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There are some Democrats out there who need to wake up to the John Edwards phenomenon. "The latest Newsweek poll shows John ...

In reading the comments of those who've been encouraging Edwards supporters to switch to Obama, I've noticed that at least some prefer Obama because they perceive Edwards to be 'not authentic.' It'...

I have looked forward to this election for a couple of years, based on my hopes that John Edwards would be able to pull it off. I still haven't given up completely on his campaign. As long as he ...

No matter what some people may think about the lack of importance of the illegal immigration issue, I can tell you that ...

Don't go negative in tonight's debate. I know, I know, your closest advisors are telling you that the only way you are going to win is if you can drive up Barack's 'negatives' in the eyes of most ...

I'm sorry, but the Kossacks and MSM have to openly reject the Clinton Campaign's claim that Hillary 'mis-spoke' when she exaggerated the drama of her arrival in Bosnia. Mis-speaking is something ...

Hillary says "the tide has turned?" Oh really? As I recall, she was leading Obama by 11+ points in the PA polls 2-3 weeks ago, when she started her relentless effort destroy Barack Obama's ...

I just had to share this with you guys... My wife just told me about her lunch hour debate with a Clinton-supporting friend. When they got around to discussing the topic of electability, her ...

" Economists suck. " That quote is from a comment economist Mark Thoma put up on his blog about a year ago entitled "

The good news about Obama's drop in the polls is that the people who shifted their support to McCain in the past month belong to that special class of the electorate known as The Swing Voters .

It's time to resurrect the Experience Issue, Democrats. The Republicans may want to drop it now that they've taken on Palin, but the celebrity governor's stunning ignorance of history and ...

It has been noted that Sarah Palin was once a champion of earmarks (as mayor of Wasilla) before she eventually decided she was against them. In response to critics who pointed out that she ...

Substantial educational EXPERIENCE is the most valuable kind of EXPERIENCE that we voters should ask of any citizen who is to be considered worthy of the office of President of the United ...

Okay class, here is your bonus question...true or false: Even if Congress were to do nothing at all in response to Paulson's/Bernanke's/Bush's request, isn't it true that The ...

Wow. Suddenly, the political landscape has shifted dramatically. House Republicans have made it clear that they now know they have a political opportunity to exploit, an opportunity that just ...

In the final weeks of the 2004 campaign, many Democrats complained that the Republicans were using fear tactics to win the election. I thought it was an odd sort of criticism to be voicing, given ...

On Sunday, our beloved President responded to a question about public outrage over AIG by saying that his administration wouldn't "govern out of anger." I was disturbed by Obama's response, not ...

If he is, then he might want to ponder some of the points I make in this [previously posted] diary. In the economics classes I’ve taught, I’ve always looked forward to the ...

Republicans have gone the extra mile in recent weeks to convince voters that there is nothing scarier than the idea of putting the government in charge of our country’s health care system. ...

Barack Obama has a fundamental political instinct, which is to reach out to the people who perceive him as their enemy, try to make a human connection, thereby draining away their hostility toward ...

I'm re-publishing this diary for those who didn't catch it the last time. It is a lengthy excerpt from an even lengthier essay, ( Why Are ...

I'm a bit confused. The Progressives in Congress and at Dailykos are to blame for what exactly? For damaging Barack Obama's polling numbers? Is that the major concern? If it is, ...

We are all quite aware of what's at stake. And yes, we are familiar with the bleak projections that have been made. I don't know how things are going to ultimately unfold, but I do know that ...

In a recently posted diary, entitled Extending the Tax Cuts is Not a Big Deal , ...

Kathy Hochul's surprising victory in NY's 26th Congressional District has awaken many within the Beltway to the possibility that Democrats might be able to use Republican attacks on Medicare to win ...

Will I vote for Barack Obama in November of next year? Yes, if he is the Democratic nominee and the Republican running against him is as horrible as I expect him/her to be. But am I going to be ...

In a highly-rec'd diary, My Left Behind used a faked email from ...

CNN is reporting that President Obama will be proposing a job creation package that may top $400 billion :

The Clinton campaign's dubious decision to start attacking Bernie with misrepresentations of his agenda is perhaps a very ominous sign for the many members of the Dailykos family who have invested the

Money.   Here’s the thing: if the Sanders Campaign is able to report that it has actually taken in more total financial contributions in the current quarter than the Clinton campaign was able to,

We are now hearing from the Associated Press that...  In the past three weeks, Sanders' campaign has spent about $4.7 million on ads to Clinton's $3.7 million, an investment that so far has me

There was a diary on the Recommended list yesterday with a title that explicitly claimed Bernie Sanders was not being completely honest about his Single Payer Health Care plan.   I found this cla

Have you been somewhat confused as to what Hillary’s feud with Bernie is all about over Health Care?  I thought I might try to clear things up a bit, based in part on what I learned about the economic

Hillary Clinton is given lately to describing herself as a Progressive who can get things done.   But if you actually look at her record, it is difficult to confirm that she has any kind of abili

The headline on CNN’s Politics page read, “Clinton's Hill supporters ready to hit Sanders after New Hampshire”, quoting several notable Capitol Hill Democrats, including Dianne Feinstein and Chuck Sch

The fundamental problem Clinton’s campaign strategists are facing right now is the fact that... When people get to know the real Bernie Sanders, they like him It is the KEY reality which has

As Bernie has pointed out lately, California has 20% of all delegates that are available to candidates and it appears that the West coast is going to be one of the parts of the country where he is goi

My reservations re: Hillary Clinton’s dispositions on foreign policy go back to 2008. They were indeed the key reason I ultimately chose to support Barack Obama in 2008. But it wasn’t just the si

The single biggest obstacle that Bernie Sanders must overcome in the next few months is the fiction-based rumor of Bernie Sanders that the Clinton campaign has been promoting, one which relies heavily on two basic elements: Misleading insinuation

The results in Michigan have now given us proof positive that---contrary to all of the spin we heard from Hillary supporters, both in the MSM and here at DK---Secretary Clinton did not win the Sunday debate. If she had won the debate she would not ha

My reservations re: Hillary Clinton’s dispositions on foreign policy go back to 2008.  They were indeed the key reason why I ultimately chose to support Barack Obama over Hillary during his march to the White House that year. It wasn’t simply th

Of all the key variables at play in the calculus of political campaigning, Time is the one that has always been most crucial to the aspirations of Bernie Sanders and his hopeful supporters. There are other variables, of course.  Without a compelling

With a ‘BREAKING’ headline announcement, one of Hillary’s Dailykos supporters published a diary earlier that trumpeted news of Bernie Sanders’ failure to present a step-by-step plan of how he’d ‘break up the banks’ when he was asked for one by NYDN...

No, it won’t be because they woke up and realized that they suddenly hate Hillary Clinton after having voted for her twice before in previous Senate campaigns.  It will be because they have come to realize in recent days that there is a better way for...

The quote, "...lay off Bernie Sanders a little bit, OK?", may sound “uninformed’ to many of Hillary’s ardent fans here at Dailykos, but you have to admit that there is a certain amount of political logic to it. I mean, after all, if Hillary Clinton...