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Obama’s candidacy is a test

Published: Jul 4 2008, 11:36 PM

By Michael Barone

“They’re going to try to make you afraid of me,” Barack Obama told the audience at a Jacksonville fund-raiser last month. “He’s young and inexperienced and he’s got a funny name. And did I mention he’s black?” Obama was doing here by inference what many of his supporters do more explicitly. Obama’s candidacy, in their view, puts American voters to the test: Are they open-minded enough to vote for a black candidate? Or are they still so overcome by racial prejudice as to reject the first black candidate with a serious chance to win?

Why vice presidents now matter

Published: Jun 28 2008, 12:53 AM

By Michael Barone

“Not Exactly a Crime” is the title of a book on America’s vice presidents published in 1972 — a year before Vice President Spiro Agnew was forced to resign for actually committing a crime.

The facts in Iraq are changing

Published: Jun 21 2008, 12:27 AM

By Michael Barone

As we enter the second half of the campaign year, facts are undermining the Democratic narrative that has dominated our politics since about the time Hurricane Katrina rolled into the Gulf Coast — most importantly, the facts about Iraq.

In defense of lobbyists

Published: Jun 14 2008, 12:03 AM

By Michael Barone

Barack Obama has long said that his campaign will not accept contributions from lobbyists, and now that he is the presumptive nominee, the Democratic National Committee won’t accept them, either.

New playing field for general election campaign

Published: Jun 6 2008, 11:18 PM

By Michael Barone

Almost precisely at the midpoint between the Iowa caucuses on Jan. 3 and the general election on Nov. 4, the general election campaign is now on. Neither party’s nominee swept the primaries. John McCain’s narrow popular vote margins in New Hampshire, South Carolina, Florida and most of the Super Tuesday states, combined with the Republicans’ winner-take-all delegate allocation rules, effectively gave him the Republican nomination on Feb. 6. Mike Huckabee made it official by withdrawing after the March 4 Texas and Ohio primaries.

Rethinking the Iraq critics

Published: May 10 2008, 12:02 AM

By Michael Barone

In trying to understand news about the conflicts in Iraq, I work to keep in mind the difference between what we know now about decision-making in World War II and what most Americans knew at the time. From the memoirs and documents published after the war, we’ve learned how leaders made critical judgments. At the time, however, even well-informed journalists could only guess at what was going on behind the scenes.

Wright controversy affects the polls

Published: May 3 2008, 1:22 AM

By Michael Barone

Is the bottom falling out for Barack Obama? It’s too early to say that, but there are some disturbing signs. On the positive side, superdelegates still are breaking his way. Rep. Baron Hill, whose southern Indiana district almost certainly will vote for Hillary Clinton, came out for Obama. So did fellow Hoosier Joe Andrew, who previously endorsed Clinton and who was named Democratic national chairman by Bill Clinton in the 1990s. (James Carville may have another name for him.) Obama is still well ahead among delegates chosen in primaries and caucuses, and he is not very far behind in superdelegates, either.

Throw out the old electoral maps in 2008

Published: Feb 29 2008, 6:33 PM

By Michael Barone, Syndicated Columnist

It’s time to throw out that old map with the red states and blue states. That’s the map that implies that all but a handful of states will definitely vote Republican or Democratic and that the real contest will be decided in Florida or Ohio or whatever.

South Carolina Sets the Stage

Published: Jan 25 2008, 6:32 PM

By Michael Barone, Syndicated Columnist

South Carolina: In 1988, 1992, 1996 and 2000, it was the state that, with its early primary, determined the winner of the Republican nomination for president.

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