Former President Bill Clinton appeared with Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo at a rally on Thursday at 1199 SEIU, the health care workers’ union, in Manhattan.Credit Richard Perry/The New York Times
For the second time in eight days, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York turned to a Clinton on Thursday to lend some vigor to his bid for a second term.
This time it was former President Bill Clinton, taking a break from campaigning for Democrats in tight races, a group that decidedly does not include Mr. Cuomo. But it did give the two men a chance to reminisce
about the Clinton years, during which Mr. Cuomo served as housing secretary.
“I was proud of every day,” he said of working in Mr. Clinton’s administration. “It did everything and more that it promised to do for this nation.”
Mr. Clinton, speaking at a union auditorium near Times Square, offered a vigorous defense of one of Mr. Cuomo’s most contentious actions during his time in Albany – enacting strict gun laws in
response to the mass shooting in Newtown, Conn. The laws have produced a backlash upstate.
“There are a lot of hunters in New York,” Mr. Clinton said. “None of them have missed a day of any hunting season because of anything that the governor did. None of them have missed a sport
shooting contest. Nobody in a rural area has lost the right to legally own a gun in their homes for self-protection.”
Mr. Cuomo and Mr. Clinton have a long relationship in which they have seen each other through some rough spots. In his new memoir, “All Things Possible,” Mr. Cuomo recalls a Clinton phone call
that sealed his decision to end his disastrous bid for governor in 2002. (“Andrew,” Mr. Clinton told him, “there’s no way this ends well.”)
More recently, Mr. Cuomo has found himself in the shadow of Hillary Rodham Clinton, whose expected presidential campaign effectively precludes a Cuomo bid.
Mrs. Clinton headlined her own rally for Mr. Cuomo last week, with the governor saying he hoped for “something really, really, really big” in her future.
Mr. Cuomo holds a wide lead over his Republican opponent, Rob Astorino, the county executive in Westchester County, where both Mr. Cuomo and the Clintons live. The Thursday night rally was meant in large part
to encourage Democrats to vote, even though Mr. Cuomo is nearly certain to win.
Democratic nostalgia seemed to be the night’s theme.
During his turn at the lectern, Representative Jerrold Nadler of New York accidentally referred to Mr. Cuomo as “Mario” — the governor’s father, former Gov. Mario M. Cuomo —
before catching himself. A few minutes later, Scott M. Stringer, the city comptroller, did it too: “We must re-elect Gov. Mario Cuomo.”
If you are among the 39 million people in the United States who have Voice Over Internet Protocol phone service, like Vonage or FiOS, you may finally be able to eat dinner in peace.
Or at least avoid unwanted phone calls.
NoMoRobo, a free service, allows VOIP customers to sign up to block political robocalls, which get around the national “Do Not Call List” because they fall under the nonprofit clarification.
The service’s founder, Aaron Foss, put together a list for First Draft of the top 10 offenders:
No. 1: Presidential Coalition (an affiliate of the nonprofit conservative group Citizens United). No. 2: N.R.A. No. 3: Crossroads GPS (founded by Karl Rove). No. 4: Democrats for Senator Mark Warner
and John Foust (a House candidate in Virginia). No. 5: Newt Gingrich Tax Policy Center. No. 6: National Committee for Family, Faith and Prayer (a Citizens United affiliate). No. 7: Citizens United. No. 8: Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin. No. 9: Larry Hogan, Republican nominee for governor in Maryland. No. 10: Bruce Rauner, Republican nominee for governor in Illinois.
NoMoRobo has been inundated with calls this cycle, catching and hanging up on nearly 52,000 of them.
Here’s how it works: By signing up, the user agrees to let NoMoRobo receive a simultaneous ring, which means that any call, from Newt Gingrich or Grandma, also goes to NoMoRobo’s robot. If the
call is on the blacklist, NoMoRobo hangs up for you, so you can eat in peace.
James Carville, Bill Clinton’s chief strategist in 1992, may have more secrets for winning elections than the placement of the campaign headquarters.Credit Spencer Tirey/Associated Press
James Carville’s secret for winning elections? Making sure the campaign headquarters is an abandoned high school gym, with no offices and no doors.
