Chris Cillizza of the Washington Post describes the rise of the Richardson campaign the same way I do whenever asked by friends: “slowly but surely.” Cillizza also assesses the political implications of the Governor’s position on Iraq:
Expect Richardson to attempt to gain more traction in the coming weeks with his plan to remove all American […]

Matt Bai of the New York Times opines on the lack of governing experience held by the candidates currently ahead in the polls:
Of all the campaign themes that will emerge leading up to the 2008 primaries, one you probably won’t hear a lot about is experience. That’s because the candidates who are at the moment […]

University of Wisconsin poli sci professor Charles H. Franklin takes a look at the presidential primary polls that actually mean something:
It is time to turn to state level polling for president. Obviously this is where the nomination is won (and mostly lost). While I believe national polling is valuable, it is Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire, […]

Third in the series…

Vaughn Ververs of CBS News gives his take on the spot:
Humor — With A Point? Bill Richardson is back with a third installment of his popular “job interview” ads. In this one, Richardson explains his commitment to combating global warming to a clearly uninterested job interviewer. The ad is running in Iowa […]

Wordsmith nonpareil Dan Schnur in his inimitable way captures Bill Richardson’s name problem:
MOST PEOPLE know intuitively that someone named Hillary is a woman. They may guess that someone whose name is Obama could be of African American descent. But they’d likely also assume that someone named William Blaine Richardson belongs to a country club that […]

Like many other Latino leaders, Henry Cisneros served under President Clinton but is supporting Governor Richardson in the 2008 presidential race. The Walker Report posts photos of Richardson’s recent event in San Antonio - including the one above with Secretary Cisneros’ favorite candidate: City Council Candidate Mary Alice Cisneros.
Meanwhile, Stace of Dos Centavos posts about […]

David Brooks opines about the Democratic presidential primary in a column entitled “Neither Clinton, Nor Obama”:
Then Bill Richardson walked onstage. He was dressed differently — in slacks and a sports jacket. He told jokes that didn’t seem repeated for the 5,000th time. He seemed recognizably human, unlike some of his overpolished peers. He gave the […]

Chris Bowers on MyDD blogs that Bill Richardson is moving up:
…the slow Richardson rise has the makings of a real trend. It is happening among insiders and outsiders, among the establishment and the netroots, in real polls and straw polls / online rankings. In a way, it all makes sense, since Richardson has numerous potential […]

Nedra Pickler of the Associated Press reports on Bill Richardson’s “unique qualifications” for the presidency:
Bill Weld, a Republican who was Massachusetts governor, was three years ahead of Richardson at the Middlesex School, a boarding school in Concord, Mass. Weld said Richardson does not need to prove himself like other governors who get most of their […]