Publishers Racing To Deliver Election Books

Now that President-elect Barack Obama has won the election, the race is already under way among book publishers to examine the historic campaign.

Political titles in the works include an insider look at the presidential campaign by Haynes Johnson, a Pulitzer Prize winner, and Dan Balz, a Washington Post reporter. The as-yet-untitled book is to be published in the fall of 2009 by Penguin's Viking imprint, which is part of Pearson PLC's Penguin Group (USA).

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Comments

[nellie]

At this point, I just want a nice feel-good, oversized coffee table book full of photographs.

I'll be ready for the nitty gritty in a couple of months.

[TroubleNYC]

I was right about the Obama doc.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2008/11/hbo-snaps-up-ne.html

[TroubleNYC]

I heard Ed Norton is doing a documentary on O. Supposedly a camera followed during the campaign. That should be interesting.

[xreimerx]

I was checking vote counts per state and I checked Alaska's votes compared to 2000 and 2004, 2008 is a lot lower than both years! What is going on, we need to get the feds up there to check this out. How can there be less people voting when their own governor is on the ticket. We are talking over 100,000 less. Please check for yourselves!

This is voter suppression since Stevens won his Senate seat!! His opponent was way ahead in the polls and they were saying that they would have record turn out.

[TroubleNYC]

Yup, something fishy going on in Alaska. Not surprising.

[akryan]

I've been saying the same thing to people. I can just speak for Anchorage but the caucus was like a rock concert there were so many people. We gave 77% of our delegates to Obama too, so it's not like there were a lot of apathetic PUMA's. The early voting locations were busy all day every day up until the election. On election day I heard that lines were longer than people had ever seen. The Obama campaign and the Begich campaign were very large scale and out in force for GOTV. In short we had 1) Huge Obama support among the democratic base 2) TWO major congressional campaigns and 3) A governor on a national ticket. I can't believe that even counting provisional and absentee ballots that there was a 14% drop in voter turnout. Something smells fishy and it ain't halibut.