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• Hillary's Vision Quest and the Great Schism

  Posted Wednesday, June 04, 2008 11:38 AM By Meghan O'Rourke
  
  Amen (so to speak), Dahlia and Melinda . My quick take-away was this: Hillary Clinton is trying to create an equation between her campaign and a kind of religious quest. She told her supporters that every vote of theirs was a "prayer." (So votes for Obama Read More...
  Filed under: concession speech, Hillary Clinton, primaries

• The View From El Paso

  Posted Wednesday, March 05, 2008 12:29 AM By Meghan O'Rourke
  
  I spent the night trying and failing to find a caucus to eavesdrop on here in El Paso. A volunteer at Hillary's headquarters downtown gave me a bum steer, and I found myself at an empty courthouse. Instead, I headed to a Chili's near a caucus center. Read More...
  Filed under: election '08, Hillary Clinton, Obama, primaries, Texas and Ohio primaries

• Hillary Is Losing Women

  Posted Tuesday, February 12, 2008 10:22 PM By Melinda Henneberger
  
  Hillary Clinton lost women in both Virginia and Maryland tonight, and not by a little; nearly 60 percent chose Barack Obama. (Or Oback Barama, as former Maryland Rep. Kweisi Mfume just called him on MSNBC, which I'm sure made all those who've ever mispronounced Read More...
  Filed under: '08 election, Barack Obama, Democrats, gender issues, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, Potomac primaries, primaries, race, voters, women

• They Shoot Plus Sizes, Don't They?

  Posted Wednesday, February 06, 2008 3:05 PM By Melinda Henneberger
  
  Michelle Obama is no Nancy Reagan, either, and I think maybe all of these women are just trying to "pop'' on TV. But—shameless forced transition alert—whatever shade we're in the market for ... doesn't it seem like the phrase "shop until you drop'' is Read More...
  Filed under: '08 election, Democrats, guns, Michelle Obama, Nancy Reagan, politics, primaries, women

• Hillary's Girls Pass the Kleenex and Save the Day

  Posted Wednesday, January 09, 2008 10:20 AM By Melinda Henneberger
  
  Back when that book All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten came out, I thought about how everything I needed to know I learned in my 92 years of dating. And as it turns out, those lessons hold up pretty well in political life, too, in that Read More...
  Filed under: '08 election, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, debates, Democrats, Hillary Clinton, primaries, women, work

• Re: The NYT and the Washington Post get their hair done

  Posted Monday, October 15, 2007 6:04 PM By Rachael Larimore
  
  For what it's worth, I think everyone will be heading over to a NASCAR race, but only after they get their immunizations . We can only wonder what other cliches we'll be subjected to. How long before someone visits the Second Wives' Club to see if the Read More...
  Filed under: '08 election, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, primaries, women

• The NYT and the Washington Post get their hair done

  Posted Monday, October 15, 2007 4:30 PM By Emily Bazelon
  
  On Sunday, the front pages of the New York Times and the Washington Post went to the hair salon. Because this is where black women hang out--in particular, black women who vote in South Carolina. As both papers tell us once they've gotten past the scene Read More...
  Filed under: '08 election, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, media coverage, primaries

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