The good people over at the National Republican Campaign Committee have a favorite punctuation mark, called the ellipsis. And they enjoy using it, ma...
Paul Abrams | Posted 10.27.2009 | Politics
Because of a benign-sounding charter amendment offered by right wing zealots, candidates are not known by their political affiliations. That removes the shorthand that busy people use to vote.
Greg Mitchell | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics
When pundits labeled last year's presidential campaign "divisive" and "dirty," I had to laugh. The champion of all dirty races in this century, in fact, was the 1934 contest between Upton Sinclair and Frank Merriam.
Chris Weigant | Posted 04.30.2009 | Media
Due to a genetic deformity among conservatives, they are seemingly born without being able to spot irony in all its delicious forms.
John Mirisch | Posted 03.31.2009 | Politics
I'm one of the 11 candidates running for 3 seats on the Beverly Hills City Council, a basically non-paying gig, and I have become a lightning rod for the full force of anonymous sleaze attacks and dirty tricks.
Larisa Alexandrovna | Posted 03.02.2009 | Politics
Since we are a democracy and none of us are above the law, either we all have to honor subpoenas or we don't. If Karl Rove does not have to show up to court, then none of us have to.
AP | Posted 12.04.2008 | Politics
State elections officials have identified the person responsible for a phony election flier that told Republicans to vote on Tuesday and Democrats to ...
The Washington Independent | Jonathan E. Kaplan | Posted 12.04.2008 | Politics
As Republican charges of "fraud" and Democratic claims of "voter suppression" have escalated in the home stretch of the presidential election campaign...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.04.2008 | Politics
Republican Senator Roger Wicker is facing the fight of his life for reelection in Mississippi. So what is he doing to ensure another six years in Cong...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.28.2008 | Politics
As the election nears, examples of political dirty tricks are emerging with greater frequency. On Tuesday, the Virginia Pilot reported that a phony B...
Off The Bus | Posted 10.13.2008 | Home
Mailboxes both electronic and physical are being stuffed with sleaze and dirty political material this election season. You know, those fliers, leafle...
Frank Schaeffer | Posted 09.06.2008 | Politics
The new Dirty Politics McCain is the Republican's man of the hour, and Republican heavy hitters are conveniently forgetting that for years they have regarded McCain as mentally unfit for the presidency.
Frank Schaeffer | Posted 06.20.2008 | Politics
The Republicans are going to look as out of touch a few years from now as did the isolationists and "America First" folks after World War II.
Paul Loeb | Posted 05.02.2008 | Politics
North Carolina voters are getting calls from the firm of Geoff Garin, the new head of Clinton's campaign, which spins the recipient under the pretense of merely asking about their views.
Newsweek | Michael Isikoff, Mark Hosenball and Evan Thomas | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Sunday may be a day of rest, but not for the political dirty tricksters. When Mike Huckabee emerged from the Cornerstone Family Church in Des Moines o...
Ian Spiegelman | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
The underhanded tactics my co-author Allen Raymond employed to win elections for ten years are by no means confined to one party, and they permeate every level of electioneering.
Allen Raymond and Ian Spiegelman | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
From HOW TO RIG AN ELECTION: Confessions of a Republican Operative: The first sign of trouble at my sentencing hearing came when the judge cut off my...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.20.2009 | Media