By Steve Kornacki 1/09/08 2:56pm

Why Obama's Loss Wasn't About Race

Memo to all pundits analyzing the New Hampshire returns: Barack Obama’s surprise loss should not be attributed to "the Bradley Effect."

In 1982, Tom Bradley, then the mayor of Los Angeles, seemed poised to win election as California’s first black governor, building a solid lead in pre-election polls, only to inexplicably lose on Election Read More

By Staff 11/07/06 3:15pm

Harold Ford

Maybe the most startling development of the last two weeks of Campaign ’06 has been the sudden meltdown of Harold Ford’s U.S. Senate prospects in Tennessee.

As near as anyone can tell, it’s not really his fault.

In mid-October, polls showed Ford, a five-term congressman from Memphis, pulling ahead of Republican Bob Corker, a not-at-all Read More