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John McCain has had quite a week and-a-half. You almost get the sense that what we’re witnessing is a decent guy prone to occasional senior moments, all the while surrounded by questionable company. Not a great cocktail for presidential victory, along with the whole staying-in-Iraq-until-the-next-millennium thing.
First, Mr. Anti-Special Interests had to face questions about an […]

I’m not going to cover the details of the policy part of Tuesday night’s debate, because it was pretty much boilerplate and if you want to read the debate transcript, you can find copies all over the Web. No, my focus for this post is on the perception ball as it was handled and mishandled by […]

The image could not have been more stark: Hillary Clinton at Tuesday night’s debate surrounded by three men. Her opponent, Barack Obama, may have not been completely status quo, thanks to his status as a biracial American. But her two inquisitors, Brian Williams and Tim Russert, epitomized the white-men-in-suits class that dominates the media hierarchy like a […]

Ah, back to the grind. I took a few days off from the blogosphere, because I’m in that mode shared by millions of American voters: looking for a day job. Blogging is great, but I wanna get PAID, people! (Funniest thing? Democratic and “progressive” organizations won’t hire me — could it be that I’m too […]

Hillary Clinton’s perceptual baggage is coming back to haunt her. As I noted in my interview in December with news anchor Mike Walter on the CBS affiliate WUSA Channel 9, that baggage has been around for a while. Clinton’s tone of voice has also been a persistent liability that I brought up with the usual […]

How many voters have watched the usual suspects in the establishment press — for the most part, the “liberal” media’s culturally status-quo lineup of thirty- to fifty-something white men — express progressive shock and awe at the ascendancy of a biracial guy named Obama to the heights of presidential aspiration?
How many people find more originality and inventiveness in terms of […]

The New England Patriots are still considering whether to assign the franchise tag to wide receiver Randy Moss for the 2008-09 NFL season. The Indianapolis Colts have franchised tight end Dallas Clark and the Baltimore Ravens have tagged linebacker Terrell Suggs as a franchise player.
What does the franchise tag do? It allows a team to […]

Last night, Wisconsin became the ninth state in a row to hand Barack Obama a victory over Hillary Clinton in the race to the Democratic presidential nomination. Obama took the Cheese State by storm, surging into what had been considered Clinton-safe blue-collar voting districts. He ended up with a 17-point win, 58 to 41 percent. In Hawaii, where […]

The big story of the Chesapeake primary is that Independents are abandoning John McCain.
On his right flank, our latest military hero/presidential candidate is being challenged by evangelist Mike Huckabee. There is no center in the Republican Party for McCain to hold onto. Any center that remains has been weakened by Independent defections.
The Republican Party has pushed itself so […]

Tuesday, Barack Obama swept the Democrats’ so-called Chesapeake primary — the states of Virginia and Maryland and the District of Columbia. The “score” was essentially a rout by Obama of Hillary Clinton, with around 75 percent of D.C. Democratic voters, 63 percent of Maryland Democratic voters and 61 percent of Virginia voters going for Obama […]