Edwards still standing
“He doesn’t know it’s a damn show! He thinks it’s a damn fight!” – Apollo Creed’s trainer, “Rocky” (1976)
“He doesn’t know it’s a damn show! He thinks it’s a damn fight!” – Apollo Creed’s trainer, “Rocky” (1976)
Voters in today’s South Carolina Democratic primary are not following the script. They’re not playing their part. And it’s confusing pundits and pollsters to no end.
Much of the debate between the presidential candidates will reflect uniquely American issues. But sometimes the arguments will be instantly recognizable to people in Britain. This was certainly the case with Senator Obama’s recent comments…
For an entire generation of Americans, Upton Sinclair will be known — if he is known at all — as the guy who wrote the book that was the basis for the movie “There Will…
The South Carolina Democratic primary, due to be held on Saturday, is the first in which race matters. The first states to vote in the year-long battle to choose the party’s presidential candidate were the…
The latest Zogby poll taken over 3 days in South Carolina puts Edwards nearly tied with Clinton for second place, but on each day of polling Edwards has gone up dramatically day by day in…
When the mainstream media gets it wrong covering the campaign, one can suspect conspiracy. But when they get it wrong concerning unions in the campaign, it’s almost always due to ignorance. To put it bluntly,…
CORRECTION: A couple of people have pointed this out to me – the numbers I was reading off the Nevada Democratic Party website were for the delegates to the state convention. The actual number of…
Clinton down 7 points, Obama down 3 points in one week. If the mainstream media’s right and this is a two-horse race, where are all those voters going?
To write, as Sacha Ismail does, that U.S. “Republicans and Democrats are … almost identical in policy terms” betrays either a startling ignorance of American politics or a form of ultra-leftism. In either case, he…