National Democrats

The Clinton campaign may not be dead, but it’s on life support. She could change the momentum by winning Texas and Ohio in two weeks. But it’s hard to change the delegate math. She would have to win 70 percent of the vote in the primaries left – including North Carolina. Who would have thunk…

Hillary Clinton’s biggest constituency problem isn’t black voters or young voters or any other demographic group. It’s the media. She’s overwhelmingly losing the media primary. In fact, if you listen to the talking cableheads, you’d think her campaign is in total meltdown. Every primary, every caucus, every finance report, every change in her campaign, every…

The Clinton-Obama race is about two things: delegates and momentum. On both counts, North Carolina’s primary election counts. Here’s why. After today’s Potomac Primary – with 238 delegates – five big primaries are left: Wisconsin, next Tuesday, 92 delegates Ohio, March 4, 161 delegates Texas, also March 4, 228 delegates Pennsylvania, April 22, 188 delegates…

The monster is back. Last year the federal government, which will waste money on almost anything, refused to fund Lite-Rail for the Triangle because it was too wasteful. Humbled, Mayor Meeker and other Lite-Rail boosters appointed a study commission and they’ve given us a seminar on how government shouldn’t work. The commission studied the problem.…

It’s hard not to like Barack Obama. Or admire his success. Or perseverance. Or eloquence. But I’m beginning to have a feeling of déjà vu. Every two decades or so the Democratic Party erupts and gives birth to a candidate who sets Democrats all aquiver in the pits of their liberal souls. Remember Eugene McCarthy?…

There are more cross currents in the Democratic Presidential primaries than a hurricane. It’s got everything. Race. Sex. Money. Brittany Spears must be next. Let’s – gingerly – explore race. Hispanics vote for Hillary (or, more to the point, against Obama) two to one. Asian-Americans vote for Hillary (and against Obama) eight to one. African-Americans…

Even the most secular Democrats fervently await the Second Coming. Of John Kennedy, that is. Barack Obama is the latest in a long line of latter-day JFKs. There were Bobby and Teddy, of course. Also, Gene McCarthy, George McGovern, even Jimmy Carter, Gary Hart, Joe Biden (1988 model), Bill Clinton and John Kerry (who had…

As CNN’s Jeff Greenfield said so memorably late on Election Night 2000, we have now left the gravitational pull of earth. This presidential race has defied all predictions. Especially the prediction that it would all be over after Super Duper Tsunami Tuesday. Instead, we now boldly go where no race has gone before – or…