Obama’s changing battlefield
When you're running for office, can you have too many supporters? Yes, if the support happens to come from people with whom you would not want to be seen in...
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Hats off for candidates
Rule No. 1 for presidential candidates in this media age: Do not put anything on your head in the presence of news cameras. Democratic nominee Michael Dukakis was done in...
Turn the page on Fidel
Fidel Castro is stepping down? As Dorothy Parker said upon hearing of the death of President Calvin Coolidge, how can you tell? The Bearded One lost most of his relevancy...
Clintons’ bias card has basis
Like all of us, Barack Obama needs to be humbled once in a while, no matter how great everyone says he is. But when Hillary Clinton's campaign charges him with...
How can Clinton get her groove back?
Remember when Hillary Clinton was "inevitable"? That's so last year. Just ask her husband. "I think she has been the underdog ever since Iowa," former President Bill Clinton said in...
First-timer at the voting booth learns the truth
Ah, how quickly time flies. My kid is 18 now, old enough to vote for the president of something much larger than his senior class in high school. With all...
Get used to it: McCain will do things his way
A few hours after Mitt Romney abruptly withdrew from the presidential race, making John McCain the clear Republican front-runner, McCain faced an overflow crowd of conservatives in a Washington ballroom...
When the melting pot boils over
While Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama rebutted each other last week before a star-studded audience in the Democratic presidential debate in Hollywood's Kodak Theatre, residents elsewhere in Los Angeles...
Candidates meet at borders
Immigration has burned among the hottest of the hot-button issues in the 2008 presidential race. Yet in their first big one-on-one debate, Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama left little...
Clinton’s Hispanic edge over Obama
Does Sen. Hillary Clinton have an edge over Sen. Barack Obama with Hispanic voters? I think she does, although not for the racially tinged reasons that at least one Clinton...