Feb 6, 2008 – In 1910, Oregon became the first state to establish a presidential primary election to choose delegates to the national convention; … Kennedy battled for the Democratic nomination with Hubert Humphrey, Lyndon Johnson and Stuart Symington. … Perhaps the classic example of a Personality Primary involved the Democratic contest of 1984.…

Feb 5, 2008 – their two leading candidates. … make the better president, but which one has the better chance of winning the presidential election. … If one of the candidates stumbles, everything can change.…

Feb 5, 2008 – Yet, in both parties today, the presidential candidates seem to feel a need to identify with and connect themselves to what are now … Alone among the candidates, Barack seems to want to become a leader in the JFK-Reagan mold. … It is also a crashing bore, as that wonkish Democratic debate last week demonstrated.…

Feb 5, 2008 – suppose I could be accused of over-dramatizing, but I truly worry about the direction this nation is headed when contemplating a presidential … In that case, the presidential candidates of both parties would be willing to use the bully pulpit and governing power of the presidency … We can't ever expect the ultra-liberal modern Democratic Party to vigilantly safeguard the pillars of self-government that guaranty…

Feb 4, 2008 – Hillary Clinton might be losing Democratic voters to Barack Obama, but she has a stalwart cheering section that won't abandon … She has the kind of negative ratings candidates usually have only after the battering of a general-election campaign, not before. … If Hillary wins the Democratic nomination, it will be because of strengths not apparent in her lowest moments.…

Feb 4, 2008 – Bush's Troubled Quest for a Presidential Legacy." As Ronald Reagan's former White House Chief of Staff Kenneth M. … election results since Herbert Hoover beat Al Smith in the presidential election of 1928." … candidates on what the 2008 political buzzword actually means.…

Feb 3, 2008 – Not only will Super Tuesday likely offer a decisive advantage to one of the candidates vying for both parties’ presidential nomination … On Tuesday, in addition to the presidential primary, California voters will cast ballots for or against Proposition 93. … Listen to a supporter of Prop 93, Scott Wiener, chair of the San Francisco Democratic Party, who wrote recently, “The reduction in…

Feb 2, 2008 – opposition parties and candidates from participating in the election. … Yet, in late 2006, as his wife was laying the ground work for a presidential race and serving in the U.S. … At last night’s Democratic presidential debate, Hillary Clinton was bluntly asked what Bill Clinton would be like in a Hillary Clinton…

Feb 2, 2008 – Jeb Bush, has not endorsed any presidential candidate. … Hoffa Neutral Teamsters President James Hoffa tells friends he still will not choose sides between Democratic presidential candidates … Busting Pork An effort by Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon and Republican Sen.…

Feb 2, 2008 – You can vote in the presidential poll and help choose candidates for local, state, and federal offices, as well as issues for the party … If you’re at a Democratic caucus, it’s likely they were not. … How had such concerns, I probed, helped Republicans win seven of ten presidential elections since 1968?…

Feb 1, 2008 – It’s a shame that the Kennedy family has already tossed its collective weight behind Barack Obama in the Democratic race for the … After all, we haven’t heard from all the Democratic candidates yet. After watching Sen. … He might sweep both the Democratic and Republican primaries, if only he were eligible to compete in both.…

Feb 1, 2008 – We're at that lull in the presidential primary season when pundits try to make the most of the least election returns. … Twenty-two states - count 'em, 22 - will be holding presidential primaries that maybe fateful day. … If she wins the Democratic presidential nomination, of course Hillary Clinton will be able to unite the party - as no one else could…

Jan 31, 2008 – Just a few months ago, the 2008 presidential contest seemed predetermined. … The Democratic referees warned the Clintons to stop the eye gauging. … Even stranger, the various Republican candidates began invoking Ronald Reagan's three-decade-old tenure as the new litmus test of the…

Jan 31, 2008 – Last Tuesday night's results from Florida in both the Democratic and Republican Party presidential primaries were what I expected … He refused to allow candidates to campaign in the state. … Make no mistake: Much of the Democratic establishment in this nation had abandoned Hillary Clinton.…

Jan 31, 2008 – The endorsement of Barack Obama’s presidential campaign by three Kennedys from different generations was a political trifecta for the … It represents a potential divorce between the Democratic establishment and the Clintons. Recall the early 1990s. … Democrats were desperate for a presidential candidate who could take back the White House after 12 years of Ronald Reagan and George…

Jan 31, 2008 – Black Republican candidates fail to attract support from black voters. Maryland Lt. Gov. … The Democratic Party does not. Blacks are more pro-life than nonblacks. The Democratic Party adamantly defends Roe v. Wade. … The Democratic Party remains adamantly against it.…

Feb 18, 2008 – Before the primary season began the Democratic Party reached an agreement with its potential presidential candidates that they would … by the candidates vying for the nomination. … ; thus, at the Democratic Convention the super delegates could literally decide the winner.…

Feb 17, 2008 – In 1952, for instance, the Democratic barons selected Illinois Gov. Adlai Stevenson at the convention instead of the popular Sen. … The disastrous 1968 Democratic National Convention shattered confidence in this efficient but undemocratic system. … George McGovern deliberately weakened the role of the conventions, making primaries the determining force in picking presidential candidates…

Feb 17, 2008 – WASHINGTON -- Foreign policy has slipped to the periphery of presidential politics, displaced by a nonexistent recession as the … risk by the essentially unconditional withdrawal of forces that both Democratic candidates promise. … The Democratic nominee will probe, and voters have nine months to ponder, the implications of that probability.…

Feb 16, 2008 – against Democratic opponents they consider too liberal. … for the Republican presidential nomination, former Arkansas Gov. … Mike Huckabee, will become McCain's vice presidential running mate.…

Feb 15, 2008 – s apparent nomination is having on the GOP, are liberals also intentionally ignoring the undeniable void of influence the two Democratic … candidates pose in the Middle East? … Assuming he receives the GOP Presidential nomination, voters should now seriously be considering whom he selects as his Vice President…

Feb 15, 2008 – candidates, including Sen. … Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign. Mr. … Gilchrest came within a few hundreds votes of defeating then-incumbent Democratic Rep.…

Feb 14, 2008 – True enough, except one tranche of delegates has a democratic legitimacy the other doesn't. … Hillary herself was once a democratic supremacist. … At least until that strong belief ran up against her pursuit of a presidential nomination.…

Feb 14, 2008 – As late as 2000, while traveling aboard his presidential campaign bus, Mr. McCain told reporters: "I hated the gooks. … Trying to put a happy face on a most divisive Democratic presidential contest, pitting one-time party pin-up girl Sen. … Dean stressed that Democrats are "fortunate to have two fantastic candidates that people are excited about."…

Feb 14, 2008 – begin by acknowledging that I was one of the many who thought that Mitt Romney, rather than John McCain, would be the Republican presidential … But New York City mayors are not the stuff from which Republican presidential candidates are normally fashioned, and it continued to … As I have warned before, 2008 has all the earmarks of being a Democratic year.…