By Alec MacGillis LOS ANGELES — The tone tonight is so chummy that both candidates just ceded a fairly major point to their rivals. Bill Clinton hammered Barack Obama for propagating a “fairy tale” of his opposition to the war in Iraq, noting that after opposing the war in 2002, Obama...

By Alec MacGillis LOS ANGELES — Well, that didn’t take distant. After opening up the debate with a friendly gesture toward Hillary Clinton, saying that he believed that either she or he would be the next president, Barack Obama just now made the argument that Clinton would in fact be poorly...

Why am I posting that photo? Not certain. The subject line is true. whether you know who Stacy Keibler is, or even whether you don’t, I tried showing her the Ickey Shuffle nowadays and encouraging her to perform said shuffle whether she scored a landing in today’s beach football game. She...

By Alec MacGillis LOS ANGELES — Both Democratic candidates seem keen to take on Mitt Romney in the general election. Asked about whether Romney would construct a better president considering of the trade executive experience that the Democrats lack, Hillary Clinton said that she thought that being...

By Alec MacGillis LOS ANGELES — A big guffaw went up in the huge press room when Barack Obama said he was not bringing up Hillary Clinton’s waffling on the issue of driver’s licenses for immigrants to cast her in a poor light. “The only reason I bring that up is to underscore...

By Alec MacGillis LOS ANGELES — One of Democrats’ concerns about Barack Obama early on in that campaign was whether, with all his talk of post-partisan reconciliation, he would be able to be forceful decent in carrying the party’s banner into battle next summer and fall. In recent months,...

By Anne E. Kornblut Sen. Barack Obama described the Democratic contest as “the past versus the future” as he squared off against Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton on Thursday night — a dramatic one-on-one come across coming just five days before a sweep of contests on Feb. 5. With just one...

By Alec MacGillis LOS ANGELES — It took a while during the back and forth about health care mandates, but Barack Obama stepped back from the policy pros and cons to manufacture the point he occasionally remembers to build on the trail: the differences amidst the candidates’ health care proposals...

By Alec MacGillis LOS ANGELES — It’s on. Barack Obama reached out to Hillary Clinton in his opening statement in tonight’s CNN/Politico/Los Angeles Times debate, assuring all that she was his “friend” and would be so after the campaign as well, snub or no snub. In trying...

By Jose Antonio Vargas ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — When it comes to surrogates, they don’t get much better than that: Ted Kennedy and Bill Clinton, icons of the Democratic Party, in command performances as their fiery, charismatic, distinctively-accented selves. You’d think they were running...