There are all sorts of rumors about who will be the next Secretary of State, but the most persistent one is that it'll be Senator John Kerry. Senator Christopher Dodd is another possibility, and just today rumors have come out that Senator Hillary Clinton is under consideration. One problem about Kerry being named is he'd no longer be a Senator, ( Read more... )

Want to keep track of the latest news, events and announcements in the setting up of the Obama Administration? They've set up a web page so you can do that.

It's official: Bush is the most unpopular president since disapproval ratings were first sought more than six decades ago. His disapproval rating in a new CNN/Opinion Research Corporation ( Read more... )

Don't make the mistake that many are making in believing conservatism is dead, and that the Republican Party needs to abandon that for their core principles. Whether you agree with standard Republican conservatism or not (I don't), let's look at the political facts. Obama won by only 6.5 points. Imagine if McCain weren't running after an economic ( Read more... )

When asked to choose among some of the GOP's top names for their party's 2012 presidential nominee, 64% of Republicans chose Sarah Palin! Mike Huckabee received 12% support, and Mitt Romney 11%. Three other sitting governors - Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, Charlie Crist of Florida and Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota - all pull low single-digit support. ( Read more... )

I was interviewed at Community Fridays about my writing career. The interviewer, Emma Larkins, asked if I would do the interview after one of the panels I was on at the Capclave SF Convention.

Like many others, I'm having fun with the "puppy" issue at the White House. CNN ran a segment on presidential pets. Here's a listing of all presidential ( Read more... )

Fox reveals that McCain aides were truly "shocked" at the "gaps in knowledge" Sarah Palin displayed once they were stuck with her.  She could not name all of the countries in North America, he said, not even the NAFTA partners. (USA, Canada, Mexico.)  She was so out of touch she actually refused coaching before the Katie Couric interviews, then ( Read more... )

I've blogged about the election every night for nearly two months. I'll continue blogging, but perhaps not every night.

Obama won a mandate yesterday. I hope congress will basically let him do things as he thinks best, within reason. The last thing we want is a lot of committees and politicians getting involved. We have an economic collapse,  two ( Read more... )

This marks the end of the "Reagan-Gingrich-Bush" era, circa 1980-2008. (Technically it lasts until 2009, but there's not much Bush can do at this point as the lamest of lame ducks.)  It also marks the start of what presumably is the "Obama era."

Three people are primarily responsible for what happened tonight.

• First, of course, is Barack ( Read more... )

McCain's "Hail Mary"? There have been Rev. Wright ads all day here in Maryland, and presumably in VA and PA. Will it tighten PA and VA polls? McCain should have been running these ads in battlegrounds states for weeks. It's not racist or misleading, unlike the Bill Ayers ads.

Here's Sarah Palin attacking the San Francisco Chronicle for "covering ( Read more... )

Here are the most likely scenarios for a McCain win, according to fivethirtyeight.com, which gives him a 6.3% chance of winning. (It was below 4% a few days ago.) By far the most likely scenario is that, among the 17 battleground states, he wins all the states leaning toward him (ND, WV, GA, AZ), all the tossup states (MO, NC, FL, OH, IN, MT), and ( Read more... )