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Democratic Strategist Archives
- Too Much Applause!
- Big Night
- Wednesday Night in Denver: A Great Set-Up
- Beginning to Close the Deal
- The Clinton Factor
- Will There Be Blood ?
- The Show Begins
- Republicans Put Up 50 MLK Billboards in Denver
- Greetings From Denver
- How to Challenge John McCain’s “Stay until We Finish the Job” Narrative about Iraq
- The Biden Choice, Women and the South
- Tide Turning In, and On, Iraq
- Virginia Analysis
- The Clinton Problem Persists
- Convention Eve Pollapalooza
- A Different Optic on the Veepstakes
- McCain's Housing Gaffe
- Post-Convention Bounce Means Little
- Whipping Up Unity
- An Early Start on Nominating Process Reforms
- Panic Time for Conservatives?
- Should Caroline 'Pull A Cheney'?
- Veepstakes Hysteria, and the Silver Lining
- McCain Just Can't Help Himself
- Nunn on the Other Georgia
- Crunch Time for Southern Electoral Votes
- Improving Conventions
- Talking Money
- Notes on Saddleback
- Obama's Veep Week
- Dems Positioned for Wins in Mountain West
- Platform Fights Present and Past
- "Keynotes" and Other Convention Ghosts
- Conservatives Warn McCain Against Pro-Choice Veep
- Obama-Bashing Author Exposed
- McCain's Vulnerabilities
- Why Swift-Boating Obama Won't Work
- McCain's Veep Games Show Ambivalence About Choice
- DCorps Survey: Economic Change Key to Winning Youth Vote
- Ohio Opportunities
- Hump Day Grab Bag
- The Politics of a One-Term Pledge
- Abortion Plank: Meeting of the Minds?
- Who's the Real John McCain?
- Party Loyalty: Fading Cause or Realistic Goal?
- The controversy over McCain’s anti-Obama ad – “The One”
- Platform Skirmishes
- Cheney to Speak After All
- Bullet Dodged
- Abortion and the Democratic Platform
- Karl Rove’s strategy for attacking Obama -- how Democrats can respond.
- No Olympic Hiaitus
- Charting Pennsylvania
- How to Attack John McCain – What would Rove Do?
- Sojourners
- Hump Day Round-Up
- Give 'Em Enough Rope
- Blackwater and Iraqi Sovereignty
- Messianism
- Calendar Perspectives
- 'Proud' McCain Dumps on Supporters
- Going Negative With Class vs.The High Road to Nowhere
- Obama/Kerry Demographics
- Point of Attack
- Can Obama Win 'Whispering Republicans' ?
- Sebelius, Kaine and Their Church
- Team McCain--All Over the Place
- A Final, Definitive Obama Veep Analysis
- "Presumptuous" Transition Planning
- Offshore Drilling, Oil Speculation & More MPG: What the Polls Say
- Gallup Picks Winners 100 Days Out
- Kaine's Faith Background
- Right-Sizing the Big Tent
- Obama's Field Presence In Florida
- Military Strategy for Democrats: The Reality Behind McCain's Claim That The Surge Has Succeeded
- Can McCain Run Against Congress?
- McCain and Hispanic Protestants
- Pride in President
- Senior Moment
- W. the Dark Knight
- Obama's Surprising Hispanic Strength
- Obama's Berlin Speech
- Audacity of Hope in Alaska
- The Case Against McCain -- for Women
- What Past Election Year Is This?
- Booting Maliki
- Romney and The Michigan Factor
- GOTV Strategy: The Personal Touch
- Getting Down To the Veep Decision
- Whining From the Sidelines
- Running for Legislator as a Geek
- Radio Key for Motivating New Voters
- Final Thoughts on Netroots Nation
- Walking Maliki Back
- Registration Revolution Kicks Into High Gear
- The Markos-Ford (Non-)Smackdown
- Greetings From Austin
- Friday Linkage: Cheers and Challenges
- The Party Registration Gap
- Are We Still Living in Nixonland?
- Obama's Money Machine: Back on Track?
