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Tuesday, March 11, 2008 - Posts

  • Ready, Set, Wait!: The Six-Week Slog to Pennsylvania


    By Christopher Beam and Chadwick Matlin Obama won. You can stop holding your breath now. Indeed, his victory in Mississippi added yet another notch to his belt, and with that we can begin the long slog to the Pennsylvania primary on April 22. (There’s Read More...
  • Exit Polls: Mississippi


    It’s 8 p.m. and CNN can’t project a winner for Mississippi. Huh. ( Update 8:43 p.m. : OK, now it's Obama.) They say exit polls suggest he “seems to be” ahead, but perhaps it’s not as decisive as expected. (Fox News is calling it for Obama.) Here are some Read More...
  • The Risks of Umbrage


    During a day’s worth of high-octane umbrage-taking over Geraldine Ferraro’s comments about Barack Obama, Ferraro herself was unrepentant . “If it makes David [Axelrod] happy I would get off the finance committee. But I’m telling David that I will raise Read More...
  • Just Recycled Words


    Hillary Clinton has resurrected the charge that Barack Obama’s campaign isn’t based on actions but “just words.” Her campaign sent out a “memo” today defending her foreign policy experience in Northern Ireland, Kosovo, Bosnia, China, and Rwanda, with Read More...
  • Blowing Up Barack


    In case you were bored ... Here's how to make a Barack Obama balloon animal . It's going to be a long six weeks. Read More...
  • The Wide Mississippi


    Obama will win today’s Mississippi primary. The question is by how much. But there's still room for small surprises. Here are a few factors to keep an eye on as the Magnolia State’s results roll in this evening (8 p.m. ET): It could be closer than you Read More...
  • Sinbad Blows the Whistle


    When Barack Obama characterized Hillary Clinton’s foreign policy experience as “having tea” with diplomats, Clinton fired back with anecdotes about a trip she took to wartime Bosnia in 1996. “Somebody said there might be sniper fire," she said, describing Read More...
  • Ferraro's Frustration


    The 2008 presidential election has perfected a new category of gaffe: the otherwise sane, rational person saying something utterly irresponsible. Bill Sheehan started it with his coy drug reference, followed by Bill Clinton's comparison of Obama to Jesse Read More...
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