If NASCAR governed the 2008 race for the Democratic nomination, this would be called "The Chase." In NASCAR, that is the period when the regular season is over and the winner of the season-ending cup championship is named based on who won the most points in "The Chase." For Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, they easily dis...

Even as the rest of the Democratic Party around him takes sides in the epic struggle of Hillary Clinton against Barack Obama, Al Gore remains inscrutable, silent, above the battle. His gigantic but unspoken presence is raising rumors and fueling speculation. Joe Klein, writing in Time magazine, even suggested a scenario that has a deadlocked conven...

BARACK OBAMA-JESSE JACKSON: "Our time has come!" His time has gone. OBAMA-JESSE VENTURA: Former presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee had Chuck Norris watching his back. Why shouldn't Obama have a former pro wrestler with demonstrated electability watching his? Both men champion change. Ventura proved that sometimes voters care more about on...

We called it "the robot rule." I still have an old and slightly rusty pin showing a robot with a red slash through it. "Delegates are not robots" was our rallying cry in seeking to defeat what was then Rule 11(h) of the Delegate Selection Rules, or Rule f(3)(c) of the Convention Rules, which bound delegates to vote at the conven...

HILLARY CLINTON-GLORIA STEINEM: Just to make the old boy network short-circuit. That plus Geraldine Ferraro as chief of staff. CLINTON-MARTHA STEWART: Stewart built an empire — something handy as Clinton continues the Bush doctrine in Iraq on Day One. Hillary sees cookie baking as a housefrau chore; Martha sees it as a way to boost stock opti...

When Bush's Brain speaks, people listen. So naturally, they listened when kingmaker Karl Rove criticized Barack Obama after New Hampshire voters made Hillary Clinton prom queen. Oddly, Rove's recent comments in The Wall Street Journal echoed some Bill Clinton made the day before the primary. Bill defended Hillary's record against Obama's style over...

There is a chance that before this presidential election year is over somebody is going to get hurt. Knowing that partisan hostility is boiling over in America, the Secret Service is tense because the candidates are exposed when they campaign in public. Hatred is definitely in the air and the media is partially to blame. The enormous success of the...

The women of New Hampshire saved her. On Tuesday night, Hillary Clinton confuted premature announcements of her political demise. She won the Democratic primary by a narrow 2 percent, 39-37. The prime reasons for her victory were a) women and b) the lower profile in New Hampshire of the war in Iraq. In Iowa, Barack Obama won the women's vote by mor...

Am I being unreasonable for wanting the presidential candidates to have solutions for the difficult problems the nation is facing? It was striking that during the Bhutto assassination news cycle, not one of the candidates put forth a solution to deal with the dangerous situation in Pakistan. Some of the comments the candidates made were flat-out du...