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A tale of two women

Published: Aug 27 2008, 11:08 PM · Updated: Aug 27 2008, 11:11 PM

By David Broder

DENVER — The leading women of the Democratic Party have done their part. Michelle Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton, slated as the featured speakers on the first two nights of the national convention, delivered a pair of speeches that came as close to fulfilling the hopes of the nominees and the party leaders as anyone could have imagined.

Reporting from the grassroots

Published: Aug 20 2008, 11:18 PM · Updated: Aug 20 2008, 11:19 PM

By David Broder

LYNDEBOROUGH, N.H. — Secretary of State Bill Gardner is as much of a New Hampshire tradition as the presidential primary he assiduously protects from all challenges. He may not know every voter in the state, but he knows every vote.

Campaign reform ideas galore

Published: Aug 13 2008, 11:28 PM · Updated: Aug 13 2008, 11:29 PM

By David Broder

LIBERTYVILLE, Ill. — The Stevenson family has a long history with political conventions. Great-grandfather Jesse Fell went to the Republican convention in Chicago in 1860 to help turn the brand-new Republican Party to his friend, Abraham Lincoln.

McCain, Obama and civility

Published: Aug 9 2008, 11:21 PM

By David S. Broder

WASHINGTON — In the time they served together in the United States Senate, John McCain and Barack Obama developed neither a friendship nor an intense dislike. They entered this campaign as relative strangers. Now — as the sniping builds to a steady staccato — each of them has acquired a strong sense of grievance about the other.

Looking at potential senators

Published: Aug 2 2008, 10:47 PM

By David Broder

Senators are great glad-handers, not just with their constituents but with each other. Every time a vote is called, they mill around in front of the rostrum, grabbing hands and shoulders, or patting each other’s back.

New hope for ‘affordable’ housing

Published: Jul 30 2008, 11:02 PM

By David Broder

WASHINGTON — If you were to ask Democrats Barney Frank and Chris Dodd — the principal architects of the massive housing bill signed Wednesday by President Bush — which of its many features pleases them most, the answer would surprise you.

Good month for Obama; bad for McCain

Published: Jul 23 2008, 11:36 PM

By David Broder

WASHINGTON — It made no sense when Barack Obama left the country on his nine-day overseas tour for what some of my fellow columnists to describe it as a high-risk venture.

Finding a ‘veep’ for McCain

Published: Jul 19 2008, 10:42 PM

By David Broder

Last Wednesday morning, The Washington Post published a poll of registered voters giving Barack Obama an eight-point lead — largely because the voters said they trusted him more than John McCain on handling their No. 1 issue, the economy, by an astounding 19 percentage points.

Wisdom from the governors

Published: Jul 16 2008, 11:07 PM

By David Broder

PHILADELPHIA — When the luck of the draw made him the chairman of the National Governors Association in this, the centennial year of its first meeting (with President Theodore Roosevelt), Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty knew how and where he wanted to celebrate the occasion.

Defining America

Published: Jul 3 2008, 12:04 AM

By David Broder

WASHINGTON — Just in time for Independence Day, a conservative think-tank has delivered a controversial report questioning whether America’s national identity is eroding under the pressure of population diversity and educational slackness.

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