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Funny that the NRCC says that "this line of attack . . . will backfire in November" when in fact the election is taking place today.
Posted at May 13, 2008 3:30 PM in response to GOP: Mailer Attacking Our Guy As Confederate-Friendly Is False -- Kind Of
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Boy, that poll is lousy news for McCain. Up only 1 point over Obama in Florida? Yikes.
Posted at May 1, 2008 10:57 AM in response to Quinnipiac: Hillary Runs Stronger Than Obama Against McCain In Big Three Swing States
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"Jake Tapper quite rightly wonders why it is that we've all decided that frontrunner Barack Obama, who's outspending Hillary by three-to-one, isn't supposed to win in a big state like Pennsylvania."
What does Pennsylvania being "big" have to do with anything? It's not like the reason Obama or Hillary wins or loses a state is that one of them doesn't have enough money to buy ads in large media markets or across a large geographic area. Obama isn't supposed to win Pennsylvania because of demographics. Pennsylvania is 87 percent white and also the third-oldest state in the country. In Ohio, Hillary won senior citizens by 46 percent and non-seniors by 4 percent. Old white Democrats prefer Hillary to Obama and aren't going to change their minds. So what? Most of them will vote for Obama in November anyway.
Posted at April 22, 2008 3:40 PM in response to The Expectations Game
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"But Obama himself said over the weekend that Hillary should not drop out...."
Really? Or did he just say that what Klobuchar said, i.e., that Hillary has the right to do whatever she wants?
Posted at March 31, 2008 11:51 AM in response to Klobuchar: Hillary Has "Every Right" To Stay In Race
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/27/opinion/27wills.html
Enough with all this commander-in-chief nonsense. So far as I know, we live in a constitutional democracy with a national government of enumerated powers, and the president is not the commander-in-chief of anything except the armed forces of the United States. To the best of my recollection, our last leader who claimed the authority to "command" the economy was Gorbachev. No, wait, that wasn't us, that was the Soviet Union. My mistake.
Posted at March 24, 2008 12:58 PM in response to Hillary: We Need A "Commander-In-Chief" For The Economy
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I think these polls look better for Obama than the bottom line shows. If my math is right, Obama is within 5 points of 129 electoral votes currently in McCain's column, whereas McCain is within 5 points of only 42 of Obama's electoral votes. Meanwhile, Clinton is within 5 points of 64 McCain electoral votes, while McCain is within 5 points of 72 Clinton electoral votes.
Seems to me like while McCain v. Clinton is basically a toss-up, in a McCain-Obama campaign, McCain will be playing defense in a whole lot of states and will only be within striking distance in a small number of blue states. This would be the opposite of the 2000 and 2004 elections, where Gore and Kerry needed to eke out narrow victories in lots of swing states just to stay close. A 400-electoral-vote Democratic landslide would not be impossible.
Posted at March 6, 2008 3:11 PM in response to SurveyUSA: Hillary And Obama Win Electoral College In Distinct Ways
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There are (at least) two Richard Parkers who teach at Harvard. The one who wrote this post is at the Kennedy School. However, the guy pictured next to the byline is a professor at the Law School. Compare:
http://www.law.harvard.edu/news/2006/05/19_parker.php
Whoever is in charge of such things should change the photo.
Posted at February 12, 2008 5:58 PM in response to Washington’s God Story—and America’s
