For Some Superdelegates, a Chance for Revenge

It should come as no surprise that Democratic Party officials haven’t exactly been rallying to Hillary Clinton in her time of need.

While most Democratic voters remember Bill Clinton’s presidency with fondness, as the era of peace and prosperity and two straight wins in presidential elections, more than a few elected officials and Democratic leaders Read More

What Does She Know? Cool Mrs. Clinton Skates to a Finish

Hillary Rodham Clinton is a brilliant candidate.

It took this reporter one year, three months and two weeks from that first sun-splashed day on the upstate farm of Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, where Mrs. Clinton launched her legendary “Listening Tour,” to come to that conclusion, but it crystallized on Saturday, Oct. 21, during her unremarkable Read More

Ex-Schumer Rumor, Governor; New One, President Chuck!

We should have known it: It turns out that Senator Charles Schumer was never really interested in the thing he calls, with a burst of Yiddish syntax, “The great between-Spitzer-Schumer blah-blah-blah.”

“If I was running for Governor, I would have run a whole different race,” the newly re-elected Senator told The Observer in a telephone Read More

Ex-Schumer Rumor, Governor, New One, President Chuck!

We should have known it: It turns out that Senator Charles Schumer was never really interested in the thing he calls, with a burst of Yiddish syntax, “The great between-Spitzer-Schumer blah-blah-blah.”

“If I was running for Governor, I would have run a whole different race,” the newly re-elected Senator told The Observer in a telephone Read More

Goodbye, Senator: Pat Always Knew Where Money Was

During the memorable Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate in 1976, the several contestants were asked which committee assignment they’d request if elected. There was much talk about the importance of the Foreign Affairs Committee, inspiring nods of grave approval from Democrats who had come to expect a New York Senator to think big thoughts Read More

What Does She Know? Cool Mrs. Clinton Skates to a Finish

Hillary Rodham Clinton is a brilliant candidate.

It took this reporter one year, three months and two weeks from that first sun-splashed day on the upstate farm of Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, where Mrs. Clinton launched her legendary “Listening Tour,” to come to that conclusion, but it crystallized on Saturday, Oct. 21, during her unremarkable Read More

Hillary’s Got a Fella-Pat Moynihan

Maybe it’s just because he had major back surgery last spring, but Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan has been getting one hell of a massage from Hillary Rodham Clinton. Soon after the First Lady phoned Johns Hopkins Medical Center in Baltimore to wish him a good recovery from his March 31 operation, Mr. Moynihan sent her Read More