Crosscut – Knute Berger – The rock star of hope

What’s amazing about Barack Obama’s message is that he can make something so wholesome seem so sexy.
By Knute Berger
A testament to just how good Barack Obama is is how good he makes the other politicians on stage with him look. It’s like he casts a glow that turns a conventional political tableaux — some stuffy [...]

NYT – Top black leader drops Clinton to back Obama

Last updated February 14, 2008 8:46 p.m. PT
Ex-first lady sharpens attack on rival
By JEFF ZELENY AND PATRICK HEALY
THE NEW YORK TIMES
MILWAUKEE, Wis. — Rep. John Lewis, an elder statesman from the civil rights era and one of Sen. Hillary Clinton’s prominent black supporters, said on Thursday night that he planned to cast his vote as [...]

We bruise our daughters when we bash Hillary Clinton — Connie Schultz

We bruise our daughters when we bash Hillary Clinton — Connie Schultz

Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Connie Schultz
Plain Dealer Columnist
When I was 11 years old, my girl friends and I used to talk long into the night about how one of us was bound to become president of the United States.
We had no reason to believe that, [...]

HuffPost – Clinton’s New Campaign Manager is Black (But Shhh! Don’t Tell Anyone)

by Keli Goff
Huffington Post
Talk about irony. As I was sitting in a studio with award-winning Latina journalist Maria Hinojosa preparing to appear on CNN for a discussion regarding black and Latino voters, it was announced on-air that Clinton campaign manager Patti Solis Doyle, who had made history as the first [...]

TPM – Poll: Hillary Holds Big Leads In Ohio And Pennsylvania

Story: Talking Points Memo

By Greg Sargent – February 14, 2008, 10:04AM
The new Quinnipiac poll shows that Hillary is hanging onto big leads in Ohio and Pennsylvania, two of the three firewall states that are now key to her hopes of stopping Obama’s momentum and turning the race around.
Among likely Dem primary voters in [...]

ColorsNW – Critical Thoughts–Are you an Obamaphiliac??

by Gyasi Ross
ColorsNW Contributing Blogger
I’ve made no qualms about the candidate that I support in the current primaries, and hopefully in the 2008 General Election as well. I voted for Obama–and I will do it again. I think Obama is a breath of fresh air, and shows an intellectual curiosity, an integrity and [...]

ColorsNW – Dispatch from the precinct caucuses – Tacoma

From Carolyn Wright, Tacoma -
We the People—Precinct Caucusing, Family Style
Like many others this Saturday afternoon in Tacoma, we came caravanning into the Clover Park Technical College, family style. Although ‘we’ was intended to be the other members of a book club that I am a part of; those plans were thwarted upon discovering [...]

ColorsNW – Dispatch from Precinct Caucus – Native Action Network

by Native Action Network –
This morning I woke up to the phone ringing followed by my seven year old son shaking my shoulder and whispering loudly, “Mom, the presidents keep calling you. They want you to do something.” Hmmm. It took a moment for me to wake up enough to realize [...]

ColorsNW – Dispatch from Precinct Caucus – Lewis County

By George and Stephen Miller-Zauner, Lewis County –
Our caucus was in the Randle at the Fire Station Community Room and basically covered nine precincts basically have of east Lewis county
From those there for over 75 years to newcomers they all were amazed to see so many people still coming in as we shot [...]

NYT – Next Up for the Democrats: Civil War

February 10, 2008
Op-Ed Columnist
Next Up for the Democrats: Civil War

By FRANK RICH

WHAT if a presidential candidate held what she billed as “the largest, most interactive town hall in political history” on national television, and no one noticed?
The untold story in the run-up to Super Tuesday was Hillary Clinton’s elaborate live prime-time special [...]