Golden Shovel Award: B.J. Clinton

In order to win the nomination, Mrs. Clinton needs the black vote.  Her husband, B.J. Clinton, seems bounded and determined to insure that Mrs. Clinton does not get that vote.   Josh Gerstein, Sun(NY) “Clinton Does More Damage Control

Ben Smith over at the Politico notes that there’s been a lot the last 48 or so over charges of racism:

A series of comments from Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, her husband and her supporters are spurring a racial

John Hawkins emailed a bunch of right siders within the last week or so and asked a series of questions aimed to judging where we are on the presidential election, and specifically the Republican nomination. Among those responding:
The Absurd

James Joyner, earlier today:

George Will closes a subpar (by his standards, at least) column on the silly populism of Mike Huckabee and John Edwards with this praise for Barack Obama:

Barack Obama, who might be mercifully closing the

We’ve already spoken to the Republican side of things, last night. So now on to the Democrats.

As we noted, the other night, Chris Dodd and Joe Biden dropped out of the race, not even bothering to wait for the

I get asked fairly frequently of late, what are you guys gonna do if one of the (current) frontrunners wins the Republican nomination? Aren’t you painting yourselves into a corner just a little by targeting the front runners? (Example, calling

Matthew Yglesias, Atlantic,  seems as confused by Mrs. Clinton’s recent campaign maneuver as I am.    Mrs. Clinton has accused  Barack Obama of being too liberal.   Thomas Edsall, Puffington Post:

Hillary’s aides point to Obama’s extremely progressive record as

Was installing a new screen in my Palm Pilot, tonight. While working, I had a chance to mentally break down each candidate with respect to Iowa.

Some notes in no particular Order:

Mike Huckabee;

Huckabee did about as well as

Stephen Green, Vodka Pundit, asks a simple question:

Dear Iowa Republicans,

I’ll put this in language even your tiny little Iowa brains can understand: What the f*** is wrong with you people?

The news coming out of Des Moines

Bitsblog has a special place, can’t say just where, for Keith Olbermann.   I have found another blog which holds Olberman in like regard:

Half of Keith’s audience watches him on Crooks and Liars. He’s got to stay in good with

It’s New Year’s Day, and I’ve got a day off.

I’m watching a huge orgasm in non-coverage occurring in the primary states this morning, particularly Iowa. in watching all of this nonsense the last couple of days I am reminded

While Gallup’s most recent poll… and the “reporting” thereof… centered on the idea that Hillary Clinton has passed Oprah Winfrey as the most admired woman…. (Nobody asked me…)   Ron Coleman over at Right Wing News reports there’s a little

Let me first say that I’ve never been overly enthralled with Mike Huckabee and his candidacy for presidency.  He’s never struck me as overly bright individual to begin with, and his activities subsequent to announcing for the presidency, and have

Jake Tapper at ABC is reporting:ABC News has learned that the campaign of Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., has registered the names of two Web sites with the express goal of attacking her chief rival, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill.It’s the first

Memeorandum has several endorsements up today, from papers aroundthe country… mostly those “serving” in or near primary states.

I suppose it shouldn’t be a surprise to anybody, that almost universally.  The papers are putting their endorsements for the Republican nomination