Electoral contests have nothing but polls, which is why people have grown so obsessed with them; we're desperate for an objective rendering of what is happening and what may happen.

In the Democratic primary in 2008, the Obama team devised a strategy to use the caucuses and a complicated system of awarding delegates in the state primaries to sneak up on Hillary Clinton and establish a lead Obama never surrendered.

Is victory sweet because your side wins - or is it really because the other side loses?

Newt Gingrich has a restless and outsized intelligence that is tragically unleavened by any kind of critical sensibility.

Back in 1995, Bill Gates himself didn't understand that the internet was the direction computing was going.

I was wholeheartedly attracted to the conservative atmosphere that permeated the city of Washington.

Electoral contests have nothing but polls, which is why people have grown so obsessed with them; we're desperate for an objective rendering of what is happening and what may happen.