- 'Whiners' May Decide Swing States
- McCain and TR
- Georgia Primary Results
- McCain's New Cold War
- Obama Leads More Impressive Than MSM Spin
- How To Look At the Veepstakes
- Tweaks and Flip-flops
- Economic Meltdown Boosts Dems
- Cell-phone-only Voters and the Polls
- Why the SocSec Smoke-out Matters
- Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and Moral Hazard
- The Social Security Smoke-out
- Big Surge, Edge for Dems in FL Registration
- Learning to Live with the "New" Obama
- Rapid Growth in Naturalized Mexicans to Help Dems
- Behind Jackson's Gaffe
- A GOP Plan For Reclaming the 'Burbs
- Rove Advises Obama
- Progressives Push Healthcare
- Refusing to Honor Senator No
- The Women of Counterinsurgency Theory
- Head to Head With Latinos
- Maliki's Timetable and McCain's Double Bind
- Registration Drives, Obama's Ace, GOP Book, White Guys, Lakoff's Warning, Distorting MLK
- Scrap Those Obama-Webb Buttons
- McCain's Economic Plan Looks DOA
- Rough Track
- Is Obama's Southern Strategy Sound ?
- Patriotism -- the Day After
- RIP Jesse Helms
- Two Brands of Patriotism
- Obama and Iraq: A General Election Strategy
- Partners: The DLCC Online
- Hostile Interviewers and the “Endplay” Strategy
- O Canada
- Obama's Faith-Based Organizations Initiative
- "Moving to the Middle," or "Let Obama Be Obama"
- Two Days in Chicago
- Latino Voters Trending Blue
- We are all Husseins
- More on Racial Parity in Voter Registration
- The Attacks on Michelle Obama In Context
- Is Obama a "Real Christian?"
- A New Deal For the GOP?
- Small Bump in Youth, Black Turnout Can Help Flip Nine States
- Al Qaeda and the Presidential Election
- Gerrymandering and Turnout
- Will 'Obamacons' Help Dems?
- Obama and Reagan
- The Stealth Anti-Abortion Candidate
- Winning the Energy Security Debate
- Cohen's Double Back-Flip
- Panel Considers States in Play, Veep Choices
- 'Regular Guyness' Era Finally Over ?
- Obama's Biggest Speech
- All About Angry PUMAs
- The Frustration of John McCain
- Maximizing Black Turnout
- McCain's Very Short List of Female Veep Prospects
- Military Strategy for Democrats – What Dems Can Learn from Last Weeks’ Article in the New York Times
- Targeting Georgia
- A Vote's A Vote
- Friday Round-Up: Political Ad Wars Take Shape
- Sabato on the Senate
- Obama Opts Out
- NYRB on Webb's Book, Veep Prospects
- Obama and Appalachia: Better News
- Fun With Baptists
- Flip-Flopping in Tandem With Bush
- The Choice Edge
- Senior-Driven Landslide for Obama?
- Bowers on Nunn
- The Only Brokered Convention
- AP Versus Bloggers
- A Unity Ticket Debate
- Remember Election Reform?
- 'Sotto Voce' Strategy Aims at Purple Seats
- Tim Russert RIP
- Case in Point
- Top Down, Bottom Up
- Here Comes the Republican “Stab in the Back” Campaign – How the Democrats Should Respond:
- Winning the Hispanic Vote in 2008
- Sam Nunn for Veep?
- Obama's Southern Coattails
- Good News on the Congressional Front
- Changing the Subject
- The Case for Stronger Government
- The Missing Case for McCain
- Day One, Week One: McCain Campaign, GOP Open Weak
- Clinton's Concession Speech
- More Advice For Obama
- Galston's Advice To Obama
- Hillary's Enduring Legacy, Part 2
- The Challenge
- Learning From HRC's Messaging
- HRC's Enduring Legacy
- Hamas De-Endorses Obama
- Obama's Money Advantage
- HRC To Bow Out
- So Who Won the Popular Vote?
- Creamer Outlines 5-Month Action Plan
- The HD Election
- Morning After
- Big Night A-Building
- McCain and His Nonprofit Helper
- "Joe Dumars" For the Clinton Campaign
- Over and Out?
