For some reason, I thought there was a debate scheduled tonight.  At 8:00 p.m., I turned my television to ABC expecting to see Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama answering questions posed by objective journalists.  Instead, they were showing some two-hour infomercial on why Hillary Clinton should be the Democratic nominee, hosted by former Clinton senior political […]

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This won’t move the polls, but it should hold the fort.
UPDATE: This “White-haired women for Obama” ad strikes me as more effective (read: necessary), considering the fact that Obama has struggled with older voters and Pennsylvania has either the largest or the second largest population of seniors in the nation. Maybe we’ll see it […]

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First, the official Clinton campaign Bitter-gate attack ad, set to run in Pennsylvania all this week:

Here’s my view on these kinds of attack ads: Either do real interviews with real people, or do scripted lines with actors. Mixing scripted lines with real people almost always falls flat.
In any case, it’s clear the Clinton […]

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So after months of this blog basically being me talking to myself, I check in on things tonight and there’s a sudden crushing avalanche of traffic.

Yep, that’s TWP, somehow on the front page of Digg, sandwiched in between HuffPo and the Boston Globe. Crazy. But I guess one of the advantages of that is you […]

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Without a doubt, this was a poorly-worded statement on the part of Barack Obama:
You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, […]

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The interesting thing about the world Sean Hannity lives in is that his version of being “pro-American” or patriotic is in almost direct contradiction to the founding fathers. Our democracy, and our America, is founded on debate, dissention, criticism, and course correction. The greatest Americans have been the ones who have questioned, challenged, and changed […]

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End Politics As Usual reports that Hillary Clinton is expanding her sore loser-ism into the world of sports.  This is just phenomenal creative writing: 
In a move that’s sure to be seen as controversial, Hillary has contacted the NCAA Board of Directors to argue that Memphis is actually better qualified to be National Champion.
Ms. Clinton stated that […]

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Barack Obama plays chicken with YouTube and loses:

For the record, the exact exchange in question between McCain and a town hall questioner went like this:
QUESTIONER: President Bush has talked about our staying in Iraq for 50 years…
McCAIN: Maybe 100. We’ve been in South Korea… We’ve been in Japan for 60 years, we’ve been in South […]

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Ben Smith over at Politico offers up some completely irresponsible, incredibly premature, and wildly entertaining speculation on who is in the early running for the Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton veepstakes.  The short version:
Barack Obama VP picks
Joe Biden - DE senator
Bill Richardson - NM governor
Mike Bloomberg - NYC mayor
Tim Roemer - former IN representative
Sam Nunn - […]

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A bit of a long read, but David Sirota dissects a phenomena that people have been whispering about for months– the apparent race chasm that seems to be the surest way to predict Democratic primary results:
“When the black population is really small, racial polarization is small enough that Obama can win, and when the black population is […]

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An eBay seller– probably trying to authenticate some forged autographs– gets agressive with Barack Obama. But is it really worth it?
Watch about 48 seconds into the video when the Secret Service agent standing behind Obama opens his jacket. Maybe he’s just putting his hand on his hip. Or maybe not.

To be honest, […]

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In attempting to find a rationale… any rationale for their candidate to remain in the race, Clinton supporters have soared to new heights of desperation, most recently resorting to this argument:
In the race for the most popular votes in the Democratic Party’s presidential primary contests, Sen. Barack Obama’s lead over Sen. Hillary Clinton is about 711,000 […]

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Personal story #2 today.
I talked to my mom this evening, who still lives in Pennsylvania, and she told me that the local news stations have been all over Hillary Clinton this week for what is now being widely regarded– even in the most cautious journalistic circles– as a flat-out lie: her tale of running from sniper fire during a […]

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 If Pat Buchanan were to publicly use a racial slur, he would no doubt be fired from his pundit-on-call position at the various networks and labeled rightly as a nutjob.  The hateful diatribe Buchanan posted today on his website, titled “A Brief For Whitey”, will allow him to keep his job and whatever respectable reputation he enjoys, but it […]

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James Carville went just a bit overboard this weekend describing former Clinton administration cabinet member Bill Richardson’s endorsement of Barack Obama:
Mr. Richardson’s endorsement came right around the anniversary of the day when Judas sold out for 30 pieces of silver, so I think the timing is appropriate, if ironic.
For those of you keeping score at home, […]

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