That and other secrets from a cross-section of campaign managers will be revealed in a new college and graduate school textbook, “Campaign Manager: Elections Through the Eyes of Political Professionals,”
due out in early 2016 — just in time for the next presidential election.
The book’s gaggle of authors –including Will Feltus, a principal at National Media, a Republican-ad buying firm; Ken Goldstein, a professor of politics at the University of San Francisco; and
three others — have already conducted 100 in-depth interviews with campaign managers from both parties.
And they just sent out the clarion call for more — 2,500 letters inviting campaign managers to take part in their “campaign manager survey,” and they will follow up with some of the best,
and most interesting, respondents.
Some sample questions: If you could have a do-over in your 2014 campaign, what would it be? And, thinking about your relationships with the candidates for whom you’ve worked, what are the keys to managing
the relationship with the candidate, the candidate’s family and closest friends and supporters?
So far, the most surprising finding might just be that Democrats and Republicans are fairly united in their ideas of what makes a good campaign. “One thing we’ve found is that, although they have
very different ideologies, Democrat and Republican managers tend to agree on how to run campaigns and on what works,” Mr. Feltus said.
Rick Allen, with his wife, Bettie, is trying to unseat Representative John Barrow of Georgia.Credit David Goldman/Associated Press
As part of a Times interactive on the races to watch across all 50 states, we here on First Draft will be highlighting some of our favorites from now until Election Day. Up first, Georgia‘s 12th District, or as Stephen Colbert might say, “The Fightin’ 12th!”
Represented by the House’s last white Democrat from the Deep South, this district in the southeastern part of Georgia has been flooded
with national party money as a businessman tries to unseat Representative John Barrow in the state’s most competitive House race.
By late this month, the National Republican Congressional Committee had spent about $1.93 million to oust Mr. Barrow, who is fighting for a sixth term, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. The Democratic
Congressional Campaign Committee had spent about $1.96 million on the race, most of it dedicated to opposing Rick Allen, the Republican challenger, who owns a construction company based in Augusta.
Michael Jordan doesn't have much respect for President Obama's golf game.Credit Jacquelyn Martin/Associated Press; Jason DeCrow/Associated Press
Finally, the truth.
In an online interview today, Ahmad Rashad asked his good friend Michael Jordan to name his dream golfing foursome.
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Caution: Profane language in link.)
“I never played with Obama, but I would,” Mr. Jordan said, before continuing: “But nah, that’s O.K. I take him out. He’s a hack, man. It’d be all day playing with him.”
“You really want to say that?” Mr. Ahmad asked. “That the president of the United States is a hack?”
“I never said he’s wasn’t a great politician,” Mr. Jordan said, before insulting the president’s golf game again.
“No,” Mr. Rashad said. “He’s not a bad golfer.”
“O.K.,” Mr. Jordan said.
There’s a bit to unpack here.
For starters, Mr. Rashad speaks with authority about the president’s golf game. As we reported in April, Mr. Rashad had been romantically linked to Mr. Obama’s top aide, Valerie Jarrett, and apparently he hits the links regularly with the president.
Now that Mr. Rashad and Ms. Jarrett are apparently no longer a couple, he has returned to the company of this best pal, Mr. Jordan. That hasn’t necessarily been good for Mr. Rashad’s past relationships.
Last year, The New York Post reported that Mr. Rashad and his fourth wife, Sale Johnson, the socialite former wife of Woody Johnson, the Jets owner and Republican bundler, were splitting as a result of his
late and adventurous nights out with Mr. Jordan.
But the president himself is no stranger to trash talking. In an interview last month he
told me that “part of the reason I play is that it is the only time I can get four or five hours outside, and I don’t have the option to take long walks through a city. Logistically it’s
very difficult — you have to move heaven and earth for me to go on a hike or a bike ride, and a golf course is contained.” But he added that when he golfs with his friends, “we’re
talking a little trash and telling stories and laughing.”
Charlie Crist, left, and Gov. Rick Scott after a debate in Davie, Fla.Credit Pool photo by Wilfredo Lee
The contests for governor in Florida, Georgia, Rhode Island and Wisconsin remain close, while the Democrats in New Hampshire and Pennsylvania have double-digit leads, according to the latest polls.
