Excitable Andy has a hot news flash on the 2008 campaign: At least now we know what this race is about: Obama versus the Clintons. Both of them. Their dynasty. Their power. Their methods. Their character. And so the question becomes: does America really want a Restoration? As previously noted here: The central dynamic of the Democratic presidential nomination has been known for years.  It is a referendum on Sen.

Given that my last post was one of many criticizing the establishment media’s fixation on horse race polls, it is of course only fitting that we now… take a look at the horse race polls! NRO’s Jim Geraghty surveys the recent polls and concludes: McCain is probably up a bit, Giuliani’s a bit behind him, and Romney and Huckabee are probably a bit further behind that. He is a tad dismissive of

At PressThink, Jay Rosen promotes an article he has posted at TomDispatch, “The Beast Without a Brain: Why Horse Race Journalism Works for Journalists and Fails Us.”  Rosen writes that it is “about how the campaign media cannot easily make decisions, change course, or learn from its screw-ups because it is a ‘herd of independent minds.’” Among Rosen’s points: Just so you know, “the media” has no mind. It cannot make

At The Moderate Voice, moderate Republican Pete Abel makes the case.  At Donklephant, Justin Gardner seconds that emotion.  However, in doing so, they bury the most interesting thing they could have said about this election cycle: 2. McCain represents for Republicans what Obama represents for Democrats: a meaningful step away from the last 15-plus years. I’m not saying either man will revolutionize partisan politics as we know it, but both

TPM’s Josh Marshall has a few words for Bill Clinton: I have to admit that the intensity of Bill Clinton’s attacks on Barack Obama really makes me uncomfortable. I know there are a lot of Democratic party insiders, mostly older than I am, who don’t like it either. No kidding.  I read Newsweek, too: Prominent Democrats are upset with the aggressive role that Bill Clinton is playing in the 2008

The Las Vegas Sun seems to be the only traditional media outlet noting the key to Sen. Hillary Clinton’s popular vote win in Nevada: If you want to know how Sen. Hillary Clinton won a convincing victory in Saturday’s Nevada caucus, look back to a meeting Dec. 15 at William E. Orr Middle School in Las Vegas. There, Robby Mook, Clinton’s state director, told 600 of the campaign’s most committed

Lynn Sweet of the Chicago Sun-Times has pictures of Sen. Barack Obama speaking at the home church of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Sunday and highlights his latest efforts to portray himself as Unifier: “And yet, if we are honest with ourselves, we must admit that none of our hands are entirely clean. If we’re honest with ourselves, we’ll acknowledge that our own community has not always been true

Excitable Andy quotes our esteemed host’s most recent post on the election, but seems focused on Jeff’s opposition to Sen. John McCain: Yeah, they really do hate McCain that much. Sully misclassifies Jeff as a conservative, as opposed to a classic liberal, but I note that Sully glosses over Jeff’s comment on Sully’s endorsed candidate in the GOP race — Rep. Ron Paul (TOMWCSA): I will not, will not, vote

Mark Steyn argues: A McCain victory in SC has to be good news for Giuliani because the narrative becomes “Stop McCain!” and Rudy’s best poised to do that – not just because his numbers in Florida haven’t yet collapsed to the same undetectable levels as they have everywhere else, but because Huck and Mitt and Fred will be fairly proven failures at the “Stop McCain” game. So, if stopping him’s your

I will not, will not, vote for John McCain. I will not, will not, vote for Mike Huckabee. I will not, will not, vote for Ron Paul — unless he runs for Fuhrer. In which case, he’s got my full support. I might hold my nose and vote for Mitt Romney, but to be perfectly honest, I have no confidence in him, and my vote would be moot, anyway: there’s