No More Spin: Clinton, Pennsylvania And The Party
The results of Pennsylvania's primary should be evaluated with the best interests of the party in mind. Let's determine if Clinton should stay in the race and tell the spinmeisters to take a hike.
The results of Pennsylvania's primary should be evaluated with the best interests of the party in mind. Let's determine if Clinton should stay in the race and tell the spinmeisters to take a hike.
Kelly Nuxoll | Posted 04.21.2008 | Home
In PA, Clinton invokes an embattled country and promotes a transactional social contract, where hard work will be rewarded. Obama affirms people's experience and asks that we work together.
Nora Ephron | Posted 04.20.2008 | Politics
This is an election about whether the people of Pennsylvania hate blacks more than they hate women. And when I say people, I don't mean people, I mean white men. How ironic is this?
Lanny Davis | Posted 04.20.2008 | Politics
If Obama loses Pennsylvania and his demographic base is the same -- blacks, upper class liberal professionals, and college students -- then the issue of electability should be even more of concern for Democrats.
Tom Douglas | Posted 04.20.2008 | Home
I know Pennsylvanians and they don't tolerate B.S. It's time for Hillary to quit, before she fracks things up for all of us. PA voters should send her a clear signal with a resounding defeat tomorrow.
Laura J. Mansfield | Posted 04.19.2008 | Home
In Pittsburgh, Steelworkers Local 5032 has been on strike for seven weeks. They want a pension plan and health care and fair trade. The economy worked better, they say, under Bill Clinton.
Peter Smith | Posted 04.19.2008 | Media
A lot of inside the beltway talking heads have claimed a special understanding of working class voters lately. I would submit that if, as a journalist, you have to explain your working class bona fides, then you probably don't have them.
Marylee Smithwick | Posted 04.18.2008 | Politics
"Bitter" is a good word, to describe some of what I feel -- but "mad as hell" are a few better words. And I have a son that is on his way to Iraq for his third or forth tour, so I am not only mad but scared.
David Sirota | Posted 04.17.2008 | Politics
Cross-posted from CAF Whenever pundits and political elites express surprise at the power of populism, I always think back to the tongue-in-cheek hea...
John K. Wilson | Posted 04.17.2008 | Home
Obama's bounce in the polls this week is more than a mere candidate "surge." It's a repudiation of the nattering nabob media which imagined clumsy wording could send his campaign into a glorious tailspin.
Michael Shaw | Posted 04.17.2008 | Media
Mayhill Fowler | Posted 04.17.2008 | Home
Michelle Obama's stump speeches address the charge of her husband's perceived elitism. She drills deep to find ways to reach people, so that the very act of connection subverts the criticism.
Stephen Dinan | Posted 04.17.2008 | Politics
With Huckabee's pastor background and his ability to deliver the devastating one-liner, you have to imagine Obama would be sweating right now if he were facing the former Arkansas governor.
Scott Paul | Posted 04.17.2008 | Politics
China's unfair trade practices -- and our unwillingness to hold them accountable -- have had a devastating impact on American workers and manufacturers. In Pennsylvania, this issue is critical.
M.S. Bellows, Jr. | Posted 04.16.2008 | Home
The debate's over. Let's stop pretending. The data demonstrates Obama has always been more electable; that Clinton still isn't electable; and that Clinton is weakening Obama for the general.
Ray Schoenke | Posted 04.16.2008 | Politics
As president of the American Hunters and Shooters Association (AHSA), today I announced our endorsement of Sen. Barack Obama for the Democratic nomination for president.
Michael Smerconish | Posted 04.16.2008 | Politics
I'm still a Republican, and while I won't have a vote in the battle between Obama and Hillary, if I could pull a lever on Tuesday, I would vote for Obama, for 7,000 reasons.
Allison Kilkenny | Posted 04.15.2008 | Home
Outside his audacity of hope, it could be Barack Obama's audacious scrutiny of religion that becomes his undoing. Did I mention it's 2008? And yet ...
John Tomasic | Posted 04.15.2008 | Home
The Bittergate story has prompted responses from many OffTheBus contributors. They've written on the story and its interpretations but also on the new experience of practicing citizen journalism.
Jennifer Donahue | Posted 04.15.2008 | Home
It's anybody's guess how the state will shake out a week from today. But listening to voters in Pennsylvania, I'd guess it won't turn on the word "bitter," "gun" or "God."
Lucy Carrigan | Posted 04.14.2008 | Politics
Obama merely described a portion of the population that is wooed and wed every single election cycle only to be divorced almost as soon as the voting booths have closed.
Wall Street Journal | Carl Bialik | Posted 04.14.2008 | Politics
A new survey showing Sen. Hillary Clinton leading Sen. Barack Obama by 20 percentage points in Pennsylvania comes from a polling firm with a shaky tra...
M.S. Bellows, Jr. | Posted 04.14.2008 | Home
Clinton is not a bump-and-a-brew kind of gal. She's just not. But she is a political animal, so she downed a boilermaker at a place called Bronko's in IN to gain popularity with people with whom she has nothing in common.
Leonce Gaiter | Posted 04.13.2008 | Home
Somewhere amid all these fireworks, we have the classic "uppity negro" archetype-- a black man who doesn't know his place, who dares to pontificate on the pathologies of white men.
Harold Pollack | Posted 04.12.2008 | Politics
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M.S. Bellows, Jr. | Posted 04.21.2008 | Home