Laurie Ochoa

BY MARC COOPER Obama Up By 14 Points I think this latest CBS/New York Times poll showing Obama leading nationally 53-39% is the political news headline of the week (along with nearly 90% of Americans believing the country is on the wrong track and Sarah Palin's favorability rating falling to......

BY MARC COOPER I made a passing reference to this the other day, but now it's really starting to bug me. The McCain-Palin street rallies really are beginning to take on many of the chilling aspects of what I witnessed from the proto-fascist right-wing in El Salvador twenty years ago......

BY MARC COOPER We had been told since the beginning that the Taliban, al Qaeda and jihadists in general worked on what was called a "biblical calendar." None of this faster, quicker B.S. They would take their time in restoring the Caliphate. Fair enough. But who knew the Weather Underground......

BY MARC COOPER Republican strategists are now privately admitting they face the real possibility of an historic down-ticket catastrophe come November 4th. The demise of the entire Reagan Era could possibly be certified by the Democrats winning a 60-seat filibuster-proof majority in the Senate. Republican losses in the House could......

BY MARC COOPER Here's the only tin-foil if not exactly the silver lining in yesterday's literally depressing economic news: Next year's bread lines will be administered by a Democratic, not a Republican, administration. You can bet on it. For personal reasons (like now I have to work till I'm 113)......

BY MARC COOPER What a shriveled tiny man John McCain turns out to be. And I don't mean physically. I mean his soul. Chris Matthews characterized McCain on MSNBC as a "troll" who was "angry at the world." No kidding. I am not the first to have noticed that in......

BY MARC COOPER Call me naive or even delusional, but I think we can surmise the political implications of McCain's transparent campaign-suspension gimmick. I'm standing by my view that these past two weeks we have witnessed the implosion of his campaign. The American people take this catastrophic threat to their......

BY MARC COOPER I was around a lot of gloomy Democrats today who are more or less convinced that McCain's got this thing in the bag. They came to me looking to get cheered up because I've been writing columns to the contrary. In the end, of course, I don't......