- Nose-Cutting, Face-Spiting 'Dems' for McCain
- 'Electoral Barometer' Trumps Horse-Race Polls
- An Early Battleground Assessment
- Jon Chait Sledgehammers McCain
- Puerto Rico and the Popular Vote
- DNC R&B Strikes Fair Compromise
- Tomorrow's Rules Showdown, and After
- General Election Polls: A Summary
- Flor-igan Fuss, Obama Strategies, Soft Power, Southern Swing, Youth Vote
- Why McCain Will Probably Get McNasty
- Through the Eyes of the Opposition
- McCain's Blunder on G.I. Bill
- Jim Webb and the Scots-Irish Vote
- McCain and "American Identity"
- Jim Webb, His Fans, and His Detractors
- Teixeira on Obama and the White Working Class
- Measuring Dems' Chances in GOP Districts
- Veepstakes in Ohio
- Memorial Day
- State-by-State General Election Polls
- Rejoeinder
- Clinton's Poll Edge Over Obama in Big States
- Bowers on the Unity Ticket
- Stranger Than Fiction
- The Only True Democrat
- Hamilton Jordan RIP
- The Lion in Winter
- More of the Same
- Liberalism's Future
- Tonight's Non-Dramatics
- McCain Flops the Flip in #1 YouTube
- The Problem With A Bipartisan "Unity Ticket"
- Nebraska As Kingmaker, Role Model
- McCain's Dog Whistles
- Military Strategy for Democrats - Part 5 – How the Democrats Can Argue with McCain and the Republicans about Military Strategy and Win
- Hindsight on HRC
- Huge Black Turnout May Spark Broad Dem Gains
- Military Strategy for Democrats – part 4 – The Republicans do have a military strategy – it’s called “Divide and Rule”, it takes at least 50 years, requires lots of casualties and - the half-hearted way we’re doing it - almost never works.
- Stepped On
- Military Strategy for Democrats - Part 3 – The surge isn’t “working”, it’s just “postponing” -- and in the long run it’s making things worse
- Turnout Scenarios to Beat McCain
- Diverging Realities, One Clear Win
- Military Strategy for Democrats - Part 2 – Iraq is not a “classic counterinsurgency”; it’s a full-blown civil war
- The Piece Still Missing
- Increasing Political Enclaves, Sharper Partisanship Challenge Campaigns
- Military Strategy for Democrats – Part 1 -- How the Democrats Can Argue with McCain and the Republicans about Military Strategy and Win
- Beating McCain --- With Seniors
- Turning Out the Lights
- Full-Court Shot At the Buzzer
- The "Unity Ticket" Debate
- Demographic Destiny
- Absentee Voting Bill May Transform Campaigns
- Mood Swings
- Perceptions
- HRC's Final Hope: General Election Polls
- Wrap Up Wrap Up
- A Small Curiosity
- More NC Clues
- Late Primary Challenges: Not Unprecedented
- Where to Get Early Clues on NC, IN
- The Jindal Trial Balloon
- Super Delegates: Abolish or Reform?
- Confusion and Delay
- Comparing Economic Perfomance of Dem, GOP Presidents
- Bad News From Across the Pond
- How Many White Working Class Votes Are Enough?
- Trippi's Might Have Beens
- General Election Vulnerabilities
- Hispanic Boom: Not About Immigration
- Inquiring Minds Want To Know
- McCainCare Equals BushCare
- Dems Need Stronger Unions
- Obama Strikes Back
- Dueling Endorsements in the Tar Heel State?
- Self-Wrighteousness
- Another Reason To Fear a McCain Presidency
- GOP More Divided Than Dems
- Blumenthal on the Bradley-Wilder Effect
- Monday Morning Reads
- Popular Vote Math
- Dem Doomsayers Overlook Key Data
- Pennsylvania Endorsements
- Closer Looks at PA
- Morning Cheer
- Sound and Unsound Electability Arguments
- Lines being Drawn in May 6 Primaries
- Back to the Florida Saga
- A Tactical Victory for Clinton
- Ohio Redux, and the "No Big Mo" Factor
- All About Indiana?
- Hillary Hits Her Mark
- Clinton Wins PA--Spin Wars Ensue
- One Clear Insight
- Election Roadblocks
- Obama's Reclusive Campaign Chief
- Keystones
- Will 'Sore Loser' Dems Elect McCain?
