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OffTheBus.net, the online citizen-journalist arm of the Huffington Post, celebrates its one-year anniversary this month. Of all the new political, n...

A candidate like Obama -- who says "thoughtful things" and actually speaks in "paragraphs" as opposed to soundbites -- might be willing to address the topic. But don't hold your breath.

The UpTake interviews author Irwin Tang about his book, "Gook: John McCain's Racism and Why It Matters." McCain has used the work "gook" in the media for 30 years, including during his 2000 presidential run.

Obama's fifty-state strategy is not about his winning these states in this election. It's about "trickle up" politics and grassroots efforts on a national scale, all of which will help sow the seeds of future Democratic majorities.

"Proposing to drill for small amounts of oil that will be sold to China as a solution to our rising gas prices makes about as much sense as responding to an attack from Afghanistan by invading some other country."

Mark Udall will win his race in Colorado, making both U.S. Senate seats for the state Democratic. Udall, and the slate of popular candidates running for his seat in the House, are moving the state strongly toward Obama.

Limousine liberals act as if their cause of the moment is more important than getting cattle out the gate. Forgive me, but I assert that it just ain't so: If we don't work, you don't eat.

Will you do more than vote, talk, read and write in the usual ways? Will dissidents on the left and right join together to fight a common enemy? Or will elites continue to feed their greed through economic tyranny?

When you run out of money you either fly coach (see John McCain), or drop out (see Joe Biden). You don't rack up a big debt expecting someone to bail you out after the fact.

Jackson blew off some steam during what he assumed was a personal exchange. But when it comes to the remainder of the 2008 Presidential race, he'd do well to channel his energy to helping bring to fruition the equality of opportunity he's devoted a lifetime to.

If he is not nominated -- and I am excluding health and accident from this consideration -- it will be because of a spontaneous revolution among Republicans at their September Convention. Or maybe sooner.

S.C. GOP Governor Mark Sanford wants the veep spot so bad he rushed unprepared onto the Sunday morning talk shows and made a mockery of McCain's non-plan for the economy.

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.

The Social Security Administration says that it cannot find a "match" for 46 percent of the forms that it processes. In Florida, that means voter registration ends up slightly more reliable than a coin flip.

Primary season 2008 was stamped in part by internet video. We've compiled choice excerpts, including snippets from the big hits that helped shape the campaigns.

Sometimes, the parties' headquarters are miles apart, geographically and metaphorically.Thanks to the work of HuffPost OffTheBus Special Ops, you can visit them in just a few key strokes.

I'll go to bars, hostels, small-town campaign headquarters. I'll seek out house parties and mow lawns with landscapers. The question: What are young people across the country thinking about the election?

Every four years there's some guy trying to get at us in the steamy back seat of his gas-guzzling muscle car. I say we keep our skirts down. You know the drill: Just say no.

I'm speaking on a panel titled "Reinventing Political Media." Not surprisingly, few of the media being "reinvented" show up for what sounds like a dousing of Chinese Cultural Revolution-style re-education.

Dobson's attacks on Obama reveal what Dobson truly is: a right-wing nut with delusional interpretations of the Bible who unfortunately wields enormous influence within the Republican Party.

To save his soul, Lindsey Graham jes' could not lay on the self-righteous molasses thick enough: The shame of it! Obama has broken his promise. Somebody stop that man before Lindsey faints dead away!

Lindsey Graham wants to be a kinder gentler right-winger. Really he does. He doesn't want to talk about which church Obama attends, he says, and, as we say down here in the Deep South, "That's mighty white of him."

The only modern way to combat this powerful, entrenched, well-financed conservative cabal is to create public outrage. After sleeping through the bloodless coup the 2000 elections turned out to be, Americans have tuned into the battle between Hillary and Barack that kept us listening, talking and taking sides. Obama must re-ignite that excitement by engaging McCain in the most democratic of forums.

Expansion of the media space is a good thing, but filtering and forwarding systems must keep pace. The better we are at finding the good stuff, the easier it is to relax and accept that anyone can be a media producer.