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"This is pretty much last minute," Hillary Clinton says to the room full of true believers in a union hall in Houston. "My good friend, your congress...

From the perspective of Oscar Sunday, Thursday's Democratic debate seemed to offer up exactly the kind of psychologically complex narrative relished by the Academy, and the specter of Ronald Reagan hangs over both candidates.

A recent gathering protesting Alberto Gonzales' appearance in St. Louis underscored the Obama and Clinton's deafening silence on the erosion of our civil liberties under George W. Bush.

Who are the superdelegates? If you think of them as old cronies, horse trading their votes in backroom deals, you haven't met 28-year-old Democratic National Committee member Crystal Strait.

Call it a movement (if you're a believer), or mass delusion (if you're a cynic), or crowdsourcing (if you're a geek). What we're learning is that while average candidates stand on their platforms, leaders become a platform for supporters to stand upon.

If Obama wins the Texas Two-Step, it will be because he didn't just go out on the floor with the prom queen. It'll be because he reached out to those who felt like wallflowers, and invited them to the dance.

The press has ignored the long record of political scandals associated with the Clintons, despite the fact that Clinton's service as First Lady is the cornerstone of her claim to be experienced and ready to lead on Day One.

Change has been a watchword this primary season. Perhaps it would give us a better handle on the race if we pinned down just what kind of change the different candidates mean.

Yesterday's contests revealed states with radically different levels of voter participation. What accounts for the differences?

Before jumping to any conclusions about evangelical Christian voters in 2008, one must understand some basic facts and definitions about this massive chunk of the population. For that, George Barna is the man to go to.

Sen. John McCain has notched up another win in the race for the GOP nomination. The Arizona senator won Wisconsin's "winner-take-all" primary Tuesday,...

Everything is bigger in Texas--except the number of tickets available for the Democratic debate on Thursday. Texans have been surprised and thrilled...

Here are a few of the more humdrum things Barack Obama should do to garner votes in Houston.

By Daniel Macht and Rosaleen Ortiz It's Barack Obama versus John McCain in the general election, according to the results of Nickelodeon's "Kids Pi...

In a preview of what right now appears as the most probable general election match-up, Barack Obama and John McCain have been going back and forth in ...

How should Democratic superdelegates vote? There's an easy answer that everyone should embrace: superdelegates should commit to vote for the candidate who receives a majority of the pledged delegates.

You won't see either Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton in Michigan, but from all appearances they are now locked in a spirited battle for our delegates....

As various advocacy groups head to Facebook to organize and recruit members, the platform's deficiencies are being exposed. Is it prepared to facilitate these sorts of connections?

In the fall, neither Obama nor McCain will have the upper hand in a battle over corruption in Washington, since both of them have fought against it. The same can't be said of Hillary Clinton, who will be accurately tarred as part of the sleazy Washington establishment.

Chris Bowers at Open Left writes: Today I am pleased to announce the launch of the Superdelegate Transparency Project on Congresspedia and SourceWatc...

So much for Sen. John McCain being a man of principle who stood up to the Bush Administration and fellow Republicans. Turns out, he too is just anoth...

Barack Obama had never been so close to the Democratic nomination. And this is not so because he won 7 states in a row. Those wins were entirely expec...

I arrived early at my polling place, an elementary school in Arlington Virginia, expecting it to be an "in and out" affair. Not so.

This disastrous night for Hillary will have profound implications for the future of the race and, more importantly, for the delegate count. The most r...

In a sign that conservative bloggers are either giving John McCain a grudging nod of approval, or at worst ignoring him, McCain's conservative buzz in...