“Democratic primary” on The Daily Caller

SAN FRANCISCO — Bill Neukom sat in the front row of AT&T Park on a cool Friday night earlier this season making eye contact with his San Francisco Giants players and urging them on as they came and went from the dugout. (more)

No joke, third White House crasher Carlos Allen is actually running for mayor. (more)

As a result of the puzzling Senate nomination of Democrat Alvin Greene in South Carolina — an unemployed veteran who won his primary despite not spending a dime campaigning— the Green Party candidate in the race says he now has a unique shot to win over Democratic voters. (more)

Barack Obama rode a Twitter and Facebook infused wave of support all the way to the White House. Before the scream, Howard Dean’s net roots support propelled him to improbable frontrunner status in the 2004 Democratic primary. Even Bob Dole had a website way back in 1995. Certainly, the Internet has changed political communications. But, one key ingredient to a political campaign hasn’t changed much or adapted to the Internet age – television advertising. Given the divided nature of the country and the competitive nature of politics these days, that’s pretty noteworthy. (more)

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Two events last week involving elements of the Democratic Party who call themselves the “true progressives” show a danger they represent to the progressive change they say they want to effect. Together they offer President Barack Obama an opportunity for a “Sister Souljah” moment — perhaps to save the Democratic Party majority in both chambers of Congress, as well as his progressive agenda in the last two years of his administration. (more)

If Democrat Alvin Greene, his party’s nominee for the U.S. Senate in South Carolina, ignores calls by state Democratic leaders to withdraw from the race, he might lose their votes in November. (more)

With the investigation of Rep. Charles Rangel nearing its second anniversary, the New York Democrat and the House ethics committee face a new challenge — the political calendar. (more)

Citing the BP oil spill, unemployment and Israeli attacks on a Gaza flotilla, Mark Penn, Hillary Clinton’s top strategist and pollster for her 2008 presidential campaign, last week argued that voters are now “wondering if they underestimated the value of experience and crisis management as important attributes for their president.” (more)

“There is a cancer on the presidency. It has been growing daily for the past three months. It’s compounding, it grows geometrically now because it compounds itself. And there is no assurance that it won’t bust.”  (more)

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — A congressman seeking to become Alabama’s first black governor lost Tuesday to a white Democratic primary opponent who had garnered support from the state’s four major black political groups. (more)

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Senator Arlen Specter — ‘Snarlin’ Arlen’ as he’s known — has been silenced. His grouchy, mean-spirited and shamelessly opportunistic visage no longer shall haunt Capitol Hill as an elected representative of the people. For many on both sides of the political spectrum, Tuesday was a day that should have arrived long ago. If it seems like we’re piling on … it’s because we are. (more)

Upon learning that President Obama had congratulated Pennsylvania Democratic senatorial primary winner Joe Sestak, Rep. Darrell Issa renewed his call that the Department of Justice investigate allegations that Obama offered Sestak an appointed position in exchange for not running in the Democratic primary. (more)

Maybe this fall won’t be as bad as Democrats fear — that was a key takeaway from Tuesday night’s primaries. (more)

LITTLE ROCK — Determined to outwork Sen. Blanche Lincoln on the eve of a Democratic primary that, polls say, he is unlikely to win, Lt. Gov. Bill Halter embarked on a 25-hour campaign swing Monday morning that will take him across the state and back again. (more)

Supporters of the Tea Party Movement say they are dedicated to the ideals and principles of the Founding Fathers. Wouldn’t it be ironic, then, if they succeeded in forcing from office a man who has shed as much blood for his country as any Patriot in the Revolutionary War? (more)

WASHINGTON – The young aide tasked with scheduling Democratic Rep. Joe Sestak of Pennsylvania pokes her head into his inner office on Capitol Hill. (more)

Sen. Arlen Specter won the backing of the state’s largest labor organization yesterday, with the Pennsylvania AFL-CIO endorsing him over Rep. Joe Sestak in the May Democratic primary. (more)

On a recent trip to Little Rock, Bill Clinton walked several blocks downtown without being recognized. (more)