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This week's Tote Board column looks at the massive general election precedents facing Barack Obama.
Obama's speech on race in Philadelphia yesterday was wonderful rhetoric and the reaction has been almost universally positive. But will it help his campaign? On that, of course, the jury is out and we won't have any answers until at least the...
Sporting analogies are overdone in politics but this year's Democratic campaign -- with its clear demographic contours -- is a bit like a tennis match. Obama last night won a state he was predicted to win. Now, on to Pennsylvania, where it's up...
Obama's Dark-Horse Veep List: 1. Senator Russ Feingold: The strongest counterpoint to the McCain aura of reform and cleaning the corporate system up. If Senator Obama is truly serious about challenging the 'Iraq Mindset' he needs to strongly...
The huge problem facing Barack Obama is clearly outlined in the latest Pew poll : A quarter of Democrats (25%) who back Clinton for the nomination say they would favor McCain in a general election test against Obama. The "defection" rate among...
This week's column looks at the problems ahead for the Democrats and why Hillary Clinton could well be the stronger general election candidate.
As we anticipated in earlier posts and columns, the Democratic race is now headed to a train wreck, on the heels of Hillary Clinton's strong showings last night. The race now heads to Pennsylvania in late April but, as Fred Barnes noted jokingly last...
What's at stake in tonight's primaries? Actually, it's pretty straightforward. If Obama sweeps Ohio and Texas, it's over. If Clinton sweeps, she'll still trail in delegates but she still has a chance to win the nomination -- though...
The press has been approaching the
upcoming contests in Ohio and Texas (with two other states voting) as
the end of the line for the Clinton campaign. That could happen but
it's far less likely than the media has been assuming. Sure, if Obama
wins...
This is it, folks. After months of skirmishes across the country, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are in Texas for the next two weeks, waging what possibly is a fight to the death. Texas is the biggest state left on the Democrats' calendar, and both...
One of the Democrats' great senior
wise men, Ted Van Dyk, former aide to Hubert Humphrey, George McGovern,
and others, sent me this wrapup of the debate last night. As always, he
bears listening to: . . . Both Obama and Clinton have honed their performances...
Barak Obama is on the verge of putting this contest away. This is what, in my opinion, he needs to do in tonight’s debate and over the next two weeks to fend off the sharks : 1. Somehow respond to, get past, and diffuse wife Michelle’s statement about...
There is another Democratic debate tonight and Clinton partisans are undoubtedly hoping it marks the beginning of her comeback. There's some anticipation that she will go super-negative on Obama but the feeling here is that would be a mistake. She's...
This week's Tote Board column, "Civil War," opines that if Hillary can come back in Ohio and Texas on March 4 --a better
possibility than it might seem today -- the Dems are headed for, well,
civil war.
Both Fox and CNN have called
Wisconsin for Obama. The exit
poll data showed, for example, that only 40% of the Wisconsin
Democratic electorate
had a college degree. That's a demographic mix tailor-made for Hillary
and her inability to prevail tonight...
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