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Holder first met Barack Obama in 2004 at a Washington dinner party hosted by Ann Walker Marchant, the niece of Washington lawyer and power broker, Vernon Jordan, Jr. Holder sat next to the new senator and the two men hit it off. After securing the democratic nomination earlier this year, Ob...
At today's press conference, at which Obama named the top levels of his economic team, he signaled more history in the making. "Today," he said, "Vice President-elect Biden and I are pleased to announce the nomination of four individuals who meet these criteria to lead our economic team,...
Why? Because, barring some as of now unforeseeable “October surprise,” Barack Obama and Joe Biden are about to put Pennsylvania away--frustratingly out of reach once again for Republicans who have been yearning to take the state for the first time in 20 years.
My head is spinning after enduring back-to-back conference calls with the Obama and McCain high commands. One glimmer of good news for McCain: Obama was headed back to Iowa, a state that the Democrats had thought they had all but sewed up.
For John McCain, the batch of battleground state polls released yesterday brought almost universally bad news. The Republican nominee's path to the presidency is now extremely precarious and may depend on something unexpected taking control of a contest that appears to have swung har...
Powell’s reasons for swinging to Obama were a watery stew of all the regnant clichés about the campaign... On Meet the Press, he regretted that the Republican Party “has moved even further to the right.” Even if this is true — the Bush administration that Powell served piled up massive spendin...
The political maneuvering came as the financial bailout continued to dominate Washington, the headlines and the concerns of ordinary Americans. On Wednesday evening, both Mr. McCain and Mr. Obama, the Democratic presidential nominee, accepted President Bush’s invitation to meet wit...
Is any of this--barring our imminent war with the Bear--the end of the world? Of course not. Democratic vice-presidential nominee Joe Biden misspeaks constantly on the trail. In fact, I cataloged a bunch of his mistakes earlier this week. But that's precisely Palin's problem. Joe Biden say...