Is Eliot Spitzer the Next Gary Hart?

He hasn't said it, but you almost get the sense that Eliot Spitzer thinks he cashed his chips in too soon last year.

Less than 48 hours separated the revelation that he'd been a top client of a high-end call girl service and Spitzer's announcement that he'd quit as governor. And five days after Read More

Gary Hart's Advice for Hillary Clinton

How fitting that Barack Obama made his final appearance of this primary season in St. Paul, Minn.—not so much because that’s where Republicans will nominate Mr. Obama’s opponent this summer, but rather because it’s where the last Democrat to survive such a grueling and protracted intra-party war also camped out when the final votes were Read More

Hillary as Mondale, Again

Hillary Clinton is on the air in Texas (and quite possibly Ohio) with a television ad that takes her argument about experience to a new emotional level. Per NBC’s First Read, the Clinton spot says: "It’s 3 A.M. and your children are safe and asleep. But there’s a phone in the White House Read More

Gary Hart: Obama Won't Fade

The Super Tuesday stalemate has only reinforced comparisons between the Hillary Clinton-Barack Obama contest and the fight for the Democratic nomination 1984, another one-on-one race that pitted an insurgent against the party establishment — and one that wasn’t settled until the party’s July convention in San Francisco.

In that ‘84 campaign, the Obama role was Read More

Obama Offers Way Out of Dean, Hart and Kennedy Trap

Barack Obama is on the cusp of pulling off what no one in his party has achieved for years.

If recent polls, together with the crowds at his events, are anything to go by, he is simultaneously appealing to strident Democratic activists and seducing floating voters and independents. The combination, if it proves durable, Read More

Hillary Asserts State of Union Is Not Secure

In a recent speech at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Senator Hillary Clinton said that the Bush administration was failing to make the nation safe, linking the President’s efforts to cut taxes with what she described as a neglect of homeland security. Speaking to reporters on Jan. 28, shortly before the State of Read More