Forget about policy speeches and wooing superdelegates. For Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, Saturday morning was devoted to chick chat - a panel discussion with a group of working moms on topics ranging from girl-on-girl violence to her daughter's early dating years. ...more

May 4, 2008

Sen. Barack Obama appeared to win the Democratic caucuses in Guam on Saturday, defeating Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton by a seven-vote margin amid unprecedented voter participation there. ...more

May 4, 2008

Politics At Its Worst Regarding "Clinton's Pa. Win Boosts Pressure to Solve Florida, Michigan Votes" (front page, April 24): ...more

May 3, 2008

The Democratic superdelegates are starting to follow the voters - straight to Barack Obama. ...more

February 23, 2008

Judging from complaints by her minions, Hillary Clinton considers it unfair that Barack Obama has been wafted close to the pinnacle of politics by an updraft from the continentwide swoon of millions of Democrats and much of the media brought on by his Delphic utterances such as "We are the change." But disquisitions on fairness are unpersuasive coming from someone from Illinois or Arkansas whose marriage enabled her to treat New York as her home, and the Senate as an entry-level electoral office (only 12 of today's senators have been elected to no other office) and a steppingstone to the presidency. ...more

February 22, 2008

Remember the hanging chad and the butterfly ballot from the 2000 presidential season? These infamous terms still leap into the mind when thinking of that race, not to mention the lingering conviction of a few that Al Gore, who had more popular support, was cheated out of the White House. This year, it's the superdelegates' turn to make voters shake their heads and wonder why the democratic process in the United States has so many caveats. ...more

February 18, 2008

Perhaps Alex Sink, the lone Democrat in Florida's Cabinet, is right. Perhaps everyone should chill out about the ban on Florida delegates from this summer's Democratic National Convention. ...more

February 17, 2008

The heroes of our presidential elections aren't the candidates, although today's campaigns do rival the epic quest of Odysseus. ...more

February 17, 2008

Democrats nationwide are worried that the nearly tied nomination battle between Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama is headed for a disputed outcome, threatening their chances to win November's election. ...more

February 16, 2008

Even with the voting and candidate boycott now over, the fight over Florida's Jan. 29 presidential primary is only intensifying. ...more

February 14, 2008