Roger Simon of Politico.com writes that if John McCain loses, he will be remembered for having run one of the worst campaigns in modern political history. One example of the campaign's ineptitude, Simon writes, is this weekend's endorsement from...
That press conference that Barack Obama pledged to hold Wednesday? Now the campaign says, um, not so much. Wow, he really is confident if he's breaking promises before Election Day. Most politicans wait until the votes are at least counted....
In its 161-year history, the Chicago Tribune has never endorsed a Democrat for president. Until now....
John McCain and Barack Obama will put aside the vitriol today and appear jointly at a 9/11 memorial ceremony. The focus turns to terrorism, an issue that The Washington Post notes has often taken a back seat in the 2008...
This is what Peggy Noonan, a former speechwriter for Ronald Reagan, wrote in her Wall Street Journal column after she, Republican political consultant Mike Murphy and NBC-TV's political analyst Chuck Todd were caught in what they thought was an off-air...
At first, The New York Times reports, Barack Obama "was not entirely sold on" Sen. Joseph Biden of Delaware as his running mate. The story decribes how that sentiment changed over two months, through "one of the most rigorous vice-presidential...
In case you weren't one of the select many who signed up to get Barack Obama's text announcement of his choice for a running mate, here's what went out just after 2 a.m. Dallas time: Barack has chosen Senator...
For our latest, liveliest coverage of the Democratic and Republican national conventions, check back frequently with Trail Blazers. We'll be keeping it keep it fresh not only with reports from our team of reporters and editors in Denver and...
When Barack Obama and John McCain appeared Saturday night at Rick Warren's Southern California megachurch, the format was as follows: Obama came on first for an hour of questions from Warren. Then McCain (above, with the pastor) came on...
The New Yorker's satirical cover of Barack and Michelle Obama was the story of the day Monday. The magazine gave its best defense -- it was poking fun at the absurdity of the Muslim rumors -- but Democrats were...
The novelist Ursula K. LeGuin once wrote of a character who "stood there like a man who has been hit on the head and does not know it yet." I keep thinking of that line as I watch Hillary...
Chris Beam, one of the authors of Slate's new Hillary Deathwatch, wrote to thank me for giving the site a plug. But he took fair issue with my suggestion that he and others in the news media were just following...
The online mag has a new feature "gauging the odds that Clinton will win the nomination." It starts her out "at a generous 12 percent." (The illustration below is Slate's.) "Hillary Clinton is as good as dead," write Christopher Beam,...
It isn't quite a political wake, but the sound you hear may be the florist's van arriving at the funeral home. The New York Times today has a story talking about how Hillary Clinton "no longer exudes the supreme confidence...
America Ferrara, best known as the title character in the hit ABC-TV sitcom "Ugly Betty," is a Hillary Clinton supporter. She'll be in San Antonio, Houston and Austin Sunday telling people why. Her schedule is after the jump....
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