| 9:16 PM: | Barack Obama: The winner. I wonder if Americans have yet fully absorbed what they have just done. Andrew Sullivan. | |
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| 9:08 PM: | The Presidential Campaign Hinges on a Handful of Close States. Barack Obama can join Republican John McCain in plotting strategy to corral the 270 electoral votes needed to win the White House this Nov. 4. CQ. | |
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| 9:06 PM: | Sen. Clinton's new job: Bring votes to Obama. She is focusing on making sure her supporters back Sen. Barack Obama's bid. CNN. | |
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| 7:49 PM: | Stop Attacking My.BarackObama.com. While the pundit-blogosphere may dismiss them, the people on MyBO are building the most fearsome volunteer organization in the history of Presidential politics. Patrick Ruffini. | |
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| 7:46 PM: | Obama's Organization, and the Future of American Politics. He is riding herd on the largest and most potent new political organization anyone has seen on the American landscape in at least sixteen years. TechPresident. | |
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| 7:39 PM: | Obama Has the Edge in General Election Campaign, But Faces Big Challenges. Compared with the brutal primary campaign he's just been through, the general election Democratic Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois heads toward might make him feel like the wind is at his back. CQ. | |
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| 6:50 PM: | At the Tip of Iran's Spear. It is the soft-spoken Soleimani, not Iran's bombastic president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who plays a decisive role in his nation's confrontation with the United States. David Ignatius. | |
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| 6:29 PM: | McCain: To Russia, without love. John McCain and his national security advisor both want to get tough with Russia -- but one of them got paid to say so. Does McCain have another lobbyist problem? Salon. | |
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| 5:36 PM: | McCain Lobbyist Ties Questioned in Ad, Complaint. A watchdog group is launching an advertising campaign and filing an FEC complaint questioning the McCain campaign's ties to lobbyists, as Sen. John McCain and Sen. Barack Obama spar over each other's ties to special interests. ABC. | |
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| 4:54 PM: | How to Beat a Rock Star: 'Substance.' From the road in Florida last Friday morning, en route to a fund-raiser and then a tour of the Everglades, John McCain spoke with Holly Bailey and Jon Meacham by telephone about the general election, Barack Obama, Iraq, prewar intelligence and the press. Newsweek. | |
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| 4:42 PM: | The Turning Point the Clinton Campaign Post-Mortems Miss. From Daily Kos to the New York Times to points beyond, political commentators have spent today spitting out post-mortems for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign. Firedoglake. | |
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| 4:41 PM: | McCain gets a free ride? If Rev Wright was such an important story, because it raised questions about the judgment of a leading candidate, why isn't this story, which does the same thing for McCain, creating waves here in the U.S.? Scripting News. | |
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| 3:46 PM: | Will Clinton take the blame if Obama falls? One warning sign: There are Carter loyalists who still blame Ted Kennedy for his 1980 defeat. Politico. | |
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| 2:28 PM: | Obama 'fist bump' catching on. In a reference to Barack and Michelle Obama's celebratory fist bump on Tuesday, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-California, and Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, ended their conversation on CNN's Late Edition with their own version of the handshake. CNN. | |
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| 1:57 PM: | This Week (06.08.08) Obama, McCain backers say economy, Iraq, "change" all key differences. This Week. | |
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| 1:55 PM: | Blow up the Beltway. In US politics they talk about Inside The Beltway the same way the tech industry talks about Silicon Valley. Scripting News. | |
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| 1:54 PM: | How to talk to non-supporters about Obama. This post is for people planning to volunteer for Barack Obama's presidential campaign this summer and fall. My goal is to help you be more effective in communicating with voters like me, who don't care for Obama. MyDD. | |
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| 1:53 PM: | Face The Nation, 06.08.08. Bob Schieffer speaks with Clinton advisor Howard Wolfson, Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.), Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.), and Roger Simon of Politico. Face the Nation. | |
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| 1:52 PM: | Obama takes break for bike ride. Barack Obama joined family and neighbors for a bicycle ride along the shores of Lake Michigan on Sunday. CNN. | |
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| 1:51 PM: | Sunday Talk: Clinton's Out, But V.P. Speculation Carries On. Sen. Hillary Clinton's Saturday farewell address in Washington, D.C., was met with high praise from her Democratic colleagues today. WSJ. | |
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| 1:47 PM: | Schumer Endorses Obama. A day after his colleague in New York's Senate delegation, Hillary Clinton, left the presidential race, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D) endorsed Barack Obama. The Hill. | |
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| 10:59 AM: | Dan Rather Slams Corporate News at National Conference for Media Reform. Former CBS News anchor Dan Rather delivered a blistering critique of corporate news on Saturday night at the National Conference for Media Reform. Free Press. | |
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| 10:57 AM: | Straight Talk Egg Spress. Steve Brodner makes egg salad. New Yorker. | |
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| 10:37 AM: | A White House Race Beyond Race. Despite being the first African American presidential candidate to become the presumptive nominee of his party, Sen. Barack Obama's candidacy represents issues even larger than a break from long-standing racial divisions in America. Face The Nation. | |
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| 10:27 AM: | Podcast. Insights & analysis on the race for the White House with NBC's team of veteran political reporters: Ron Allen, Lee Cowan, David Gregory, Andrea Mitchell, Kelly O'Donnell & Chuck Todd. Meet the Press. | |
