New article from TNR today that has Clinton campaign insiders revealing how it all went so horribly wrong, and some of the details squaring with what we’ve talked about here frequently.
Among the most notable screwups…

Mark Penn had no business being a Chief Strategist

Patti Solis Doyle had no business being a Campaign Manager
Howard Wolfson still has [...]

And something tells me that this will be one of those gifts that’ll keep on giving…

Chuck Todd explains why the Obama camp is cheering today…
When President Bush — thousands of miles away in Israel — decided to fire his thinly veiled shot at Obama yesterday, it was a giant gift to the Illinois senator and his campaign.
Why?
One, it essentially kept Clinton on the sidelines just two days after [...]

There have always been whispers that George Sr. really thinks his son’s Iraq policy is wrong. That’s never been confirmed by him personally, but former aides are on the record as saying so.
And now Obama is giving his strategy the thumbs up as a juxtaposition to the his son’s.
I wonder how he’d feel about the [...]

After a foreign policy that has resulted in more enemies instead of fewer, Bush actually has the gall to suggest that talking with some of the more high level foes is akin to appeasing Hitler.
Seriously?
“Some seem to believe we should negotiate with terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have [...]

Feith is famous for being the guy who formed the “Office of Special Plans”, a group that cherry-picked the intelligence for the administration so they could justify going into Iraq because of WMDs and ties to al Qaeda. And now he’s out on the talk show circuit hawking his book which claims that their was [...]

Obama said this today in West Virginia…
One of the saddest episodes in our history was the degree to which returning vets from Vietnam were shunned, demonized and neglected by some because they served in an unpopular war. Too many of those who opposed the war in Vietnam chose to blame not only the leaders who [...]

It’s pretty short and sweet: be about something.
But between the new health care proposal, heavy investment in green-collar jobs and renewed investment in our infrastructure and national education system, Obama seems like he has plenty of ideas that Americans could get behind. So it feels like Gingrich is trying to position Obama as the guy [...]

This comes from a story about the 1,200 pieces of opposition research they had on Hillary:
By the way, to put the RNC’s opposition research effort into context, I’m told the dossier on Senator Obama is 1,000 pages in length and that Republican researchers spent a few weeks in Chicago recently collecting information on Obama’s ties [...]

More specifically, the infamous Mark Penn thought so…and he didn’t get fired for it. They actually based their strategy off of it.
From TIME…
Clinton picked people for her team primarily for their loyalty to her, instead of their mastery of the game. That became abundantly clear in a strategy session last year, according to two people [...]

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This is from March 30th.
From NWI.com:
“We’ve got this title that Gary people don’t vote,” Gary Mayor Rudy Clay said to the crowd. “It’s going to be eliminated because Gary is going to register more people than have ever registered before.”
During Indiana’s primary, Gary will be a name on the lips of newscasters on CNN, he [...]

I’m with Josh Marshall. The argument behind creating the superdelegates in the first place was merely an extension of the political boss system that determined state primary winners by who had the most power and that tradition has absolutely no place in modern politics.
Some history…
Coming out of the 1970s, the Democratic party establishment created the [...]

Well, I guess this will be the theme this Fall. First, McCain’s team ties Hamas to Obama because they said they wouldn’t mind dealing with him (in a fundraising email no less) and now the candidate himself is saying that Ayers remains an “open question” and he wonders if Obama would condemn Ayers actions.
From CNN:
The [...]

From Fox News:
A recent study found that an ancient elephant ancestor called Moeritherium spent most of its time in rivers and swamps.
Scientists knew that elephants are related to modern aquatic creatures such as manatees, but they had never identified an ancient elephant relative that lived in water.
No wonder they’re wrinkly.