‘Commentary’

COMMENTARY: CBS News Correspondent Seth Doane came to Postville at the end of last week to highlight the growing economic crisis in the community.
The focus of this round of national attention is primarily on the town’s future, and not necessarily that of the residents or Agriprocessors, the kosher meatpacking plant that was the site of [...]

How can evangelicals support a woman for president at the same time they worry about women as pastors? By reading the Bible very selectively.

ANALYSIS: With a handful of Iowa legislative races within double digits or even single digits, and three U.S. Senate races yet to be decided, the word “recount” is buzzing in the air.

While a recount may give a losing candidate emotional satisfaction and a sense of closure, the vote shifts tend to be very, very small.

ANALYSIS: While being careful to tell us up front that he thinks the question is a bit premature, Republican David Oman, a key figure in the last two GOP gubernatorial administrations in Iowa, says Sarah Palin has the makings of a front-runner in the 2012 Iowa caucuses.

Is it feeling like 1964 out there? Richard Cohen of the Washington Post thinks so: “Powell walked away, and others will follow — the second time that a senator from Arizona has led the GOP into the political wilderness.”

COMMENTARY: McCain was like the kid who jumps out from behind a bush and yells “boo” to scare you on the way to school — after jumping out from the same bush and yelling “boo” each day for the past two weeks. As Dionne Warwick would say, you just walk on by.

The Republican National Committee is pulling its money out of challenger races to shore up suddenly endangered incumbents, reports the Politico:
In 2006, veteran Republicans Gil Gutknecht in Minnesota, Jim Leach in Iowa and Jim Ryun in Kansas suddenly found themselves in tough reelection fights. By the time the party saw what was happening, it was [...]

Both parties, in cold political Darwinism, leave the weak to die. It happened to me in my own legislative race 12 years ago. But at the moment, the grumbling appears louder on the Republican side.

Obama’s got so many electoral votes that he’s got some left over for John Kerry and Al Gore. At least that’s what FiveThirtyEight says, predicting a final electoral vote of 346.8 to 191.2.

COMMENTARY: In Tuesday night’s town hall debate, McCain couldn’t resist attacking Obama early and often, failing to connect with those who asked him questions. It was uncomfortable: akin to watching someone failing to accept a handshake.

And McCain’s suggestion that a high-profile supporter of Obama might be his Treasury secretary signals his surrender on the economy.