The Sunshine Empire

The new poll is up in advance of the Republican National Convention next week.  More live blogging tonight of the Bubba Clinton and Joe Biden speeches.

Think Progress has a post about an exchange today on Morning Joe on MSNBC.  Apparently Chuck Todd made mention of there being a possibility of Florida Governor Charlie Crist having a sham engagement.  Those in attendance were a little shocked, but Todd is not saying anything that has not been going around close circles in [...]

Last night during Hillary Clinton’s speech we made the comment that no matter what kind of speech she gave, it would not be enough.  The right is delighting in trying to expose some kind of Hillary-Barack feud beyond what has happened with primary opponents since the beginning of the republic.  Sure enough reading the reviews [...]

In our nightly closing, it seems that many wish that this convention was more hard on George Bush and John McCain.  Yet as much as the Democratic National Convention was about beefing up the military vibe in 2004, this year seems to be focusing on people who have won elective office in places once thought [...]

Hillary’s speech is great so far, but here’s a bet that the Fox News NRO crowd will say it is not enough and that it was tepid no matter if she blew Barack on the convention floor after the speech.

Watching before the Hillary speech to the DNC they are following Bill Clinton coming into his box at the convention hall.  He is surrounded with black people.  Now I know he has had a historically wonderful relationship with African Americans, but I wonder if this is a concerted effort to blunt the racism accusations?

Warner is doing a good job of pitting the move for hybrid vehicles against facing the threat from the Chinese.  I’ve always felt that the best way to face the enviromental question is to put it in economic terms.  He’s doing that.  Warner is also talking about rebuilding the military.  As opposed to 2000, when [...]

I’ll address Bob Casey in a minute, but I’m watching Fox News while my cable system has CNN frozen. HANNITY and colmes are talking to Clinton adviser Howard Wolfson and they are both begging him to say that he hates Obama and that he’s a horrible candidate. I get that from Hannity but I do [...]