A couple of days ago I received an e-mail message from MoveOn.org which posed a hypothetical scenario in which Barack Obama lost the election in November by only a single vote, and asked who would be responsible for that. There followed a clever simulated news broadcast on the situation in which broadcasters, protesting crowds and [...]
John McCain has invested much of his campaign rhetoric on the claim that Barack Obama, by virtue of his policies on taxes and health care, is “trying to re-distribute wealth,” as McCain hopes thereby to capitalize on the tendency of people to want to decide for “themselves” how to spend their money, not put it in [...]
Today the Obama presidential campaign “staggered” the political world by announcing that it had raised $150 million in September, a month during which many pundits were prepared to declare the race as all but decided. Without, I’m sure, any prompting from my own advice to McCain to run against the money, McCain promptly decried the [...]
Wednesday night’s final presidential debate (whew!) set a new standard of excellence in terms of the demeanor of the moderator as well as the debaters. The genial, fair and unobtrusive moderation by Bob Schieffer helped the combatants to get through some troubled waters with an admirable degree of civility. I wish I could say as [...]
As we await the third and final presidential “debate” tonight, one can reflect on the way in which our two-party system has put a straight-jacket on the range of choices that voters can exercise in an American presidential election. We really are limited to the choice of Democratic and Republican Party candidates. While a third [...]
In a political campaign, there is a way to lose an election because you have too little money. There is another way in which you can lose if you have too much. In an under-funded campaign (like every one in which I have been involved), you are well advised to run against the money; make [...]
Public opinion polls are showing that only about 10% of people are saying that the U.S. is going in the “right direction,” most saying we are on the “wrong track.” This mood of pessimism about the country’s future is widely cited as a reason that Barack Obama has forged his way to a seemingly commanding [...]
As we get ever closer to the November election, more and more of my friends who are Obama supporters are upbraiding me for my support of Cynthia McKinney, on their belief that a vote for her is a “vote for McCain.” Many of them agree that she or some other third party candidate is a [...]
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