Bill Bradley is a very knowledgable observer of California politics whose blog is particularly distinctive owing to the high volume of interaction between Bradley and his commenters.
Bradley has expressed a great interest in the Nevada primary and blogs here about the recent appearances of General Clark and Governor Richardson in that state:
For his part, Richardson, […]

Time Magazine points out the problem with calling the race 21 months out:
Sometimes it’s not who you like, it’s who you know. That’s the important axiom to remember at this stage of the presidential race, when polls say far more about name recognition than they do about actual likely victory. That’s why TIME has created […]

Blogger Ed Morrissey opines in the Examiner.com that Bill Richardson should be 08’s most dangerous candidate as far as the Republicans are concerned:

The Democrats have no one else with a resume to match Richardson, with the possible (and extreme) exception of former Vice President Al Gore. The Democrats certainly have no other candidates with Richardson’s […]

The most experienced candidate in the race….

With little more than his political sensibilities and a camcorder, Jacob Soboroff, son of LA developer Steve Soboroff, hazards the freeways of LA in search of scoop. Unlike his less fortunate new media brethren, who depend on YouTube and a dream, the influential LA blog LA Observed has given Soboroff a targeted distribution channel. […]

Back in April of 2006, I blogged on how Democrats were not doing so well with non-Catholic Latinos and how non-Catholic Latinos were growing faster as a percentage of the American electorate than Catholic Latinos. A post-election poll I did of Latino voters in California reinforces those concepts, showing that born again Latinos voted overwhelmingly […]

T.R. Reid of the Washington Post reports on the importance of the Rocky Mountain West to Democrats’ chance of recapturing the White House in 2008:

When the major political parties gathered for their national conventions in 2004, Colorado had a Republican governor, a Republican-controlled legislature and a Republican edge of 5 to 2 in the state’s […]

Timothy Egan of the New York Times reports on the current Asian “demographic moment” at UC Berkeley. While California is only 12 percent Asian, the freshman class at Cal is 46 percent Asian. Some argue that the number would be higher if Asian applicants were held to the same standards as non-Asian applicants.
To me, one […]

Show me a businessman who contributed to only Democratic candidates since the Republicans took over the Congress in ‘94, and I’ll show you a bad businessman.

On his blog, Malcolm Gladwell, the author of The Tipping Point, discusses his “semi-defense of Enron”:
Can anyone explain—in plain language—what it is Jeff Skilling and Co. did wrong?
I’m not asking for an explanation for what they did wrong as businessmen. That’s plain. They did a mountain of stupid and arrogant things. Nor is this about […]