Jan 03 Swearing Off Resolutions… Kind of I have never been much for making promises that I know will be impossible to keep. But if you read this blog regularly, you will know that I am more of an optimist than anyone who covers Washington has any… Continue reading
Dec 28 Gwen’s Take: Thanks for Watching Working a holiday week means having no more excuses. So my desk, which had turned into the place where election-year research goes to die, needed my attention. If I never replied to your invitation, answered your complimentary or critical… Continue reading
Dec 21 Gwen’s Take: Sandy Hook and the Politics of Pain I think it's fair to say we have all been crying for a week. Watching the faces of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting scroll by, in silence, at the end of the PBS NewsHour on… Continue reading
Dec 14 Gwen’s Take: If Women Ruled the World Maine Republican Susan Collins and 18 other members of the United States Senate gathered for a kind of celebratory interview the other day. Their inquisitor was ABC's Diane Sawyer, who invited the sitting and incoming members of the vaunted… Continue reading
Dec 06 Gwen’s Take: What You Didn’t Know About Election 2012 I consider myself a voracious consumer of information. This was true during the 2012 presidential campaign, and it remains true today. This week, one month after the end of a close election, we learned that, in Ohio, President Obama beat… Continue reading
Nov 16 Gwen’s Take: The Political Storm Ends; the Drama Begins SPRINGFIELD, Ohio -- Perhaps it's just my imagination, but one of the most hard-fought electoral prizes in the nation -- the Buckeye state -- seems oddly quiet. Less than two weeks ago, voters in pivotal southwest Ohio's Clark County trotted… Continue reading
Nov 09 Gwen’s Take: The Obama Victory – The Good, The Bad and the Potentially Ugly By Gwen Ifill Late into the evening on election night, as we were waiting for Mitt Romney to concede and President Obama to accept victory, striking images began dominating our television screens. One moment we saw the Romney crowd in Boston, some of… Continue reading
Nov 06 Gwen’s Take: Hopes, Fears and Democracy on Election Day By Gwen Ifill Judy Woodruff with presidential candidate Jimmy Carter in New Hampshire Feb. 24, 1976. Photo by NBC News/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images. I try not to get too carried away on Election Day every four years, because, after all, I… Continue reading
Nov 02 Gwen’s Take: Reading Between the Lines By Gwen Ifill The days tick down to a precious few, and partisans on both sides of the political divide are asking the same essential question: What's gonna happen? This question is posed to me at gas stations, in the supermarket, in airports… Continue reading
Oct 26 Gwen’s Take: Election Countdown: By the Numbers By Gwen Ifill I've got to admit I could not contain my excitement when an aide to a Massachusetts Senate candidate shared with me her campaign survival secret: an app that counts down to Election Day. Regardless of whether it's 25, 14, 12… Continue reading