Four states will hold Democratic nominating contests this weekend. Overall, Barack Obama has the clear advantage in most of them, but Hillary Clinton’s campaign would dearly like to avoid a sweep—and has been working overtime to pull out a face-saving win in one state in particular.
Here’s what it looks like:
Saturday
Louisiana primary: Read More
Much of the day-before chatter about the House is centering on national polling numbers that show Republicans drawing closer to Democrats in a generic ballot, with Drudge, among others, pushing the idea of a last-minute surge.
But the latest race-by-race data still portends a big day for Democrats tomorrow. For incumbents, Read More
Much of the day-before chatter about the House is centering on national polling numbers that show Republicans drawing closer to Democrats in a generic ballot, with Drudge, among others, pushing the idea of a last-minute surge.
But the latest race-by-race data still portends a big day for Democrats tomorrow. For incumbents, the magic number Read More
On Oct. 12, the Los Angeles Times announced a new addition to its opinion page. “We were looking for more people who were local,” op-ed editor Nicholas Goldberg said two weeks later by phone. And so the paper will now include a column by Los Angeles resident Meghan Daum.
Meghan Daum? Wasn’t she in Read More
One likes to think of Asian restaurants as oases of almost Zen-like calm amid the sharp-elbowed cacophony of Western life. That may be true in the front of the house, but behind the scenes the staff apparently has no greater monopoly on transcendental peace and understanding than the average unenlightened Manhattan native or Brooklynite.
The Read More
In a Sept. 20 speech that was long overdue, John Kerry outlined the deceptions and failures of George W. Bush’s policy in Iraq. Because he is the Democratic nominee for President, and because he hasn’t expressed his view of the war with such clarity and cogency before, many voters may remain deaf to Mr. Kerry’s Read More
According to the Board of Elections, only 13 percent of the city’s 3.7 million registered voters are Republicans. As the Republican National Convention comes to this very un-Republican city for the first time, many on both sides of the political fence are wondering: “Will we be able to get along, even for four days?” I Read More
He may run as the Fetus-Protector President or the Old-Time Religion President or the One-Man and One-Woman Marriage President or the Privatization President or the No-Medicare President or the One-Test-Fits-All-Children President, but George Bush cannot run as the Commander-in-Chief President. In rough times, he is the little man who isn’t there.
Twice in George Bush’s Read More
Why is Conor Oberst so desperate to reveal everything about himself-except his name? The 22-year-old Mr. Oberst, who hails from Omaha, Neb., and records under the stage moniker Bright Eyes, has always come across musically as something of a changeling-the High Plains Drifter of singer/songwriters. But Bright Eyes also seems to be sending the message Read More
Not long ago, Jenny Young was lying on the floor in her yoga class, limber and relaxed, when her teacher Paul instructed the class in a move called the Plow Pose.
“Basically,” Ms. Young said, “you’re on your back, and you bring your legs over your head until you can, um … almost kiss your Read More