The election for governor in Florida is still neck and neck, with only three percentage points separating the incumbent Republican, Rick Scott, from his Democratic challenger, former Gov. Charlie Crist. In a
Quinnipiac University poll released Thursday, Mr. Crist is supported by 43 percent of likely voters, and Mr. Scott by 40 percent. Perhaps Mr. Crist’s evolution from Republican to independent to Democrat
appeals to unaffiliated voters: Independents back him by a margin of 18 points.
The candidates in the contest to replace Gov. Deval Patrick of Massachusetts are also three percentage points apart in the latest poll, released Thursday by Suffolk University and The Boston Herald.
Charlie Baker, the Republican, has 46 percent, and the Democratic candidate, Martha Coakley, has 43 percent. Only 12 percent of the likely voters said they were registered as Republicans. But Mr. Baker has
a 20-point advantage among independents, who make up 50 percent of the voters. He is also backed by a quarter of Democrats.
Only one percentage point separates the candidates for governor in Rhode Island in a new poll conducted by Brown University. Gina Raimondo, the Democrat, is preferred by 38 percent of likely voters, and Allan
Fung, a Republican, is backed by 37 percent. Earlier this month, a Brown University poll gave Ms. Raimondo an 11-point advantage. Unlike in most other elections this year, there are no real differences in
preferences among female and male voters. And independents are evenly divided. But Mr. Fung is backed by a quarter of Democrats, while retaining nearly 80 percent of Republican support.
In Georgia, Gov. Nathan Deal, a Republican, has a six-point edge among likely voters over his Democratic challenger, Jason Carter, in the latest poll by Monmouth University. But that advantage is within the
poll’s margin of sampling error of plus or minus five percentage points for each candidate. Mr. Deal has a 19-point advantage among independent voters, who make up nearly a fifth of the likely voters.
About one in five of Georgia’s voters said they had already voted, and 58 percent of them said they supported Mr. Carter.
Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin, a Republican, now has a slight lead over his Democratic challenger, Mary Burke, according to the latest Marquette Law School poll. Mr. Walker is backed by 50 percent of likely
voters, and Ms. Burke is preferred by 43 percent. Mr. Walker has a 15-point advantage among likely independent voters; two weeks ago, independents were essentially split in the Marquette poll.
In Pennsylvania and New Hampshire, however, the latest polls indicate that the Democratic candidates continue to lead by comfortable margins. Tom Corbett’s efforts to be re-elected as governor of Pennsylvania
appear to be in vain, according to the latest Franklin & Marshall College poll. The Democratic challenger, Tom Wolf, has a 13-point advantage among likely voters. But in New Hampshire, the incumbent
seems to be heading to another term in the State House. Gov. Maggie Hassan leads the Republican nominee, Walt Havenstein, by 15 points in the latest WMUR Granite State Poll.
The statewide telephone polls of likely voters were conducted over the past week and have margins of sampling error ranging from plus or minus three percentage points to five points.
Mayor Thomas M. Menino of Boston in 2013.Credit Gretchen Ertl for The New York Times
Thomas M. Menino, who served as Boston’s mayor for 20 years, has died at the age of 71.
Mr. Menino will be remembered as a visionary who reshaped one of America’s great cities and as someone who liked to say he valued being a workhorse rather than a show horse.
Take a look at The Times’s obituary for Mr. Menino, written by our colleague Katharine Seelye:
The gloom that has descended on the American electorate ahead of next Tuesday’s midterm elections was once again belied Thursday by the actual state of the economy, which grew by 3.5 percent in the third quarter.
But the economic uptick has simply underscored a truism painful to Democrats facing the voters on Tuesday: Mood is the ultimate lagging economic indicator. If there is any silver lining for President Obama’s
party, if not his legacy, it is the prospect that voter sentiment will finally catch up to the economic recovery by the time the 2016 campaign begins in earnest.
Thursday’s report is consistent with other recent good economic news. Unemployment has dipped below 6 percent for the first time since July 2008. With 248,000 new payroll jobs in September, wages are
beginning to creep upward. The national average price of a gallon of regular unleaded gas is $3.01, the lowest price since 2010, but in this case, it is not being propelled downward by a weak economy, but
instead by a domestic energy revolution.
But voters aren’t feeling it, and candidates aren’t talking about it.
