Published on TheHill.com on January 23, 2008.
Hillary Clinton will undoubtedly lose the South Carolina primary as African-Americans line up to vote for Barack Obama. And that defeat will power her drive to the nomination.
The Clintons are encouraging the national media to disregard the whites who vote in South Carolina’s Democratic primary and focus on the […]
Published in the New York Post on January 22, 2008.
Why is Bill Clinton courting such intense publicity, inevitably much of it negative?
Is he crazy? Crazy like a fox.
He has two goals and is achieving them both spectacularly.
First, he wants to be the same kind of lightning rod for Hillary that she was for him during […]
Published on January 20, 2008.
Both Clinton and McCain scored hugely significant wins on Saturday in Nevada and South Carolina, wins which might set them on the road to the nomination.
Hillary is very likely to lose South Carolina because of the large black vote there. Had she lost Nevada too, she would have been badly […]
Published on FoxNews.com on January 18, 2008.
As American banks go hat in hand to foreign financial institutions and governments, begging for capital to help them get out of the mess into which their subprime loans have landed them, the question arises as to whether the United States should permit nations like China, Saudi Arabia, the […]
Published on TheHill.com on January 16, 2008.
On the evening of Jan. 3, it became clear that Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) was going to be a serious candidate for president with a viable chance of winning. The Clintons decided that he was going, inevitably, to win a virtually unanimous vote from the black community. Their own […]
In yesterday’s Democratic debate, you got mixed up with who is ahead and who is behind. Despite Clinton’s large double digit leads in Florida, New York, and California, Barack Obama seemed content to coast, not scoring points and avoiding any criticism of his rival. For her part, knowing that she is ahead, Hillary […]
THE DEMOCRATS:
HILLARY V OBAMA
Three major factors dominate the Democratic contest: gender, age, and race.
GENDER
Hillary’s surprising victory in New Hampshire placed gender squarely back at the center of the contest. Women voters were the ones who made the big difference: Hillary carried single women by 16 points and married women by 11, while losing men by […]
Published in the New York Post on January 16, 2008.
The GOP race has now descended into total chaos. Mike Huckabee, John McCain and now Mitt Romney have each won an important primary or caucus and lost two others. Onetime front-runner Rudy Giuliani finished dead last in Michigan last night, falling below the somnambulant Fred Thompson […]
