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Contrary to what you might hear the legacy media say, voters in Oregon don't think the long campaign has hurt the Democratic party's chances in the 2008...

The emails started to fly around yesterday in the late afternoon with the urgent subject line, "NARAL ENDORSES OBAMA!" In pained tones the senders, my circle of Hillary supporters, expressed their shock that one of the preeminent pro-choice organizations, one that they have supported in good times and bad, had...

Twenty-seven electoral votes -- fourth largest election prize in the nation -- "and don't you forget it."

That's the stock answer Floridians are giving the Democratic National Committee (DNC) as State party leaders move ahead in the final delegate selection process this week and await word on the group's...

I was reminded today of the importance of using low-tech ways, like a conference call, for connecting people to each other and to campaigns and candidates. Even in this, the Connected Age, when Twitter and YouTube are dominating election news in the way that blogs did in 2004....

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Citizen Kate got with some of the just-under-half of Indiana that voted Obama on Tuesday. Stevie Wonder led the chorus at a rally in Indianapolis:

What...

I don't normally liveblog TV -- research, reporting, analysis and hopefully a little erudition are more my speed -- but I'm watching Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) on Jon Stewart's "The Daily Show," and can't resist jumping on the laptop. Reid's the single worst interview I've ever seen on...

INDIANAPOLIS-- "No money!" yelled a man in the passing car, his words trailing in the blustering wind of downtown Indianapolis.

People in Indiana are helpful.

Laura, Meg and I had been trying to feed the meter. I guess you don't have to do that on Saturday mornings.

But that's not...

HAUGHVILLE, Ind. -- An impromptu debate swirled in front of Victory Tabernacle Apostolic Church.

In the bright sunshine of the early afternoon, a group of college-aged kids discussed the merits of voting for Sen. Barack Obama, Sen. Hillary Clinton and Sen. John McCain. The general consensus of the lively crowd...

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From the progressive center of North Carolina comes this report from Brian Russell of yesh.com. He explores why music and politics go hand in hand, why...

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Citizen Kate catches up with Old Hollywood Celebrities at a Hillary Clinton event in Indianapolis, Indiana: "So I made it to my first big Hillary event...

By Meghan Peters and Will Mari

FRANKFORT, Ind. -- While driving down Clinton Avenue in Clinton County, we thought passing a Clinton lawn sign would be the icing on the cake. It'd make for a catchy title to our first post in Indiana, something like "Clinton in Clinton on Clinton."

LEBANON, IND. -- In a pair of middle schools on opposite sides of Indianapolis, in the proud little cities of Greenfield and Lebanon, former President Bill Clinton continued his whirlwind stumping tour in support of his wife late Friday.

In suburban Greenfield, the seat of Hancock County --...

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Minnesota's Republican Party seems... camera-shy. Over the past several months, Republicans have prevented journalists from recording their candidates at events. The latest incident saw reporter Gavin Sullivan...

I recently paid on overdue visit to a professor from the seminary where I received my Master of Divinity degree. She's a woman in her seventies, an ordained pastor and a retired professor of Christian Education. After the usual chit-chat about family life, she asked me if I had been...

Carly Fiorina, the former CEO of Hewlett-Packard and now the "victory chair" for the Republican National Committee and Sen. John McCain, swung through Seattle this week. As one of McCain's campaign surrogates, she is tasked with raising money for the RNC and getting the base fired up for the presidential...

Buoyed by the results in Pennsylvania, bus loads of Floridians -- mostly backers of Sen. Hillary Clinton -- will head to Washington for an April 30th rally before the Democratic National Committee's headquarters. The group is looking to confront party leaders and argue that the Sunshine State's disqualified January primary...

At about 7:45pm on Pennsylvania's primary day, at the eastern edge of Hunting Park in northern North Philadelphia, I knocked on a voter's door with a last-minute reminder to get down to the polls only three blocks over. "You mean the voting is still open?" the woman asked. Yes,...

With a 10-point win in Pennsylvania, following a similar win in Ohio, Hillary Clinton can legitimately state that she has momentum going her way. Plus, her campaign claims that they received some $10 million in contributions in the 24 hours following polls closing in the state, including 60,000 donations from...

This article is not about the absurd complexity of our current election system, although that topic is just as worthy of consideration. It is about exploring the possibility that we severely underfund the election process in the United States, leading to myriad potential and actual problems, while...

Americans, schizophrenically, love two things: winners, and quixotic heroes who do great things in a losing cause. Last night in Pennsylvania, Hillary Clinton was both: the winner of what in an ordinary election year would be a tremendous victory, and the protagonist of an unequivocally lost cause.

Clinton won Pennsylvania....