Elections Blog

Former New York Mayor Rudolph “Rudy” Giuliani [Republican] made his 2008 Presidential candidacy semi-official by forming an exploratory committee to raise money for the primary campaign. Guiliani made no official statement.
Various polls, surveys and straw ballots have Giuliani in first or second place among Republican voters, competing neck and neck for frontrunner status with [...]

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Senator John McCain [Republican, Arizona] told the fake Tim Russert (Darrell Hammond of Saturday Night Live) a few years ago that he was “ready to serve as our next President!” Sunday on the real Meet the Press, he told the real Tim Russert:

Are we doing the things organizationally and legally that need to be [...]

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Senator Russ Feingold has announced that he will not seek the Democratic nomination for President in 2008. Feingold, a favorite antiwar Senator, principled liberal stalwart and the only Senator to vote against the USA Patriot Act in 2001, told the Associated Press:

I never got to the point where I felt strongly I wanted to [...]

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Barack Obama [Democrat, Illinois] said on NBC’s Meet the Press Sunday that he is considering a Presidential bid for 2008 and will announce a decision sometime after the November 2006 election, the equivalent for serious candidates of announcing his intention to announce. Obama appeals to a broad swath of voters with his multiracial background, [...]

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Former Virginia Governor Mark Warner announced Thursday that he will not seek the Democratic nomination for President in 2008.

“I know these moments are never going to come again,” Warner said. “This weekend made clear what I’d been thinking about for many weeks - that while politically this appears to be the right time for me [...]

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As Senator John McCain (Republican, Arizona) has worked to regain the good graces of his party, and the Bush family that holds a fair amount of power in it, in hopes of gainign the GOP’s Presidential nod, he has

…provoked a chorus of denunciations and lamentations from liberals who once were smitten with him. Where, [...]

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Michael Charles Smith of Corvallis, Oregon made his longshot candidacy for the GOP Presidential nomination official last month when he filed papers with the Federal Election Commission. His goal is to win at least one convention delegate from his home state of Oregon and influence the debate at the 2008 Convention…

Whoever winds up winning the [...]

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Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman said on ABC’s “This Week with George Stephanopoulos” that Hillary Clinton is too angry and too left-wing to be elected President.

“Whether it’s the comments about the plantation or the worst administration in history, Hillary Clinton seems to have a lot of anger.”
“There’s a lot of talk about a new [...]

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Criticizing the Bush tax cuts, Senator Hillary Clinton (Democrat, New York) told the U.S. Conference of Mayors that federal budget cuts left them “on their own” in meeting local needs.

“Across the board, federal budget cuts are leaving states and cities struggling to make up the difference,” Clinton told a meeting of the U.S. Conference of [...]

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The group Americans for Rice, which has the support of 4,000 volunteers picked up some even bigger support Friday - First Lady Laura Bush. Asked about a Rice candidacy during a CNN interview, Bush responded “I’d love to see her run. She’s terrific.” Meanwhile, Americans for Rice continues pushing the draft movement, hoping [...]

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PolicyByBlog looks at Hillary Clinton’s non-campaign campaign for the Presidency and concludes that her attempts to appeal to the center risk losing core support from decidedly left-of-center Democrats. Specifically, political bloggers tend to come to blogging precisely out of frustrated idealism, so the rhetorical two-step is often seen by bloggers as politically sinful.

Indeed [...]

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A potential Presidential faceoff between Hillary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani could put a New Yorker back in the Oval Office for the first time since Franklin Roosevelt.
New York has not had one of its own elected president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt won a fourth term in 1944. Since then, several New Yorkers — almost [...]

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U.S. Senator Russ Feingold (Democrat, Wisconsin) has gone from a minority of one to leading a filibuster that could sink the renewal of controversial provisions of the Patriot Act. The high profile defense of civil liberties will further endear Feingold to the Democratic Party’s liberal base, but ironically will find him allies among Republican [...]

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