Linda Hansen | Posted April 22, 2008 | Off The Bus
In the 2004 general election, George W. Bush carried North Carolina, garnering all of the red state's electoral votes. But he didn't win without a fight. Not by a long shot. There was a significant region of Carolina Blue: John Kerry, with 52 percent of the vote, won the densely...
United Church Of Christ | J. Bennett Guess | April 21, 2008 10:36 AM
John Eskow | Posted April 18, 2008 | Politics
It's zany hi-jinks a-plenty when a desperate, ambition-crazed politician (Hillary Clinton, playing herself) suddenly finds her power-base crumbling. Forced to team up with her doddering Republican opponent , John McCain (played by the corpse of Ted Knight), to plot against an upstart black candidate named Barack Obama (Blair Underwood), Hillary...
NY Times | Patrick Healy | April 18, 2008 10:06 AM
Cenk Uygur | Posted April 17, 2008 | Media
Every election cycle the Republicans play the same game of distraction. They want to distract people from what they have done, so they turn the focus on to what their opponents said, or what someone who can nominally be linked to their opponents said.
And every year, the press dutifully...
Seth Swirsky | Posted April 17, 2008 | Politics
A lot of Democrats must be secretly contemplating Barack Obama's electability after another "I misspoke" moment ("Americans are bitter").
Recent gaffe's and unexpected revelations have given us an insight into the Senator's judgement and character.
When Michelle Obama said that she wasn't proud of her country (the country that...
Greg Mitchell | Posted April 16, 2008 | Politics
Read more reactions from Huffington Post bloggers to ABC's Pennsylvania Democratic debate
In perhaps the most embarrassing performance by the media in a major presidential debate in years, ABC News hosts Charles Gibson and George Stephanopoulos focused mainly on trivial issues as Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama faced...
Katie Halper | Posted April 15, 2008 | Entertainment
In his latest project, hip hop artist, actor, and filmmaker Pras Michel (The Fugees) goes undercover for 9 days and nights as a homeless person in downtown LA's notorious Skid Row. I met up with Pras in a hotel lobby in Manhattan to discuss Skid Row, the documentary based...
Chicago Tribune | April 14, 2008 08:23 AM
Caryl Rivers | Posted April 9, 2008 | Politics
Early on in the presidential primaries, it seemed that Barack Obama had managed to do the improbable, if not the impossible -- transcend the thorny question of race in American politics. I had hoped this situation would continue.
It was not, alas, to be. The whole issue of Reverend...
Wall Street Journal | Lanny Davis | April 9, 2008 09:21 AM
Gershom Gorenberg | Posted April 7, 2008 | Politics
If you want to understand why Rev. Jeremiah Wright said the U.S. government invented AIDS, or what Barack Obama sought to accomplish in his Philadelphia speech on race, the best commentary is political scientist Marc Howard Ross's book Cultural Contestation in Ethnic Conflict -- even if it never...
Los Angeles Times | April 7, 2008 09:44 AM
August J. Pollak | Posted April 7, 2008 | Politics
A disturbing irony is lost in the debate over Rev. Jeremiah Wright's controversial comments.
To see more of August J. Pollak's cartoon "Some Guy With a Website," check out the archive.
Eric Deggans | Posted April 4, 2008 | Politics
I didn't realize it until I was in the final stages of researching my media story today about the one-year anniversary of shock jock Don Imus' "nappy-headed hos" comments about Rutgers University's women's basketball team. But today also marks the 40th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King's assassination...
Election Central | Greg Sargent | April 3, 2008 02:58 PM
John Eskow | Posted April 2, 2008 | Politics
When an outhouse-supply rag like The National Enquirer trumpets a headline like "The Most Shocking Story You Will Ever Read!", as it does in its current issue, its 7-11 readers have every right to expect something truly juicy -- hard-core proof that Elvis' ghost impregnated Katie Couric during a...
William Fisher | Posted April 2, 2008 | Media
Amid the explosive controversy over remarks made in sermons by Sen. Barack Obama's former pastor, critics are charging that America's mainstream media has distorted his comments with out-of-context soundbites, failed to understand the African American church, sought to punish the Democratic Party presidential hopeful through "guilt by association," and gave...
Talking Points Memo | Greg Sargent | April 1, 2008 03:47 PM
On Tuesday night's "Colbert Report," Stephen Colbert had fun with...
From the AP: Democrat John Edwards endorsed former rival Barack Obama on Wednesday, a...
*** UPDATED BELOW *** President Bush has said repeatedly that he would not insert himself into the...
As the odds get longer and longer, the obvious question is: Why doesn't Hillary Clinton gracefully concede...
Utterly insane goings-on tonight on...
It's a pretty well known fact that most women - attractive women -...
NEW UPDATE BELOW As violence in Iraq continues -- clashes today left 11 dead and 19 injured -- President...
Just off the House floor today, the Crypt overheard House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers tell two...
Tonight, Keith Olbermann unleashed what may well have been his...
The Democratic Party has finally decided who's going to break it to Hillary that it's time...
George W. Bush is unworthy of the presidency. He is a disgrace to himself,...
The Huffington Post | April 23, 2008 10:24 AM