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| 10:14 AM: | Gallup Daily: Obama 46%, McCain 44% Voter preferences in the presidential election remain closely split. Gallup. | |
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| 10:12 AM: | Obama's vice presidential choice now the focus. Democrats on Sunday began healing wounds from a bruising nominating contest and speculated about Barack Obama's vice presidential choice. Reuters. | |
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| 9:16 AM: | Sen. Feinstein Speaks Out in Favor of 'Dream Ticket' Clinton supporter Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., pleaded the case this morning for an Obama-Clinton "Dream Ticket." ABC. | |
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| 8:54 AM: | Obama the humble savior. The media fell in love with Barack Obama but the Democratic electorate declined to. Mark Steyn. | |
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| 8:51 AM: | How to Get Out of Iraq. "Put them on a [expletive deleted] plane and bring them home." Yglesias. | |
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| 8:27 AM: | McCain Opens Fund-Raisers to the Media. The McCain campaign is reversing course and allowing reporters into the candidate's fund-raisers. WSJ. | |
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| 8:26 AM: | Bill Clinton vs. the Citizen Journalist. There is just no way Bill Clinton , a prominent public figure, should assume that anything he says to someone standing there with a microphone in this day and age is not going to be online two minutes later. Firedoglake. | |
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| 8:26 AM: | Feinstein: Clinton won popular vote. "All I can say is I agree with Ed Rendell, that if you really want a winning ticket, [Obama-Clinton] is it." Politico. | |
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| 8:24 AM: | Obama Names Convention Coordinator. Political director Matthew Nugen will oversee the Denver convention on behalf of Obama's campaign. Time. | |
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| 8:07 AM: | Historian Imagines McCain-Obama Debate. Debate historian Alan Schroeder talks with Andrea Seabrook about debate formats and the debaters themselves. NPR. | |
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| 8:05 AM: | The Early Word: The End and the Beginning. The campaigns are moving on to the next phase. NYT. | |
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| 7:57 AM: | Bush: Obama Win a"Powerful Moment" The President tells Italian TV: "I thought it was a really good statement, powerful moment… and it's good for our democracy that that happened." Also says: "I'm for McCain, and everybody knows that." Time. | |
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| 7:56 AM: | Bloomberg, ABC propose first Town Hall. New York’s mayor and the network are first out of the gate, suggesting a 90-minute joint meeting in prime time. Politico. | |
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| 7:55 AM: | No summer break for McCain, Obama. While many people will work on their tans this summer, or on summer reading lists or on not working too hard, two exceptions - John McCain and Barack Obama - and their underlings will be working. AP. | |
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| 7:31 AM: | The wife U.S. Republican John McCain callously left behind. "My marriage ended because John McCain didn’t want to be 40, he wanted to be 25." Daily Mail. | |
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| 7:20 AM: | Hilarious. It doesn't occur to Penn that the reason why Clinton didn't raise enough money was because she was running an anachronistic, Penn-driven, poll-driven campaign. Time. | |
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| 6:55 AM: | McCain's Feisty Campaign. Politico says resentment is helping fuel the Arizonan's operation. Time. | |
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| 6:53 AM: | With Hillary Clinton out, what's next for Bill? What a long, strange, unhappy trip it's been for Bill Clinton. CNN. | |
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| 6:15 AM: | Why Clinton Lost. This day is devoted to a Daily Kos Symposium on this topic; the rest of the essays today will explore why Clinton lost, or why Obama won, and what could possibly have been done about it to change that outcome. Daily Kos. | |
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| 5:51 AM: | Speaking to the enemy. Sometimes it makes sense; sometimes it doesn't; sometimes not talking can be appeasement. The Economist. | |
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| 5:29 AM: | The Problem Wasn't the Message -- It Was the Money. The Clinton campaign found itself without adequate money at the beginning of 2008, and without organizations in a lot of states as a result. Mark Penn. | |
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| 5:28 AM: | The unhappy warrior. It’s not clear that John McCain can contain his temper while battling both Barack Obama and the press. Politico. | |
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| 5:28 AM: | Mark Penn's Post-Mortem. The Clinton strategist offers the NY Times his view on why his client lost. Time. | |
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| 5:27 AM: | General Election Potpourri. WashPost's Balz on Obama and McCain's coming attempts to shake up the electoral map. Time. | |
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| 5:21 AM: | Each Party Is Set to Hunt The Other's Usual Ground. Officials from both campaigns confidently predict that they will steal states that have been in the other party's column in recent elections, and an early analysis suggests there will be new battlegrounds added to the map this year, with Virginia, Colorado and Nevada among them. Washington Post. | |
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| 5:06 AM: | HRC -- 'The stakes are too high to dwell on what might have been' Clinton: "I will work my heart out to make sure that Senator Obama is our next president." Politico. | |
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| 5:05 AM: | Exit Stage Left. The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Washington Post all lead with Sen. Hillary Clinton's concession and solid endorsement of Sen. Barack Obama's candidacy for president. Slate. | |
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| 5:03 AM: | Huckabee Saves A Life. Robert Pittinger, a candidate for lieutenant governor of North Carolina, owes his life to ex-Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee. Marc Ambinder. | |
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