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- Familiar Faces Missing in the Senate - January 4, 2009
- My list starts with my retiring home-state senator, John Warner of Virginia. I got to know him best when I drew the short straw and had to go to Dallas the week...
- Lightweight Burris Just Part of the Spectacle - January 1, 2009
- In the last few weeks, we've learned that the Democratic leaders of the Illinois Legislature saw the embarrassment of the governor (a man they already despised) as...
- The GOP Goes South - December 28, 2008
- The significance of his accepting Obama's offer goes beyond the signal it sends of the new president's seriousness about outreach to moderate Republicans. As...
- GOP Goes South, Waging Ideological Warfare - Wash Post - December 27, 2008
- As a rule, a new president's choice of a secretary of transportation makes few headlines, even when the appointee is a member of the opposition. In 2001, George W. Bush...
- Health Reform's Moment - December 14, 2008
- All of them agreed that major health legislation has a much better chance of passage in the next Congress than when Bill and Hillary Clinton tried back in 1993-94....
- Blagojevich the Money Machine - December 11, 2008
- When I went to Chicago to cover their pre-primary debate, Blagojevich, a boyish-looking young congressman who got his seat thanks to the clout of his father-in-law, an...
- Rescuing a College Education - December 7, 2008
- A report last week from a commission headed by Jim Hunt, the former governor of North Carolina, underlines how important Obama's pledge is -- and how difficult it may...
- Continuity Cabinet Needs Extra Scrutiny - December 4, 2008
- Gates, who took over from Don Rumsfeld two years ago, has not only managed the Pentagon with a firm hand but has rebuilt its relationships with Capitol Hill and with...
- Governors to Meet Obama With Hats in Hand - November 30, 2008
- Living in Chicago, Obama is already well aware of the problem. His willingness to call this meeting less than a month into the transition period has been welcomed...
- Obama Shows His Smarts - November 27, 2008
- So for several years, I have been arguing that there are traits much more important to the success of a president than his brainpower. Self-confidence, curiosity,...
- Rising Hope For Fixing Health Care - November 23, 2008
- When Barack Obama's transition team let out word that former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle would be his choice to run the Department of Health and Human...
- A Force for Good -- but Not at State - November 19, 2008
- Equally, I admire Obama's readiness to reach out to former rivals and enlist their help in the governing enterprise he is launching. His serious discussions with...
- Voting Shifts the GOP Can't Ignore - November 16, 2008
- So quick turnarounds are not only possible but commonplace, when so many voters hold their party allegiance lightly and so many more profess no party label at all. ...
- Trending Away From Republicans - Washington Post - November 15, 2008
- A Promising Start for Obama - November 13, 2008
- What we have seen so far suggests that Obama's skills will carry over to his new and expanded responsibilities. His acceptance speech in Grant Park, his first news...
- The Task Ahead - November 6, 2008
- But Obama himself made the important point when he told the cheering crowd in Chicago's Grant Park that "the task that lies ahead" is a daunting one and all that he has...
- Campaign Shows that Obama Can Lead - November 2, 2008
- But no one knew much about his political skills or his ideology, and so he was generally underestimated as a threat to Hillary Clinton and the others who lined up...
- The Best Campaign I've Ever Covered - November 2, 2008
- It was startling that almost a year before Election Day, 18,000 people had given up their Saturday shopping time to stand (there were no chairs) and listen to an...
- What We've Learned About McCain - October 30, 2008
- We knew that he had the backbone to set his own course -- a rebel defying authority -- and that he carried that trait into politics, often challenging the leaders...
- New Hampshire's Six Year Grudge Match - October 26, 2008
- The quotes are authentic but horribly out of date. They were uttered in 2002, the first time Shaheen tangled with a young John Sununu for the Senate. Six years...
- Sununu In Granite State Brawl - Washington Post - October 25, 2008
- Will GOP Heartland Beat for Obama? - October 23, 2008
- When I asked Republican state Sen. Ron Amstutz, who has represented the county since 1980, what had happened, he pointed to scandals in the administration of...
- Obama's Assurance Policy - October 17, 2008
- But the larger point for both the candidates and the country is that real-world events are driving politics far more than politicians can affect the course of...
- Closing a Deal in Pennsylvania - October 14, 2008
- Robert Stutz, a recently retired hospital administrator, was, like many of his neighbors, skeptical of both the eventual nominees when they were on the primary...
- Bigger and Bigger Challenges Would Greet Obama - October 12, 2008
- But it is now clear that even if the tourniquets applied by Congress, the Treasury and the Federal Reserve stop the bleeding of our capital and credit systems, this...
- Running From Reality - October 9, 2008
- Similarly, they declined to spell out what sacrifices they might have to ask Americans to make, beyond moderating their energy use or easing their demands for...
- The Uplifting Debate - October 5, 2008
- In a session that was faster-paced and friendlier than the presidential debate, Palin and Biden smiled often at each other while exchanging glances and verbal...
- Economics Exam in Michigan - October 2, 2008
- Oakland County, where I chose to interview voters, is a classic bellwether area. In 2000, when Al Gore carried Michigan by 5.1 percent, he won Oakland by 1.2...
- McCain as the Alpha Male - September 28, 2008
- That suggests an imbalance in the deference quotient between the younger man and the veteran senator -- an impression reinforced by Obama's frequent glances in...
- Credibility Test for Congress - September 25, 2008
- Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, Sen. Chris Dodd and Rep. Barney Frank have been at the center of the dialogue, and, as this...
- The Candidates' Debate Tasks - September 21, 2008
- Now, they meet with terribly high expectations on both of them, and little room for error. McCain, after enjoying a brief boost in his fortunes from the Republican...
- Wall Street Headaches for McCain - September 18, 2008
- This year a calamity has occurred in the financial world. The nonsense about Sarah Palin's family dynamics and other matters, down to and including lipstick on pigs,...
- Independents Will Make the Deciding Judgment - September 11, 2008
- But within 48 hours of McCain and Sarah Palin leaving St. Paul behind, we were flooded with polls purporting to measure the appeal of the McCain-Palin ticket vs. the...
- Obama, McCain Will Have a Mandate for Change - September 7, 2008
- The good news is that Obama and McCain, for different reasons, have about as good prospects of achieving that change as any two politicians you could find. The...
- The Jury's Still Out on Palin - September 3, 2008
- The Donilon maxim is now about to be tested -- in spades -- by Sarah Palin, the 44-year-old freshman governor of Alaska chosen by John McCain as his running mate. ...
- How Palin Could Help - September 1, 2008
- This does not make Palin a bad choice. A Bush White House operative said that he can see Palin stumping repeatedly through the Midwest battleground states, pitting her...
- DNC Filled With the Same Faces & Ideas - August 31, 2008
- No one is likely to argue that the speech here "changed politics in America." His jibes at John McCain and George Bush were standard-issue Democratic fare and his...
- Michelle & Hillary Raise the Bar - August 28, 2008
- For those who like to look past the immediate partisan stakes, the message of Monday and Tuesday night is really heartening. Never before has a national party...
- A Candidate At Home In Scranton - August 25, 2008
- Biden's campaign was cut short in 1987 when an operative for the eventual nominee, Michael Dukakis, leaked word to Maureen Dowd of The New York Times that a...
- Shaheen, Sununu Running Close - August 24, 2008
- Shaheen, a former governor who lost a close race to Sununu six years ago in an environment much more hospitable to Republicans, was a double-digit favorite early this...