Chuck Todd

What drives Politics Lost is a wistful idea: Klein is in search of what he calls “Turnip Day” moments. It’s a reference to the Democratic Convention of 1948, when Harry Truman gave a feisty off-the-cuff speech in which he promised to call legislators back to Washington on “the 26th of July, which out in Missouri […]

The campaign staffs themselves have been saying for months that they anticipate that the race will go down to the wire. In late April, Republican party chairman Ed Gillespie told The New York Times that he expected a “very, very close” race. This winter, Democratic party chairman Terry McAuliffe urged Ralph Nader not to enter […]