- Debates and "Personality"
- Issues and Character
- Hypocrisy, Thy Name is Barney's
- New Keystone Voters
- Extracurricular Activities
- The Final Word on "Bitter-Gate"
- A Whole New Campaign
- Nunn, Boren Endorse Obama
- You Gotta Get That Dirt Off Your Shoulder
- Debating Electability
- McCain Tosses Out an "Economic Agenda"
- Last Dem Debate: Ending on a Low Note
- Michael Lind Gets Bitter
- Recipe for Disaster
- PA's Complex Demographics Trending Blue
- Fundamental Ignorance
- Abundant Advice for Winning Workers' Votes
- Women Running for Senate, House Overshadowed by Clinton
- "Elitism" Through the Looking-Glass
- Obama's "Gaffe" and His Critics
- Do We Have a 527 Problem?
- Whose Popular Vote Totals?
- Two Wedge Issues Return
- Being Right's Not Always Enough
- Denver Dramatics
- McCainiacs
- Post-Penn Assessments of the Clinton Campaign
- More Long-Form Political Dialogue
- Zeroing In on the National Security Challenge
- McCain Back-Peddles on Public Financing
- Open Doors For Democrats
- McCain Meltdown Unlikely
- Spring Books Preview
- March Money
- Mark Penn's Really Bad Week
- King's Son Calls for Anti-Poverty Cabinet Officer
- Change vs. More of the Same (Online Edition)
- Wine Track/Moonshine Track
- PA Tests Obama's Prospects With White Workers
- Barr Could Be "McCain's Nader"
- Two Notes On Superdelegates and the "Popular Will"
- New Trend in Penn?
- An Embedded Convention
- A (Qualified) Defense of Superdelegates
- Neocon Heads Should Be Exploding
- Credentials Committee Explained
- Prodigal Son
- NC Bandwagon for Obama?
- Dems : Avoid Ageist Attacks vs. McCain
- The Great Dismal Swamp
- Obama the Muslim and his Christian Preacher
- Friday Linkfest
- Biographical Errors, Part II
- Biographical Errors
- Third-Way Criticism of Third-Way Clintons
- Two More Big Speeches
- "Poetic License" On Complex Issues
- Eyes on Obama
- More Than You Ever Wanted to Know About the NC Primary
- Lakoff and Westen On Obama Speech
- Political Poetic License
- Obama's Team and Its "Doctrine"
- McCainomics: You're On Your Own
- Thinking About Strategies to Combat the Coming “Slime Attack” Ads
- How Long, O Lord?
- Optimism and Pessimism Joust
- Obama's Speech a Net Plus
- Will Florida Democrats Take a Dive in November?
- A Religious Take on the Obama/Wright Controversy
- Popular Vote Math
- Can Dems Win Libertarian Votes?
- Iraq in Dollars and Cents
- Obama Inviting Floor Fight?
- The Narrowing Window
- Two Takes On Iraq, Five Years In
- Return of the Coherent Speech?
- Obama and the Decline of the Soundbite
- The McCain Mechanics for the General Election
- Wright and Wrongs
- Obama and His Pastor
- The DKos Boycott
- CAF Conference Charts Progressive Course
- Jesse's Way
- Deep Purple
- A Brief Note about the So-called “Conservative Movement” and the Democratic Party
- Who Benefits From a Michigan/Florida Deal?
- Disecting Cultural Conservative Messaging Strategy
- A Last Word on Spitzer
- Cha-Ching
- Keeping Blue Collars Blue
- Mississippi Gleanings
- McCain's Hail Mary Options
- Spitzer and Political Fallout
- Under the Bus
- Wind At Their Backs
- Measuring the Will of the People
- "Do-Over" Kabuki: Another View
- Team McCain's Inner Circle
- GOP's 'Cybersquatter' Edge
- "Do-Over" Kabuki
- Insider Intrigue
- More March 4 Post-Mortems
- Clinton Wins Big, Wins Little, But In Any Event Wins
- Good for the Party?
- Concerning "NAFTA-Gate"
- After Today's Primaries
- Dems Must Address NVRA Failures
- HRC's Old Friends Versus Obama's New Friends
- Polls and Demographics
- Are Americans Warming to the War?
