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Former tabloid big Bonnie Fuller notes that Camp Obama is using popular mass-media vehicles such as People, Us Weekly, The View, Access Hollywood and The Colbert Report to “present Michelle and Barack as the beloved Brangelina of the political world.”  Regular …

RCP’s Jay Cost notes (as noted here) that John McCain’s campaign still seems like a pudding without a theme, but also argues that Barack Obama’s campaign “is built around a faulty, occasionally absurd meta-narrative”:
Obama’s narrative should be similar to [Bill] …

Dark Lord Karl Rove and RCP’s Jay Cost both look at Barack Obama’s bold general election ad campaign.  Rove questions the whether spending nearly $20 million in early TV advertising is prudent.  Cost argues that the buy is more about …

At Salon, Democratic pollster Paul Maslin looks at whether the youth vote can deliver the presidency to Barack Obama.  Most of Maslin’s point echo my assessment of the youth vote from May 26, but it is always good …

RCP’s Jay Cost has a series of bar charts reviewing Barack Obama’s voting coalition.  Most of these review Obama’s performance versus Clinton, which makes them of limited interest in the context of the general election. 

The final chart, however, addresses …

When Gary Mayor (and Barack Obama backer) Rudy Clay started hinting that a shocker might come out of late-reporting Lake County, IN, someone in Hillary Clinton’s campaign was probably tasked with pulling the video of Bob Beckel on FNC, …

At RCP, Jay Cost prints the text of a speech he gave to a conference at Princeton University on the national party organizations – and their capacity to manage an election like this one.

I disagree with Cost’s claim that …

At RCP, Jay Cost revisits the ongoing discussion about whether Barack Obama can win working class whites in the general election, from two different but equally interesting perspectives.

His first take on the issue circles around a look at Clinton’s primary …

Over the weekend, RCP’s Jay Cost noted that the movement in the PA polls was strikingly similar to the movement in the OH pre-primary polls.  Cost avers that past is not necessarily prologue, but notes that there are reasons …

Before we were unavoidably detained yesterday, the WaPo’s Chris Cillizza considered Barack Obama’s Clingy Kerfuffle by borrowing a question from Hoosier Axl Rose: “Where Do We Go Now?”

Cillizza looks at several factors which could cause Obama’s comments to become a …