By now the breaking news of Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s involvement in prostitution has become common knowledge.  So far the scandal has cost Spitzer his job.  As of Monday, he will become the former governor of New York, handing his post to Lt. Gov. David A. Paterson.
 
Still to be seen is whether the backlash from Spitzer’s scandal […]

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We’ve heard for years now that the war in Iraq will overshadow everything else in the election.
This was true in the 2004 election, when the issue polarized voters and eventually leached into domestic politics. Following the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Bush’s administration was seen as incompetent and indifferent; distressing the nature of Iraq.
Today, there’s a […]

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We have reached the defining moment of the Democratic Party’s presidential contest: either Hillary Clinton’s campaign has jumped the shark, or they’ve figured out a way to bring racial prejudice to the fore and against Barack Obama.
Consider that Clinton’s campaign has now had several days to denounce racialized comments by former New York Congresswoman and 1984 […]

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The highly publicized 2008 presidential race has been closer than the Kentucky Derby. Obama took a strong lead for a while and then Clinton gained some ground in Texas and Ohio. However, after yesterday’s primary in Mississippi, Obama seems to have taken over again, and has set himself up to be the next Seabiscuit. Even […]

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In the past few months, I’ve heard two very different stories from Washington state superdelegates.
One of the superdelegates, David McDonald, is still uncommitted.  He said last month that his vote will consider the interests of the Democratic party as a whole and aim to bring the best result in November: a Democrat in the White […]

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Much of the time this election, it hasn’t been something the candidate has said about the other that has raised controversy, it has been the comments made by supports of those candidates that have landed them in the disapproving public eye.  Ultimately it ends with the candidates having to fire friends and discredit their comments […]

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