Arkansas
Trouble Ahead
David Thomson on Films: 'True Grit'
‘Wastebook’ Is a Waste
Understanding a Mad, Mad Primary Season
Christine O’Donnell is not someone you’d expect to be a Republican nominee for a competitive U.S. Senate contest, particularly in the staid state of Delaware, and particularly as the choice of primary voters over Congressman Mike Castle, who up until yesterday had won twelve consecutive statewide races. READ MORE >>
Getting Party Fighting Right
[C]hallenges to one authority in the party are coming from another power center in the party. Parties are not strongly hierarchical organizations to begin with, so the way in is just to start playing. Whatever else she is, Sarah Palin is the party’s most recent nominee for vice president. That’s not an outsider position. And so neither are the candidates she backs. And these candidates are contesting party primaries. But “outsiders” like outsider rhetoric, but they are in the tent. READ MORE >>
Is Obama Meaner To Liberals Than To Conservatives?
Over at Daily Kos, David Sirota says President Obama is meaner to the left than he is to Republicans: READ MORE >>
Liberal Despair And the Cult Of The Presidency
I've been writing for several months about the curious sense of disappointment afflicting liberals READ MORE >>
Bernstein Smacks Down Greenwald
Glenn Greenwald scoffs at those who claim that Obama lacks the power to bend Senators to his will: READ MORE >>
Broken Embrace
WASHINGTON—This week's primaries should have been good news for Democrats. Instead, a stray comment from an Obama aide briefly threatened a civil war in the Democratic Party, which needs all the unity it can get. The administration moved quickly to heal bad feelings that burst forth when an unnamed senior White House official disparaged organized labor's unsuccessful efforts to defeat Sen. Blanche Lincoln in the Arkansas Democratic primary. READ MORE >>
Off to the Races!
Political junkies rejoice! There are twelve states holding elections today, including ten primaries, one runoff, and one special-election runoff. Among these, the contests that have drawn most national attention are in California, South Carolina, Nevada, Iowa, and Arkansas. The following is an overview of why these primaries matter and what you should look for in the results. California: Mega-Money Chases Micro–Voter Interest The Governor's Race READ MORE >>
