Ed Kilgore

Leslie West turns 70 today. Here he is in 1988 performing a Mountain staple, a cover of Jack Bruce’s “Theme For an Imaginary Western.”

Maybe tomorrow won’t feature any presidential candidate withdrawals like the last two–I’ll keep my eye on Baton Rouge just in case! But the HRC testimony could be a big and possibly positive deal for her. Here are some remains of the day: * HRC promises an active antitrust enforcement policy, especially in health care. More […]

As we get closer to actual caucus and primary voting some of the loose CW surrounding the contests will need to give way to more accurate and detailed information. For example, a lot of observers seem to think that Republicans will on March 15 switch from a “proportional” to a “winner-take-all” system for delegate allocation. […]

I decided a long time ago that I had no future on TV, and then I chose to live somewhere remote from the studios that could project my face-made-for-radio into startled living rooms everywhere. But if I were struggling for one of those rare perches on the Tube, I’d be infuriated by this news, as […]

So Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the 2016 presidential campaign is a second bit of very good news for Hillary Clinton in a short period of time, the first being positive assessments of her performance in the first Democratic debate. The third could well come tomorrow if she does well in her testimony before the Benghazi! […]

I saw the Elvin Bishop Group perform at the Atlanta Municipal Auditorium in the early 70s, as the opening act for, strange to say, The Kinks. Elvin was at that time part of the Macon, Georgia- based Capricorn Records stable of southern rockers (Wet Willie’s lead singer did a cameo on stage with the EBG […]

Marc Nozell/Flickr After his remarks yesterday expressing sharp disagreement with Hillary Clinton over the nature of Republicans and seeming to revise the semi-official history of the White House decision to assassinate Osama bin Laden, most Democrats I know felt Joe Biden just could not continue to remain ambivalent about his presidential plans, or the lack […]

A frequently heard element of the Trump’s-already-lost belief system is the comparison you often see between The Donald’s Invisible Primary poll standing and that of Rudy Giuliani in 2008. Philip Klein briskly disposed of it earlier this week: When Giuliani ran for president, he actually was at the top of national polls for far longer […]

Michael Vadon/Flickr Today’s lengthy but interesting read is a two-part interview of Bush Super-PAC majordomo (and overall chief Bush strategist) Mike Murphy by data geek Sasha Issenberg at Bloomberg Politics, which was apparently conducted at some point in early October. In the first installment Murphy dismisses Donald Trump as a “zombie candidate” who will either […]

Gage Skidmore/Flickr Yesterday Nancy LeTourneau pointed to a comprehensive analysis by Ron Brownstein pretty much definitively proving a hypothesis I’ve been promoting since Donald Trump’s rise to the front-running Republican presidential position this summer: in state after state, Trump’s strongest showing is among non-college educated white voters, a.k.a. the white working class. There’s fresh evidence […]