Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, specializing in polling of electoral battleground states, writes for the Wall Street Journal that Barack Obama’s problem with white voters is not so much about his racial background than his party: Neither Jimmy Carter nor Bill Clinton, the last Democrats to occupy the Oval Office since then, won a majority of white voters. Mr. Clinton came relatively close in

Because he has issues with O!philia.

The Politico reports: Gen. Wesley Clark, acting as a surrogate for Barack Obama’s campaign, invoked John McCain’s military service against him in one of the more personal attacks on the Republican presidential nominee this election cycle. *** “He has been a voice on the Senate Armed Services Committee. And he has traveled all over the world. But he hasn’t held executive responsibility. That large squadron in the Navy that he

At Bloggasm, Carissa Snedecker finds her Google blog suspended: “At first I thought it was just this random thing with Blogger’s spam bots,” she told me in a phone interview. “I thought that perhaps in their looking across the blogger universe, that I got accidentally flagged somehow. Stuff like that happens.” But a short time later Snedeker received an email from another blogger claiming that a number of anti-Obama blogs