Outside of the liberal blogosphere, Democrats are responding gingerly to the challenge of attacking Sarah Palin directly. Instead, they're largely tying Palin to failed McCain-Bush economic policies, but that's a strategy that leaves her maverick, reformer image intact and allows her charming, feisty persona to lure more voters....

On Labor Day, John McCain is mired in controversy over his pick of Sarah Palin and the Republican Convention is in turmoil over how to handle the natural and PR disaster of Gustav. But there's another threat to the GOP being unveiled today: workers and labor advocates reminding the...

McCain's stunning choice of the ex-beauty queen, evangelical half-term Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin may be one of the biggest political gambles in modern political history. But if the Democrats can avoid over-the-top sexism in belittling her, the pick could be a major boon to the...

While many progressive bloggers are worrying that Obama and the convention haven't been hitting McCain hard enough, The American Prospect offers some grounds for hope for Democrats. (And the Bill Clinton and Joe Biden speeches doubtless helped too. )

Tim Fernholz pulled together yesterday some...

Hillary Clinton follows her pro-Obama speech by focusing on the signature issue of Democratic domestic politics: affordable health care. Starting at 11:30 a.m. EDT today, you can see her live on streaming video join with activists and leading Democrats at a forum on winning health-care reform in 2009,...

Wal-Mart may have inadvertently done workers a big favor with its threats that a Democratic victory in November could lead to passage of a new law making organizing unions easier. Now progressive media and cable shows are giving the right to unionize greater attention, and a...

While the Obama campaign is facing a barrage of McCain smear ads that also may make "dog-whistle," coded appeals to racists and anti-Christ-fearing evangelicals, he's got an even more systemic challenge ahead to winning in November.

With the smears driving down Obama's support and...

Right now, the blogosphere is abuzz about John McCain's new ad smearing Obama for not visiting wounded troops in Germany. The McCain claim that Obama canceled because he couldn't bring reporters with him is utterly false, but the failure of the left and the Obama campaign to immediately...

The backlash against Obama's vote for the FISA bill hasn't gone away in the blogosphere, even as leaders in progressive politics, the Democratic party and the liberal blogosphere gather in Austin later this week for "Netroots Nation," formerly known as Yearly Kos. Liberal commentators, such as

The conventional wisdom these days is that General Wesley Clark's raising questions about John McCain's fitness to be commander in chief causes political problems for Barack Obama. That's considered to be especially important now that Obama is seen as moving to the center for the general election, and...

Is Obama being a shrewd pol or selling out civil liberties?

That's the question raised by Glenn Greenwald's tough new column taking Obama to task for supporting the bogus "compromise" bill condemned by the ACLU, the New York Times and most of the liberal

In this election campaign, most progressives are pinning their hopes on an Obama victory as the best route to bring us meaningful health-care reform. His plan, of couse, is far more likely to lead to broad coverage and affordable care than the free-market nostrums of John McCain....

The Democratic-led Congress, with the support of key House leaders, is moving quickly to expand unconstitutional spying authority on Americans and reward telecoms for breaking the law. As the ACLU's chief lobbyist, Caroline Fredrickson, points out in an email alert:

A sham spying "compromise" similar to the one...

With the presidential race between Barack Obama and John McCain heading towards a close, hotly-contested election, it's up to progressives at the state and local level to make sure that it's a fair one. That's why the recent victory of a fast-acting Missouri voting rights coalition in...

Now that John McCain has been pressured to throw overboard the lunatic evangelists whose support he begged for, perhaps he can unwind with The Wittenburg Door's home screenings of the "Ten Worst Movies About Jesus."

No matter how awful the movies, they probably could teach McCain something about...

Now that John McCain has been pressured to throw overboard the lunatic evangelists whose support he begged for, perhaps he can unwind with The Wittenburg Door's home screenings of the "Ten Worst Movies About Jesus." No matter how awful the movies, they probably could teach McCain something...

A GOP-pushed effort, aided by Republican voter-fraud scam artist Thor Hearne, to pass the country's most draconian photo ID bill has been stopped today in the Missouri Senate. Republicans, despite proclaiming the menace of voter fraud, didn't have enough votes to bring it to the...

Missouri, the battleground state that has accurately picked the presidential winner in every election since the 1950s, now faces an unprecedented peril this week: the theft of the voting rights of at least 240,000 of its citizens (nuns included) and the sure loss of the swing state...

Missouri's Republican-controlled legislature is rushing to pass one of the country's most draconian voter ID requirements less than two weeks after the Supreme Court upheld Indiana's similarly restrictive photo ID law -- a law that's best known for serving as a vital bulwark against nuns voting. Missouri...

Hillary and her supporters aren't giving up on her arguments that she's the most electable candidate because she's won among blue-collar whites. She told USA Today in an article published today:

"I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on," she said in an interview...