Mar 16, 2008 – Senators John McCain and Barack Obama share precious little in common aside from their mutual status as presidential frontrunners. … Few political candidates have the capacity to consistently raise goosebumps, cause swooning supporters to faint at rallies, and even … The Democratic base is desperate for change, and Obama captured this sentiment early on in the campaign.…

Mar 14, 2008 – Barack Obama’s presidential bid gives our country -- which is famous for striving but not known for introspection -- a perfect opportunity … In 1988 Jesse Jackson’s bid fell far short of the Democratic nomination, but he did manage to rile up quite a few people. … As the Democratic primary process drags on through the spring and summer in a virtual tie, candidates Clinton and Obama (and their…

Mar 14, 2008 – overwhelmingly rejected a one-year ban on earmarks strongly backed by a small contingent of fiscal hawks, including Republican presidential … In the run-up to the vote longtime earmarkers and Democratic presidential candidates Sen. Hillary Clinton (D.-N.Y.) and Sen. … McCain said in a statement directed toward Clinton and Obama before the vote , “I am encouraged by some of my Democratic colleagues…

Mar 14, 2008 – The findings from the nonpartisan Pew Research Center come from two separate surveys, one on the presidential election and another … candidates and various issues in the campaign, including several questions on Iraq, Afghanistan and the war on terror. … And barely 14 percent favor Democratic candidate Sen. Barack Obama's position, removing all troops immediately.…

Mar 13, 2008 – But in recent days, Democratic leaders in the House of Representatives have not been providing those tools. … Check out the presidential candidates’ websites.…

Mar 13, 2008 – Eliot Spitzer, the most prominent Democratic governor in the country, who built his reputation on prosecuting the crooks on Wall Street … The stunning revelations about the governor have effectively wiped the Democratic presidential race off much of the nation's front … Then, in a scenario Democratic leaders fear most, the remaining 300 or so unpledged superdelegates will decide who wins.…

Mar 13, 2008 – Unfortunately, the presidential election of 1800 happened. … This made a hash of the Framers' plan for electing presidents without having vice presidential candidates. … presidential candidates have lost in every election since 1964 -- white males.…

Mar 12, 2008 – Despite their apostasy in holding early primaries in defiance of the powers that be in the Democratic National Committee (DNC), Michigan … has the Democratic primary drawing substantially more votes. … They did so on the urging of the presidential candidates who were outdoing one another in currying favor with the voters of these states…

Mar 11, 2008 – Clinton's trying to weasel her way into the White House by demanding that the Democratic Party drop its own rules and allow primary … Other cubicle conversations concur how wimpy Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean is to kowtow to the New York senator's … Democratic Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton are pro-choice, and Republican Sen. John McCain is pro-life.…

Mar 30, 2008 – Probably not as a peace-maker between the two candidates beforehand, despite his Nobel Peace Prize. … His former campaign manager, Donna Brazile, says not now, too "premature for him to inject himself into the presidential fray." … This exercise in democracy just might make the Democratic Party a more perfect union, when all was said and done.…

Mar 30, 2008 – Or, I should say, America has been long blessed with limited presidential terms. … This rigs the whole presidential campaign, from the get-go. … That’s why we get stuck with sitting or very recent House members, senators, and state governors as presidential candidates.…

Mar 28, 2008 – But this favorite talking point of the two Democrats presidential candidates is bogus. … Whomever the Democratic nominee, the party pins their hopes on "100 years." They think it will resonate.…

Mar 28, 2008 – But very few take it to this extreme, and none of those few would we remotely consider to be presidential material. … Doesn't America have a right to know whether the leading Democratic presidential contender buys into the reputed theology of the church … These disqualifying attributes of both Democratic candidates would ordinarily be enough to motivate and energize conservatives to new…

Mar 28, 2008 – WASHINGTON -- How much voters really like or dislike a presidential candidate, a quantity known in the polling business as … Among all of the major candidates in her party, she has consistently been the least likeable -- usually by a wide margin. … Remarkably, he gets a 52 percent favorable response from Democratic voters and leaners.…

Mar 27, 2008 – Obama ticket -- speculating about what might happen if desperate superdelegates decided they should "draft" Al Gore for another presidential … candidates, so what do they do?  … Yet Klein seems to think it would be just fine for a bunch of Democratic grandees (the superdelegates) to snatch the prize away from…

Mar 27, 2008 – Bush abandoned his reform under withering Democratic fire. … The late Democratic Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan was a voice in the wilderness calling for reductions. … When economic advisers of the presidential candidates gave their formulas for "turning the economy" around on the Washington Post op-ed…

Mar 26, 2008 – Throughout this prolonged presidential campaign the three main candidates - Senators John S. … One of the issues the candidates have not discussed is education. … All three candidates fail to address properly the problems in American education.…

Mar 26, 2008 – and criticized his Democratic opponents in a major foreign policy address Wednesday. … “Those who argue for it [withdrawal], as both Democratic candidates do, are arguing for a course that would eventually draw us into … McCain’s Democratic opponents have used these remarks to paint him as a war monger.…

Mar 26, 2008 – Democrats' House and Senate campaign committees are outraising the GOP, and generic election polls find that Americans will vote Democratic … Worse, both candidates have seen their credibility tarnished on several fronts: -- Obama's admission that he had attended Rev. … Swing voters, especially independents, are closely examining the two bickering Democratic candidates and don't like what they see.…

Mar 26, 2008 – “Change” is the most important single word in the presidential campaign at the same time that most people like their lives just as … Though presidential elections theoretically inspire “hope” (another big word along the campaign trail) with the possibility of fresh … Bush is controversial: he actually draws a much higher approval rating than the Democratic leaders of Congress.…

Mar 25, 2008 – Leaders of the Democratic Party and much of the media are wringing their hands over what to do about Democratic voters in Florida … It is questionable whether any of the three candidates still viable in the Republican or Democratic Parties would have been chosen … Back in 1944, the Democratic Party's leaders, knowing that President Franklin D.…

Mar 24, 2008 – And what have Republicans gained by so enthusiastically jumping into the Democratic-primary fray? … for the Democratic presidential nomination. … Last summer, the Democratic presidential candidates debated at Howard University.…

Mar 24, 2008 – But in an unexpected turn of events, the Democratic candidates are on the defensive, and McCain is leading them in the latest Reuters … Meanwhile, the bickering between the two Democratic candidates over Florida and Michigan, which have been stripped of their convention … presidential campaign continues.…

Mar 23, 2008 – This year’s Democratic presidential candidates seem poised to repeat the mistakes of the past.…

Mar 23, 2008 – But just as the struggle between Obama and the Clintons is re-shaping the Democratic Party (and exposing some of its “dirty laundry … that, while he cannot vote for Obama or Clinton, he can’t vote for McCain either - - so this year, he just won’t vote in the presidential … social conservative leaders, theology and church affiliation are more important in the selection of a President tham are the candidates…