Election 2008

Hillary Clinton got her victories in Ohio and the Texas primary, keeping her bid for the presidency alive. And unsurprisingly, bloggers were abuzz this morning.

“Delegates, schmelegates,” said Clinton supporter Taylor Marsh. “There’s a new comeback kid and her name is Hillary Clinton. Again.”

But Hanna Rosin of the XX Factor all but groaned when confronted with [...]

With defeats in last night’s Hawaii and Wisconsin primaries, Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., is left in a very bad position.

Clinton has staked her presidential campaign on wins in the Texas and Ohio primaries, which will be held on March 4. By the time those states vote, Clinton could well be down about 150 pledged delegates [...]

This is the first in a two-part series looking at the positives and negatives of a vice presidential run by Gov. Tim Pawlenty. Joe Bodell will post a piece looking at the negatives this afternoon.

The thought of Lt. Gov. Carol Molnau taking over for our current governor is enough to make people instantly suspicious of [...]

Hillary Clinton is scaling back her campaign in Wisconsin just days before Tuesday’s primary, according to a report by the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel.

The New York senator, who trails Illinois Sen. Barack Obama in the race for the Democratic party’s nomination, is cutting her time in Wisconsin short, leaving Monday afternoon instead of Tuesday as originally planned.

Polling [...]

Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., won all four primaries and caucuses held Saturday, defeating his chief rival for the Democratic nomination, Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., in Washington state, Nebraska, Louisiana and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Obama won by a wide margin in the caucuses held in Washington and Nebraska. In both states, Obama more than doubled the [...]

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who trails by a significant margin in his bid for the Republican presidential nomination, will suspend his campaign, according to multiple media reports.

Romney was a well-funded candidate, but failed to catch fire. He was assailed by social conservatives for changing his positions on abortion rights and civil rights for homosexuals, [...]

If you want to draw people to a get-out-the-vote rally, it helps to have Scarlett Johansson as your headliner.

Johansson, the star of Lost in Translation and The Prestige, went to Carleton College in Northfield to help drum up support for Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., a rally that had Carleton administrators both excited and a bit [...]

New York Sen. Hillary Clinton holds a lead in polling for the upcoming Michigan Democratic primary, while the Republican primary appears to be a close race between Arizona Sen. John McCain, and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.

Romney and McCain have been within the margin of error in several polls over the past week, with Romney [...]

[Commentary]

And so it was that the candidates departed the cornfields of Iowa for the Granite State, where they would again go into small cafes and blueberry festivals.  They’ll go to the shores of Lake Winnipesaukee and the convenience stores of Nashua, and then they will stand for election in New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation presidential primary, if [...]

Rep. Keith Ellison, DFL-Minn., seemed as energized as if he had just won the Iowa caucuses on Thursday night.

“You believe that one?” said Ellison, talking to a crowd of about a hundred Barack Obama supporters gathered in St. Paul.  “Wait ’till he comes to Minnesota!”

Ellison had reason to be happy.  Obama won the Iowa caucuses [...]