The Super-delegates’ Moment

April 30th, 2008 · 9 Comments

The Democratic Party created super-delegates in the wake of Jimmy Carter’s crushing defeat in 1980. Combined with the Mcgovern debacle of 1972, it seemed to the Democratic elites that the party’s nomination process had been hijacked by radicals who could not settle on a nominee within the mainstream of American [...]

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The Latest on the Race to the Bottom and Good News from Iraq

April 28th, 2008 · 5 Comments

The Dems found themselves in Pennsylvania this past week. Obama missed yet another opportunity to end the race, losing to Clinton by ten points, a margin just wide enough for her to claim a significant win and soldier on. Considering the state was full of bitter, religious, gun owners, however, Obama might count himself lucky [...]

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Tracking the Race to the Bottom

April 14th, 2008 · 3 Comments

It was another fun-filled week for Senators Obama and Clinton as they took turns marginalizing themselves in the eyes of moderate Americans. Senator Obama started the festivities by heading to San Francisco, that ever steady bastion of centrist common sense, where he explained why he was struggling to win lower class white votes in the [...]

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