Barack Obama had never run a competitive campaign in his life before 2008, certainly not on the scale of a presidential run. For the last few months, he seemed to have an almost unnatural ability at it. In the last 72 hours, the Obama campaign has begun to implode, and at the worst possible time. [...]
Karl Rove has an interesting column in Newsweek giving advice to Barack Obama. Perhaps knowing that Sen. Obama isn’t going to listen, Rove’s ideas are actually quite good. Sen. Obama’s appeal is starting to wear, and the problem with that is that his whole campaign is predicated on his personal appeal. The Obama movement isn’t [...]
Hillary Clinton is challenging Barack Obama to a series of one-on-one debates in Indiana, in the style of the Lincoln/Douglas debates in the 1850′s: So here’s my proposal – I’m offering Senator Obama a chance to debate me one-on-one, no moderators. Just the two of us going for 90 minutes asking and answering questions. We’ll [...]
Since losing Pennsylvania to Hillary, I hear Obama is so bitter that he’s started clinging to guns and religion… Looks like the margin will be right around 10%—and more interestingly if you add together all the popular vote including Michigan and Florida, Hillary has the popular vote. Will the Democrats decide to have their superdelegates [...]
TalkLeft has some interesting criticisms about how Barack Obama is handling the press. Obama hasn’t held a press conference in 10 days, has limited his appearance to friendly outlets like The Daily Show, and snapped at a reporter who gave him a foreign-policy question at a Pennsylvania diner. Senator Obama has never run a truly [...]
Today is the Pennsylvania primary, where Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton face off in the first primary in 6 weeks. The RCP poll average has Hillary up 6% against Obama. Looking at the polls, with one outlying exception, Obama’s support in PA appears to be capped in the low 40s. Meanwhile, Hillary is consistently anywhere [...]
Wired‘s Lore Sjoberg has this excellent video on how to avoid common logical fallacies on the Internet: