If you’ve been following the election, you’ve probably already heard that McCain has clinched the GOP nomination. On the other hand, Hillary has won some key nominations and is fighting Obama tooth and nail. Obama believes that he has clinched the nomination, but that doesn’t stop him from being attacked on two sides.
With those big […]

Is Barack Obama mimicking Matt Santos,(click to watch the clip) handsome, idealistic, minority candidate? No. The other way around. Four years ago, the West Wing writers consulted with David Axelrod, who was handling the Senate campaign of up and coming Barack Obama.
Santos was competing against politically savvy VP, Bob Russell. […]

At Election Stocks our mission is to observe and describe what is happening. We wish to show how various election outcomes might affect the stock and bond markets, with an emphasis on individual issues.
While everyone writing at our site has a personal viewpoint, we try not to reveal that in our work. What […]

It’s not Chicago, but it does have that vote early, vote often feel to us Midwesterners far from the heart of Texas.
A Texas voter needs to vote in the primary to allocate 126 of the delegates. Texas has 31 state Senate districts, and delegates are distributed according to a formula based on […]

With Obama now a 4-1 favorite to win the Democratic nomination (as always, see the InTrade probabilities in the left column) some are thinking ahead a bit to balancing the tickets. Geoffrey James writes about many subjects, and we especially enjoy his blog, Sales Machine.
James correctly notes that candidates are making a sale, and […]

Twenty years ago, the accusation of plagiarism against Joe Biden drove him from the Presidential race. This happened even though he credited the source in every speech but one — the one that was videotaped by the Dukakis campaign. It was treated as a big deal.
How does this translate to 2008? Making […]

The Kucinich Presidential bid was the longest of long-shots. It had a value. His presence in the early debates gave the Democratic party faithful a look at the policy positions from the extreme liberal wing. Under pressure to hold his Congressional seat, The Cleveland Plain Dealer reports that he is bowing out.
In a […]

Even a conservative candidate can be too low-key. Thompson announced his departure today after finishing basically nowheresville in S.C., a state he said he had to win.
“Today I have withdrawn my candidacy for President of the United States,” Thompson said in an e-mailed statement. “I hope that my country and my party have […]

The anti-Clinton movie we described here has become the central issue in a court case. Conservative activists want to run ads for the movie during the primary campaign season.
Citizens United is challenging the nation’s campaign finance laws, which require disclaimers on political advertisements and restrict when they can be broadcast. The group argues that […]

As we expected, others with a long memory made the Muskie comparison. Check out Dick Morris on Hillary’s tears.

Morris also suggests the onset of negative campaigning against Obama.
The negative researchers and detectives who staff the Clinton campaign - we call them the secret police - now go into overdrive combing through the Illinois senator’s […]