1980 Redux

More evidence that the Obama campaign is seeing this election as 1980 in reverse:
“Democrats should take a deep breath and realize that there are a group of voters who won’t make up their mind about a candidate until deep in the fall,” said David Plouffe, Mr. Obama’s campaign manager. “And there are 18 states that [...]

McCain/Obama Tax Comparisons

Let’s see … Obama wants to give me a tax cut, and eliminate taxes for seniors making under $50K a year. The latter would be good for my 80-year-old mom, who is under the threshold, lives totally on Social Security and investments, and is getting socked with big tax bills every year. 
McCain likely would cut [...]

Back to the Future, Tax-Wise

Obama’s top economic advisers have an op-ed in the WSJ laying out their guy’s tax plan. Interesting point of emphasis is to peg many of its provisions to the Clinton era’s tax structure. That’s a good move, strategically, as it sets up the question, “Are you better off now than you were eight years ago?” [...]

Why the MSM Ignores Certain Stories

Short answer: When they seem like a waste of time. Example: the one now going around that wonders why journos haven’t checked Obama’s draft-registration status when the registration law specifies that unregistered people aren’t eligible for executive-branch jobs. Never mind that the Constitution spells out the eligibility threshold for president, nowhere mentions draft status and nowhere [...]

They Didn’t Get It

The Clinton people never appreciated the power or value of Obama’s ground game, and were without the vision or means to assemble one of their own:
Not long after New Hampshire, in a senior-staff meeting that both Clintons attended at the campaign’s Arlington headquarters, Ickes announced to his stunned colleagues, “The cupboard is empty.” The campaign [...]

The Atlantic’s Clinton Campaign Expose

It’s up, finally. Here’s the nut:
Above all, this irony emerges: Clinton ran on the basis of managerial competence—on her capacity, as she liked to put it, to “do the job from Day One.” In fact, she never behaved like a chief executive, and her own staff proved to be her Achilles’ heel. What is clear [...]

Clintonian Delusions

Hillary Clinton ex-spokesman Howard Wolfson’s idea that Clinton would have won the Iowa caucuses had John Edwards gotten forced out of the race before that point because of his infidelity is what I call dumb-shit stuff. You have to be an idiot to say it, or an idiot to believe it.
Over at FiveThirtyEight (the definitive [...]

That Dysfunctional Clinton Campaign

An upcoming article in the Atlantic will paint a very unflattering picture of Hillary Clinton’s campaign, if the early leaks are reflective of what’s in store. They suggest strongly that Hillary has little executive ability, and that Bill was pulling the strings behind the scenes even more strongly than we all suspected. The urgings to [...]