Walter Shapiro

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  • Who will Obama choose as veep? Nope, you're wrong

    From Webb to Strickland, there are many names bouncing around the blogosphere. If history serves, it will be none of the above.
    By Walter Shapiro June 6, 2008

  • Barack Obama's epic win

    The young senator makes history not only in terms of race, while a determined Hillary Clinton delays the inevitable a bit longer.
    By Walter Shapiro June 4, 2008

  • The new math in Florida and Michigan

    After a day of wrangling in Washington, the magic number for the Democratic presidential nomination is now 2,118, and Hillary Clinton nets 24 largely symbolic votes.
    By Walter Shapiro June 1, 2008

  • The fight over Florida and Michigan

    Here's what to expect when Democratic leaders meet to decide the fate of delegates from the two states' outlaw primaries.
    By Walter Shapiro May 30, 2008

  • Two Democratic dynasties near the exit

    The end of both Clintonism and its opposite -- Kennedy-style liberalism -- draws closer.
    By Walter Shapiro May 27, 2008

  • She's in it to spin it

    Hillary Clinton's goal is to come out of the primaries with a popular-vote lead over Barack Obama. Any questions?
    By Walter Shapiro May 22, 2008

  • Ignore the McCain vs. Obama polls

    In the absence of other political news, pundits are obsessing over head-to-head matchups between McCain and Obama. It's much ado about very little.
    By Walter Shapiro May 17, 2008

  • Hillary enters death-with-dignity phase

    If she hasn't already quit, it's hard to envision Clinton continuing her unwinnable -- even with Florida and Michigan -- battle beyond June 4.
    By Walter Shapiro May 12, 2008

  • Night lands Clinton closer to oblivion

    Obama takes North Carolina and only barely loses Indiana, narrowing Hillary's hopes to the 366 phantom delegates from Michigan and Florida.
    By Walter Shapiro May 7, 2008

  • A pivotal day for the Democrats?

    As Indiana and North Carolina head to the polls, a couple of predictions: The delegate endgame will change -- and nobody can be sure what's next.
    By Walter Shapiro May 6, 2008

  • The endless Democratic party

    In Indiana, Barack Obama settles back into his change-politics strategy, while Hillary Clinton campaigns as if the race itself is everything.
    By Walter Shapiro May 5, 2008

  • Super stuck!

    Democratic superdelegates who haven't yet chosen sides tell Salon about phone calls from Bill Clinton and high-anxiety nightmares. It seems most are not enjoying political superstardom.
    By Mike Madden and Walter Shapiro May 2, 2008

  • The Democrats' God problem

    Obama and Clinton have trumpeted their religious credentials -- but is it really more secularism that they need?
    By Walter Shapiro April 30, 2008

  • Whose fault is the Clinton-Obama stalemate?

    Hillary's missteps are legion, but both candidates are flesh and blood, and their squandered opportunities have prolonged the race.
    By Walter Shapiro April 25, 2008

  • Obama can't close the deal

    Clinton notches another do-or-die big-state win in Pennsylvania. Which is more troubling for Democrats -- her scorched-earth tactics or Obama's failure to build on his base?
    By Walter Shapiro April 23, 2008

  • Bill Clinton's Golden Oldies act

    On the road and off the radar, playing small-town Pennsylvania with the former president.
    By Walter Shapiro April 21, 2008

  • "She's not as bad as you think"

    Hillary Clinton showed off her softer side in the Philly burbs with witty advice on how to sell herself to undecided voters.
    By Walter Shapiro April 18, 2008

  • Obama and Clinton fizzle in Philly

    Wednesday's debate was devoid of substance and rife with gotcha politics. In the end, Obama seemed to win simply by not losing.
    By Walter Shapiro April 17, 2008

  • Spare votes?

    He bowled gutter balls at the rec center, but Obama is picking up points with blue-collar voters in Pennsylvania.
    By Walter Shapiro April 11, 2008

  • Barack Obama in suspended animation

    The front-runner is trapped in an unchanging race that will be hard for him to lose -- but is proving impossible for him to end.
    By Walter Shapiro April 7, 2008

  • The Obama difference

    Unlike most presidential Dems in recent memory, the Illinois senator is at ease with himself -- even while bowling gutter balls in Pennsylvania.
    By Walter Shapiro April 3, 2008

  • Rum, Romanism and James Carville

    With no primaries in sight, campaign coverage goes amok over loose-lipped campaign surrogates shouting "Judas" and "McCarthy."
    By Walter Shapiro March 28, 2008

  • The Democrats' anti-momentum

    The '08 race has revealed the weird science of the Democratic primary system -- and the true problem with the long Obama-Clinton battle.
    By Walter Shapiro March 24, 2008

  • The tragic fall of Eliot Spitzer

    He once busted up "sex rings" himself, but the New York governor's hiring of a pricey prostitute has shattered his political career.
    By Walter Shapiro March 11, 2008

  • Let 'em duke it out

    The Obama-Clinton drama is good for voters and the Democratic Party. And bad for John McCain.
    By Walter Shapiro March 6, 2008
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