WANTED: Citizen reporters to help HuffPost's OffTheBus cover the Obama campaign. Over the next two weeks the campaign will be holding hundreds of small platform meetings where the public is invited to help shape the nominee's platform. We need you to be a reporter in your local meeting, and...

The Jesse Jackson "hot mike" flap, it seems, is only the latest evidence that the old "rules" of journalism deserve a real public hearing, one far more serious and ambitious than what we've heard to date.

Jackson lost his bearings in FOX's studio and let slip before his interview...

Starting last week OffTheBus's Special Ops members set out on their first assignment to check out what was going on at local and state party headquarters across the country. In the slide show below, you'll see what a handful of what our team of citizen-reporters found (and...

Where are the state campaign headquarters located, exactly, for the party that claims to represent Main Street? Where are they located for the party that claims to represent everyone? Thanks to the work of HuffPost OffTheBus Special Ops, you can visit offices around the nation in just a few...

It's the electoral race of the century. Political maps are being redrawn, and rules are getting rewritten across the board. Fundraising records have been broken. The candidates are even comparing the size of their email lists.

The mainstream media is tripping over itself to report on every last press...

If only Hunter S. Thompson could weigh in on the debate surrounding Mayhill Fowler's latest news piece, "Bill Clinton: Todd Purdum's a "Sleazy" "Slimy" "Scumbag." Imagine Thompson, both pleasantly and belligerently drunk, cursing in some chatroom on the Internets. He would likely dole out his characteristic candor and call...

We want to get the real story on the media and McCain, so OffTheBus is partnering with NewsTrust from June 2 - June 8. NewsTrust is a nonprofit social news site devoted to good journalism and its online tools make it really easy for anyone to rate the...

We asked HuffPost readers to join with us and profile the hundreds of superdelegates who are likely to decide the Democratic nomination for president. Hundreds of you responded and we can now present our initial findings. Just click on a state or territory and a list of...

Thought all the Democratic superdelegates were Congresspeople and a bunch of political insiders? Not so fast. These are just three of the 200 superdelegates HuffPost's OffTheBus members have profiled as part of our Superdelegate Investigation.

*The host of the Ms. American Samoa Beauty Pageant, who owns the Fox-affiliated...

Thought all the Democratic superdelegates were Congresspeople and a bunch of political insiders? Not so fast. These are just three of the 200 superdelegates HuffPost's OffTheBus members have profiled as part of our Superdelegate Investigation.

*The host of the Ms. American Samoa Beauty Pageant, who owns the Fox-affiliated...

Concord, NH--The guy whose name you see least in newspapers and on TV at this point in the election is the name you see most on campaign signs in Concord, NH. That's Ron Paul, the Republican contender for the presidency largely considered to be a fringe candidate.

At 4pm...

I'd just done a quick about-face on Concord's State Street after realizing that my camera battery died when Robert Geary and Tommy McKenna, two obvious Clinton supporters sporting "Hillary-Smart Choice" stickers asked me if I'd forgotten something. My four-block walk up State Street hadn't led to any conversations, so I...

Lebanon, NH -- With recent polls showing him firmly ahead of his Democratic rivals, a confident Barack Obama seems to be looking past the primary season and previewing the themes of his national campaign.

Instead of addressing New Hampshire voters on local issues before Tuesday's primary, like many...

Racing down Route 89 near Grantham, NH en route to a McCain rally in Concord, New Hampshire, I caught sight of what appeared to be a deserted Rudy Giuliani campaign bus in the parking lot of Jill Barton Real Estate Associates. While it's common knowledge among politicos that Rudy Giuliani's...

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(IA City Precinct 8) Mayhill reporting: Clinton and Edwards tie for second, Obama wins. Mayhill writes, "Obama got six of the eight delegates in IA City 8. Redlawsk, the caucus captain, had predicted two to three. Clinton got...

On Saturday October 13, Barack Obama's presidential campaign organized "Canvass for Change," a grassroots mobilization in neighborhoods around the country. We recruited OffTheBus members to gather stories and observations from those events. The reports below were used by Mayhill Fowler for her piece, "Reporting The Obama Campaign Coast-to-Coast:...