The DNC Rules and Bylaws Committee (RBC) meeting is still in progress today. Michigan and Florida Democrats are being given a chance to plead their delegate cases before the 30-member committee.
Word is that the meeting lasted for about five hours before the participants took a lunch break, and the meeting has recently resumed. Here’s what’s […]

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Sometimes I wonder why politicians choose to speak out when they do. Because if John McCain wanted his comments he made yesterday to fade from the minds of those in the media, then why respond to Barack Obama. The hole only gets deeper when you give the media something to blog, talk, and write about. […]

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Tomorrow is the day. The Democratic Party rules and bylaws committee is holding a meeting to try and reach a decision on what to do with the Michigan and Florida delegates. Devon wrote a post about tomorrows meeting that you can read more about here.
If the meeting goes anything like the dialogue at some sites in […]

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It’s often the media that shapes the landscape of an election, and their level of criticism can shift a candidate’s popularity from one pole to the other; often in a very short time.
Howard Dean saw this firsthand in the 2004 election. And Hillary Clinton said the same thing happened to her, complaining that Barack Obama’s […]

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Hillary Clinton may plan to take her fight to seat Florida and Michigan to the party’s August convention, but not if Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi has anything to say about it.
She vowed, “I will step in.”
The Huffington Post is reporting this as new news, but her plans were originally announced in April, in […]

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John McCain gave a speech in Denver a couple days ago, laying out his views on nuclear weapons. He urged the Joint Chiefs of Staff to engage in a comprehensive review of our nuclear strategy and policy.
From reading the transcript on the Washington Post, he endorsed a variety of sound ideas but few apply to […]

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Over at Townhall.com, local conservative talk-show host Michael Medved makes a powerful case for Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal as McCain’s vice-presidential nominee:

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You don’t even have to know what he’s saying to know what he’s after: the Puerto Rican vote.

Hillary Clinton may have the advantage in Puerto Rico due to her popularity with Latinos, but Barack Obama does have one thing on his side: a killer accent. Whether he’s taken Spanish classes in the past or just […]

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Really. Or that’s what Michael Calderone is saying over on his Politico blog.
On Thursday, seemingly out of nowhere, a new contender emerged for the 2016 race: Chelsea Clinton.
First, People magazine ran its “15 Questions with Bill Clinton,” where the former president was asked, “Do you think Chelsea will ever run for office?” Clinton replied: “I […]

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In a take on NCAA March Madness for college basketball fans, MSNBC’s David Gregory and Chuck Todd are hosting an interactive “veepstakes” that lets readers vote on their favorite Republican VP candidates.

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