As you watch the debate on Thursday night, remember: No matter what happens, on Friday morning, you're going to hear that the race is tightening. A SURE BET in this campaign is that the media will write a big October comeback story for John Kerry. It is evitable for three reasons. First, the media
He Made It There...He'll make it anywhere. What the Bush campaign needs to do to keep the momentum rolling. THE NEW YORK CITY CONVENTION was a smashing success. The Bush campaign and the White House should seize upon the convention's lesson and apply it to win this vital election. The lesson is obvious —
Leave it to a crafty political consultant like Mike Murphy to coin a great phrase for Hollywood. He calls it Left World, conjuring up the image of a giant theme park overrun, not by rampaging dinosaurs or Hawaiian-shirt clad tourists, but by latte-sipping, tree-hugging, trial lawyer-loving, Dick Cheney-dissing, John Kerry-kissing Demophiliacs. At 42, the
Illinois Republicans decide to make a bad situation worse ILLINOIS REPUBLICANS, at one time a canny and crafty lot, have made a stupid error in hiring Alan Keyes to slap together what's left of the party's U.S. Senate nomination and go howling off into battle against Democrat Barack Obama. The Democrat's wunder-candidate will give
How the Democrats are doing so far I'VE SPENT the last two evenings sitting back in tranquil northwestern Michigan and interrupting two perfect summer nights to painfully dose myself with several hours of the Democratic National Convention beamed directly from the podium in all its unfiltered glory to my drooping eyes via C-SPAN. Both
By Gary Delsohn — Bee Capitol Bureau View full article at www.sacbee.com Sen. John McCain needed help a few weeks back, so naturally the Arizona Republican called Mike Murphy, a top strategist in his 2000 presidential campaign. McCain was looking for a wisecrack to use on a late-night talk show about unfounded rumors he
The End of the Beginning Alas, it is now time to wrap up my Back Seat Driving column. The original idea for this column was to blast off to Mars so to speak and cover the alien yet oddly parallel universe of Democratic nomination politics from my experience in the GOP primary wars. With
The End is Here. The End of the Beginning Alas, it is now time to wrap up my Back Seat Driving column. The original idea for this column was to blast off to Mars so to speak and cover the alien yet oddly parallel universe of Democratic nomination politics from my experience in the
On Saturday I went down to Richmond to catch dinner and a show. The candidates were playing the Virginia Democratic Party's annual Jefferson-Jackson dinner and I wanted to see the candidates one last time before the race fizzles out. Sharpton opened the show bringing the house to its feet with his usual act. He
If you listen carefully tonight, you'll hear a sharp crackle as scores of candidate bones break. Five campaigns will end today, even if the candidates refuse to admit it and stagger on for another two weeks. Election nights must have drama, so there will be bushels of talk tonight about last stands in Wisconsin