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A day after Barack Obama’s historic win, I think newspapers are among the major winners in Election ‘08. On Wednesday in New York City, I heard various stories about a scarcity of the day’s newspapers. Friends and colleagues were unable to find copies of the New York Times at newsstands. By midday, I heard [...]

I found my interest in last night’s Super Tuesday coverage diminishing little by little as the electoral map became muddled in various shades of blue and red.
Still, I was drawn to one particular bit of exit polling data, showing that the leading quality sought by Obama voters is “can bring about needed change.”
Obama [...]

Senator Hillary Clinton made a subtle but interesting comment in her post-SOTU remarks to MSNBC’s Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann. Here’s what she said in response to a Matthews question about whether she still “feels a sting” from the Republicans’ efforts to kill her health care plan in the early 1990s:
“You know I really don’t [...]