Reid Wilson's blog

In the pursuit of an image that transcends partisanship, Barack Obama is walking a fine line between building a new politics with himself atop the pedestal and engaging in the old-school, bare-knuckle politics it takes to win a modern campaign. The truth is, instead of running a campaign that avoids the gutter in favor of the high road, Obama's team is running exactly the same campaign as every other successful presidential campaign in recent history, and the same one John McCain and Hillary Clinton are running; Obama's people are just doing a better job of it so far

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Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Chairman, U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) told reporters gathered in Washington recently that 2008 has the potential to be what he termed a “tectonic” election, in which the electorate's views of the parties fundamentally shift. If two coming special elections are any indication, both parties in Washington may find out sooner rather than later whether a shift of the underlying American political landscape has in fact migrated to the left.