How soon will we see the DVD, with added features, like the costumes that didn't make the YouTube debate, the worst slip up, best one liners (Joe Biden wins this one) and meanest questions?
Bill Curry | Posted 12.21.2007 | Politics
The debates have showcased each party's trademark weakness. The Democrats' is emptiness. The Republicans' is extremism. The GOP will probably nominate the first candidate to personally shoot an illegal immigrant.
New York Times | Paul Krugman | Posted 12.17.2007 | Politics
Broadly speaking, the serious contenders for the Democratic nomination are offering similar policy proposals -- the dispute over health care mandates ...
Joe Vogel | Posted 12.13.2007 | Politics
In a rather mundane debate, this could likely be the clip that symbolizes the major difference between Senator Clinton and Senator Obama.
John Neffinger, Glynnis MacNicol, and Rachel Sklar | Posted 12.13.2007 | Media
Welcome to Iowa, and the last Dem debate before the Iowa caucus. Today: Hillary's Last Stand. Can she recover from the Obama onslaught? Can she recover from Bill on the campaign trail? CAN SHE RECOVER FROM OPRAH?
Steven Weber | Posted 12.12.2007 | Media
The recent duh-bates evoke fashion shows where propped-up models strut their cotton-mouth pouts and spout the season's latest trends.
Roberto Lovato | Posted 12.05.2007 | Politics
NPR's questioning of the Democratic candidates around immigration indicates they are willing to use public airwaves to provide broader forum for formerly fringe ideas.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.05.2007 | Politics
Did you miss it? That's too bad! Mike Gravel was there! Here's what happened.
AP | Beth Fouhy | Posted 11.28.2007 | Politics
The Democratic National Committee has canceled a scheduled presidential debate in Los Angeles because of a potential strike by CBS news writers. "Du...
Bill Curry | Posted 11.28.2007 | Politics
America needs to debate Iraq, health care and the challenges of energy independence and global warming. Yet Democrats are fixed on an agenda only Karl Rove could love. How come?
Robert L. Borosage | Posted 11.27.2007 | Politics
With Republicans headed into the YouTube debate on Wednesday night, it's time for the unctuous moderators to cut to the chase.
Eric Alterman | Posted 11.19.2007 | Politics
A few more debate observations: I was in the spin room at UNLV post debate and noticed a few things. First off, only the second-tier candidates come ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.19.2007 | Politics
The past two Democratic debates have found the top-tier candidates all a-bicker with one another, a spectacle that reached its apogee at the beginning...
Rachel Sterne | Posted 11.18.2007 | Home
Groundreport takes us behind the scenes of the October 30th Democratic debate at Drexel University in Philadelphia, to show us just what goes on behind the scenes to put on these shows.
Kathleen Reardon | Posted 11.16.2007 | Politics
Suddenly Joe Biden is the candidate with the big picture, the one capable of articulating it as well. I keep expecting him to say something completely off base, but he's been focused.
Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 11.16.2007 | Politics
The days of the iron hand in the velvet glove are over. The gloves are off, and all candidates must be prepared to get down and dirty, as well as come clean about where their allegiances are.
Kerri Glover | Posted 11.16.2007 | Home
The mudslinging and verbal assaults we saw last night on CNN are good fodder for bored political reporters. But for most, how the candidates will impact their daily lives is much more important.
Josh Levy | Posted 11.16.2007 | Home
It's time to move away from a debate system that limits the candidates' interaction with each other, insults the public, and reduces press coverage to a jumble of bar-fight metaphors.
William Tracy | Posted 11.16.2007 | Politics
"Senator Edwards, I want to remind you to please answer all of your questions in the form of a direct attack on Senator Clinton."
Rod McCullom | Posted 11.16.2007 | Politics
Instead of throwing the hungry audience juicy sound bites, Edwards and Obama tossed stale, Republican talking points at Clinton and the audience booed and hissed. They lost their mojos.
Roberto Lovato | Posted 11.16.2007 | Politics
If you listened closely last night, you could hear echoes of the voter bloc that will, in the long term, counterbalance the weakening pull of the angry white voter.
James Love | Posted 11.16.2007 | Politics
When one looks at the dynamics between Hillary and Obama, there seems to be an important difference in how they handle each other.
Robert Naiman | Posted 11.16.2007 | Politics
Why is Hillary repeating unsubstantiated allegations about Iran, when even the Bush administration has moved away from them?
Ari Melber | Posted 11.15.2007 | Politics
The gap for the "big two" is based on celebrity, fundraising and media attention, which reinforce each other in an autocatalytic political process that has left more seasoned candidates in the dust.
HuffingtonPost.com | Marc Cooper | Posted 11.15.2007 | Home
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Caryl Rivers | Posted 12.24.2007 | Media