Campaign Desk

The Times Takes a Timely Look at Migration

By Holly Yeager   May 28, 2010 at 02:55 PM

The New York Times has a fascinating look at an angle of the immigration story that often goes unnoticed: international... More

Hacky Punditry at the WSJ

Noonan says Dems don’t ‘love’ Obama. But they seem to like him pretty well.

By Greg Marx   May 28, 2010 at 02:52 PM

Given much of the media’s determination to see politics primarily as a stage upon which the president struts and frets,... More

California Roundup

SacBee presses Fiorina, and AP perplexes on GOP primary

By Greg Marx   May 28, 2010 at 12:50 PM

Folks who’ve been paying attention to the Republican Senate primary in California this year might have noticed something unusual: in... More

Taking out the Sestak Trash

By Clint Hendler   May 28, 2010 at 12:05 PM

With Obama’s promise at yesterday’s press conference that the White House would imminently (“When I say ‘shortly,’ I mean shortly.... More

More Prepping for POTUS’s Presser

By Greg Marx   May 27, 2010 at 12:22 PM

Building off Liz’s post below, it’s worth noting that Politico’s Josh Gerstein and Carol E. Lee have put together their... More

Press Conference To-Do Lists (“Show Us The Anger!”)

By Liz Cox Barrett   May 27, 2010 at 11:51 AM

With President Obama scheduled to hold a press conference in about an hour, the Washington Post's Karen Tumulty has a... More

Secrecy at the Deficit Commission

Note to the media: It’s past time for a little sunshine here

By Trudy Lieberman   May 27, 2010 at 11:42 AM

The President’s Deficit Commission held an end-of-the month meeting yesterday, and among the attendees was a woman representing the disability... More

Another Unusual Endorsement

Is something in the water in Arkansas?

By Greg Marx   May 27, 2010 at 11:05 AM

Newspaper endorsement editorials are notoriously snooze-inducing affairs. (Maybe that’s why we’re seeing a spate of non-endorsements this year—it’s the only... More

Massa in the movies?

By Clint Hendler   May 27, 2010 at 10:51 AM

Just when you thought the only thing left to come of the Congressman Massa resignation (the one that brought us... More

Jobs Bill Jumble

Competing narratives and conflicting theories as Congress delays action

By Holly Yeager   May 26, 2010 at 03:20 PM

The news today is that Democratic leaders in the House delayed a vote on a jobs bill. But good luck... More

Secretary of Best Guesses

Timeline sinks longstanding Sestak Navy rumor

By Clint Hendler   May 26, 2010 at 09:00 AM

Last Wednesday, after Pennsylvania Democrats picked Representative Joe Sestak over long serving (and recently Republican) incumbent Arlen Specter as their... More

Big Bet, Small Stakes

Reporting on the “Contract” debate should be clear: it didn’t do much

By Greg Marx   May 26, 2010 at 08:02 AM

At his WaPo blog, Chris Cillizza has a post up that hashes over the question of whether Republicans, poised to... More

Santorum Cracks the Code to Getting Coverage

By Liz Cox Barrett   May 25, 2010 at 04:41 PM

Rick Santorum, the former two-term Republican Senator from Pennsylvania and current Fox News contributor and Philadelphia Inquirer columnist, was... More

Rural Voters for Halter: The New CW in ARSen

By Greg Marx   May 25, 2010 at 03:09 PM

We’ve noted a couple times here, in the wake of the Democratic Senate primary in Arkansas, that the vote breakdown... More

Reading Between the Rescission Lines

By Holly Yeager   May 25, 2010 at 02:34 PM

The White House proposal to give presidents new power to cut spending got plenty of media attention. But despite all... More