Thomas B. Edsall

Thomas B. Edsall

The Huffington Post

Thomas B. Edsall is the political editor of the Huffington Post. He is also Joseph Pulitzer II and Edith Pulitzer Moore Professor at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. From 1981 to 2006, he was a political reporter at the Washington Post. He is the author of Chain Reaction and Building Red America. Tom can be reached at edsall@huffingtonpost.com.

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Obama Camp Faces Major Obstacles In Plan To Help Clinton Pay Off Debt

HuffingtonPost.com   |  Thomas B. Edsall   |   May 8, 2008 08:56 PM


Top officials of the Barack Obama campaign are privately exploring ways to help Hillary Clinton discharge her debts and pay back the $11.43 million she...
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Big Rewards Await Clinton If She Ends Campaign Now

HuffingtonPost.com   |  Thomas B. Edsall   |   May 7, 2008 05:49 PM


She has ruled it out, but a prompt withdrawal from the contest for the Democratic nomination offers Sen. Hillary Clinton the prospect of major rewards....
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Obama Victorious, Clinton On The Ropes

HuffingtonPost.com   |  Thomas B. Edsall   |   May 7, 2008 12:48 AM


Hillary Clinton, who for seven weeks has crawled, kicked and bitten her way back into contention, suffered a blow on Tuesday, halting the momentum behind...
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Clinton Camp Says It Will Use The Nuclear Option

HuffingtonPost.com   |  Thomas B. Edsall   |   May 4, 2008 03:03 PM


UPDATE | May 5, 11am ET : Hillary Clinton's campaign today acknowledged plans to try to win seating of the disputed Michigan and Florida delegations...
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Obama's Dilemma: To Debate Or Not Debate

HuffingtonPost.com   |  Thomas B. Edsall   |   April 29, 2008 11:32 PM


When writing a story about a disputed issue - should, for example, Barack Obama debate Hillary Clinton before the Indiana and North Carolina primaries --...
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Media Jump Ship From Obama To Clinton

HuffingtonPost.com   |  Thomas B. Edsall   |   April 24, 2008 10:02 PM


In a blink of an eye, the media has jumped ship from the Obama campaign and become a crucial Clinton ally, pressing just the message...
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On Course For Another White Guy Election

HuffingtonPost.com   |  Thomas B. Edsall   |   April 22, 2008 10:30 AM


Hillary Clinton's release Monday of her first Osama bin Laden ad sets the stage for a general contest that Republicans could only dream about: an...
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Clinton Backer Distributes Essay On How GOP Would Link Obama To '70s Radicals

HuffingtonPost.com   |  Thomas B. Edsall   |   April 18, 2008 11:46 PM


A high-ranking labor supporter of Hillary Clinton is distributing to union leaders and to Democratic strategists a document detailing the radical activities of Bill Ayers...
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Hillary Clinton's Michigan/Florida Strategy: Keep The Dispute Alive

HuffingtonPost.com   |  Thomas B. Edsall   |   April 7, 2008 09:16 AM


Democratic National Committee chair Howard Dean's chance of achieving an early compromise on the seating of the 210-member Florida and 156-member Michigan delegations faces a...
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What Did Bill Clinton Do To Get $15M From Ron Burkle?

HuffingtonPost.com   |  Thomas B. Edsall   |   April 4, 2008 09:28 PM


The campaign press statement accompanying the release on Friday of Hillary Clinton's 2000 - 2007 tax returns includes some useful summary data for the media:...
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The Gift Eric Alterman Couldn't Give Colbert On Air

HuffingtonPost.com   |  Thomas B. Edsall   |   April 1, 2008 05:04 PM


Nation columnist and author Eric Alterman carefully planned his appearance earlier this week on the "Colbert Report," armed with a weapon designed to smother Colbert's...
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Dems Shooting Themselves In The Face?

HuffingtonPost.com   |  Thomas B. Edsall   |   March 27, 2008 01:28 PM


As his 1992 campaign for president imploded, Nebraska Sen. Bob Kerrey -- a Vietnam veteran who had lost a leg in combat -- initiated a...
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Interview With Walter Pincus On The State Of The Press

HuffingtonPost.com   |  Thomas B. Edsall   |   March 22, 2008 11:12 AM


Walter Pincus, the most senior reporter in the Washington Post newsroom, has at age 75 recently emerged as a leading critic of journalistic passivity and...
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Obama's Race Speech: Did He Win Over White Swing-Voters?

HuffingtonPost.com   |  Thomas B. Edsall   |   March 19, 2008 09:13 AM


Barack Obama's Tuesday speech directly addressing the controversy over his former pastor Jeremiah Wright -- and addressing as well broader issues of race and politics...
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Pastor's Remarks Spark Debate About Obama Campaign

HuffingtonPost.com   |  Thomas B. Edsall   |   March 16, 2008 11:49 AM


The emergence of controversial video-taped sermons by Barack Obama's longtime Chicago pastor, Jeremiah Wright, has produced an explosion of commentary in the conservative blogosphere, posing...
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