“People are looking at the uncertainty in the economy and holding people accountable,” said David Perdue, the Republican businessman running for the Georgia Senate seat of Saxby Chambliss, a Republican
who is retiring. Ed Gillespie, the Republican challenging Senator Mark Warner, Democrat of Virginia, said, “The biggest issue is economic anxiety.”
The disconnect is not unusual. Republicans bemoaned the lack of credit that President George Bush got in 1992, when the unemployment rate had slid to 7.3 percent in October from 7.8 percent in June. By the time
the 1994 election came around, unemployment was down to 5.6 percent, but President Bill Clinton’s party was trounced.
For Mr. Obama’s potential Democratic successor, that same history offers hope. Mr. Clinton was overwhelmingly re-elected, after all.
Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey after visiting East Dover Marina on Wednesday. The marina was heavily damaged two years ago by Hurricane Sandy.Credit Mel Evans/Associated Press
Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey has a schedule over the next few days resembling that of a candidate in the final swing of a long campaign.
Except he’s not running for anything. Yet.
As part of his duties as chairman of the Republican Governors Association, Mr. Christie is crisscrossing the country, stumping with candidates for governor in 19 states in a five-day span.
The trip kicks off in Arizona on Thursday with two events for Doug Ducey, a former chief executive of Cold Stone Creamery who is battling Fred DuVal, a Democrat, to succeed Gov. Jan Brewer, who is retiring.
The highlight of the trip will come on Friday, when Mr. Christie joins former Gov. Haley Barbour of Mississippi to stump for Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin. As First Draft reported yesterday, there have been
signs of a fraying friendship between the Wisconsin and New Jersey governors.
Immigration isn’t playing a big role in many midterm House races, but it is a significant factor in Colorado’s Sixth District. Here’s the proof: The two candidates are having what appears
to be the nation’s first congressional debate between two non-Latino candidates that is entirely in Spanish.
Representative Mike Coffman, a Republican in a suburban Denver district that is increasingly Hispanic, and Andrew Romanoff, his Democratic challenger and a former State House speaker, have agreed to a debate
exclusively in Spanish Thursday night on Univision.
Mr. Romanoff is fluent from living in Costa Rica and Nicaragua after his college days. Mr. Coffman is learning Spanish, which would seem to put him at a disadvantage. But under the ground rules, the campaigns
were provided questions, and the candidates can have notes on the set. The Coffman campaign evidently calculated that any risk was outweighed by the ability to reach potential voters.
Representative Fred Upton, Republican of Michigan.Credit Charles Dharapak/Associated
Press
When Mayday PAC started up this year, the group, co-founded by the Harvard professor Lawrence Lessig, had a big plan to focus public attention on big money in politics: spend millions of dollars to show that
political spending limits can be a winning campaign issue.
The strategy has proved hard to carry out, in part because so much outside money is flooding competitive congressional campaigns that it is difficult for any single group to stand out. Now, with Election Day
nearing, Mayday is pinning its hopes on Michigan’s Sixth Congressional District, where Representative Fred Upton, a Republican who is the chairman of the influential Energy and Commerce Committee
and was once deemed a safe incumbent, is facing an unexpectedly strong challenge from Paul Clements, a Democrat.
In a race that was on no one’s radar a month ago, Mayday is now the biggest outside spender. As of Thursday, officials said, the group will have committed more than $2 million to the district, where other
outside spenders (not to mention the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee) have barely participated. Mr. Clements has said he would support more aggressive campaign disclosure rules, which Mayday
has pushed for and which Mr. Upton has voted against.
Responding to Mayday’s spending, a conservative “super PAC,” known as American Future Fund Political Action, entered the race this week to back Mr. Upton. The group, which reported having
$56,000 in cash in mid-October, announced on Wednesday that it would spend $300,000 on a campaign of positive ads emphasizing Mr. Upton’s support of the Keystone XL pipeline.
In a memo that will be sent to supporters on Thursday and was shared with First Draft, Mr. Lessig wrote that Mr. Upton “has reason
to be concerned.” An internal poll by Mr. Clements’s team reportedly shows Mr. Upton’s lead down to a few points. Should he lose, Mr. Upton would be by far the highest-profile Republican
to go down to defeat in an election in which Republicans are expected to pick up seats in the House.
