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June 3
Superdelegate Declarations Push Obama Closer to Goal
The 16-month primary campaign, which wound through every state and U.S. territory, drew to its final hours with a burst of announcements — delegate by delegate — that pushed Mr. Obama closer to crossing the threshold […]

February 22
James Heffernan, Huffington Post
You don’t give up easily, do you?
Earlier this week, just before the primaries in Wisconsin and Washington, you charged Barack Obama with plagiarizing a passage from a speech given by Deval Patrick, the Governor of Massachusetts. Though your charge fizzled (Obama won both of those primaries), you tried it again […]

Posted by our good friend and far-too-infrequent Wednesday Nighter, James A.W. Heffernan, on the Huffington Post
I don’t mean to be grudging.
In all fairness, I must congratulate Hillary Clinton for winning the New Hampshire Democratic primary by almost eight thousand votes.
But in the Upper Valley, a cluster of New Hampshire towns that line the Connecticut River […]

The author, James Heffernan, is Professor of English Emeritus (Dartmouth) and a friend of Diana Nicholson since undergraduate days at Georgetown. In what is laughably called retirement, Jim has taken to blogging, frequently indulging his passion for politics, and often shares the results with Wednesday Night. In turn, we are delighted to […]

Last week’s Wednesday Night discussion was overtaken by events and thus focused mostly on local issues, with the exception of conspiracy theories. This week we are faced with such world turmoil, we are hesitant to point to specific topics as possibilities, but let us try out some of the more flagrant headlines and see how […]