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Time was, John Edwards perseverated about two Americas. No longer:
John Edwards gave his long-awaited endorsement to Senator Barack Obama on Wednesday, bolstering Mr. Obama’s efforts to rally the Democratic Party around his candidacy and offering potential help in his efforts to win over working class white voters in the general election.
“The Democratic voters in [...]

Noam Scheiber dismisses the idea that Hillary Clinton has any kind of advantage with the white working class over Obama in a general election match-up with McCain:
I mention this now because there seems to be some support for it in the latest Washington Post-ABC poll. According to the WaPo write-up, Clinton and Obama do more [...]

Longtime reader Nihilist Easter Bunny wrote in with his own reinterpretation of Hillary Clinton’s comments about the strength of her white support:
White men! White women! Clinton is calling you! The Muslim is using the black as muscle against you. And you are left there helpless. Well, what are you going to do about it, whitey? [...]

Most Americans don’t give a rip:
WASHINGTON — A majority of American voters say that the furor over the relationship between Senator Barack Obama and his former pastor has not affected their opinion of Mr. Obama, but a substantial number say that it could influence voters this fall should he be the Democratic presidential nominee, [...]

Well, now the Republicans are definitely gonna win.

It’s a cliche to talk about how undemocratic the U.S. Senate is, with it’s filibusters and non-proportional representation. But I think the recent cloture vote on the the Lilly Ledbetter Act highlights this fact pretty acutely, and is worth exploring a bit.
To recap, the bill was:
named for an Alabama woman who lost a case [...]

Because I’m loving the 50 State Strategy this year, and because I think this encapsulates what I think of Democrats hunkering down and trying to hold their safe states and seats*:
I don’t want to get any messages saying that “we are holding our position.” We’re not holding anything. Let the Republicans do that. We are [...]

As seemingly every Times columnist this week argued against Clinton continuing the charade, several of us wondered where Clinton apologist Paul Krugman stood on the matter. Now we know:
Mr. McCain, we’re told, is a straight-talking maverick. But on domestic policy, he offers neither straight talk nor originality; instead, he panders shamelessly to right-wing ideologues.
Mrs. [...]

Well, when you put it that way:
A. J. Truilizio, a retired boiler operator in Johnstown whose favorite comedian is Jay Leno, said he was convinced that if a woman or a black man was elected president, “Leno won’t be as funny, you know?” He added, “It’s like, nothing you can say doesn’t offend somebody nowadays.”

After successfully keeping the story alive for like two weeks now, she finally admits that perhaps some words were “misspoken”:
As part of her argument that she has the best experience and instincts to deal with a sudden crisis as president, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton recently offered a vivid description of having to run across a [...]