2parse/blog (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
As pointed out by a political pundit: You can argue about how important a role Obama’s platform played in his victory. But, to read any newspaper in the days following the election, you’d think that Obama had to start crafting his agenda completely from scratch. “He ran on a platform to change the country and its politics,” wrote Washington Post lead political analyst Dan Balz. “Now he must...
TODAY ON VOT3R - Politics STORIES (Free subscription) | 22/11/2008
At DKos yesterday, Jed L posted the following map in a FP diary "Obama Won 197 Of 196 Battleground EVs" : It's a map of supposed "battleground states" from the Washington Post's Dan Balz and Alec Macgillis on June 8, 2008 : As Jed L notes, Obama did indeed win more battleground EVs than the Post had...
Daily Kos (Free subscription) | 22/11/2008
Here's a look at the battleground states, per the Washington Post 's Dan Balz and Alec Macgillis on June 8, 2008 : And here's the electoral vote breakdown of the above map: GOP Leaning: 174 Dem Leaning: 168 Battlegrounds: 196 Now, let's look at the final electoral vote tally, including the change from what WaPo had put in each candidate's non-battleground column: McCain: 173 (-1) Obama: 365...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 17/11/2008
Washington Post's Dan Balz , on PBS' "Washington Week" Friday: I talked to somebody this week who has been part of the campaign throughout, said the word has gone out: "Do not talk to the press. Period." He said this is much different than during the campaign itself. New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media
Real Clear Politics (Free subscription) | 12/11/2008
A host of books about the just completed election are now in the works. Chuck Todd of NBC News is reportedly "crashing" on a book now for Knopf, Ryan Lizza of The New Yorker just signed a mid-six-figure deal with Penguin, and Mark Halperin of Time and New York's John Heilemann are co-authoring a book for Harper Collins that reportedly fetched them a mid-to-high six figure payday, and Dan Balz...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
Now that President-elect Barack Obama has won the election, the race is already under way among book publishers to examine the historic campaign. Political titles in the works include an insider look at the presidential campaign by Haynes Johnson, a Pulitzer Prize winner, and Dan Balz, a Washington Post reporter. The as-yet-untitled book is to be published in the fall of 2009 by Penguin's Viking...
MarcGopin.com (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
Barack Obama, my new president, has ushered in a new era of American history, on many levels. But we are quickly moving to the question of how President Obama’s leadership and governance will operate, what will it look like in practice. Everyone is looking for clues, and Dan Balz has an excellent article on deciphering [...]
BrothersJudd Blog (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
Campaign Gives Some Clues to How Obama Will Govern (Dan Balz, 11/06/08, Washington Post) President-elect Barack Obama proved one of the most formidable political candidates of the modern era, but his résumé is one of the shortest of any recent incoming president, and so knowing for sure the kind of chief executive he will make is something that will have to wait until he takes office in January....
Twenty-Cent Paradigms (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
The Washington Post's Dan Balz writes : After a victory of historic significance, Barack Obama will inherit problems of historic proportions. Not since Franklin D. Roosevelt was inaugurated at the depths of the Great Depression in 1933 has a new president been confronted with the challenges Obama will face as he starts his presidency. Hmm... unemployment is currently at 6.1%; I wouldn't be surprised...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
An internal Washington Post memo, obtained by FishbowlDC: Colleagues, today's outstanding newspaper and the extraordinary coverage we produced over the last 24 hours on our website cap many months of superb work by just about everyone at The Washington Post, both in print and online. As Dan Balz wrote yesterday in the last of his campaign Takes, the road to the White House began almost two...
Vox Verax (Free subscription) | 02/11/2008
Polls Show Obama Leading in States Whose Electoral Votes Total Nearly 300, and the Democrats Heading Toward Expanded House and Senate Majorities By David S. Broder, Dan Balz and Chris Cillizza Washington Post Staff Writers Sunday, November 2, 2008 Barack Obama and the Democrats hold a commanding position two days before Tuesday's election, with the senator from Illinois leading in states whose...
Funny blog (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
... Congressional control by Democrats and a stubborn, veto-wielding White House. “Obama’s ability,” Dan Balz notes in the Washington Post , “to manage relationships with Democratic congressional leaders, with Republicans and with impatient liberal constituencies with agendas of their own will have a lasting impact on his presidency. Can he, for example, fulfill his promise to govern in a unifying...
YaLibnan (Free subscription) | 03/11/2008
By David S. Broder, Dan Balz and Chris Cillizza Washington - Barack Obama and the Democrats hold a commanding position two days before Tuesday's election, with the senator from Illinois leading in states whose electoral votes total nearly 300 and with his party counting on significantly expanded majorities in the House and Senate. John McCain is running in one of the worst environments ever...
Law Blog - WSJ.com (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
Now that President-elect Barack Obama has won the election, the race is already under way among book publishers to examine the historic campaign.Political titles in the works include an insider look at the presidential campaign by Haynes Johnson, a Pulitzer Prize winner, and Dan Balz, a Washington Post reporter. The as-yet-untitled book is to be published in the fall of 2009 by Penguin's Viking...
MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
By Dan Balz 4:46 a.m. ET After a victory of historic significance, Barack Obama will inherit problems of historic proportions. Not since Franklin D. Roosevelt was inaugurated at the depths of the Great Depression in 1933 has a new president been confronted with the challenges Obama will face as he starts his presidency. At home, Obama must revive an economy experiencing some of the worst shocks...