- Younger, More Affluent, More Female, Better Educated
- Psychology for Democrats -- Resisting the Trap of Seeing the Primaries as War
- McCain vs. Campaign Finance Reform
- Selling Pottage
- RIP WFB
- Demographic Truths
- Veep Briefs
- The Swing/Base Debate: New Directions
- Rush To Polls In Texas
- Swing Voters and Ticket-Splitters in the Mountain West
- Learning from Nader
- Expanding the Democratic Base
- The Big Orange
- Swing Voters and Swing Activists
- "Rush" To Judgment
- Pay Attention to Context: How Nominations Shape the Swing Vote
- Teamsters To Endorse Obama
- Momentum?
- Persuadable and Mobilizable Voters
- Are Swing Voters Worth the Trouble? Can Democrats Win With Base Mobilization Alone?
- The Conservative Delusion
- Super Delegates: How Elitist?
- Obama's New Labor Muscle
- Who's More Electable?
- The Electability Debate Continues
- Managing Political Photo-Ops
- Tracking Superdelegates
- Unmasking McCain, Deuce
- Independents and Democratic Primaries
- The Other Edwards Wins
- The Road Ahead For Democrats
- Virginia Gleanings
- Potomac Delegate Estimates
- Unmasking the Bogus Maverick
- Does Huckabee Have A Rabbit In His Hat?
- Maybe Close Race Not All Bad?
- The Democratic Cash Competition
- McCain-Who?
- Uniting the Party: Who Faces A More Difficult Task?
- Weekend Semi-Sweeps
- From Washington State to Washington, DC
- Profiling Virginia and McCain's Appeal to the Right
- Friday Fact Fest
- DCorps: Dems Continue To Threaten GOP House Seats
- Romney Folds
- McCain's Trial; Romney's Gut Check
- Convention Chaos Theory
- Texas Curveball
- Actual Super Tuesday Story Lines
- Some Super Tuesday Story Lines
- The Long Road Ahead
- Close Race, Two Paths To Victory
- How Will "Victory" Be Measured on Super Tuesday?
- Clinton-Obama Ad Wars Heat Up in 22 States
- No Guv Luv for Mitt
- And In Other Endorsement News....
- MoveOn Endorses Obama
- McCain's Influence on Democratic Debate
- "Most Liberal Senator"
- A Cool $32 Million
- WWRD? And Other GOP Follies
- Edwards' Strategic Deficit
- Edwards Departs
- The Winnowing Continues
- Obama Mo?
- Spirit and Letter of the Florida Boycott
- Bush's Distraction
- Grassroots Questions Challenge Dems
- Bypassing the Filters
- Rudy's Strategic Collapse
- Florida's Hispanic Voters Could be Key in November
- CW Interrupted Again
- SC Polls, Black Women Clout, Latino Tilt, Dem Turnout Edge, McCain's Mess
- McCain's Conservative Problem
- Who's the "Clintonian" Candidate?
- Dems Sharpen Health Care Wedge
- Big Media's Sins
- The Bidding Begins
- Obama's Wide Net Vexes Pundits
- Obama and Racial Voting
- Electibility Crosswinds
- Kaboom!
- MLK
- Dems Work SC on MLK Day, Prep for CNN Debate
- Huck's Unluck
- HRC Wins in NV; Age, Gender Big Factors
- Bloggers and Democratic Candidates
- Huckabee's Lost Cause
- Friday Post-Fest
- South Carolina: 2000 With a Twist
- Mike Huckabee, Dominionist?
- More About Unhappiness on the Right
- De-energized Conservatives
- DCorps On Taxes: Bring It On!
- An Unsurprising "Shocker"
- Mysterious Nevada
- Obama, Clinton and MLK's Lengthening Shadow
- Edwards: The Road Back
- Fun With Superdelegates
- Buried Treasure
- Big New National Polls: A Few Gleanings
- The Fair Tax State
- Georgia and the Non-Ideological State of the Race
- Mr. Smith Meets Mr. Bonaparte
- Yet More NH Outcome Theories
- Race and "Effects"
- Resume Candidates
- Theories of Clinton's Upset in NH
- NH Polling Mystery Persists
- Republican Hot Potato
- Speeches
- Surprise, Surprise
- Another Record Turnout?
- Non-Sequitur
- NH Exits
- NH Post-pourri
- Obama and the Blogosphere
- An Iowa Afterthought
- Looking Ahead: The Road After NH
- Obama Vs. McCain?
- Iowa Bounce
- Iowa-New Hampshire Transition Game
- Iowa Implications
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