Joe Conason says Fox and the Bush administration can’t handle Bill Clinton’s dose of truthiness, and Steve Kornacki looks at the impact of the former president’s publicity blitz on Hillary, Gore and the rest of the 2008 contenders.
Jason Horowitz writes about Al Gore’s sleeper cells of presidential donors and operatives, still Read More
Jason Horowitz’s election coverage focuses on the new Andrew Cuomo, whose handlers managed to file off most of the rough parts in the course of his establishment-backed primary victory.
Steve Kornacki has a 2008-centered analysis of Hillary Clinton’s 2006 re-election campaign, featuring a surprise cameo appearance from a certain former governor of Massachusetts. Read More
In this week’s paper, Jason Horowitz follows Jonathan Tasini, and hears from NY1 why there probably won’t be a debate between Tasini and Hillary Clinton.
“We haven’t proposed a debate. We haven’t prevented him from doing anything–Hillary Clinton will not do one,” said Steve Paulus, the general manager of NY1 News. “The bottom Read More
Also in the Observer this week, Jason Horowitz looks at the bad week Joe Lieberman had trying to motivate — or even locate — Democratic supporters in Connecticut.
And Steve Kornacki writes about the unusual phenomenon of ideological primary challenges in the Democratic Party.
It’s going to be interesting, now that Lamont is Read More
