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Brian and I were just chatting on air about the reaction to Sarah Palin. While she’s gotten good react inside the hall (with a few exceptions, like that from partisans of former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney) there’s some evidence she’s not going over that well outside the convention-land bubble we’re in. A new […]

Harold Ickes, Jr., the scrappy strategist credited with pointing out early (and futilely) that the Hillary Clinton campaign’s delegate-gathering strategy was flawed, sat down among the delegates himself last night — right in the middle of the New York delegation. He’s been to the White House as Deputy Chief of staff, then to Arlington as […]

In the first time in a while (say, eight years), I got a call from the Clinton campaign over the weekend, telling me about a New York press-only press conference after her speech at this morning’s New York Delegation Breakfast. Did anyone say “tending to the home garden?” She was pretty clear at […]

The New York Delegation is all abuzz . Okay, they’re asleep now, but at the receptions last night, conventioneers were full of talk of what Hillary Clinton will say at the delegation breakfast this morning. Big range of emotions here, where (unlike recent conventions), nearly half the delegates here came pledged […]

Okay, so Obama didn’t pull off an upset in Indiana. But the race ends where it began two weeks ago, making it that much harder for Clinton to argue Obama withers under scrutiny. Some interesting things in the numbers: Obama won the suburbs of Indianapolis. I was there last week and the […]

Hey all, I AM signing off now, since you’ll be hearing from me on the Takeaway tomorrow. Clinton just finished up her speech, where she vowed to go “full-speed ahead to the White House.” Her speech echoed Obama’s in many ways, talking about her roots, assuring that the Democratic party WOULD come together […]

Wow, interesting evening. As of 10:12 pm, Clinton is ahead by about 30,000 votes in IN, and the Gary numbers haven’t come in. I was in Gary last week, and it’s almost entirely African American. Indianapolis went for Obama, but Gary will be more so. There are 84,000 people in Gary, […]

I’m watching CNN, and just finished listening to Obama’s speech. He took on several of the issues that the pundits are going on about right now…tipping his hat to Hillary Clinton, insisting the party WILL come together after this long primary season, and spending a great deal of time emphasizing his own modest […]

Sorry all — been spending much time with the hosts and no so much on the blog. So remainders — I think the white male vote for Hillary is significant, and counterintuitive. But based on my week in Indiana, the role of racism in this can’t be discounted.
Obama is on now, congratulating […]

Did you see the Daily Show last night? He excerpted a clip from the Stephanopoulos show, where Clinton said, when asked about economists’ lack of support for the gas tax holiday, “I’ll tell you what,” and then went on to suggest economists were somehow members of the elite. And then John Stewart said […]