The presidential nominating process is a lot like the Bowl Championship Series that governs college football: a maddeningly clunky, irrational and outmoded system that regularly inspires calls for reform, none of which ever go anywhere.
So it’s tempting to greet the latest proposed overhaul of the Democratic primary calendar, this one authored by Florida Senator Read More
The presidential nominating process is a lot like the Bowl Championship Series that governs college football: a maddeningly clunky, irrational, and outmoded system that regularly inspires calls for reform, none of which ever go anywhere.
So it’s tempting to greet the latest proposed overhaul of the Democratic primary calendar, this one authored by Florida Senator Read More
According to Councilman Michael McMahon, the fact that the Democratic Party on Staten Island has never nominated a candidate of color isn’t a sign of bias.
That was the implication yesterday from the campaign manager of an African-American Assembly candidate, Kelvin Alexander, who lost the Democratic nomination and is now running against the party-backed Read More
The Spitzer for President chatter, which I touched on here, gets a bit of new life at the tail end of this article in the Sun about why the governor is undecided about moving up New York’s presidential primaries.
Mr. Spitzer could be waiting for other large states to make their move before Read More
Democrats will no doubt hail the non-binding resolution just passed in the House of Representatives as another victory towards forcing the administration to change its course in the war.
Former House Majority Leader Dick Armey sees the non-binding House resolution opposing the Iraq troop increase as a defeat for the Democrats.
Discussing the 246 Read More
In this week’s (stunningly attractive!) redesigned Observer, I wrote about a plan from the Spitzer people to panic Republicans Senators into defecting to the Democrats.
The idea would be not only to install a friendly majority in the Senate but to diminish the influence of Sheldon Silver, who has emerged as Spitzer’s Moriarty-type nemesis Read More
I just got off a conference call with Senator Biden, much of which focused on today’s story.
At first he was asked about the validity of his comments attacking the other candidates in the Democratic Party.
“I believe I was quoted accurately, but they weren’t meant to take shots,” he said. “I Read More
Speaking of Chuck Schumer, here, after some ado, are a few passages from his new book.
“One of the open secrets in Washington is that senators of the same party and same state rarely get along. Hillary and I are both ambitious hard working politicians who occasionally step on each other’s toes. We Read More
You don’t have to run for president to sell books.
Take Chuck Schumer, who on February 22 will make an appearance at the New School to publicize his new offering, Positively American: Winning Back the Middle-Class Majority One Family at a Time.
The recently ordained political guru of the Democratic Party will Read More
Chuck Schumer, politician, campaign guru and fund-raiser extraordinaire, is now also officially an author.
From “Positively American,” the senator’s 270-page offering which is scheduled to show up in stores later this month, we’ll get his take on the Democratic Party’s appeal and the Supreme Court, among other things.
Schumer has said that he is not Read More
