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Abortion and the Democratic Platform
Over at The New Republic, Eric Zimmerman has a brief but interesting report on the behind-the-scenes struggle going on over proposed "abortion reduction" language in the Democratic platform. A small band of anti-abortion Democrats want language committing the party to... |
Karl Rove’s strategy for attacking Obama -- how Democrats can respond.
With the recent appointment of Steven Schmidt and several other staffers to the highest levels of the McCain campaign, the political protégés of Karl Rove have now taken almost complete control. As a result Rove's basic political strategy has been... |
No Olympic Hiaitus
With the Summer Olympics opening ceremony on tap for tomorrow, it's obvious by now that the hoary tradition of viewing August, and particularly Olympic Augusts, as "down-time" for presidential campaigns has been abandoned, as Carrie Budoff Brown explained in The... |
Charting Pennsylvania
Today Jay Cost of RealClearPolitics conducts another of his impressive county-level analyses of a swing state, in this case Pennsylvania. His bottom line is that the Keystone State has maintained a very consistent Democratic advantage (compared to the national vote)... |
How to Attack John McCain – What would Rove Do?
As the McCain campaign has rolled out its new, "Karl Rove style" personal attack on Barack Obama, Democrats have begun to feel a very familiar sense of frustration. On the one hand, for many Democrats the "high road" taken by... |
Sojourners
David Brooks' New York Times column yesterday riffed extensively on a familiar theme in anti-Obama polemics: his status as a "soujourner" who's wandered through an extraordinary life without putting down the sort of roots in any community or point of... |
Hump Day Round-Up
Eric Kleefield of TPM Election Central has the new Obama ad -- now playing on gas pump video screens. Target shoppers much prefer Obama, while McCain wins the Wal-mart crowd, according to John Zogby's HuffPo post comparing various department store... |
Give 'Em Enough Rope
It's increasingly obvious that desperate Republicans are well on the way to convincing themselves that offshore oil drilling is some sort of heaven-sent electoral silver bullet. Check out this statement at RealClearPolitics by supply-side economic warhorse Lawrence Kudlow: As Sen.... |
