At the moment, Sen. Hillary Clinton clearly trails Sen. Barack Obama in the camaign for the Democratic presidential nomination.  But how long does she maintain a plausible path to the nomination? At OpenLeft Chris Bowers breaks out six delegate counts, arguing that unlikely that either campaign will concede as long as it leads in at least one of these six counts.  Conversely, the beginning of the end is marked when

Camp Clinton has been waiting (and complaining) for the media to start giving Sen . Barack Obama’s campaign the level of scrutiny generally trained on the front-runner. It seems like it is coming, possibly just in time to prolong Obama’s race with Sen. Hillary Clinton. Although some 150 delegates are up for grabs in Democratic contests today, yesterday’s big political story was the Obama plagarism flap.  It is not a

Joel Ferguson, a co-chairman of Hillary’s Michigan campaign, reportedly said: “Superdelegates are not second-class delegates… The real second-class delegates are the delegates that are picked in red-state caucuses that are never going to vote Democratic.” There is the typical OUTRAGE in the comments at the Politico.  Kos derides it.  TNR mocks it. However, even had it been uttered by someone higher on the Clinton flow chart, it would be at most

Claims to distinguish between “movies” and “reality”: Sharon Stone believes the Sept. 11 attacks should not have been used as a pretext for the United States to launch wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, according to her comments published Monday in a pan-Arab newspaper. In her interview with Al Hayat, the actress also bemoaned what she called Americans’ decision to ignore the deaths of so many Iraqis.” I feel at great

In various posts about the increasing acrimony over the tight Democratic campaign for the presidential nomination, people have speculated over whether the nomination of Sen. Hillary Clinton, particularly if achieved by superdelegates or the disputed Florida and Michigan delegations, could depress Democratic turnout, particularly among black voters, sufficiently to affect the outcome of a general election. I have generally assumed that the black vote is largest in states that strongly

of America for the first time in her adult life. And not only because Barack’s doing well.  Headline of the Day:  EX-HOMECOMING QUEEN BEATS DISABLED SISTER WITH PROSTHETIC LEG  (In case you’re wondering, you laughed because you’re a horrible person).  Big deal. Same thing happened to me when I wore my “Sure Would Dig Some Poontang” t-shirt to the YMCA.

Do Washington Post reporters and editors communicate with each other? Today, Dan Balz has a front page story on  Sen. Hillary Clinton’s deep ties to Texas, starting with an anecdote from Hidalgo County judge J.D. Salinas to make the point: Sixteen years ago, as a young volunteer, Salinas helped look after Clinton when she came to McAllen for a big South Texas rally the day before her husband was elected

Because that’s all religiousy and rude: But the Latin Mass published by the Vatican last year resuscitated the conversion insult, praying on Good Friday that God “lift the veil” from “Jewish blindness.” Catholics and Jews both objected. In last week’s formal promulgation of the Latin Mass, the Vatican stepped back from that extreme language, but Catholics are still to pray that God “enlighten” the hearts of Jews “so that they

As an author of The Almanac of American Politics, Michael Barone should know better than to misrepresent the way the GOP selects delegates in the presidential nomination campaign: Winner-take-all is the Republican idea of fairness. The party seeks unity and uniformity, and doesn’t encourage dissent. You know the rules in advance, and if you come out ahead you get the big prize. Thus, few Republicans thought it unfair when John