Moment of Pedantry: JFK's speech wasn't in front of the Brandenburg gate, it was in front of the Rathaus Schöneberg.

Posted at July 14, 2008 4:27 PM in response to Obama Decision On Brandenburg Gate Speech Is Imminent

Plus per Politico, Guam certified its results and the DNC chair said they'd support the winner of the election: +1 Obama.

Posted at May 9, 2008 3:42 PM in response to Obama's Super-Delegates Keep On Coming

I think it's important to know what the RNC is up to.

Posted at May 9, 2008 3:11 PM in response to GOP Launches New Attack Site To Soften Obama For General Election

See, I think the subtext here is that this is a platform for voicing some of the most disgusting, untrue things about Obama but gives them cover to say "Hey, can't we ask? We're just puttin' it out there - this guy's an unknown quantity. What, now we're RACIST - we thought we were just wondering! This is REVERSE RACISM! You can't even ask if Obama is the love child of Osama and Eva Braun anymore without being called a KKK member!"

Posted at May 9, 2008 2:55 PM in response to GOP Launches New Attack Site To Soften Obama For General Election

Haven't we been saying it over and over again that primary results are next to useless in predicting GE results? Good GOD I am so sick of the "electability" argument.

Posted at May 9, 2008 11:45 AM in response to Hillary Campaign Emails Out "Electability" Power-Point To All House Dems

David Plouffe should get loads of credit for this campaign's brilliant, delegate-focused strategy.

I used to say (to my actual boyfriend's chagrin) that Obama was my pretend political boyfriend. But now I have a serious politics crush on Plouffe.

Posted at May 7, 2008 12:12 PM in response to Obama Camp letter to superdelegates post NC and IN

Somehow that makes me so sad! Isn't part of the selling point of blogs (and I've heard Josh argue this when he's trying to legitimize the journalism done here) that the teeming masses in the comment sections offer insight and input and tips?

Read the comments, Greg!

Posted at April 25, 2008 1:14 PM in response to Hillary's Game Plan -- A Path To Victory?

I know her most ardent supporters - the ones who are actually following this race blow by blow - absorb the spin. And her surrogates parrot it, even if they're smarter than that, because they're fed those talking points and they do their best to stay on message (oh Rendell, I almost miss you...).

But those ardent supporters are well in the minority - I'd wager that most of her supporters are following the race pretty casually (just like plenty of Obama supporters, who don't realize just how close he is to securing the nomination).

So their audience is primarily press + small number of ardent supporters. And it's certainly working on some members of the press.

Posted at April 25, 2008 1:09 PM in response to Hillary's Game Plan -- A Path To Victory?

God, I LOVE that line! Also, I had no idea they offered a major in Miracles at Wellesley.

Posted at April 25, 2008 1:02 PM in response to Hillary's Game Plan -- A Path To Victory?

I see no evidence that party leaders believe the nonsense about popular vote totals.

Me neither. I was thinking about this today, too.

Hillary's people aren't stupid but they're assuming that the audience for their spin is, or at least gullible.

Now, I don't think the superdelegates are particularly stupid (because they're not buying it), but I think that certain members of the press are occasionally both of those things. Hence we get breathless articles about meaningless metrics, or journalists asking "Does Hillary have a chance?" and concluding "Maybe."

Posted at April 25, 2008 12:46 PM in response to Hillary's Game Plan -- A Path To Victory?