November 10, 2008
Finding Fame With a Prescient Call for Obama
By STEPHANIE CLIFFORD
At 9:46 p.m., blogging on his site FiveThirtyEight.com, Nate Silver called the presidential election for Barack Obama. The television networks followed suit about an hour and 15 minutes later after most polls in Western states closed.
Of course, Mr. Silver had a head start: he [...]

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Newsweek has done a 7 part, very lengthy series of articles written from behind-the-scenes information gathered by their embedded reporters from within the various candidates’ campaigns. They were given great access but had to agree to not write about any of it until after Election Day. Below are links to the 7 chapters of this [...]

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By Josh Marshall
I mentioned earlier today that it was quite a thing to see John McCain denouncing Barack Obama for breaking his word on public financing when McCain himself is at this moment breaking the law in continuing to spend over the spending limits he promised to abide by through the primary season in exchange [...]

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AP reports that Clinton will report about $30 million in debt, $11 million of it to herself, and that she’ll seek Obama’s help in clearing it.
That’s a lot of money.
A few notes here: First, she’s under no personal obligation to pay it off. The debt belongs to her committee, not to her personally, and if [...]

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Jeanne Cummings does the math:
• If each of Obama’s donors gave him a modest $250, he’d have $375 million to spend during the two-month general election sprint. That’s $186 million a month, $47 million a week.
• During the same September to Nov. 4 period, McCain will have about $85 million to spend, since he has [...]

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Barack Obama was campaigning last October in South Carolina when he got an urgent call from Penny Pritzker, the hotel heiress who leads his campaign’s finance committee. About 200 of his biggest fund raisers were meeting in Des Moines, Iowa, and among them, near panic was setting in. Pritzker’s team had raised money faster than [...]

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Updated 2:55 PM -

AP: Obama Has Clinched The Nomination
The Associated Press weighs in with another big one (and with a bit of luck on the news orgs’ part, this one will turn out to be accurate)…
Barack Obama effectively clinched the Democratic presidential nomination Tuesday, based on an Associated Press tally of convention delegates, becoming [...]

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Imagine for a minute, just a minute, that someone running for president was able to actually tell the truth, the real truth, to the American people about what would be the best — I mean really the best — energy policy for the long-term economic health and security of our country. I realize this is [...]

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The media narrative isn’t always right, but it’s always fascinating to watch. Because political reporters tend to be pack animals, once a narrative gets out there, it’s tough to change. Yesterday, there was only one narrative: the Democratic race is over.
The consensus was swift and brutal. The tabloids had their own way of saying it [...]

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