The biggest takeaway from Barack Obama's first press conference as president-elect: campaign trail Obama has left the building.

President-elect Obama's soaring speeches will be remembered as the hallmark of his 2008 run, which never would have happened, of course, without a soaring speech in 2004. Even while he sought...

The avalanche of schadenfreude breaking out among Democrats after eight long years of a Republican presidency need not be limited to the right. Here, for example, is Ralph Nader calling Barack Obama an "Uncle Tom." (ht: Andrew Sullivan) Can you taste that bitterness, Dems? Sweet sweet bitterness....

If the 2004 election day were a movie it would be reviewed by local stations as "a high octane thrill ride," "an edge of your seat adventure," and featuring a "a surprise ending guaranteed to shock."

We're halfway through the 2008 election day and the blurb is more apt for...

After spending a week in sunny Florida gently mocking the state's famously incompetent Board of Elections and offering my sincere pity to the many voters I witnessed waiting in 2, 3, or even 5 hour lines to cast their ballot early, I woke up this morning in Brooklyn to find: