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The Florida Democratic Party Jefferson-Jackson Dinner this weekend was remarkable for the united support of Obama on display. Even representatives of the state's overwhelmingly pro-Clinton women's caucus were wearing Obama buttons.

This is going to be a white-hot, bitterly contested election cycle, and even though the McCain campaign has forsworn dirty tactics, the 527s and right wing blogs and rumor mills will rush to attack Michelle Obama. But a word of caution is warranted: "Those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones."

If only Hunter S. Thompson could weigh in on the debate surrounding Mayhill Fowler's controversial piece on Bill Clinton. Imagine Thompson, pleasantly and belligerently drunk, cursing in some chatroom on the Internets.

Preliminary analysis suggests readers still highly rate mainstream press coverage but that online and offline sources compete well. Broadcast outlets were rated significantly lower than online and print media.

The Obama candidacy may be most transformative in how it has affected young people. It's about more than mere voting: It's about developing ways for students to be part of a bigger movement for social change.

Did you know that, in order to shield Americans from dead troops, the flag-draped caskets -- which are often flown in the cargo holds of commercial airliners -- are hidden in cardboard boxes? Do not put a man in the White House who will continue this insanity of a war.

An "O'Reilly Factor" producer cornered PBS's Bill Moyers at a conference on media reform this weekend, leading Moyers to demand an unedited interview about Iraq. Angry journalists piled on.

The title "citizen journalist" was always too French Revolution for me, but I've come to appreciate it. The hierarchical world of politics and media is turning upside down, and I feel like Alice down the rabbit hole.

The past four years have been a lesson in apathy for a kid who was 14 in 2004, when Obama gave that amazing convention speech. I see purple state now, all fifty. Not red and blue. Something has changed.

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Florida Democrats, still heated after the botched Democratic primary there and its rancorous aftermath, came together to protest John McCain's opposition to a national catastrophe relief funds.

A victory speech on a night that will remain a vibrant event in American history for many generations to come.

I can't listen to another pundit imploring that Clinton "needs time" or that she needs to go through the stages of grief or that she needs to be allowed to come to terms with her loss. This primary, this election, this year is not about Hillary Clinton.

Who wants to be the first to sign? Perhaps I should look up Monica, Paula and Gennifer and see if they'd be interested.

media attention is starting to focus on McCain's divergence from his image as a reformer. Our top-rated mainstream media piece, McCain Campaign Calls; A Nonprofit Steps In by the Washington Post's Robert O'Harrow Jr., looks at how McCain's top veteran affairs advisor also serves on the board of directors for Citizens Against Government Waste

Watch the setup inside and the circus outside the XCel Energy Center, where Obama is set to speak at 7:00PM CDT. See and hear what the scene is like before the crowd files in and once the show begins.

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The Clinton daughter breathless fundraising T-shirt contest is utterly lame and yet probably much more exciting than the actual nomination contest, at this point. We have some design proposals.

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Come November, the only names on the ballot will be John McCain and Barack Obama. The only people who can save our country from certain doom is... you, Hillary supporters!

"He approached Bush and gave him a big hug, said he'd serve again anytime," says Sergeant Twiggs's widow. Had Sergeant Twiggs snapped then instead of later, Dick Cheney would be president now.

Without "100 percent recognition now," some Floridians are saying they will organize a convention floor fight, that if Obama wins the nomination, he must select Clinton as his running mate "or face a shellacking."

We've already lost too many great leaders who were trying to change the status quo. After Hillary's recent crass comments, her career had better be over.

In the year of the Clinton candidacy, asking Democrats to vote for a vice presidential candidate who snickered about calling the Naval Academy "a horny woman's dream" is just rubbing salt in the wounds.

McCain's Rev. Hagee has a tough God. Instead of putting Jews on trains to Auschwitz, couldn't He have gotten them bus tickets to Tel Aviv? Next question: why does McCain think God sent us Hitler?