Fatigue Hinders Obama Camp's Ground Game
The difference between the Clinton and Obama Texas ground games going into the Tuesday Two-Step is this: the Clinton field organizers don't know what...
The difference between the Clinton and Obama Texas ground games going into the Tuesday Two-Step is this: the Clinton field organizers don't know what...
Laura J. Mansfield | Posted 03.01.2008 | Home
By: Laura J. Mansfield, Kate Miller Hope. It is the message of the Obama campaign, and one that continues to reach millions of Americans across...
Kate Miller | Posted 03.01.2008 | Home
"The question is not about who is picking up the phone. The question is, what kind of judgment will the person who answers the phone have?" In so man...
Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 03.01.2008 | Home
When Hillary Clinton skipped visiting Louisiana just before the primaries, she sent Bill to New Orleans instead. After losing the state, Clinton at...
David Kirby | Posted 03.01.2008 | Living
You, Senator, like it or not, are now a card-carrying member of autism's "Mercury Militia." You are a tin-foil hatter, a "denialist dead-ender," and an "anti-science" nut job grasping at emotional, litigious straws.
Joe Vogel | Posted 02.29.2008 | Politics
Clinton's methods are really no different than the last eight years: she surrounds herself with bad people, she is resentful of the press, she uses fear and manipulation as weapons.
Geraldo Rivera | Posted 02.29.2008 | Politics
Hillary has largely been sustained by her disproportionate Hispanic support; the percentage of a state's Hispanic population has been the strongest predictor of the election's eventual winner.
Paul Loeb | Posted 02.29.2008 | Politics
Calling For Obama By Paul Rogat Loeb I admit it. I'm addicted. Since the primaries and caucuses began, I've spent practically every free hour readin...
Mayhill Fowler | Posted 02.29.2008 | Home
The press are checking email, reading Politico and stifling a yawn or two even though it is clear that Barack Obama has caught a live one in Beaumont,...
Matthew Dowd | Posted 02.28.2008 | Politics
We would all be better off catching up to where the voters already are in how they judge the leader they want.
Politico | Gebe Martinez | Posted 02.27.2008 | Politics
As both campaigns continue to work furiously in the run-up to the March 4 primary here, there are telling signs that the Hispanic vote, considered the...
Byron Williams | Posted 02.26.2008 | Politics
Mike and Janet Huckabee are not the first family of the Republican Party. His staying in the race may ultimately pay long-term benefits. The Clinton's do not have that luxury.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 02.25.2008 | Politics
It's not like the vagaries of the Texas Primacaucus/Caucamary have been kept as a closely-guarded secret that's only being now unveiled to the unsuspe...
Joe Cutbirth | Posted 02.25.2008 | Politics
It's been two decades -- a virtual generation -- since a Democratic presidential primary in Texas meant anything this significant.
Mayhill Fowler | Posted 02.25.2008 | Home
"This is pretty much last minute," Hillary Clinton says to the room full of true believers in a union hall in Houston. "My good friend, your congress...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 02.23.2008 | Politics
(Via The Field) Founded in 1876, Prairie View A&M is a historically black university in Prairie View, Texas. The school is home to about eight thousa...
AP | CALVIN WOODWARD | Posted 02.22.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's must-win states of Ohio and Texas are no cakewalk for her, largely because independents and crossover...
Andrew Gumbel | Posted 02.22.2008 | Politics
By the time Hillary took the stage at the University of Texas last night, it was more than apparent that her vision of peace for the Balkans was, to coin a phrase, a big fairy-tale.
Laurie David | Posted 02.22.2008 | Politics
What a surprise then that no questions were asked about global warming in the state that is the number one emitter of CO2 emissions when the debate was sponsored (once again) by polluting coal interests.
Dylan Loewe | Posted 02.22.2008 | Politics
Surely if Hillary wins both Ohio and Texas she will continue onward, hoping that after 36 contests, there is still such a thing as momentum. But win or lose, the math is still daunting.
Mayhill Fowler | Posted 02.22.2008 | Home
An hour after the end of the CNN Democratic Presidential Debate in Austin, Hillary Clinton spoke briefly to Democrats at an after-party in a ballroom ...
RJ Eskow | Posted 02.21.2008 | Politics
Sen. Clinton was punished for going negative and rewarded for being uplifting, and you could watch her moving toward the light as the night wore on.
Thomas de Zengotita | Posted 02.21.2008 | Politics
After that cheap and prepared remark about Obama Xeroxing words, which made her visibly uncomfortable even as she delivered it, Hillary came through big time.
Deanie Mills | Posted 02.21.2008 | Home
If Obama wins the Texas Two-Step, it will be because he didn't just go out on the floor with the prom queen. It'll be because he reached out to those who felt like wallflowers, and invited them to the dance.
Mary Mapes | Posted 02.21.2008 | Politics
The fact that McCain's picture is suddenly plastered all over the place next to photos of a pretty lobbyist sure isn't going to help him with the people he needs most, the hardcore Huckabee fans.
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Mayhill Fowler | Posted 03.01.2008 | Home