This Saturday, the Democratic National Committee’s Rules and Bylaws Committee will meet to try and find a compromise for what to do about Michigan and Florida’s delegates. To recap, Michigan and Florida moved their primaries up before the date on which the DNC allowed them to be held. The DNC responded to this violation of its rules by stripping both states of their delegates. However, both primaries went ahead but in Michigan Senator Obama, in deference to the party’s rules, took his name off the ballot.
On Tuesday, I wrote about why Barack Obama should, thinking purely politicial, pick Republican Chuck Hagel as his running mate. It now turns out that Hagel’s wife has already donated to Obama’s primary campaign.
Yesterday, Bush and McCain raised coin together but the McCain campaign tried to minimise the coverage of the event, fearful that the unpopular president could damage McCain by association. Certainly, the Obama camp thinks that Bush’s third term is their most effective attack line against McCain. But I think they underestimate how hard it will be to make this charge stick.
Most voters feel they know McCain and so can distinguish him from Bush. McCain also has enough on the record policy differences and criticisms of Bush to put...
John McCain’s suggestion, first floated by his close ally Senator Lindsay Graham, that he and Obama visit Iraq together is smart politics not least because it has got out there that Obama has not visited since 2006. But on a broader level this ties in with McCain’s offer of joint town halls and unmediated Lincoln-Douglas style debates, it puts Obama on the back foot by making him either accept something that plays to McCain’s strengths or erode his post-partisan appeal by turning down or kicking into the long grass...
This Saturday, the Democratic National Committee’s Rules and Bylaws Committee will meet to try and find a compromise for what to do about Michigan and Florida’s delegates. To recap, Michigan and Florida moved their primaries up before the date on which the DNC allowed them to be held. The DNC responded to this violation of its rules by stripping both states of their delegates. However, both primaries went ahead but in Michigan Senator Obama, in deference to the party’s rules, took his name off the ballot.
Yesterday, Bush and McCain 
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