Tomorrow, Laura Mansfield, myself and fellow UW Daily editor Meg Peters will be heading out to Indiana to cover the exciting events on the ground leading to next Tuesday. We’ll be arriving in Indianapolis, then heading south, north, east and west as we drive around the Hoosier State. Look for reports from places like Gary, Evansville, […]

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It isn’t often that I get the urge the just repost something I’ve found in many of the blogs around the internet but after reading through two dozen political blogs in the past hour, mostly about Obama and Rev. Wright, I needed a good laugh, and the Strange Bedfellows blog from the Seattle P-I hit […]

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On Tuesday, I had the chance to chat briefly with Liz Mair, the RNC’s online communications director in the party’s eCampaign division. 
Mair writes for the RNC’s official blog and is tasked with reaching out to the blogosphere. In other words, she’s fighting the perception of a GOP out of touch with the youth vote.
“I think […]

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Sen. John McCain will be coming to town. 
Again. 
Or at least that’s the scuttlebutt at Politicker WA:
Presidential candidate John McCain (R-Ariz.), the presumptive Republican nominee, is expected to come to Seattle in two weeks for a global warming event in what will be his first visit to the state since the Feb. 9 caucuses when he visited the Seattle Westin on a […]

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The latest proposal from Michigan Democrats to seat delegates: award 69 delegates to Hillary Clinton and 59 to Barack Obama, effectively splitting the difference between the numbers each candidate has argued for. Clinton would like a 73/55 split, according to the results of the Jan. 15 primary, and Obama would like an equal 64/64 split […]

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Hillary Clinton “makes Rocky Balboa look like a pansy,” said North Carolina Gov. Mike Easley today in his endorsement of Sen. Clinton.
“There’s a lot of ‘yes we can’ and ‘yes we should’ going around,” he said, taking what seemed to be a subtle jab at Obama. “Hillary Clinton is ready to deliver. That’s the difference.”
Politico […]

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The Republican National Committee isn’t happy about this anti-McCain ad:

On Monday, the RNC demanded that NBC, CNN and MSNBC stop airing the DNC-sponsored commercial, saying that it deliberately distorts McCain’s words.
At issue is McCain’s answer, in January, to a question about Bush’s theory that troops could be in Iraq for 50 years.
McCain said: “Maybe 100. […]

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CNN reports that a poll released Monday by The Associated Press and Ipsos shows Hillary Clinton beating John McCain by nine points in a hypothetical match-up. Clinton would dominate McCain 50 percent to 41 percent, while things would appear much bleaker for Barack Obama - he and McCain are statistically tied because his two-point lead […]

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Making my normal rounds about the blogsphere I first caught my eye on a Politico running tally of super delegates, showing Senator Clinton leading Senator Obama by 19 super delegates; somehow in my daily routines I had missed how close that part of the race had become.
Anyway, what really caught my eye was an […]

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Today, Senator Hillary Clinton endorsed added her endorsement to a plan to get rid of the 18.4-cents per gallon tax on gasoline.
According to the New York Times caucus blog Clinton spoke out against the plan of her opponent, Rick Lazio, which would repeal the gas tax.
“One of my fundamental disagreements during this campaign with […]

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