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By Melinda Henneberger - Politics DailyCHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -- This week, I got an e-mail from a colleague on the Gulf Coast who is pretty blue about where we as a country are headed. His reasoning, though, isn't anything you've seen on a sign at a Tea Party rally: "I get a real sadness about what is to come,'' he wrote. "This country is so sick and corrupted by all this disinformation and demagoguery. [A mutual friend of ours] is the perpetual optimist -- a true Westerner, keen to the myth of endless space. Maybe because I live in the tropics and have fewer expectations of democracy, I look at this GOP sweep and wonder if we will ...
For Obama, Election Portends a Future of Compromise -- or Opportunity
By Alex Wagner - Politics DailyOn Nov. 3, there is a strong likelihood that President Obama will wake up to a decidedly different Washington, one in which his party no longer controls both -- or either -- chambers of Congress. Since taking office, the commander in chief has presided over a 58-seat majority in House and an 18-seat margin in Senate, winning passage of such landmark legislation as the Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the nation's first health care reform bill and regulation of the financial services industry. Yet he has done so along strictly partisan lines. The president's first major piece of legislation, ...
The Hillary Memos
By David Knowles - Politics DailyIf you've ever scratched your head and wondered how on Earth Hillary Clinton lost the Democratic presidential nomination to Barack Obama, you need look no further than Josh Green's exhaustive post-mortem published in this week's edition of The Atlantic (read it here). What distinguishes this "What went wrong" piece from all the others before it is that Green bases it upon internal memos and e-mails that he obtained from key players within Clinton's campaign. What is revealed is a frenetic, bee-hive full of conflict and in-fighting, and a queen unable to take charge and set a course for the ...
Clinton Campaign: She Won't Concede
By Liza Porteus Viana - Politics DailyClinton campaign chairman Terry McAuliffe said "absolutely not" when asked by CNN just before 11:30 a.m. today, if Hillary Clinton will be conceding to Barack Obama tonight."They are 100 percent reporting incorrectly," McAuliffe said when asked if AP was misreporting the story. According to AP, Clinton will acknowledge that Obama has the number of delegates needed to clinch the Democratic nomination if - or rather, when - he reaches the number of delegates needed. The AP cited two senior campaign officials. But McAuliffe said he didn't know who those two officials were that formed the basis ...
Michigan and Florida: Half!
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyUpdate: Clinton campaign official statement at the end of the story. The Democratic National Committee Rules and Bylaws committee has voted to seat the full delegations of Michigan and Florida, with each delegate receiving a half of a vote. 7:07 There are people chanting, "Denver, Denver!" Harold Ickes voted for the Florida measure, but against the Michigan one. They had to ask security to bar the door. Ickes said that the Michigan decision "Hijacked" the votes of 600,000 people, and that the principle of fair representation of the will of the voters meant awarding delegates to ...
HRC Supporters to Demonstrate at DNC Rules Meeting
By Dave - Politics DailyAnd that has Harold Meyerson huffing and puffing: What's particularly outrageous is that the Clinton campaign supported the calendar, and the sanctions against Michigan and Florida, until Clinton won those states and needed to have their delegations seated. Last August, when the DNC Rules Committee voted to strip Florida (and Michigan, if it persisted in clinging to its date) of its delegates, the Clinton delegates on the committee backed those sanctions. All 12 Clinton supporters on the committee supported the penalties. (The only member of the committee to vote against them was an Obama ...
Clinton Strategists a Hot Mess
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyThe Clinton braintrust has been making news the past few days, and not in a good way. First, there was the revelation that I was righter about Mark Penn than I knew. From Time Magazine: As aides looked over the campaign calendar (last year), chief strategist Mark Penn confidently predicted that an early win in California would put her over the top because she would pick up all the state's 370 delegates. It sounded smart, but as every high school civics student now knows, Penn was wrong: Democrats, unlike the Republicans, apportion their delegates according to vote totals, rather than allowing ...
Clinton's Rope-a-Dope
By Faye Anderson - Politics DailyHillary Clinton is a lot of things but she's no "Rocky." Besides as a lot of folks have pointed out, Rocky lost to the black guy.Clinton likes to remind voters that she is a fighter. Since she's not likely to deliver a knockout punch in the remaining 10 contests, Clinton is engaging in some rope-a-dope as she exploits Barack Obama's "pastor disaster." Talking Points Memo reports:In an interview with me this morning, senior Hillary adviser Harold Ickes confirmed that Reverend Jeremiah Wright is a key topic in discussions with uncommitted super-delegates over whether Obama is electable in a ...
Clinton's New Man
By Faye Anderson - Politics DailyIt is said that a drowning person will grab a razor blade. Hillary Clinton is drowning in a sea of tightening polls and bad press. She reportedly has brought on board a longtime adviser, Harold Ickes, to help her charm superdelegates and prevent those already on board from jumping ship.I've met Ickes. He's as cuddly as a porcupine. Indeed, New York State Democratic Party Chairman Herman Farrell, a superdelegate, told the New York Times: "Harold isn't Mr. Charm. But he is Mr. Mechanic. He's good at the nuts and bolts and doing the counting, less so at the persuading." ...
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