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Florida Superdelegate Introduces New Argument To Seat The State's Superdelegates

Democratic Convention Watch 2008 | Posted 03.26.2008 | Home

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Starting to percolate on the newswire is an appeal by DNC Floridian Jon Ausman. He is stating that DNC rules prohibit the Rules Committee from: a.) s...

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Perception of Electability At Stake For Obama In Coming Primaries

Mayhill Fowler | Posted 03.24.2008 | Home

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Mayhill Fowler

A sweeping defeat for Obama in Pennsylvania or a slow bleed through the last ten contests will plant the question of electability in the minds of some superdelegates.

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Inside Baseball

Chip Collis | Posted 03.24.2008 | Home

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Chip Collis

Our political discourse has become all inside baseball, all the time, and every 3 AM ad, every SNL skit, every Wright sermon that is now infesting our conversations is not informing the judgment of those who truly do play inside baseball.

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Barack Obama's Test...And Ours

Tananarive Due and Steven Barnes | Posted 03.23.2008 | Home

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Tananarive Due and Steven Barnes

The controversy with Rev. Wright, for better or worse politically, strips away the fantasy some voters may have entertained that Barack Obama was just a white man in blackface, utterly isolated and insulated from the racial struggles of the nation where he spent most of his life.

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Placing Reverend Wright's Sermons In Context

Lonnee Hamilton | Posted 03.21.2008 | Home

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Lonnee Hamilton

Our media is in a terrible state when ordinary citizens doing a Google search can do a better job than some of the highest paid "journalists" in the country.

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TV Media's Willful Misunderstanding of Barack Obama's Race Speech

Mayhill Fowler | Posted 03.21.2008 | Home

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Mayhill Fowler

The very first thing that the controversy over Barack Obama's association with the Reverend Jeremiah Wright highlights is the failure of the national, and still largely white, media to interest themselves in the black church.

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The Good Radical Within

Bill Parent | Posted 03.20.2008 | Home

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Bill Parent

One of the most interesting things to me about a Barak Obama presidency is that he would bring with him, as an African American, an internalized awareness of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's indignation and anger.

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Obama's Theology Of Reconciliation And Perfection

Gene Koo | Posted 03.20.2008 | Home

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Gene Koo

Obama offers a theology grounded in a process, not an outcome: to work out salvation with fear and trembling. His professed beliefs puts him at odds not only with the president, but his own pastor.

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Obama on Race vs. Romney on Religion

James Freedman | Posted 03.19.2008 | Home

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James Freedman

Many in the media noted Barack Obama's speech yesterday morning was reminiscent when Mitt Romney tried to address concerns about his Mormon faith. But is that comparison actually warranted?

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A More Perfect Union? Yes, We Can

Lecia Shorter | Posted 03.19.2008 | Home

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Lecia Shorter

The infusion of race into the campaign of Senator Obama past yesterday will serve no purpose other than to continue to pour salt into a wound that has now been postured for healing, paving the path to a more perfect union.

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Barack, Jeremiah and Jesus

Mayhill Fowler | Posted 03.18.2008 | Home

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Mayhill Fowler

If Obama can help white America understand why he sat in the pews of Trinity Church in Chicago for twenty years, then he may be able to hold his near-grasp of the Democratic presidential nomination.

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Reverend Jeremiah Wright: Anti-American Or A Man Speaking Truth To Power

Lecia Shorter | Posted 03.17.2008 | Home

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Lecia Shorter

Rather than acknowledge the truth about the dark past of America, and in some instances the present, we are quick to charge anyone who removes the veil of our history as being racist and/or anti-American.

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Edwards' Iowa Delegates May Try To Stick It Out

2008 Democratic Convention Watch | Posted 03.12.2008 | Home

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Edwards now has about 30% of the total delegates to the county conventions. But remember, a candidate must achieve the 15% threshold at every level. T...

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Clinton Picks Up Momentum Post-Ohio And Texas

Daniel Nichanian | Posted 03.06.2008 | Home

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Daniel Nichanian

Monday's polls hinted at a Clinton comeback in Ohio and in Texas, which prepared us for what came yesterday night. Now, surveys are registering Clinto...

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Obama, Clinton Camps Take Opposite Approaches To Texas Field Strategies

Liz Burlingame | Posted 03.01.2008 | Home

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Liz Burlingame

"Look at this place..." University of Washington student Devon Hampton said, as he entered the backroom bar area of Historic Victory Grill in downtown...

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Virgin Islanders Chose Obama in Historic Vote

Doug Porter | Posted 02.11.2008 | Home

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Doug Porter

The final score: Obama 92.24%, Clinton/Undecided 7.76%. Democratic voters went to polls Saturday to elect six delegates who will be granted one-half...

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NH: Hillary Camp Targeted Non-College Youth

Pop and Politics | John Tomasic | Posted 01.09.2008 | Home

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Hillary won in NH. So that's what it is. The significant thing is that the youth vote was again a major factor. According to CIRCLE, the youth turnout...

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White Supremacists And Hippies: Ron Paul's Supporters Liability In GOP Establishment

Charleston City Paper | Stratton Lawrence | Posted 12.06.2007 | Home

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Who is Ron Paul? If you ask most media outlets, he's a radical, a dark horse, and at best, a fringe candidate. But he's raised nearly $10 million in c...

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How I Got Folded Out Of My Local Newspaper

Sandy Kaczmarski | Posted 12.04.2007 | Home

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Sandy Kaczmarski

Small town papers are quickly shuttering from coast to coast leaving an unfillable void.

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Growing Pains: Inside Huckabee's Iowa Surge

Beverly Davis | Posted 12.04.2007 | Home

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Beverly Davis

Mike Huckabee's recent rise in Iowa has stretched an under-manned and and under-funded staff.

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Iowa Voters Question Romney's Conservative Creds

Lynda Waddington | Posted 12.03.2007 | Home

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Lynda Waddington

Gov. Mitt Romney has recently come under scrutiny for his conservative credentials.

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NYTimes Fails To Examine Mitt's Record

Zephyr Teachout | Posted 12.02.2007 | Home

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Zephyr Teachout

If a citizen chose to use the New York Times as its source for learning about whether or not to support Governor Romney, she would be disappointed.

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Roadkill: OffTheBus's Ongoing RoundUp of the Awkward, the Ugly, and the Just Plain Weird

Off The Bus | Posted 11.28.2007 | Home

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Paul pursues the pelican vote. Rudy's marketing plan for the State Department. Tonight's CNN/YouTube mystery questioner.

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Richardson Pledges Mutli-party Cabinet, Sleepovers With Average Americans

desmoinesregister.com | William Petroski | Posted 11.26.2007 | Home

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Mount Ayr, Ia. - Democratic presidential candidate Bill Richardson promised today to provide a new style at the White House with a positive, bipartisa...

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