In a press release today, Rep. Dennis Kucinich urged his supporters to back Sen. Barack Obama as their second choice at the Jan. 3 caucuses.

In the release, Kucinich stated: "In those caucus locations where my support doesn't reach the necessary threshold, I strongly encourage all of my supporters...

At the start of last night's GOP debate at historically black Morgan State University in Baltimore, what was about to go unsaid promised to be the evening's dominant narrative. Host Tom Joyner and moderator Tavis Smiley both addressed the absence of four top-tier candidates - Romney, Thompson, McCain, and Giuliani...

At the outset of his coverage of the 1972 presidential contest, Hunter S. Thompson pointed out the journalistic advantages of being a drug-addled freak from the west coast. While his Rolling Stone credentials failed to get him access to certain campaign power corridors, ostracization by the Beltway establishment liberated him...