The North Carolina Republican Party has decided to run the following ad against the wishes of the presumptive Republican Nominee, John McCain.
The ad connects Rev. Wright to Obama to a down-ticket race in NC.

McCain sent a letter of protest to the NC GOP, asking them to drop the ad:
This ad does not live up […]

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Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton claimed last week after her victory in PA that after doing some “new math” she is now in the lead of the popular vote.
What’s the significance of winning the popular vote? Well currently Senator Clinton is behind Senator Obama in the number of pledged delegates, though she leads in the number […]

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Yes, he did.
But Rep. Ron Paul still got 16 percent of the vote, and former Ark. Gov. Mike Huckabee 11 percent. As The Boston Globe points out, that’s not terribly unusual:
In 2000, the last contested Republican presidential race, competitors were still winning sizable shares of the vote well after George W. Bush had secured the […]

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The New York Times is saying that the drawn-out race between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama has hurt Obama’s image and Republicans are using his newly tarnished reputation to their advantage. And they’re not just targeting him - they’re aiming for Democrats down the ticket as well:
The Republican House and Senate campaign organizations have […]

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After Hillary Clinton’s victory in Pennsylvania, she is claiming a new argument in order to sway the uncommitted superdelegates over to her side. An article in the New York Times details her “new math.”
“I’m very proud that, as of today, I have received more votes by the people who have voted than anybody else,” Mrs. […]

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Obama’s former pastor, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, has chosen to speak out. Bill Moyers airs an interview tonight with Wright addressing the controversy. Here is a clip.

I don’t think this helps the Barack Obama campaign in any way. The next upcoming primary, Indiana, is a statistical tie between Hillary Clinton and Obama, according to an Indianapolis […]

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During his four day tour of New Orleans, Sen. John McCain said today that the Bush administration completely failed in their response to Hurricane Katrina. His long list of mistakes included “unqualified people in charge” and “a failure of communications.”
“We know we didn’t have the right kind of leadership … where government agencies were getting […]

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Outside of Hillary Clinton’s Park Hyatt hotel victory speech in downtown Philadelphia Tuesday, I was given a lesson in spelling.
“Hillary is the Rock of Gibraltar. R-O-C-K. You can’t shake her,” Cyprian Anyanwu, founder of African Congress USA, Inc. said.
Anyanwu was standing on the road median of Broad St., across from the hotel. Among him were […]

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“This is a Hillary victory party, not an Obama loser party,” shouted Mali Kigasari, a Clinton supporter from California. Hillary Clinton’s victory rally at the Park Hyatt hotel in Philadelphia Tuesday came after a long fought battle.
While she delivered an impassioned speech inside, hundreds of people gathered outside and filled the streets with chanting, and […]

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We’ve all heard of the all-important superdelegates. I’ve even talked to two of them from Washington State - Pat Notter, who long ago declared her support for Obama, and David McDonald, who remains uncommitted.
We know there are about 800 of them, and they are typically Democratic officeholders or party officials. We know they […]

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