Five of my campaign clients had elections yesterday. Four won; one (Joe Alioto, San Francisco supervisorial candidate) is awaiting a final vote count.
Here are the winners:
LAUSD — It was interesting to see many press stories over the past couple months suggesting that Measure Q, a $7 billion school bond, was in trouble because voters would […]

Conservative columnist David Brooks is usually a worthy and insightful adversary. So I was surprised by his attempt in today’s column to portray Senator Obama’s rhetorical skills as a net negative.
The basic argument went something like this:
Sure, he’s a great speaker… “When I first heard this sort of radically optimistic speech in Iowa,” Brooks writes, […]

As often as I disagree with his politics, I can read my pal Dan Schnur’s writing all day and still be hungry for more.
In “The Politics of Hunger,” his latest piece in the New York Times, Dan worries about the enthusiasm gap:
The loss of a congressional seat in Mississippi was only the second most disturbing […]

Former Clinton administration official Kurt Campbell guest blogs on the New York Times about the difference in approach between George W. Bush and both of his predecessors:
Indeed, the 1990’s involved enormous and important good works internationally and helped set the scene for continued American power on the global stage. Increasingly, the first Bush Administration and […]

Guillermo Martínez opines in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel about the impact of the Cuban vote in the 2008 election. In the process, he makes the point that the Hispanic vote in Florida is far from monolithic:
Cuban Americans are no longer a majority of the Hispanic vote in the state of Florida. Of the estimated one […]

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, […]

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 […]