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CNN and TIME reported today shortly after 12 p.m. EST that former Massachussetts Governor Mitt Romney will suspend his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination. The one-time front-runner scored a largely disappointing showing on Tuesday, with opponents John McCain and Mike Huckabee landing what campaign analysts have termed overwhelming and surprise victories in the 22-state […]
“What struck me tonight, was we had two front-runners who couldn’t put it away tonight,” said CNN political contributor David Gergen, referring to one-time national front-runners Hillary Clinton and John McCain, Democrat and Republican, respectively. While Clinton and McCain did manage to capture the evening’s top prize - that of the delegate-rich California - […]
Voters in South Carolina overwhelmingly rejected seemingly racially-charged politics on Saturday, handing Senator Barack Obama a major victory in the state’s Democratic primary over his chief rival, Senator Hillary Clinton. Winning handily across demographic lines, Obama captured more than twice the number of votes Clinton brought in, with an approximate 55% to 27%. The victory […]
On the outside, it looked like a very good night for Hillary Clinton and Mitt Romney.
On the inside, the reality of both candidates’ primary wins in Michigan yesterday is a bit more complex. Senator Clinton won with 55% - a healthy majority in the delicate game of politics, to be sure, and yet a […]
Perhaps we’ve come to expect too much. And yet, following the disastrous presidency of George W. Bush, we aren’t asking much. So, then, it follows that perhaps we’ve come to expect too little. But that surely cannot be the case – after all, we’re Americans. If any nation looks forward to pessimism, it’s us.
Pessimism aside, […]
Senator Obama today won the support of 2004 Democratic presidential nominee and Massachusetts Senator John Kerry, landing a major victory in the battle for so-called power endorsements. Despite losing the 2004 election to the incumbent President Bush, Kerry nonetheless remains a revered and powerful figure within the traditional Democratic establishment.
Senators Hillary Clinton and John McCain delivered comeback victories over their respective Democratic and Republican opponents last night, tightening an already dramatic presidential race and throwing Michigan’s Jan. 15 primaries into the national spotlight.
On the birthday of Elvis, it’s perhaps somewhat ironic that for two candidates that many had speculated were “dead,” there comes a […]
For the Des Moines workers and the thousands like them working tirelessly across the state of Iowa, tonight’s Iowa caucuses - particularly for the Democrats - were unprecedented in scale. With 93.5% of precincts reporting, the Iowa State Democratic Party said attendance topped 218,000, nearly doubling 2004’s number of approximately 125,000 participants.