At about this time in the 2008 presidential election season, a young woman named Ashley Todd went crazy in Pittsburgh. Todd, a volunteer for John McCa...

Almost all black men recognize the contemptuous look Jonathan Martin gave Obama on Thursday.

PITTSBURGH — A former John McCain campaign volunteer who falsely claimed she was attacked in Pittsburgh because she had the candidate's bumper s...

With the post-election analysis season almost over, it's worth taking one final look at some of the characters who ensured President-elect Obama would make it to the White House.

For Halloween I stopped by the John McCain office in Pompano Beach, Florida.

PITTSBURGH — A volunteer for John McCain's presidential campaign agreed Thursday to enter a probation program for first-time offenders for false...

As a lifelong Democrat who has seen my party lose winnable races, I can't help thinking about how things can go wrong this year. These are the four factors that keep me up at night.

You really have to commend the people who supported the candidacy of Ron Paul. Sure, those guys dressed up in weird costumes, and aspired to fly aroun...

I hope McCain's team of Karl Rove wannabes make 20 or 30 more mistakes in the final days before the election.

Last week's news, that the Ashley Todd story was made up, that she has no idea how she got a backwards B carved on her face, was not a surprise. Convenient big black guys are always around.

We're a little late to the party on calling McCain/Palin out on all their hard work firing up the ugliest tendencies in their supporters, but this venture into dub reggae territory is our contribution.

Did the McCain campaign want to stir up the racial tensions in PA? Is there a race baiter on McCain's staff? Is this Willie Horton 2.0?

As we said before, committing physical violence against someone who holds a different opinion from your own is reprehensible and not to be tolerated under any circumstances.

Palin is so desperate not to characterize the Eric Rudolphs of this world as terrorists that she forges a severely narrow definition of the act that even lets Mohamed Atta off the hook.

The national committee of the College Republicans went into damage control mode Friday afternoon after a college-aged McCain volunteer confessed to fa...

The big political story of the day revolves around what turned out to be a non-story. Several media outlets (the vast majority conservative) were left...

UPDATE: REPORTERS: MCCAIN AIDE PUSHED OBAMA MUTILATION HOAX See which media outlets fell for the hoax... The latest from the AP: A McCain campai...

TPM's Greg Sargent reports: John McCain's Pennsylvania communications director told reporters in the state an incendiary version of the hoax story ab...

The fact that Ms. Todd felt she could get away with telling yet another false story about a black boogie man, suggests that some in this country have not gotten the memo.

According to one of the actual police reports documenting the charade's unraveling, Ashley Todd says she can't remember whether she mutilated her own face, or had someone else do it.

All I know is that I drove into the 'right' side of town with an Obama-Biden sticker on the back of my car when I was approached by thugs riding snowmachines.

John Moody, executive vice president at Fox News, has commented on his blog that "this incident could become a watershed event in the 11 days before the election.