From left, Rob Maness, Representative Bill Cassidy and Senator Mary L. Landrieu in Baton Rouge, La., on Wednesday.Credit Gerald Herbert/Associated Press
“The first real gaffe of the night came from the moderator,” said the television news broadcaster John Snell, after he confused the order of the candidates during the second and last debate between
the Louisiana Senate contenders.
It was also about the only unexpected thing that happened in the debate at Louisiana State University, which pitted Senator Mary L. Landrieu, the Democratic incumbent, against Representative Bill Cassidy, a
Republican, and retired Col. Rob Maness, a Republican Tea Party favorite.
Mr. Cassidy talked about President Obama: Ms. Landrieu’s voting record with Mr. Obama, the Obama-Landrieu economy, Mr. Obama’s failure to protect the country from Ebola and “Obamacare.”
Mr. Maness used his answer to a question about the historical roots of racial income inequality to talk about Mr. Obama’s health care law. “Repeal, replace and pull it out by the roots,”
he began.
Ms. Landrieu, the last Senate Democrat in the Deep South, took swings at “these two,” as she called her opponents, for being too far to the right. But she also made sure to point out that she wants
to build a “smart fence” on the border, that she would support Louisiana’s ban on same-sex marriage and that she has gone against Mr. Obama on some issues.
Mr. Maness concluded the debate with a closing statement that quoted extensively from the fictional Col. Nathan R. Jessup in the movie “A Few Good Men.”
Correction: An earlier version of this article misstated the middle initial of the fictional colonel in “A Few Good Men.” He is Col. Nathan R. Jessup, not Nathan P.
Dan Sullivan, the Republican nominee for Senate in Alaska, has his sights trained on someone in his closing ad, and it’s not his Democratic opponent, the incumbent Senator Mark Begich.
In Mr. Sullivan’s 30-second final commercial, which goes on the air on Thursday, he never once mentions his Democratic rival, focusing instead on President Obama.
“Our country is on the wrong track, and it’s Barack Obama’s failed policies that put us there,” Mr. Sullivan says, sitting at a table and clad in a button-front work shirt. “But
there’s nothing wrong with America that can’t be fixed by what’s right with Alaska.”
Mr. Sullivan promises to “stand up to Barack Obama and federal overreach” before closing with a simple — and humble — statement: “I’d by honored by your vote,”
he says.
Whether Gov. Scott Walker will hang on in Wisconsin is one of the many outstanding questions of the November election.Credit John Hart/Wisconsin State Journal, via Associated Press
Good Thursday morning from Washington. There are five days to go before midterm elections and Republican chances of winning the Senate are holding steady at 68 percent. President Obama is making a rare campaign appearance in Maine, Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey is making a not-so-rare visit to Iowa and candidates are pulling out the puppies in their final campaign pitches.
Washington’s bad habit these days is nail-biting as the two parties nervously execute their midterm endgames and try to navigate the path to power. But political players and election watchers might want
to take a moment to savor the uncertainty.
Five days before the 2014 election and after $4 billion in spending, we still don’t know for certain what’s going to happen next Tuesday — or beyond.
Will Republicans take control of the Senate? Likely but not a lock. Will House Republicans meet their goal of 245 seats? Hard to say. Can Gov. Scott Walker hang on in Wisconsin, or will he and
other embattled governors go down to defeat? Not sure.
At least six states in the struggle for control of the Senate — Alaska, Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, North Carolina and New Hampshire — remain truly up for grabs with runoffs likely in Georgia and Louisiana.
Nearly a dozen governor’s races are within the polling margin of error.
Things typically aren’t so unsettled this close to Election Day. In 2012, it was clear that Democrats would hold the Senate. Republicans were certain to take the House in 2010. House Republicans were
just as clearly cooked in 2006.
What’s different this time? The explanation probably lies in the low regard the public has for both parties and for Washington in general. Even with the political environment in their favor, Republicans
are having a hard time putting away races, though when voters finally weigh in, Republicans may gain the upper hand.
Whatever the explanation, it’s plenty interesting.
“These are good times for reporters,” said Senator Jerry Moran, the Kansan who leads the National Republican Senatorial Committee.
When it comes to managing the Ebola crisis, Gov. Rick Perry of Texas appears to be taking notes on what not to do from his colleague in New Jersey, Gov. Chris Christie.
