I have been reading a book by William Ury called The Power of a Positive No: Save the Deal, Save the Relationship–and Still Say No. I do not know what Ury’s politics are, so please note that this post is not about his politic position, but rather it is about mine.
Ury writes in his book [...]
Democrats are almost evenly divided between Sen. Obama and Sen. Clinton, and yet the media would have us believe Obama is a “juggernaut.” Now the DNC expects us to take lying down a clear fix in Obama’s favor. Who ran the rules committee–the Chicago machine?
Any Democrat ought to be outraged by the way the Michigan [...]
I thought someone ought to point this out, since all the major newspapers seem to be placing it in the next to last paragraph of their paeans to Obama. Hillary blew out Kentucky last night, just like she did West Virginia!
Obamaphiles will say, “So what? She can’t win. He has more pledged delegates.” Indeed. The [...]
I have been trying to figure out how it is that one can legitimately declare oneself a winner without actually winning. Obama is prepared to do that tonight in Iowa because he is clearly too impatient to wait until June 3, let alone August, and yet every Democratic nominee in recent history has had to wait [...]
Now that I have helped Obama pick his cabinet, I would like to help him with other problems he is going to face in his First Hundred Days. He needs the right press secretary and there are a lot of gay guys or guys on the down low vying for that job: Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann, [...]
Now that the Obama presidency is all but inevitable, he needs to get a head start picking his cabinet. I am not speculating on the Vice Presidential position yet, but Bill Richardson, I would not hold my breath. It won’t be Hillary Clinton.
Here are my bets for the cabinet:
Secretary of State: Fareed Zakaria (Madeleine Albright [...]
Poll Analysis: Clinton Maintains Her Lead Over McCain
Clinton
McCain
75.8% probability of winning
22.4% probability of winning
Mean of 279 electoral votes
Mean of 259 electoral votes
On Saturday, Sen. Hillary Clinton had a 78.5% chance of beating Sen. John McCain in a general election. With three new polls weighing in today, not much has changed.
After 10,000 simulated elections, Clinton wins [...]
A funny thing happened when I opened the Los Angeles Times this morning. The headline on the primaries was neutral, with Obama winning NC and Clinton IN. Then below, in those sub-headlines, was the subtext. He wasn’t strong enough. I was a little surprised, after so many blogs had been crowing about Obama’s victory, and [...]
By all demographic profiles, I should be an Obama voter. I have a Ph.D., teach at a university in a “progressive” discipline (history) and make somewhere around $75,000 a year. I am white, but do not carry around race and class fears that people like Rev. Wright bring out in many people. But I did [...]
One of the bizarre things about the Obama campaign is the way in which people who have been apolitical have gravitated to him. Bizarre, but not bad necessarily. He has encouraged people to come out and vote and they have. But there’s something I have been noticing on Facebook recently: Hillary is getting more active [...]
