Kay Hagan, the challenger for the US Senate seat held by Senator Elizabeth Dole, is a formidable contender. Now with the infusion of millions of adver...
Erik Ose | Posted 07.13.2008 | Politics
No amount of whitewashing Helms' legacy can erase the stain of his reliance on hate-filled, divisive politics, or the hurt he caused so many people in the process.
Linda Hansen | Posted 07.10.2008 | Home
McCain might be nine points ahead of Obama in South Carolina, but, unlike our progressive suitors in the past, Obama won't give us up without a fight.
Greg Mitchell | Posted 07.09.2008 | Politics
A state worker in Helms' native North Carolina named L.F. Eason III quit the only job he'd ever had rather than lower the flag to honor longtime racist Helms.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.08.2008 | Politics
Throughout his lengthy career, Jesse Helms did the Republican Party no favors. A shambling, verminous bag of bigotry, Helms' presence at the forefron...
Erik Ose | Posted 07.08.2008 | Politics
Helms poisoned the ideological well of politics, calling MLK, Jr. a communist and the 1964 Civil Rights Act "the single most dangerous piece of legislation ever introduced in the Congress."
Los Angeles Times | Janet Hook | Posted 07.06.2008 | Politics
Mississippi, one of the nation's most conservative states, has not elected a Democratic senator in a quarter-century. It has voted for Republican pres...
Ben Mishkin | Posted 07.03.2008 | Home
Barack Obama's "Southern Strategy" based on expected "historic turnout in the African-American community" has come under scrutiny recently, setting off a new round of debate on the matter in the blogosphere.
Ben Terris | Posted 07.01.2008 | Home
Talking politics with young people across the country has meant talking about education. "What works," says one, "is retaining teachers and recruiting volunteers, people to push the kids hard at school."
Paul Jenkins | Posted 06.18.2008 | Politics
Even still-enamored journalists cannot fail to notice that it would be difficult to find a candidate less suited for the times or the office than McCain right now.
Beverly Davis | Posted 06.09.2008 | Home
Mike Roberts, the "Donald Trump of St. Louis," explains why Obama will win a landslide victory in Missouri, one of the top battle states for November. "He'll kill McCain!"
Dan Treul | Posted 05.14.2008 | Home
The genius of the rally lay, appropriately enough, in its sheer audacity. West Michigan is solid GOP right-wing evangelical country and the Van Andel Arena is it's temple. How would Obama fare in lions' den?
Chris Weigant | Posted 05.12.2008 | Politics
With sincere apologies to Bill Maher for stealing his schtick, I have a new rule. My new rule is for uncommitted Democratic superdelegates. The rule ...
Chris Weigant | Posted 05.09.2008 | Politics
Now that that's all over with, can we please focus on beating John McCain? Virtually everyone (with the possible exception of Hillary Clinton -- I gue...
Stacy Parker Aab | Posted 05.09.2008 | Politics
The dream may be dying. But there is no reason that this must be her last dream. Death may be about finality, but it is also about new beginnings.
Michael Shaw | Posted 05.08.2008 | Media
At the moment at which the Democratic race apparently reached its tipping point, I saw as quick and dramatic a flip in the visual tone as I've ever seen before.
Logan Nakyanzi Pollard | Posted 05.08.2008 | Politics
In an amazing turn of events, in this week's primaries in North Carolina and Indiana, Americans got over Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Given Senator Obama's t...
Lisa Witter | Posted 05.08.2008 | Politics
Women, again, decided the primaries Tuesday. They accounted for 57% of the North Carolina voters and 56% of the Indiana voters. But while Senator Clin...
Matthew Dowd | Posted 05.07.2008 | Politics
What do President Bush and Hillary Clinton have in common? Neither had an exit strategy ready.
Shira Levine | Posted 05.07.2008 | Politics
Forget the superdelegates, says actor John Leguizamo. There's a quicker and less painful solution to choosing the Democratic nominee: Mixed Martial Arts.
Lawrence O'Donnell | Posted 05.07.2008 | Politics
A senior campaign official and Clinton confidante has told me that there will be a Democratic nominee by June 15. He could not bring himself to say the words "Hillary will drop out by June 15," but that is clearly what he meant.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.07.2008 | Politics
With the media stating explicit demands, and practically begging Obama to just let them give him a news-cycle win, Obama finally sucked it up and gave in last night, during his speech in North Carolina.
Huffington Post | Posted 05.07.2008 | Politics
With Senator Obama's double-digit victory in the North Carolina primary, and Senator Clinton eking out a very narrow win in the Indiana primary, the p...
236.com | 23/6: News You Can Misuse | Posted 05.07.2008 | Politics
Tuesday is the last of the big delegate contests for the Democratic Primary, and all eyes are on Indiana and North Carolina. It's not very often that ...
Robert Creamer | Posted 05.07.2008 | Politics
Barack will most likely lose West Virginia and Kentucky, but each one will contribute more delegates to the final number he needs to clinch the nomination.
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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,...
Michelle Kraus | Posted 07.18.2008 | Politics