Republican pollster Frank Luntz thinks so. He sought to reassure the California Republican delegation that Obama's lead in polls is, in part, an illusion...

The late summer, pre-convention politics lull finds the void being filled with several deep-thinking magazine articles focused on Barack Obama and issues of race. New York magazine recently published an issue with several pieces looking at race and politics. Notably, one article is capturing the attention of several bloggers. Vanessa Grigoriadis' article titled: Black & Blacker: The racial politics of the Obama marriage was not well received, at best.

This week's spotlight on race (as well as gender and religion) and politics focused on the Democratic primary race in Tennessee's 9th Congressional District. Incumbent Steve Cohen was challenged by Nikki Tinker for the seat.

Somewhat lost in the attention being paid to race and gender in this historic presidential election campaign is the issue of generational change. According to Morley Winograd and Michael D. Hais, authors of Millennial Makeover: My Space, YouTube, & the Future of American Politics, Millennial voters will drive:

It started with an email in my inbox from the Obama Campaign: "I'm about to take the stage in St. Paul and announce that we have won the Democratic nomination for President of the United States." As various media outlets declared Senator Barack Obama had secured enough delegates to make history as the first African-American to lead a major-party ticket in the US, the Senator from Illinois rallied a crowd in St. Paul, Minnesota:

It all comes down to South Dakota and Montana, the last two states to hold Democratic presidential contests. Will this end the nomination battle between Senator Hillary Clinton and Senator Barack Obama?

What do you get when you cross an 80-year-old nun with a primary election that some in the GOP are trying to control? I know that sounds like a bad joke. But it's no joke and the punch line can only increase the voting angst so many already have. The presidential primaries are almost over, but that doesn't mean we can stop thinking about voters and the voting process. After all, what if a group of radical, senior-citizen nuns stormed a polling place and demanded to vote with expired ID's?

As we wind down in the primary season, the hub-bub about voter registration will be gone because everyone is all registered to vote, right? Wrong. More registration efforts are about to begin anew to get people ready to vote in the general election in November.

Although the 2008 JFK Profile in Courage Award recipients were announced in March, they made news again this week when the award was presented Monday.

So, does anyone here still see a path to a win for Hillary? Obviously, she's been considerably bolstered in her dream to plow on by the revelation that fully 67 percent of Democratic voters wish her to plow on. Even among Obama voters, the number's in the 40s. Talk about some validation.

With a reported 40-point lead for Senator Hillary Clinton, West Virginia voters head to the polls. Once again the word being buzzed by blogs and pundits: "margin"- as Senator Clinton looks to woo Superdelegates and Senator Barack Obama again faces questions about his "ability to draw the support of white, blue-collar voters." A Clinton memo released today says, "Given the attempts by our opponent and some in the media to declare this race over, any significant increase in voter turnout, coupled with a decisive Clinton victory, would send a strong message that Democrats remain excited and energized by Hillary's candidacy..."

Kathy Kiely and Jill Lawrence reported recently at USA Today that Hillary Rodham Clinton made these "blunt remarks about race" in an interview when asked how she could win the Democratic nomination. "I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on," she said in an interview with USA TODAY. As evidence, Clinton cited an Associated Press article "that found how Sen. Obama's support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me." "There's a pattern emerging here," she said.