We wake this morning in a new world.
The news this morning is that a number of Hillary Clinton’s pledged superdelegates are switching their allegiance to Barack Obama. The group, led by civil-rights veteran and Georgia Congressman John Lewis, say they are reacting to the popular primary votes in their state, but they are also [...]
I never voted for Bill Clinton. I might have, but when he ordered the execution of Ricky Ray Rector, a brain-damaged convict just before the 1992 “Super Tuesday” primaries, I wrote him off as an opportunist for whom I would never vote.
I’ll never vote for Hillary Clinton. She strikes me as someone cut [...]
Conventional wisdom holds that today’s Republican primary in Florida will narrow the race to two candidates - John McCain and Mitt Romney. Further wisdom from the convention holds that next Tuesday’s multiple primaries will determine which of the two men will receive the nomination.
I won’t disagree with that wisdom, whether or not it proves [...]
Last October, I wrote about the electronic political markets at the Tippie College of Business at the University of Iowa.
I noted then that the market had been eerily prescient in the 2000 election, predicting Al Gore would get the most votes, but George Bush would win the election.
As the poet said, “Noting gold can stay,” [...]
No excuses.
I purposely made my New Hampshire prediction on Saturday, because I didn’t want to be influenced by the weekend polls. My ulterior motive was that if I called it correctly from three days out, I’d look really smart.
I don’t look smart this morning, but if I’d had access to those weekend polls, I’d [...]
The Real McCain
I hate to keep doing this, because I think it’s unfair to Barack Obama, but I can’t help it. I keep seeing, in this campaign, shades of the 1992 Bush/Quayle-Clinton/Gore matchup.
In the last month of the ’92 campaign, with a sluggish economy controlling the debate, the Republican candidate was falling behind in the polls. [...]