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In her “kitchen sink” approach to attacking her opponent, Mrs. Clinton has acquired a recent fondness for saying, “I have a lifetime of experience that I will bring to the White House. I know Senator McCain has a lifetime of experience to bring to the White House. And Senator Obama has a speech he gave in […]

Anyone interested in my take on last night’s primary results can find it at Barry!, a new political blog of mine. It’s called Reality Check for Hillary.

William F. Buckley, Jr. has died. He was 82, and while the cause of death is not known yet, his son Christopher (Thank You for Smoking) says Buckley suffered from emphysema and diabetes.
Buckley was an eloquent voice among conservatives, possibly the most eloquent. He never had to be encouraged, as toddlers of soccer moms are, to […]

Conservative talk show hosts and their marionette listeners and viewers are still having a field day over Michelle Obama’s comment Monday about being proud of her country for the first time in her adult life.
Or did she say “really” proud and why, if one is certain of having heard her say that, is that word […]

Barack Obama has defeated Hillary Clinton in the Wisconsin primary, a loss whose significance cannot be overstated.
With a small number of precincts counted and based on exit polls, Obama had 53% to Clinton’s 46%, for his ninth straight win. He finished at 58% – a true landslide.
Clinton needed a win or a narrow loss in Wisconsin, not for […]

Tomorrow’s New York Times, in a story online tonight, says Hillary Clinton’s campaign is “starting to come to terms” with her need to win both Ohio and Texas comfortably, or she’s out. The paper quotes a superdelegate who has endorsed Clinton and who has requested anonymity.
Campaign advisers, also speaking privately, confirmed that.
Those key primaries are […]

Barack Obama swept all four of  yesterday’s primaries in three states and the Virgin Islands, giving him a 6-delegate lead over Hillary Clinton. In both Nebraska and Washington state, his share of the vote was more than double hers. (see below for update)
As the leaderboard shows, Obama has 861 delegates to Clinton’s 855. To win […]

Please take this widget with you; you can even email it. After Super Tuesday we know two things: John McCain is the undisputed frontrunner for the GOP, in a comeback that was unthinkable last summer when everyone, including me, wrote him off. And we know the Democrats have a true contest, the likes of which […]

At long last, it’s Super Tuesday. You don’t have to be in a Super Tuesday state — or even in the US — to cast a vote. You can do it right here, just for fun. Only once, please!

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Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are in a statistical dead heat, heading into the Super Tuesday primaries and caucuses.
National polling for The Washington Post and ABC News shows 47% of Democrats likely to vote on Tuesday back Clinton, while 43% favor Obama. The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus four […]

They said this day would never come.
Illinois Senator Barack Obama, beginnng his victory speech after the Democrats’ Iowa Caucuses January 3.
See it and hear it: Obama Wins Iowa

Illinois Senator Barack Obama has won the Democrats’ South Carolina primary in near-landslide proportions, with more votes than Hillary Clinton and John Edwards combined.
With 97% of the precincts reporting, Obama has 55% of the vote. Clinton is a distant second with 27% and Edwards is third with 18% in a day that saw huge turnout.
Exit polling […]

Here’s an example why Hillary Clinton is a formidable candidate. During last night’s contentious Democratic debate, sponsored by the Congressional Black Caucus Institute and CNN, she was asked by Corrrespondent Suzanne Malveaux about her husband’s increasingly vocal role in her campaign. Note how quickly and smoothly Clinton turned her reply into her “day one” campaign statement, […]

The notion that a contemporary woman must look mannish in order to be taken seriously as a seeker of power is frankly dismaying.
That’s from Vogue magazine’s February editor’s letter, in which editor Anna Wintour takes Hillary Clinton to task for cancelling a photo shoot. A Vogue spokesman confirmed to Women’s Wear Daily, “We were told […]

By all accounts, Europe is extraordinarily interested in this year’s presidential race and primaries; coverage has been extensive and in-depth. I wondered how it all seems to my fellow blogger, roadsofstone, who is an incisive thinker and a terrific writer. I am pleased beyond words that he’s agreed to be my first guest blogger, especially as he […]