Archive: Presidential Politics
Obama's Candidacy and Racism
A story about Obama surrogates encountering raw racism has generated more than 3,300 comments from our readers, an unusually high number.
By Doug Feaver | May 15, 2008; 07:42 AM ET | Comments (6)
Clinton and the Dead Parrot
Dana Milbank suggests that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential prospects are as dead as that Norwegian blue parrot in the famous Monty Python bit.
By Doug Feaver | May 14, 2008; 09:00 AM ET | Comments (40)
The Limbaugh Factor
Readers express special interest in a story that asks if radio host Rush Limbaugh's "Operation Chaos" actually held down Obama's totals.
By Doug Feaver | May 8, 2008; 09:35 AM ET | Comments (146)
Time for Clinton To Quit?
There is unusual near unanimity among our readers. Many of them seem to want Clinton to concede and go home.
By Doug Feaver | May 7, 2008; 09:20 AM ET | Comments (642)
Politicians and Gasoline
Economic arguments mostly about the gasoline tax are fueling the comments of our readers today.
By Doug Feaver | May 5, 2008; 09:35 AM ET | Comments (27)
The Beat Goes On
Sen. Clinton's victory kept her candidacy alive, but her path to the nomination remains "extraordinarily treacherous."
By Doug Feaver | April 23, 2008; 09:10 AM ET | Comments (47)
Readers Distrust Polls, Candidates
A new Washington Post - ABC News poll today says that Sen. Barack Obama holds a 10-point lead over Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton when Democrats are asked whom they would prefer to see as the party's presidential nominee.
By Doug Feaver | April 16, 2008; 09:55 AM ET | Comments (20)
The Bitterness Lingers
Sen. Barack Obama's Democratic opponent, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, and the presumptive Republican nominee, Sen. John McCain, seem to have joined the same church choir in finding fault with Obama's observation about bitterness.
By Doug Feaver | April 15, 2008; 09:30 AM ET | Comments (59)
A Political Surge
The three surviving candidates for president will all get chances tomorrow to ask questions of Army Gen. David H. Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker at Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations committee hearings about the situationsituation in Iraq.
By Doug Feaver | April 7, 2008; 09:55 AM ET | Comments (15)
Are We There Yet?
I can't avoid politics today. Anne E. Kornblut and Shailagh Murray tell us this morning that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign is pouring everything its got into the Texas and Ohio Democratic primaries next Tuesday because even her strongest supporters think she's toast if she doesn't win both states. This...
By Doug Feaver | February 28, 2008; 09:00 AM ET | Comments (30)
The Shakeup's Backstory
Readers Who Comment are all over the story reporting that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has replaced her campaign manager and longtime aide Patti Solis Doyle.
By Doug Feaver | February 11, 2008; 09:30 AM ET | Comments (135)
The Battle for Virginia
Bill Turque and Anne E. Kornblut report that Virginia has become a major battleground for Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama.
By Doug Feaver | February 7, 2008; 09:45 AM ET | Comments (6)
More Comments To Come
Our first national primary has produced in a fascinating fight for the Democratic nomination and a Republican who looks to be on his way to the nomination with the help of a candidate nobody outside of Arkansas knew six months ago.
By Doug Feaver | February 6, 2008; 09:48 AM ET | Comments (297)
McCain's Pros and Cons
Sen. John McCain could lock up the Republican nomination by Wednesday morning, a prospect that has our McCain's GOP colleagues and our Readers Who Comment reassessing their views.
By Doug Feaver | February 4, 2008; 09:45 AM ET | Comments (66)
Much Ado About Clinton's "Beauty Contest"
An overwhelming number of our Readers Who Comment want to talk about commentary on Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's victory in Florida's Democratic noncontest in which she had pledged not to campaign.
By Doug Feaver | January 30, 2008; 09:30 AM ET | Comments (87)
Readers Minds Made Up on SOTU
Our Readers Who Comment are splitting their attention today between the upcoming State of the Union message by President Bush, and the Kennedy clan's decision to endorse Sen. Barack Obama's candidacy for the Democratic nomination.
By Doug Feaver | January 28, 2008; 09:50 AM ET | Comments (31)
Readers Say No to Polls, Illegal Immigrants
Our Readers Who Comment today have made two things very clear: 1) They don't trust polls. 2) They are angry about illegal immigration.
By Doug Feaver | January 14, 2008; 09:55 AM ET | Comments (207)
New Hampshire vs. Gibbs
Our Readers Who Comment are talking more about politics politics than Joe Gibbs' resignation, so we'll go with that.
By Doug Feaver | January 9, 2008; 08:09 AM ET | Comments (196)
A Storm of Comments
In case you've been out of touch, today is the day some Iowans will gather in various places and decide who they think the major party presidential candidates should be.
By Doug Feaver | January 3, 2008; 07:55 AM ET | Comments (27)
Disliking Hillary and Huckabee
It turns out that not all Democratic men like Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and not all Republican Baptists like Baptist minister Mike Huckabee.
By Doug Feaver | December 20, 2007; 09:35 AM ET | Comments (11)
