The GOP keeps experimenting with new memes to define Obama, but not only are they not sticking, some even contradict each other.
Chris Kelly | Posted 06.25.2008 | Politics
Saying "Dr. No" over and over and over and over is either a brilliant subliminal appeal to racists who enjoy mid-century genre fiction or it's a really, really tone deaf thing to call a man with a mixed-race background.
Steve Benen | Posted 06.20.2008 | Politics
Now that it's time for the general election, and the right is desperate to smear Barack Obama, the GOP has rediscovered OBL.
Steve Cone | Posted 06.19.2008 | Politics
In memory of its creator, I think it is high time we understand that the 1964 Daisy ad was not about being negative but rather truthful.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.11.2008 | Politics
Following hard on the heels of this morning's L.A. Times article, warning of further forthcoming attacks on Michelle Obama, and Maureen Dowd's NYT col...
Glenn Hurowitz | Posted 04.23.2008 | Politics
The Times editorial board's attitude ignores the evidence that negative, fear-inducing advertising actually has far better civic effects than positive, enthusiastic ads.
Jeff Dorchen | Posted 04.22.2008 | Politics
I apologize for the following. It was written in anger brought on by listening to All Things Considered for three whole minutes, a mistake I shall no...
Washington Post | Perry Bacon Jr. | Posted 03.10.2008 | Politics
Eager to shift the narrative after a difficult week, Sen. Barack Obama's campaign sharply criticized the tactics of his rival, Sen. Hillary Rodham Cli...
Michael Shaw | Posted 03.10.2008 | Media
As Obama moves to respond to the "kitchen sink," Mark Halperin at Time launched a stunningly pejorative visual preemptive strike.
San Francisco Chronicle | Zachary Coile | Posted 03.07.2008 | Politics
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi urged both leading Democratic presidential candidates to cease their bickering, warning that the escalating rhetoric could ...
Bill Katovsky | Posted 03.06.2008 | Politics
Battered and attacked for so many years by the right, Hillary has adopted many of their same tactics.
Karen Kisslinger | Posted 03.05.2008 | Politics
I'm sad that our first woman candidate for President has felt it necessary to practice "old boy" politics at its meanest and slimiest, and I'm sure I haven't "seen anything yet"; I know it will get worse.
Election Central | Greg Sargent | Posted 03.05.2008 | Politics
Election Central has obtained a copy of a new anti-McCain ad sponsored by the group Campaign To Defend America: The Campaign to Defend America -- whi...
America Blog | John Ararvosis | Posted 03.04.2008 | Politics
Via America Blog: I went and got the original footage from the Clinton ad, and then compared it to 3 different video clips of the same debate from 3 ...
Politico | Ben Smith | Posted 03.03.2008 | Politics
I wrote in December about a mysterious pro-Clinton, anti-Obama website called HillaryIs44, a site that floated sharply negative information about Obam...
The Page | Mark Halperin | Posted 02.25.2008 | Politics
Obviously angry communications director on conference call with reporters says: "I think it is true that every time the Obama campaign in this campai...
SurveyUSA | Posted 02.21.2008 | Politics
SurveyUSA has tracked the job approval rating of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton 35 times between May 2005 and February 2008. At no time had the percen...
NY Times | Adam Nagourney | Posted 02.21.2008 | Politics
When Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton meets Senator Barack Obama at a one-on-one debate in Austin on Thursday night, one of her final opportunities to c...
Huffington Post | Posted 02.19.2008 | Politics
Hillary Clinton's camp has released this statement, after Obama opened his trip to Texas with a critique of Hillary's housing crisis solution: "When ...
Robert Schlesinger | Posted 02.18.2008 | Politics
If politics is sports, then Obama's rhetoric is like a filthy fastball that opposing hitters haven't managed to hit yet. He keeps running it out there until someone connects off of him.
Political Radar | Sunlen Miller | Posted 02.17.2008 | Politics
The presidential campaign of Sen. Barack Obama put out big gun backer Sen. Ted Kennedy and the Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle to respond to the negative Cli...
Huffington Post | Posted 02.15.2008 | Politics
As the calendar approaches March 4th, the race for the Democratic candidate is taking an increasingly negative turn. This week Hillary launched the f...
Associated Press | Posted 01.27.2008 | Politics
Following Barack Obama's primary win in South Carolina Saturday, members of the Clinton campaign continued to inject issues of race in the contest. F...
NY Times' The Caucus | Katherine Seelye | Posted 01.25.2008 | Politics
Bill Clinton just staged a passionate defense of his wife here, after a voter asked how Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton could unite this country when i...
NY Times | Patrick Healy | Posted 01.25.2008 | Politics
Advisers to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton say they have concluded that Bill Clinton's aggressive politicking against Senator Barack Obama is resonati...
As Barack Obama began his trip to the Middle East and Europe,...
An ABC-TV outlet in Houston, and now the Houston Chronicle,...
The McCain campaign implied on Wednesday that Barack Obama's commitment...
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The New York Times has rejected an op-ed penned by Senator John McCain in response...
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When Walk Score recently released their ranking of the ten most walkable U.S. cities there was no doubt that folks in places...
Here we go again. Oil prices tumbling "in the steepest four...
According to Psychology Today and referencing the American Journal of Psychiatry,...
Steve Benen | Posted 06.27.2008 | Politics