John McCain s victory in Florida gives him an almost priceless amount of momentum heading into next week s Tsunami Tuesday when 21 states hold GOP primaries The almost comes from the fact that McCain is facing the one candidate Mitt Romney who can dip into his personal fortune and spend 50

While the commentariat has covered the religious aspects of the GOP primary extensively few are looking at how religion may affect the Democratic race They should eight of the 22 states that vote next Tuesday have populations that are more than 30 Roman Catholic including the biggest prizes of

Listening to Juan Williams on Fox News cite Hillary Clinton s continued lead in national polls as evidence that the race was still hers to lose two words came to mind Rudy Giuliani If anyone ever wondered about the value of a national poll the ever-shrinking candidacy of Giuliani should persua

Analysts will spend the next few days sorting through the exit poll data checking crosstabs to determine how and why Barack Obama managed to lap Hillary Clinton beating her by 28 points 55 to 27 in South Carolina s primary But three facts stand out Hillary Clinton lost the female vote

The GOP debate last night lacked the rough-and-tumble of previous such efforts Moderator Tim Russert frustrated at his inability to start a skirmish said afterwards that he felt like the candidates had signed a non-aggression pact before the show This niceness probably helps McCain whose South

Bill Clinton had another tantrum yesterday The Clintons ran a highly deceptive radio ad attacking Obama a South Carolina official who supports Obama challenged its veracity and the press asked the former president about it Clinton blamed the Obama campaign for feeding the story to the media a

The annual March for Life has come and gone One of its more bizarre qualities is the way GOP presidents participate by recorded message or telephone hook-up but never in person This began during Ronald Reagan s presidency when some advisors did not want a photo beamed around the world of Reaga

The Republican presidential race turns to Florida s winner-take-all primary one week from today For at least one presidential candidate Florida will be the end of the road the setting of the sun on his presidential ambitions The most likely loser will be Rudy Giuliani He has been out of the

Barack Obama has a problem He has based his campaign on moving past the stale arguments of the past 20 years when the Bush Clinton families have taken turns in the White House America s late Roman empire problem But last week the campaign harkened back to an even earlier time the iden

An informal survey of my black friends tells me they think that the interjection of the race issue into the 2008 primaries by Hillary Clinton and her surrogates was a calculated effort to paint Barack Obama as the black candidate when in fact his campaign is premised on a biography that transce