A Historical Perspective On Divided Democratic Conventions
Don't buy into the media narrative that this is some sort of "divided party" -- because today's Democrats aren't. All true Democrats are pulling hard to defeat the legacy of George W. Bush.
Don't buy into the media narrative that this is some sort of "divided party" -- because today's Democrats aren't. All true Democrats are pulling hard to defeat the legacy of George W. Bush.
Beth Arnold | Posted 07.18.2008 | Living
It was sad news to read of the decline of Southern catfish farms in today's New York Times. The farmers are going under because the cost of corn and ...
Ben Mishkin | Posted 07.03.2008 | Home
Barack Obama's "Southern Strategy" based on expected "historic turnout in the African-American community" has come under scrutiny recently, setting off a new round of debate on the matter in the blogosphere.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 06.10.2008 | Politics
Bush and the GOP's domestic fumbles are potentially Obama's biggest selling point. He must repeatedly remind voters that they should be mad about the economy.
Paul Jenkins | Posted 05.25.2008 | Politics
Clinton's increasingly desperate quest to show something for her decades of campaigning has taken on a vaguely insane turn, for which we should be grateful, even as it makes us queasy.
Mayhill Fowler | Posted 04.28.2008 | Home
Reverend Wright is a problem in North Carolina. Down-ticket Dems hare already injecting race into their races. Jesse Helms was such a force in this state for so long that "some of that" is still lingering.
Paul Jenkins | Posted 04.26.2008 | Politics
Were Hillary the great rural white savior that her campaign is depicting, she would have been able to dispatch a presidential neophyte like Barack Obama.
Mayhill Fowler | Posted 04.25.2008 | Home
In Asheboro, Bill Clinton keeps it southern and small, ambling through a series of dinner pail concerns-- bills, schools, jobs-- the end point of which is always: "Hillary'll get that done for you."
Mark J. Hainds | Posted 04.23.2008 | Home
People are surprised to see the Obama bumper sticker next to an Alabama license plate on a Ford F150, four-wheel drive pickup. So surprised down here that one of them broke my window.
Ellen Feldman | Posted 04.07.2008 | Politics
The pressure to vote for gender rather than policy and personal substance reminds me once again of the Scottsboro case which turned sexual politics on its head for half the twentieth century.
Chris Weigant | Posted 02.18.2008 | Politics
Professional pundits like conventional wisdom. It's comfortable for them to say what "everyone knows" with the voice of authority. But, seeing how o...
Jane Hamsher | Posted 12.24.2007 | Home
Huckabee is a messenger who will be taken seriously in a way the left never could, and I imagine also in a way that Rush is going to have a hard time competing with.
Paul Jenkins | Posted 12.13.2007 | Politics
Edwards has been inconsistent, both in his positions and in his behavior. How many "mistakes," as he has openly called a number of his previous decisions, can he expect us to move beyond?
ABC News | Christine Byun | Posted 12.06.2007 | Politics
ABC News' Christine Byun Reports: As GOP presidential hopeful Fred Thompson wrapped his South Carolina campaign visit, he had a small handful of prote...
CNN | Posted 10.06.2007 | Home
In South Carolina, the former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson's campaign is fond of pointing out their boss' Southern-fried heritage. "I think first of ...
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Chris Weigant | Posted 08.25.2008 | Politics