It’s official!
And Hillary did the honors…
DENVER - Barack Obama, a 47-year-old first-term senator from Illinois, became the first African-American ever nominated for president by a major political party after delegates to the Democratic National Convention chose him as their standard-bearer Wednesday.
The nomination process, a subject of debate and speculation right up until the voting [...]

With leaners
McCain - 47%
Obama - 46%
Without leaners
Obama - 44%
McCain - 44%
McCain edges up one and this is significant since he hasn’t really been above the 45% mark for a while in the “with leaners” numbers. So now this is two straight days, which could position him well for sustaining any type of bump he gets [...]

Gotta love this down home folksy political wisdom for Billary…
“Suppose you’re a voter, and you’ve got candidate X and candidate Y. Candidate X agrees with you on everything, but you don’t think that candidate can deliver on anything at all. Candidate Y you agree with on about half the issues, but he can deliver. Which [...]

The Democratic National Convention should be Barack Obama’s shining hour. For one thing, he did what one year ago most pundits considered to be the improbable by becoming the nominee of the Democratic Party after one of the most grueling primary battles in recent political history. For another, he’s scheduled to accept the nomination of [...]

With leaners
Obama - 46%
McCain - 46%
Without leaners
Obama - 44%
McCain - 44%
Quite a swing today in McCain’s favor, as the Arizona senator makes up 3 and 4 points respectively in the numbers.
These numbers now line up almost exactly with Gallup’s and show that Biden may have actually hurt Obama. Why? Well, my guess is this is [...]

Don’t tell me she didn’t know this was going to happen…

If the 3 AM ad worked during the primaries, then this one will probably make a dent too. Although, ultimately, we all know what happened to Hillary.
I wonder what’ll she think when she sees it.

John McCain is out with a new ad today that picks up on the 3:00am meme that HIllary Clinton started during her primary battle with Barack Obama, and continues the McCain campaign’s recent strategy of using Hillary’s own words against the man she now says she supports:

Here’s the transcript:
CLINTON AD: It’s 3 a.m. and your [...]

I wrote about Hillary supporter Debra Bartoshevich back in June when she decided to break from her party and support McCain instead.
So what made her so special? Well, she was as an elected delegate to the Democratic National Convention at the time. Understandably, she was quickly booted.
Now she has popped up in a new [...]

As I’ve said frequently in the past year, Clinton and her team was not up to the task of running the country. Disagree with me if you like, but as numerous behind-the-scenes exposes come out that show just how dysfunctional the campaign was, Democrats everywhere should breathe a sigh of relief that they secured Obama [...]

Are you a Hillary supporter who’s furious that Obama picked an old white guy for his Veep instead of the former First Lady?
Then this ad is for you…

On one hand it can be seen as a shrewd move aimed at the independent female voter or “security moms” who considered Hillary to be their own [...]

The title of the article is “Hillary gets stiffed,” but who’s really getting stiffed here? Hillary or the readers of Politico?
See, they “report” that an unnamed Democratic insider claims that Clinton was never asked for one single piece of paper from the VP vetting team. Therefore, it’s assumed she was never on Obama’s short list.
I’m [...]

Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have come to an agreement that Clinton’s name will be placed in nomination at the Democratic National Convention.
The two senators released a joint statement saying the move is a symbolic recognition of Clinton’s historic campaign and is intended to unite the party.
Sounds like a vanity play on Clinton’s part, [...]

The Barack Obama / Hillary Clinton tensions do not seem to be lessoning. Amongst the just released memos is a particularly harsh anti-Obama memo written by Clinton’s chief strategist Mark Penn in March of 2007. Penn’s memo outlines why Obama shouldn’t be considered a potential contender for the American presidency:
“All of these articles about his [...]

You can find them here.
I’m not going to have time to wade through all of them, but Ambinder has taken a look and shares some of what’s contained within this treasure trove…
** The battle for strategic supremacy and chaos in the campaign
** Mark Penn and the rest of the staff debating gender, politics, Obama’s significance, [...]

Hillary Clinton’s former communication director, Howard Wolfson, is claiming that the media’s failure to uncover/disclose John Edwards’ affair cost Clinton the nomination. In Wolfson’s thinking, if Edwards had dropped out before Iowa, Clinton would have won that state and then cruised to the nomination.
Man, those Clinton supporters are bitter, aren’t they? Obama put up a [...]

I wonder what Iowans would think about this?
From Chicago Tribune…
PITTSBURGH - Hillary Rodham Clinton loyalists tried Saturday to kill off the caucus system that proved so damaging to her presidential bid, but were beaten back by a Democratic Party leadership firmly under the command of Barack Obama.
Democrats who supported Clinton’s candidacy pushed to amend the [...]

More evidence of what many suspected a Hillary presidency would bring with it: Bill Clinton 2.0.
This extremely revealing little factoid is buried in a story from Politico about the upcoming story from The Atlantic that details hundreds of memos that were leaked to reporter Joshua Green…
The famous 3 a.m. ad, written by Penn and approved [...]

The Atlantic will tell us how it all went wrong.
From The Trail…
Just when you thought everyone had moved on… former advisers to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton are in a tizzy over an upcoming piece in the Atlantic Monthly that chronicles the inner workings of the now-defunct campaign. Of particular concern are nearly 200 internal memos [...]

For those who miss those halcyon days when Hillary Clinton was impeding Barack Obama’s journey to the White House – the drama may not be over yet. In a move that should surprise no one who’s followed the uninhibited ambition of the Clintons, Hillary Clinton has been caught telling a California reception that she thinks [...]