A (slightly premature) Clinton post-mortem

Time Magazine has a very good analysis of Where Clinton Went Wrong. Most of it matches the CW of recent weeks, but they summarize Clinton’s missteps in five easy bites:

1. She misjudged the mood - Running on experience in a change election.

2. She didn’t master the rules - her people, bizarrely, didn’t reckon […]

Hillary stays in + Reax to yesterday’s primaries

Hillary says she’s staying in “until there is a nominee,” though it isn’t entirely clear if she means until the actual roll call at the DNC convention or until it’s clear that sufficient superdelegates are united behind Obama (or perhaps until Hades freezes over.)
The post-primary analysis of Indiana and North Carolina is absolutely […]

The Nation on Hillary’s Radical Past

During the 2008 campaign we’ve met a much wartier Barack Obama than the photoshopped image he first presented to us. The real Obama turned out to be a leftwing “community activist” with close ties to anti-American racists and unrepentant 1960s terrorists. Hillary has been scoring points with that latter indiscretion.
Over at […]

Rules. Pesky Rules.

Howard Dean is running around trying to get Democratic superdelegates to back a candidate and end the primary as soon as possible. If we expect Democrats to play by the rules of law if they gain power, they must first show that they can play by their own party rules of nomination.

Michigan and Florida remain […]

Thoughts on the Pennsylvania primary

In generic terms, I suppose it wouldn’t be an unfair criticism of the Democratic Party to suggest they dabble in class warfare, group division, identity politics, and an embrace of victimization. I was reminded of these while listening to Hillary give her victory speech in Pennsylvania tonight. One comment caught my attention, and not in […]