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Listening to America’s Black Middle Class
Oct 12, 2007 Presidential hopeful Barack Obama is striking a chord among middle-class black voters, notes Boyarsky, who looks into Obama's fundraising successes among that demographic as an entrée into "an African-American political landscape seldom visited by journalists."
Beating the Odds
Oct 3, 2007 Maybe I'm crazy, but I'd bet on John McCain to win the Republican presidential nomination. And the Democrat with the best chance to beat him is John Edwards.
Hillary Clinton Takes On Healthcare (Again)
Sep 24, 2007 If there's any candidate who knows what he or she would be dealing with in attempting to change the American healthcare system, it's Hillary Clinton. And, according to Boyarsky, charging into that particular political battleground might have made her a stronger contender.
Candidates for Sale
Sep 12, 2007 As Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama know well, this season's crop of presidential candidates can't ignore the super-famous, the super-rich, or those fund-raising impresarios known as "bundlers" in their quest for the White House -- and that campaign trend isn't likely to change anytime soon.
Bridging the Democratic Divide
Aug 24, 2007 If a Democrat wins the next presidential election, she or he will have to tackle battles abroad -- and, no less significantly, at home. Boyarsky predicts that, after ending the Iraq war, a Democratic president would "immediately be confronted with domestic issues that have no Democratic consensus, issues in which debate is charged with deep feelings about national, ethnic and racial identity."War in Iraq, Poverty in America
Aug 15, 2007 Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. both understood the relationship between war abroad and poverty at home -- an insight, says Boyarsky, that the nation sorely needs right now.
ACORN Stays the Course
Aug 3, 2007 The Bush administration's hit job didn't work. Despite all the Republican efforts to stop the liberal grass-roots organization ACORN, its workers continue to trudge the streets of urban America, signing up voters in places where the Bush people never venture.
CNN/YouTube Debates: Democrats in Sharper Focus
Jul 24, 2007 YouTube ushered in a new kind of political debate Monday night with the latest showdown between Democratic presidential hopefuls, and, according to Boyarsky, the new format made for refreshing changes.
McCain Campaign: Not Dead Yet
Jul 17, 2007 Although John McCain has made several serious missteps in his bid for the presidency, and although pundits and politicos alike have all but sounded the death knell for his campaign, McCain may still have the wild-card potential to make a comeback -- especially if President Bush gives him even the slightest boost.Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell: Immigration and Ignorance
Jun 20, 2007 As the immigration issue takes the front-and-center position in Congress, opportunities for real reform -- as well as legitimization for millions of undocumented workers -- are being squandered in each round of deliberation over the pending legislation.
