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This week's Tote Board column looks at how internet punditry has made political reporting not better, but far worse.
The able David Bernstein of the Phoenix is blogging regularly in these pages about the latest developments in NH: Check it out!
According to a published report, John Fund of the Wall Street Journal claims to know the subject matter of the Clinton forces' "scandalous information" about Barack Obama, written about in Robert Novak's column on Saturday and defended...
We wrote Saturday about Robert Novak's column that the Clinton forces have scandalous information about Barack Obama and have decided not to use it. A big mystery, we suggested, is why the story would come out now -- given that its timing actually...
The always astute Jay Cost at RealClearPolitics has an interesting post this afternoon whose headline speaks for itself: “A Junkie's Debate...And Nothing More.” And Jay is right in a way – though to paraphrase Bill Clinton, it depends on what the...
We're a bit late getting to this but Adam Reilly offers a very useful look this week in the Phoenix at 3 pop culture developments that could affect the Romney campaign. We've long felt that over time, Romney's religion would end up becoming...
Debate fatigue for the Democrats has set in, notes the Washington Post , and it's a wonder it took this long. No one can even figure out if this is the third or fifth debate already and -- get this -- there are at least a half-dozen more scheduled...
With the multiplicity of web sites and papers following the 2008 Campaign, this week's Tote Board column looks at the few sources a political junkie has to follow to really keep informed. Briefly again they are: NEWS SOURCES RealClear Politics The...
The press seems mostly let down by the lack of dramatics at last night's debate, as Justin Miller of Real Clear Politics summarizes here , but that was to be expected -- as we pointed out earlier. Other than that, a few commentators think Rudy Giuliani...
Justin Miller of Real Clear Politics summarizes the press reaction to last night's debate and it is as we predicted. The general consensus, with variations, is that the three front-runners dominated the debate; Richardson had a poor night, and Biden...
There’s good news at the Huffington Post . A while back in the Phoenix, we drew up a list of the nation’s indispensable political reporters and Tom Edsall was right at the top (along with Michael Barone and a few others). In an internet age in which uninformed...
A number of people have written the Tote Board, asking that the column devote less space to the horse race and more to the issues. It's a noble thought but this column, alas, is designed to deal with the horse race on the theory that while the press...