Welcoming home a nurse who was treating Ebola patients in Sierra Leone, Mr. Perry sprinkled his statement liberally with the word hero.
Mr. Christie set off criticism this week when a nurse
he was keeping quarantined in a tent threatened to sue him for not letting her leave. He dismissed her complaints.
“There’s been all kinds of malarkey about this,” Mr. Christie said. “She was inside the hospital in a climate-controlled area with access to her cellphone, access to the Internet
and takeout food from the best restaurants in Newark.”
Mr. Perry’s quarantine was less confrontational. The Texas nurse agreed to stay in her home and be monitored by health officials for three weeks.
“This health care hero has made a great sacrifice in traveling abroad to minister to those who are suffering,” Mr. Perry said.
An aide to Mr. Perry would not say if the effusive praise was intended as a subtle jab at Mr. Christie, a potential rival for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016, but did acknowledge the need to treat
health workers well.
Jeb Bush may be undecided about whether to run for president. But his loyalists are already working it and trying to spread a message: He is no moderate.
Finding its way to The Times’s Washington bureau mailbox on Tuesday was an envelope containing a soon-to-be-released book titled: “Conservative Hurricane: How Jeb Bush Remade Florida.” In
it, the author, Matthew T. Corrigan, a University of North Florida professor, argues that Mr. Bush’s two terms as Florida governor brought sweeping changes to the state’s politics and governance.
“Unlike what his brother George W. Bush was able to accomplish as president, Jeb Bush was able to pass and implement a comprehensive conservative domestic policy agenda,” Mr. Corrigan
writes.
In a note paper-clipped to the book, the loyalist who sent it said the volume corrected a widely held misimpression.
“The Jeb as a moderate stuff is way ahistorical, which most people have missed,” wrote the loyalist, asking for anonymity to speak freely to avoid irritating members of Mr. Bush’s small
inner circle.
That those in Mr. Bush’s orbit are already hailing his conservative bona fides speaks to the difficulty he faces on the right, and his backers’ keen awareness of the seriousness of that challenge.
Ed Gillespie, power lobbyist, former Republican Party chairman and now Virginia Senate candidate, took a little locker-room razzing this week for an advertisement during the Washington-Dallas “Monday Night Football” game attacking his opponent, Senator Mark Warner, for failing to stand up for the Redskins’
name.
Mr. Gillespie is down in the polls, and defending a local football team’s name against charges of racism and cultural insensitivity struck some as a Hail Mary.
Not so, Mr. Gillespie said in an interview on Wednesday. He was making a broader point.
“The notion that the federal government is going to spend scarce time to pass legislation singling out a football team when we should be focused on economic growth, on national security, on health care
just reinforced the fact of what’s wrong with Washington right now,” Mr. Gillespie said.
After months of mean campaign ads, candidates are showing a softer side.
Senator Mitch McConnell, not known for being Capitol Hill’s cuddliest Republican, reprised this week his famous 1984 “Bloodhounds” ad with a scene of him surrounded by a litter of loving bloodhounds licking his palms.
He wasn’t the first candidate to bring out the dogs this cycle. Martha McSally, the Republican looking to unseat Representative Ron Barber, who succeeded Gabby Giffords in Arizona, cradled a furry friend at the end of her latest ad, fending off potential attacks from Democrats that she hates puppies.
And on Wednesday, RepresentativeTom Cotton, the Republican looking to unseat Senator Mark Pryor in Arkansas featured “Cowboy,” the Bichon Frisé
that was his wife’s pet before they married.
“It took me a little while to warm up to Anna’s dog, Cowboy,” Mr. Cotton said. “Just joking, Cowboy.”
The prominence of candidates’ pets is clearly no accident. But it is surprising that campaigns don’t have more of a feline focus: Nearly half the voters surveyed in a New York Times poll conducted
last month were cat owners while a quarter owned dogs.
Hillary Rodham Clinton has not taken a public position on overhauling the National Security Agency, the National Journal reports, but her Senate voting record offers some clues on her views.
Bloomberg observes that Senator Ted Cruz of Texas and President Obama have at least one thing in common — both have been marginalized on the campaign trail this cycle.
CNN has obtained a recording of Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, imagining life in the White House,
and he said “white men who are in male-only clubs are going to do great in my presidency.”
