten int...

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.

Hillary Clinton has adopted the role of the erstwhile Republican candidate, Mike Huckabee. She has nothing to lose by continuing her campaign and hoping that Obama makes a severe-enough misstep to effectively remove him from contention.

The fat lady hasn't started singing yet, but she has been spotted in the parking lot of the Pepsi Center in Denver, falling down drunk with a corndog in each hand.

Saturday I marched in the St. Patrick's Day parade in Harrisburg, PA with former U.S. Senator Harris Wofford. As metaphors go, a parade is the best I can think of for a public that is feeling its way along a better course.

Unlike the critics, apparently, I liked the debut episode of the John Adams miniseries on HBO. But even I balked at having Adams portrayed by Paul Giamatti.

With regard to earmarks, Sen. Hillary Clinton is the queen of the hidden dollar. She went so far as to vote against an amendment last year which would have required public disclosure of earmark requests.

Rather than acknowledge the truth about the dark past of America, and in some instances the present, we are quick to charge anyone who removes the veil of our history as being racist and/or anti-American.

Why has Hillary Clinton said she did more than she did, and what has compelled her to do so? What does this resume inflation suggest about any American future with her at the helm of our foreign policy?

The fifth anniversary of the start of the Iraq war is an appropriate moment to revisit Hillary Clinton's argument in favor of authorizing Bush's use of force, and to contrast it with the case made at the time by Bush's opponents.

While Mrs. Clinton boasts about disputable and decade-old foreign policy accomplishments during her husband's administration, why does her campaign lack the courage to take a direct and meaningful stand for human rights when they are being abused today?

As a pastor in the same denomination as Jeremiah Wright, I think it's too bad that political expediency demands Obama reject his pastor.

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

Ms. Ferraro certainly has an odd view of the world. She sees an American society in which being black is an advantage - seems to believe you can quantify human misery...and then rank it to your own political advantage.

The vote-by-mail proposal floated by the Florida Democratic Party as a possible do-over for the Jan 29th primary seems to have lost its luster. Florid...