I think the "whiter, poorer, older, more rural and less educated" people of Appalachia are anxious about the future and about change, and thus, stick with old ideas and old media.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.13.2008 | Politics
It is a quintessential example of political irony. Just hours before Sen. Barack Obama uttered his now famous "bitter" comments, suggesting that sma...
Keli Goff | Posted 05.06.2008 | Politics
Here's a look at the top 10 people and moments that are helping the Democrats return to the glory days of loserdom.
Marylee Smithwick | Posted 04.29.2008 | Politics
This is not a boo hoo moment as some of my readers might think, but I am sure we all are aware that this country is only as great as the compassion it shows for others.
Rabbi Michael Lerner | Posted 04.27.2008 | Politics
The religio-phobia Americans encounter in many sections of the liberal and progressive world often push them away and into the hands of the Right.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.21.2008 | Politics
Portfolio's Jeff Bercovici, assessing the new redesign at the Wall Street Journal, notes more than just the changes in aesthetics - there's actually a...
Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 04.19.2008 | Home
The scandal this time is that there's no scandal. The leak John McCain should be addressing in New Orleans is the one at the 17th Street Canal Floodwall, the same one that was leaking before Katrina.
Blake Fleetwood | Posted 04.18.2008 | Politics
They are about: Who Is the Best Candidate? Who can Win? Ever since the first televised debate between Kennedy & Nixon, voters have often judged can...
John K. Wilson | Posted 04.17.2008 | Home
Obama's bounce in the polls this week is more than a mere candidate "surge." It's a repudiation of the nattering nabob media which imagined clumsy wording could send his campaign into a glorious tailspin.
Evan Eisenberg | Posted 04.16.2008 | Politics
My friend Joe said, "on this screen of yours all anyone talks about is some guy who ordered orange juice instead of coffee, and was bad at knocking things over with a heavy ball, and said something about people in small towns being bitter."
John Tomasic | Posted 04.15.2008 | Home
The Bittergate story has prompted responses from many OffTheBus contributors. They've written on the story and its interpretations but also on the new experience of practicing citizen journalism.
Daniel Nichanian | Posted 04.15.2008 | Home
A Penn. Poll suggests that only 50 percent of Clinton supporters now say they will vote for Obama in the general, versus 26 percent who say they'll vote for McCain. Among union households, that number dips as low as 32 percent.
Chip Collis | Posted 04.14.2008 | Home
Two of the three presidential candidates are running a major con job on you right now: It's in their attacks on Obama. He was right about economically disadvantaged and politically sidetracked Pennsylvanians.
Scott Shrake | Posted 04.14.2008 | Home
There's no conspiracy behind Bittergate. The truth is even more unlikely: Fowler is that rare Barack Obama admirer who can admit he's not perfect. And, hey, that's the right kind of support.
R.T. Eby | Posted 04.14.2008 | Home
Ronald Reagan took aim at so-called welfare queens as a way to make the wealthy more wealthy. He gutted social security and social programs. Variations of his bait and switch have been going on ever since.
Linda Hansen | Posted 04.13.2008 | Home
Are we bitter in Povertyland, USA? Hell, yes. That's what the story was about. We've been hung out to dry so long, we feel like ragged, abandoned laundry. All those election year promises? Please.
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Charles Warner | Posted 05.19.2008 | Media