Colorado GOP politicians have been moving in the last week to block followers on Twitter whom they suspect aren't fans or fellow travelers but merely liberals fishing for right-wing tweets to mock.

Of course they won't succeed in being exclusive on Twitter because Twitter doesn't care what you...

Barack Obama wins!

He shocked the nation when he defeated a field of establishment Democrats ten months ago in Iowa and he has run one of the best political campaigns in history. The community organizer has triumphed. In an era marked by the ultimate-insider administration of George W Bush and...

Suspended high above Central Park as part of a "batman stunt" performance yesterday, magician David Blaine shared thoughts on John McCain's political high-wire act this week, in which the candidate has suspended his campaign and sought to postpone Friday's scheduled presidential debate.

Blaine dangled for 60 hours...

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What some Anchorage locals have referred to as the "biggest political rally in Alaska" took place last Saturday to protest the GOP selection of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as its vice presidential nominee. To mark the governor's return from a celebrated jaunt in the Lower 48, crowds with homemade signs...

This past month, before the Democratic National Convention, OffTheBus community members conducted interviews with swing voters -- and people they thought might be swing voters. Below you'll find dispatches from California, Utah, Arizona, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, Virginia and Maryland. The interviews throw up some interesting material, underlining, for one, the...

DENVER -- A rally that began as a march organized by the Hillary-supporter PUMA (Party Unity My Ass) group ended partly as a gathering of 100 or so around celebrity L.A. lawyer Gloria Allred, a California delegate. Chants of "roll call, roll call" and "Who do we want? Hillary!" punctuated...

OTB community member Lynn Lyons was on the ground outside Saddleback this past Saturday for Pastor Rick Warren's Faith Forum with candidates Barack Obama and John McCain. The candidates answered an identical set of questions posed by the popular Orange County church leader. On Sunday, Warren told his congregants...

As the campaigns roar on into the summer and head toward Labor Day, the Obama Campaign and the DNC hosted local platform meetings, where Obama supporters and anyone else who wanted to come could suggest issues they thought most important for the party to consider and the policy positions the...

Hillary Clinton recently appeared before supporters and at least a few delegates and answered questions about the upcoming Democratic Convention, the candidate nomination process and how she thinks it will unfold. A YouTube of her talk is being sent around by the PUMA / Just Say no Deal coalition...

By Aswini Anburajan

Operation Scheduled Departure, a new federal initiative that ‘encourages’ illegal immigrants to voluntarily step forward and leave the country without being detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), will launch August 5th in five cities across the United States.

The initiative was labeled part of the...

For anyone who hasn't surfed over yet, PrezVid has a great three-part line up of videos, a series of what what you could call "the American Freedom Speeches in Berlin," featuring Obama, JFK and Reagan. The post also links to the full transcript of Obama's speech.

Grainy...

The McCain-Bush proposal to suspend gas taxes and offshore-drill our way to lower prices at the pump and out of the energy crisis has been hashed over by analysts across the web and, of course, mostly dismissed as absurd. But that hasn't stopped McCain from pushing the proposal and...

Reporting from Kennebunkport, Maine, for the New York Times/International Herald Tribune, Elisabeth Bumiller wrote today that John McCain seemed like "the wallflower at an international political dance... campaigning at the quiet summer home of the first President Bush while the worldwide news media spotlight beamed down on Senator Barack...

CitizenTube's Monday video hotlist includes footage of Obama with the troops in Kuwait (the audio is as off as his jumper is on!), an answer to Michelle Obama's now-notorious expression of national "pride" and MoveOn.org mocking the McCain-Gramm-Bush psychological approach to righting our listing economy.

Obama...

Last week a whole new crop of OTB citizen journalists / commentators weighed in the New Yorker cover featuring the Obamas as a terrorist First Couple. Most all of the commentary was negative, a citizen critique of the artist's efforts at satire. At least one writer suggests a "buycott." Dive...

Hillary Clinton's fundraising t-shirt contest came to an end last week. She sent out a letter with the news:

"In May, Chelsea announced our 'Project T-Shirt' contest, and I never imagined we would have such an outpouring of support and great designs."

Roy Sekoff, Founding Editor of the HuffingtonPost and a frequent political contributor to MSNBC, answered questions recently for CitizenTube. He talked about the HuffingtonPost's beginnings, the citizen journalism project "OffTheBus," and the evolving ethics of journalism in the YouTube age.

Watch the interview at CitizenTube.

In the wake of Barack Obama's recent perceived move to the center, disaffected supporters of Hillary Clinton have released a "Call To DNC Delegates" urging them to "leave fraudulent Obama in Denver" and "save the Democratic Party by nominating the truer Democrat."

Posted on the website of the group...

Campaign letters are always at least a little comic -- the faux-personal tone, the formal-informal style, the beggarliness. There are also the "artful" decisions made by the authors that are fun to explore for hidden meanings.

Hillary's latest dispatch to her supporters is a gem. Her campaign is over, the...