If folks are free this evening and local, I’ll be participating in a panel discussion at 7 pm EST with former New York Times correspondent and All the Shah’s Men author Stephen Kinzer and Treacherous Alliance author Trita Parsi at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
I’ve talked to both Obama and Clinton campaign staffers tonight — and both acknowledge that tonight’s results were another amazing twist in an exhausting marathon battle between two compelling personalities in the Democratic party. But serious Obama strategists say that the “big difference” in the Clinton operation was her campaign’s “ground game.
Looking at the electoral map, John McCain has to break into the northeast liberal establishment to become competitive in November against either Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton.
I just had a phone call from a prominent political strategist and was told: Watch your TV. The primary is about to go to Hillary. I’m watching. She’s ahead. The race has not been called. And I have no idea what will happen in the caucuses. Stay tuned.
Everyone is trying to scramble to explain Hillary Clinton’s turnaround tonight. Negative campaigning. Aggressivness. Elbow grease. NAFTA. Rezko. Saturday Night Live. Lots of stuff.
The Associated Press has gotten hold of a memo widely distributed within the Canadian government that made it seem that Obama campaign economic adviser and University of Chicago economist Austan Goolsbee was walking back some of Barack Obama’s highly strident comments about NAFTA and suggesting that Obama’s views were just rhetoric and should not be…
Here is an interesting snippet of a Blogginheads Diavlog between Jacob Heilbrunn and Eli Lake that the New York Times ran this morning.
The New York Times has a good piece today asking eight of the candidates who dropped out of the presidential race what they’d be talking about if they were still in the game.
Scott Paul took on the Clinton campaign for pushing the high-fear button in a television ad. Now the Obama campaign has fired back with its own 3 am ad. They are both depressing.
This has to stop. Hillary has every right to tout her experience — it’s probably her biggest selling point in this election. But she’s got to find a way to do it without heightening the fear, discussing our “dangerous world,” or constantly reminding voters that we are at war.
