Update 3/19: The political world is changing: 1 million hits on YouTube.
Obama in Philadelphia today:
For we have a choice in this country. We can accept a politics that breeds division, and conflict, and cynicism. We can tackle race only as spectacle – as we did in the OJ trial – or in the wake of […]

Some final thoughts. First is, too bad about Iowa. Edwards did well there in ‘04. He needed to win it in ‘08 to have any chance against his two very strong, very well-financed opponents. But Iowa borders Illinois. Most of Iowa’s population is within easy driving distance of Chicago, Obama’s hometown. Barack Obama’s young supporters […]

Public Policy Polling of Raleigh, Dean Debnam’s firm, is out with its primary-eve poll. Barack Obama is solidly first at 44 percent, with Hillary Clinton dropping to 24 percent and John Edwards rising (per his new “America Rising” theme song) to 19 percent. It’s all at the PPP site. Enough Democrats are still undecided for […]

Much like football (”a game of inches”), politics in America is decided by small margins — winner-take-all. If Obama wins tonight in NH, even by a hair, he’s 2-0 in “white” states and Hillary’s in trouble. But if Hillary wins, as now seems the case, by a nose, she’s the “Comeback Kid II” … […]

A note about Hillary Clinton tearing up yesterday. She was tired. Get over it. I just heard John Edwards say, via a Newsweek video, that he can’t remember ever tearing up on the campaign trail. But he wasn’t criticizing her (he said) when he remarked yesterday that politics is a tough business. I think he […]

Nothing will make you feel old quicker than hearing yourself snort at the hot young “movement” candidate, which is what I did the other night listening to Barack Obama. He is a fabulous orator. He epitomizes progress and unity. And yet, when he says he’ll reach across the aisle to the Republicans to heal the […]

In the wake of Iowa, there is talk of John Edwards’ defeat and John Edwards’ victory. By a slim margin—eight percentage points, or roughly 20,000 people in a state of 3 million—Edwards ran second to Barack Obama in the Democratic caucuses. Slim or not, Edwards lost in a contest that, for many reasons, most of […]

Raleigh very nearly had a sea change election tonight — and when all is said and done, it almost certainly was a sea change election. Here’s why. Take the prevailing 5-3 majority in favor of development interests on the current City Council. Subtract one from the majority: District A incumbent Tommy Craven lost his re-election […]

So did you listen to the Prezident last night? Did it look to you — as it did me — like he’s on the verge of missing his strawberries? As weird as it all was, however, I didn’t spit out my martini until he thanked the other 36 countries with troops in Iraq. 36 countries? […]

In the October 9 elections, the Sierra Club’s Capital Group has made its endorsements, and the only surprise is that it’s backing just one candidate in the at-large race, not two. There are a pair of at-large seats on the ballot (and six at-large candidates), which means that every voter can cast two votes … […]