The Crapshoot of Presidential Politics By Larry Sabato
This week's detour into the murk of racial politics underlines that it's going to be a long, hard slog on the Democratic side.
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March 20, 2008
March 20, 2008
Divides Obama Doesn't Bridge By Froma Harrop
In distancing himself from the heated remarks of his pastor, Barack Obama did as well as anyone could do in his position. The problem is his position, which is having sat in the reverend's pews for 20 years without thinking to pick up and leave.
March 20, 2008
Finance's "New Day" By Robert Novak
The Federal Reserve's unprecedented bailout of Bear Stearns was crafted not at the White House or Treasury, but in secret by a New York central banker whose name is unknown to Washington power brokers and was a Clinton administration presidential appointee.
March 19, 2008
Pastor Wright: This Too Shall Pass by Dick Morris
Will the Gospel According to Jeremiah Wright sink the Obama candidacy? Not very likely.
March 19, 2008
The Speech: by Susan Estrich
It was an eloquent and powerful speech. But Barack Obama's inspirational oratory left one fundamental question unanswered, at least for this white American -- although judging by the reactions I've been hearing on local radio, for many others, as well.
March 19, 2008
Say Goodbye to the Glowbama Mystique By Michelle Malkin
Barack Obama -- the self-anointed soul-fixing, nation-healing political Messiah -- has lost his glow. That is the takeaway from the beleaguered Democratic presidential candidate's "major" speech in Philadelphia yesterday.
March 18, 2008
The Hooker Next Door: by Froma Harrop
The tale of the 22-year-old prostitute frequented by former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer dredges up an awkward memory. I once shared an apartment -- it now amazes me to say -- with a call girl who brought her johns home.
March 17, 2008
Democratic Racial Divide: by Robert D. Novak
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Geraldine Ferraro often has seemed puzzled during nearly 24 years since she was thrust from obscurity as a congresswoman from Queens to become the first woman nominated for vice president of the United States.
March 15, 2008
The Importance of Fallon's Fall: By Michael Barone
The abrupt resignation of Adm. William Fallon as the head of Central Command almost got lost amid the breaking news of Barack Obama's victory in the Mississippi primary and Eliot Spitzer's resignation as governor of New York.
March 15, 2008
Hillary Sends Ferraro After the Race Card: By Dick Morris
Geraldine Ferraro, a pioneer and trailblazer in American history, has done more to ruin a sterling reputation in the past few days than anybody but Eliot Spitzer.
March 15, 2008
Governor Bloomberg? By Robert D. Novak
The disgraced Eliot Spitzer had hardly resigned as governor of New York when Republican strategists began calculating a return to power in Albany via New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
March 14, 2008
McCain Addendum: Are Stay-at-Home Conservatives a Threat to John McCain? By Alan I. Abramowitz
Several alert readers of last week's Crystal Ball article have contacted me in the past week to question my claim that the greatest threat to Republican unity in 2008 comes from moderates, not conservatives.
March 14, 2008
The Democratic Dogfight: By Larry Sabato
When 2008 began, it was impossible to find a nonpartisan analyst who did not project a big year for the Democrats. George W. Bush barely scaled 30 percent in the polls, the Iraq War was deeply unpopular and the economy was weakening.
March 14, 2008
The White Elephant in the Room: By Susan Estrich
Would Barack Obama be where he is if he weren't black? Would Hillary Clinton be where she is if she weren't a woman? Would Geraldine Ferraro be where she is if her name had been Gerald?
March 14, 2008
Super Delegates Lining Up for Barack Obama: By Dick Morris
A funny thing is happening. While Hillary and Bill appeal to super delegates to override the will of the voters and back Hillary, the super delegates are doing just the opposite.
March 13, 2008
A Virtual Tie: Clinton, Obama Divide the Democratic Primary Vote: By Rhodes Cook
As the presidential campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama approach the ides of March, they are virtually tied in the Democratic primary vote count.
March 13, 2008
At Least Admire Spitzer for His Foes: by Froma Harrop
A few good words for Eliot Spitzer. The resigned New York governor could be brutish, vindictive and, when it comes to sexual rectitude, a grand hypocrite. But in going after the depredations of Wall Street, subprime lenders and corporate looters, he was a rare crusader.
March 13, 2008
W.'s Gun Battle: by Robert Novak
Preparing to hear oral arguments Tuesday on the extent of gun rights guaranteed by the Constitution's Second Amendment, the U.S. Supreme Court has before it a brief signed by Vice President Cheney opposing the Bush administration's stance
March 13, 2008
The Shame of Eliot Spitzer: by Joe Conason
When Eliot Spitzer stood before the stunned press corps on Monday to make a brief apology for his misconduct, he spoke of "real change," of trying to "uphold a vision of progressive politics that would rebuild New York and create opportunity for all," of "ideas, (and) the public good."
March 12, 2008
Michigan and Florida Deserve Do-Overs: By Dick Morris
Despite their apostasy in holding early primaries in defiance of the powers that be in the Democratic National Committee (DNC), Michigan and Florida both deserve to have do-over primaries.
