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Job Creation Data: Democrats Better Than Republicans

Paul Krugman: Dean Baker is upset at a news report suggesting that John McCain -- unlike Barack Obama! -- is concerned with job creation. I feel his pain. If there's one thing that stands out above all over the economic...

Posted on June 16, 2008 3:00 PM

West Virginia Democratic Primary Results

CNN is projecting Hillary Clinton as the winner in the West Virginia Primary. This post will be updated as results are available.

Posted on May 13, 2008 11:57 PM

Affluent OK with Dems Raising Capital Gains Tax

Affluent investors say a small increase in the capital gains tax, as suggested by Democratic presidential candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, wouldn't affect their investment decisions. According to the annual Bloomberg/Los Angeles Times investor poll, 69 percent of upper-income investors say a raise in the capital gains tax to 20 percent from 15 percent wouldn't cause them to sell assets they would otherwise hold.

Posted on May 13, 2008 6:30 PM

North Carolina and Indiana Democratic Primary Results

Results, and links and excerpts of exit polls.

Posted on May 6, 2008 11:10 PM

Clinton Going Forward

TIME's Mark Halperin does a pretty good job of capsulizing Clinton's strategy going forward (on March 28, 2008).

Posted on April 1, 2008 12:00 PM

Texas Democratic Debate, Who Won?

Debate reaction and a video clip.

Posted on February 22, 2008 8:43 AM

Obama Repeats False Claim Regarding Health Care

Barack did it again, repeating the same false claim that he made in last week's Wisconsin attack ad.

Posted on February 21, 2008 10:50 PM

Imagine Clinton and Obama are Tied in Delegates

UPDATE: An accidentally released Obama campaign document envisions a virtual tie in delegates going into the convention. ---original post begins here--- It would be a Democratic Convention Nightmare if Obama and Clinton are in a virtual tie after the primaries are all over and neither receive a decisive-enough delegate count or public mandate. Keith Olbermann did a fairly decent job last night in explaining how the delegates -- and more importantly the super-delegates -- add up and factor in to the Democratic Party's nomination process. Watch the video (4:43): For now, let's just hope that one of the candidates emerges and moves forward with a decisive-enough delegate count to make the question moot. The other possibility is a little too frightening to consider...

Posted on February 7, 2008 10:51 PM

Edwards Dropping Out of the Race

I'll update this development with more news and my thoughts on what this means in the race as soon as I have time, but initially my reaction is that this is good news for Democrats in that it will allow voters to focus on the two most-likely candidates, and will let us see a truer depiction of which of those two holds the most sway among Democrats, and represents the ideals we want to carry forth and represent us in November's general election.

Posted on January 30, 2008 9:45 AM

Kennedys to Endorse Obama

Caroline Kennedy, daughter of President John Kennedy, and Senator Ted Kennedy are both announcing their endorsement of Barack Obama's bid for President.

Posted on January 27, 2008 3:10 PM

Nevada Democratic Caucus Results

Results on the Democratic Caucus in Nevada.

Posted on January 19, 2008 3:00 PM

Obama Advancing, McCain Fading in New Hampshire

With just four days remaining the latest Zogby three day rolling, tracking telephone poll for New Hampshire conducted yesterday shows John McCain at 32%, dropping two points off his lead, while Flip Romney is holding steady in second at 30%....

Posted on January 5, 2008 12:30 PM

110th Congress in Review

The Washington Post has conducted a year end, session-end review of the 110th Congress. Here are their conclusions. Democratic lawmakers steadily challenged President Bush but failed to budge policy on Iraq. Their impact on other foreign policy issues was...

Posted on December 26, 2007 8:00 AM

Two-Faced O'Reilly Hits a Double (Standard)

Since Bill "I've never met a nappy-headed, corn-rowed, ice-tea drinking black person I didn't like" O'Reilly and his hip-hop hypocrisy is so much in the news these days, this item from Salon's Tim Grieve really hits a high-note on the...

Posted on September 27, 2007 1:45 PM

PAC Runs Iowa Radio Ad to Draft Gore

Click the play button above to play the ad (0:30 mp3). The Draft Gore Committee launched its first radio ad on Monday in Iowa. The 30-second ad, dubbed "You Who," will go national in July. It features a chorus...

Posted on June 26, 2007 3:00 PM

Putin Pushes Bush Towards Diplomacy

This is precisely why there should have been diplomacy and detente practiced as a matter of course, proactively. Russian President Vladimir Putin, bitterly opposed to a U.S. missile shield in Europe, told President Bush on Thursday that Moscow would drop...

Posted on June 7, 2007 12:06 PM

June 3 Democratic Debate Roundup: Final Grades

Every person who watches a debate like last night's is likely to walk away from it with a different opinion as to who did well and who didn't. After reading many, many stories covering last night's debate (I was busy...

Posted on June 4, 2007 6:32 PM

June 3 Democratic Debate Roundup - Part 4

Chris Dodd's team clocked the amount of talk time each candidate received in last night's debate, and created this graphic. Given the amount of time he had (or didn't have) to get his points across, Biden did extremely well. See...

Posted on June 4, 2007 1:47 PM

June 3 Democratic Debate Roundup - Part 3

David Corn at The Nation (via Alternet): The difference over the difference was the main point of contention of the event. The positions staked out by the leading candidates were--no shocker here--obvious. Clinton wants to play down the fact that...

Posted on June 4, 2007 1:10 PM

June 3 Democratic Debate Roundup - Part 2

More reaction from the June 3 debate last night. This time a younger perspective, from Mike Wacker of the Cornell Daily Sun: But enough on the format of the debate. Let's discuss the actual debate itself and my take on...

Posted on June 4, 2007 9:26 AM

June 3 Democratic Debate Roundup - Part 1

Heard around the web: International Web Tribune: Questions of courage and political leadership emerged at the latest Democratic presidential candidate debate, as John Edwards forcefully challenged front-runners Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama over whether they had demonstrated leadership on...

Posted on June 4, 2007 9:16 AM

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