Atrios notes something puzzling about the latest Cook poll on Democratic presidential candidates:More interesting in the poll results is the fact that Obama/Edwardssupporters don't seem inclined to support the other one. Clinton is a popular2nd choice as well as 1st one, and when Obama or...
2008 democratic primary
It is quite remarkable how obsessed Chris Matthews, remains with Bill Clinton's sex life. (Why the adultery of Hillary Clinton's husband is a major campaign issue while we can be.
We know Clinton's positions have been more hawkish than her rivals (marginally so than Edwards, much more so than Obama.) It would, as Michael Crowley suggests, seem worthwhile to compare.
I should say that I take a somewhat more charitable view of what GFR is arguing than Matt does here. I don't think she's arguing that I oppose Clinton because I'm a man in some reductive sense. Rather, as I read her she's claiming that...
Matt is right about this. In addition to the fact that it's contrary to progressive interests to have Penn advising people, there's the additional issue of what it says about.
The main question about this upcoming Edwards press conference would seem to be how awful it's going to be; I certainly hope fervently that the news will be more benign.
In addition to being bad on the merits, what puzzles me about Tom Vilsack's decision to end his campaign yesterday is what makes him think it would work. I'll admit that I'm no political consultant; I don't have a strong idea of what would appeal...
In the midst of the below-referenced posts pointing out the highly disingenuous attempts to claim that Clinton was not, in fact, a strong contemporaneous supporter of the war, Yglesias notes.