Karl Rove tries his hand at defining Obama:
“Even if you never met him, you know this guy,” Rove said. “He’s the guy at the country club with the beautiful date, holding a martini and a cigarette that stands against the wall and makes snide comments about everyone who passes by.”
And chief McCain strategist Charlie Black [...]

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Tues | MAY 6 Bad news for beer bums when Joe Jost’s drops Pabst from the roster because of cost. Edging out Listerine and Pruno as a replacement is Busch, which has slightly lower alcohol content and dramatically lower poser appeal. (High Life will also [...]

The LA Times reports that Ron Paul supporters might be planning a GOP surprise come the convention in Minneapolis:
“They hope to demonstrate their disagreements with McCain vocally at the convention through platform fights and an attempt to get Paul a prominent speaking slot. Paul, who’s running unopposed in his home Texas district for an 11th [...]

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SAT. APRIL 26: GARY WILSON AND KAREN
Mon | APR 21 President Bush appears on Deal Or No Deal as part of the most conceptually unpredictable presidency since Nixon invited a nation to sock it to him and then sent 24,000 troops back to Vietnam for involuntary second [...]

I don’t care what you claim as your party affiliation–Democrat, Republican, Progressive Wicken–you had to feel sorry for John McCain Wednesday. The Republican nominee for President was forced to go to the White House to accept the endorsement of George W. Bush, which is sort of like getting an endorsement from the guy who invented [...]

* McCain gets his delegates
* Huckabee has already conceded
* Rumor has it that Bush will endorse McCain tomorrow
* Obama takes Vermont (no one is surprised)
* Clinton gets Rhode Island
* Ohio and Texas Democratic races too close to call

While McCain takes a breather and waits for his certain anointment, Obama and Clinton continue the primary slog. The first of two upcoming debates is tomorrow, but Obama obviously has the momentum, with a clean sweep through all of February’s 10 contests behind him. And on that point, Bill Clinton himself acknowledged that it’s do-or-die [...]

*  Mitt Romney will endorse John McCain; it looks as if Gore has decided to refrain from announcing an endorsement.
*  Right-wing opposition to John McCain prompts talk of launching an ultra-conservative third party
*  A Justice Department official testified on the legality of waterboarding before a House Judiciary subcommittee this morning, and actually provided an unequivocal [...]

Obama snaps up Virginia with ease and is doing the same in Maryland and D.C. Clinton continues to write off Obama’s relatively small-state wins and is looking ahead to March 4th and the contests in Texas and Ohio. When the night is all over, however, Obama will have a definitive delegate lead. Hillary is putting [...]

Yesterday’s contests all fell for Obama: clear double-digit victories in Washington, Nebraska and Louisiana. The Clinton campaign had all but conceded that Obama would sweep the Saturday vote, but according to which news source you follow, those victories now put Obama ahead of or in a virtual tie with Clinton in the all-important delegate count.
And [...]