by Howard Fineman
Here’s all you need to know about Sen. Barack Obama and his campaign. He taped his half-hour TV special, which airs across your dial at 8 p.m. Eastern tonight, last week.
Now, a week is a year and a year is a lifetime in presidential campaigns. But it is characteristic of Obama to plan [...]

Another brilliant post on The Campaign Spot:
If You’re Going To Worry, Worry About the Right Things
What I’m mildly encouraged by:

Rasmussen’s tracking poll puts Obama ahead by 3 percent.
The Battleground poll puts Obama ahead by 3 percent.
Zogby puts Obama ahead by 5 precent.
Early voting in Colorado is nearly tied between registed Republicans and registered Democrats.
The amount [...]

It’s an article of faith in U.S. politics that, when it comes to the popular vote at least, Catholics determine the winners in our presidential contests.
In fact, with the notable exception of George W. Bush eight years ago, no candidate in recent memory has entered the White House without securing a majority of the votes [...]

As Obama’s election has seemed to become more likely in the past six weeks, a quiet but public debate has arisen among both Republicans and Democrats that wonders which Obama we might get. Will it be the prudent, moderate, pragmatic, sensible president who will apply non-ideological, centrist policies? Or will it be the Obama who [...]

Like everyone who pays attention to House races, I was more than a little interested to see where the National Republican Congressional Committee would use its limited resources on independent expenditures this cycle.
Now, with Election Day fast approaching and Republicans likely to lose more than two dozen House seats - and quite possibly more than [...]

IT HAS BEEN a favorite trope of the Bush-bashers: The 43d president’s power-lust is so insatiable, his disdain for constitutional checks and balances so complete, that he has fashioned himself into a dictator. Crackpots can always be counted on to say such things, of course, but even non-loonies have played fast and loose with the [...]