Last December, when we first sketched out the upcoming House elections, we suggested that Democrats were likely to have a good year. Nothing has changed our forecast in the six months since, and if anything, we now see November 2008 as probably the best year Democrats have had in many a moon. Only a solid […]
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Last month I wrote that 2009 will likely be a tough year for nonprofits as corporate, foundation and household budgets will more fully reflect a prolonged economic slowdown and lower investment values. Today I want to dig deeper into why we are experiencing a weakening economy and why it is unlikely to get better quickly. […]
Shortly before ten o’clock on the evening February 1, 2008, Barack Obama’s chartered 737 took off from Albuquerque International Airport bound for Boise, Idaho, where the Illinois senator was scheduled to hold a rally the next day.
In just four days voters in twenty-two states would award 1,681 Democratic National Convention delegates, of which Idaho’s […]
Amazingly, I read in today’s newspaper that government regulation to protect the environment is a conservative/liberal issue. We should reframe the debate to where it is a human/ecological issue, and we should endeavor to broaden our perspective.
I gain insight to this problem sitting at my home along the James River, which marks the navigation route […]
OBAMA’S NEXT CHALLENGE:
Turning Primary Losses Into Electoral Votes
By Rhodes Cook
Senior Columnist
As Barack Obama prepares to move from the primary to the general election phase of the 2008 presidential election, he faces a new challenge which combines both - to bring many of the states where he suffered primary losses this winter and spring into the […]