Month: February 2008

This past weekend I traveled back to Maine to participate in the Democratic caucuses. Maine doesn’t offer much in the way of delegates. Just 34 are sent to the National Convention. Yet with the race for the Democratic presidential nomination as tight as it is, even my tiny home state became vested this past weekend … Read more

Barack Obama gained two more interesting supporters this week, following Kathleen Sebelius’s endorsement last Wednesday. On January 31, former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker announced he was backing the senator from Illinois. Volcker ran the Fed throughout most of the 1980s, and was widely praised for his work mopping up the economic mess of the … Read more