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 […]

Dan Balz of the Washington Post reports on a tiff at Harvard’s Institute of Politics:
A brewing argument over Iraq between the presidential campaigns of Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama broke into public view here Monday night when Clinton’s chief strategist challenged Obama’s credentials as a consistent opponent of the war.
Mark Penn and Obama […]

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 […]

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….