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I didn’t see this one coming. Maybe the New Yorkers who hang out here feel differently?
Update: Looks like it wasn’t just the New Yorkers who were expecting something like this. Check out Matski’s post below for a more informed take on this story.

Clinton brings a wealth of foreign policy experience to the table:
Susan Rice, a foreign policy adviser to Obama, mocked Clinton for her claim of having made a corkscrew landing into Bosnia under the threat of sniper fire, when, as Rice pointed out, she made the trip with Chelsea, Sheryl Crow and Sinbad.
“In fact, it was [...]

If you feel that maintaining a disciplined operation is an important characteristic for a president or a presidential administration to have, then Senator Clinton may worry you:
The divisions in her campaign over strategy and communications — and the dislike many of her advisers had for one another — poured out into public as Mrs. Clinton [...]

In which my book purchase betrays my campaign bias.

Clinton seems to be winning by forcing the resignation of intelligent, competent people who know their areas of specialization inside and out, but who make fundamental mistakes in the political arena, such as not placing candid opinions off the record before making them. Simultaneously, Clinton has consistently succeeded in retaining most of the geniuses who [...]

With Clinton and Obama tearing one another to shreds, it’s seeming possible that either Obama or Clinton winning the nomination could cause a rift in the party for this election cycle, a rift that whether temporary or permanent could hand the most winnable presidential election campaign in years to the GOP.
Obviously, some kind of [...]

Josh Marshall on BHO’s ability to stand heat:
This “monster” thing is a good case in point. That’s a pretty over-the-top thing for a key campaign advisor to say. But what it tells me more than that is that the Clinton campaign has these guys rattled really bad. Some of this is no doubt due to [...]

I was getting tired of the previous media narrative. Glad to have a new one for a couple of weeks.

A good reason not to have open primaries*:
Not sure why the networks haven’t picked up on this, but there is definitely a sizable portion of the vote in Texas tonight comprised of Republican voters looking to “game” the Democratic primary. I spoke with numerous friends today, who claim to be Republican, who said they voted [...]

With the exception of a recent case on Tuesday, murders are down in Newark:
It had been 43 days without a killing in Newark: no late-night calls to rush to homicide scenes in hopes of finding witnesses before they disappeared, no new crush of paperwork. After a year that tested the squad of 11 investigators [...]