This guy is sure to be in the VP running if Hillary wins Indiana. But the big question: can his support really help her close the gap? And another big question: what is the power of the Bayh brand name in Indiana? From Politico: Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton aren’t the only senators with a [...]

Looks like he’s suggesting he’ll try to bend the ear of his former parishioner to sway policy decisions. And Obama can’t be too happy about that. From Politico: The Rev. Jeremiah Wright said Monday that he will try to change national policy by “coming after” Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) if he is elected president. The [...]

Whenever I’m interviewed on Christian or conservative talk radio, the topic nearly always turns to — or starts out with — abortion. Never mind that the book that prompted my appearance is about independent politics; radio hosts and even book reviewers zero in on the one chapter on abortion and gay marriage. The irony is [...]

Haha, yeah right Howard… In any event, he’s saying that somebody is going to have to drop out after the last primary, and the not so subtle hint is that “somebody” is going to be Hillary since it’s mathematically impossible for her to catch up at this point. Yes, I realize he didn’t say that, [...]

Whereas Gallup shows Hillary making up considerable ground post-Pennsylvania, Rasmussen shows Obama with a lead that just won’t budge… In the race for the Democratic Presidential Nomination, it’s Obama 48%, Clinton 42%. These results are based upon data from a four-day tracking poll. Today’s update is the first based entirely upon interviews conducted following the [...]

He broke the news today on Fox News. No debates between now and May 6. It’s at the very end of the video. Here’s the thing…she isn’t getting out of this thing anytime soon, so he’s going to have to agree to a debate at some point in the next month or look like he’s [...]

Two days in a row. At the very least the Clinton’s effort to make it seem like she can win is working. The details… These results, based on April 24-26 polling, are the second report in which all interviews have been conducted after Clinton’s Tuesday Pennsylvania primary win, and suggest that Democratic voters are — [...]

Hillary Clinton has asked for it, but this style of debate is apparently being characterized incorrectly. TPM provides some perspective… This is not in fact the format used by Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas — which in turn would be anathema to a modern viewing audience. In those famous debates, one candidate would speak for [...]

Hillary Clinton has challenged Barack Obama to a Lincoln-Douglas style debate without a moderator. The two would just stand or sit for ninety minutes and ask each other questions. In response, the Obama camp said they want to focus on talking to the voters rather than having yet another debate. Personally, I think Obama should [...]

Recently, McCain admonished North Carolina Republicans as being “out of touch” for wanting to run this ad… Now, let’s make one thing clear. Obama was not at church during the “god damn America” sermon and he’s made that clear. The commercial purposefully tries to blur that line and suggest Obama agrees with Wright’s sentiment, and [...]

It’s official. Pennsylvania has put a lot of doubts in people’s minds. Last week, Newsweek had the race at Obama/Clinton – 54/35, a 19 point spread. Now it’s 48/41. And since we’re increasingly only interested in personal perceptions in this campaign, here are some numbers about how the candidates are perceived. A third (31 percent) [...]

For the second time in about a week, the two Dems are neck and neck. The details… These results, based on April 23-25 polling, are the first in which all interviews were conducted after Clinton’s Tuesday Pennsylvania primary win, so it is clear that her victory there helped to erase Obama’s lead. Obama led the [...]

Hillary Clinton may have won Pennsylvania but she just lost a major fundraiser to Obama. Gabriel Guerra-Mondragon – who served as ambassador to Chile during the Clinton administration – had raised close to half a million dollars for Clinton’s campaign, reports Chuck Todd, who broke the story. “We’re just bleeding each other out,” Guerra-Mondragon told [...]

Has the momentum shifted? Because now Obama only holds a 1 point lead on Hillary. The details… Obama’s lead dwindled steadily all week, falling from a high of 10 percentage points in interviewing conducted in the three days just prior to the Pennsylvania primary. However, the percentage of Democrats supporting Obama has changed little (declining [...]

Starting next week, the stimulus package’s tax rebates will be going out. Most Americans will receive a sizable check. Thanks to some unusual government efficiency, the checks are actually going out earlier than expected. President Bush says this is a good thing because: “This money is going to help Americans offset the high prices we’re [...]

Geoff Garin, Hillary’s latest chief campaign strategist, tries to set a new standard on what constitutes a personal attack and what doesn’t. It’s a laugh riot… What’s wrong with this picture? Our campaign runs a TV ad Monday saying that the presidency is the toughest job in the world and giving examples of challenges presidents [...]

Despite all the advantages independent voters have — like never feeling beholden to a major party — we’ve historically had one serious disadvantage: finding each other. It’s not as if we had an umbrella organization that held annual conferences or nominating conventions; we’re independents, after all, and not exactly joiners by nature. All that changed when God created the [...]

Very tight… Sen. Barack Obama holds a narrow lead over Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton in Indiana, with the outcome of the May 6 primary likely in the hands of a large number of undecided voters, according to a new Indianapolis Star-WTHR poll. The poll showed that Obama — helped in particular by strong backing from [...]

Actually, he leads by 1%, but we all know that’s a tie at this point. From WISH TV: Barack Obama leads in the WISH-TV Indiana poll, though by the smallest of margins. The numbers are Obama 48, Clinton 47. Three weeks ago our poll showed Hillary Clinton with a lead 49 to 46. [...] The [...]