election
Election night in Chicago
Theodora Rose wept beneath her baseball cap. The mascara ran down her face as she pumped her fist in the air. “You have to have lived through what I’ve lived through to feel it,” she said.
The Democratic Convention
They gave out the flags at three o’clock, one for every person in the stadium. I told the woman thanks, but no thanks, I’m not American. “You are tonight,” she said.
Swing state road trip
Barack Obama cannot lose. Living in New York, watching cable news and obsessively checking poll results has convinced me of this. Predicting a landslide from diverse, middle-class Brooklyn has been shown to be foolish. I took a road trip across states that matter.
Hillary concedes
Hearing Clinton praise Obama’s dedication to “ensure the dream is realised” was both refreshing and unsettling. She didn’t quite call him a great man or a visionary leader, but suddenly, he was no longer too inexperienced to be commander-in-chief either, no longer elitist or out of touch.
Texas primary
The Texas primary was supposed to be Clinton’s Alamo, but Ohio is a better place to make her last stand. Deadlocked opinion polls suggest an extremely nervous evening for both campaigns on Tuesday.
Campaign exhaustion
Hillary Clinton looked knackered. Barack Obama was hoarse. The bags under Mitt Romney’s eyes offered the first clue that his defiance was hollow. Even as he was saying “this campaign is going on… all the way to the White House” his body was visibly giving in.
Daschle embarrasses Obama
After a week in which his legislative agenda came under sustained attack from both sides, the President will be content to see his stimulus bill scrape through, diminished and shop-worn, by the narrowest possible margin.
