Coming out of a Republican Convention with a major political surprise we are still basically TIED with them. That is not bad at all.
AP | MIKE GLOVER and SARA KUGLER | Posted 04.26.2008 | Politics
MARION, Ind. — Democratic rivals Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton turned up the rhetoric Saturday in their increasingly heated primary ba...
Chris Weigant | Posted 04.18.2008 | Politics
The twenty-first debate of the Democratic presidential nomination race happened this week. Much fulminating in the blogosphere immediately followed. ...
236.com | Posted 04.18.2008 | Politics
Wednesday night, Philadelphia was home to the 467th Democratic debate of this election year. Didn't see it? Heard it was boring, predictable, irreleva...
RJ Eskow | Posted 04.18.2008 | Media
There are still a few things I haven't heard anybody say, and the right is already cuing up ABC's next line of questioning.
Frank Schaeffer | Posted 04.17.2008 | Politics
Obama, like the Marines, calls us to be part of something bigger than "me" and offers a purpose in life that adds up to more than just one more consumer choice -- just another "I want."
Huffington Post | Posted 04.17.2008 | Politics
Following what many news outlets and viewers labeled a disaster of a debate, ABC News decided to address its critics by discussing the "debate over th...
ZP Heller | Posted 04.17.2008 | Media
This was ABC's last chance to elevate discourse to a national level, but instead the network focused on the mucky politics of irrelevance.
Julian E. Zelizer | Posted 04.17.2008 | Politics
Until we have a better political system and a more attentive electorate, we are not in a position to dismiss the type of debate that we had last night. We got the debate we deserve.
New York Times | David Brooks | Posted 04.17.2008 | Politics
Three quick points on the Democratic debate tonight: First, Democrats, and especially Obama supporters, are going to jump all over ABC for the choice...
Huffington Post | Posted 04.17.2008 | Media
Jerry and Joe Long: What Passes For Debate: Back in the days of our radio show, our standard name for the media was one taken from Jerry Lewis..."pim...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 04.17.2008 | Politics
Underlining the inanity of last night's Democratic debate, at the same time that Senator Barack Obama's patriotism was being questioned because of his...
Posted 04.17.2008 | Politics
"ABC World News with Charles Gibson" featured a segment from correspondent David Wright on the "debate" over last night's debate. The network portraye...
Michael Shaw | Posted 04.17.2008 | Media
Cenk Uygur | Posted 04.17.2008 | Media
This game sickens me. All I want to know now is whether the so-called news folks are in on it or if they are fools being played like clueless puppets.
Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 04.17.2008 | Media
This was ABC's old, flimsy history with threadbare sizzle packaged as news. It was a tabloid debate with tabloid questions. Matt Drudge come to life on a respectable stage.
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 04.17.2008 | Politics
If Hillary Clinton thinks it's a big deal that Barack Obama has crossed paths with Bill Ayers, the political discourse is stuck in neutral.
Marty Kaplan | Posted 04.16.2008 | Politics
The networks and the national press love their gotchas, their -gates, their "controversies," their heat. Would someone please get the networks out of the presidential debate business?
Chris Weigant | Posted 04.16.2008 | Politics
Unfortunately these questions remain largely unanswered, almost two months after the last debate.
Patt Morrison | Posted 04.16.2008 | Media
Rather than rolling over to the privatizing of public discourse, the FCC should muster some guts and insist that networks, broadcast and cable, take turns broadcasting presidential debates in real time, commercial-free, to the entire nation.
Marc Lampkin | Posted 04.16.2008 | Politics
Americans understand that education is the crux of all the issues facing our country and they want to hear the candidates' long-term solutions for solving the crisis.
The Huffington Post | Posted 04.16.2008 | Politics
ABC is live-blogging their debate here. The Campaigns React: From Obama: "Tonight we saw a real choice between the old politics of point-scoring and...
James Love | Posted 04.01.2008 | Politics
Both Obama and Hillary are appealing and impressive in televised debates. It would be helpful for the Democrats to get both back on television, debating the economy.
New York Times | Bill Carter | Posted 03.26.2008 | Media
It is an axiom of political debates that lagging competitors always want them more than front-runners. CBS News, which lags well behind its competitor...
Huffington Post | Posted 03.13.2008 | Politics
UPDATE: Obama has now agreed to the Pennsylvania debate. Plus, he's accepted another debate in North Carolina: Sen. Hillary Clinton's campaign has a...
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David Mixner | Posted 09.11.2008 | Politics