Some Straight Talk About Self-Absorption

(Bumped. Susan) WellstoneDem in the comments of a previous post: 2 voted but there was no campaign: MI and FL 5 haven’t voted yet: TX, OH, PA, IN, and NC 5 have voted for Obama: IL, WA, MO, VA, and GA and 5 have voted for Clinton: CA, NY, NJ, MA, and TN The whole “Big State” thing is a myth. Yeah, there’s some stupid spin floating around (from all sides) this cycle, but this is probably the dumbest. And it’s compounded by people wh... more

Yesterday, I noted an AP story on the recent contempt of Congress vote that, well… had a few problems. In the least troubling of the errors, the reporter — Laurie Kellman — misidentified Rep. Jon Porter (R-NV) as a Democrat. OK, not such an awful mistake. At least, not by itself. And the AP’s Director of Media Relations, Paul Colford, e-mailed to point out that the AP had in fact already put out a corrected version of the article. But Kellman didn’t... more

Tonight’s schedule, with pledged delegates in parenthesis): Vermont (15), 7 p.m. ET Ohio (141), 7:30 p.m. ET Rhode Island (21) 9 p.m. ET Texas (193) 9 p.m. ET, but El Paso is in a different time zone, so closes an hour later. And, to make things extra complicated, the caucuses begin after the polls close. Vermont will get called quickly for Obama. The rest should take a while to report winners. And Texas, sheesh, that one will be conf... more

The Obama campaign may be planning ahead (something the Clinton campaign never thought of, apparently), but it’s clear that they’re also paving the way for a serious push to knock Clinton out of the race this week. First off is the developing CW , from the very astute Charlie Cook: NBC political analyst Charlie Cook writes in his CongressDaily column, “[W]inning by slight percentages in Texas and Ohio aren’t real wins for Clinton. A ‘win’ would... more