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At least 10,000 absentee voters from Gwinnett County, Ga., used a ballot that was printed with the wrong bubble. Scanners refused to read the heavily-...

At least 10,000 absentee voters from Gwinnett County, Ga., used a ballot that was printed with the wrong bubble. Scanners refused to read the heavily...

Pity that poor Marie Antoinette's subjects didn't have the same sweet tooth as folks in Miami, because then the reply to her suggestion that they "ea...

I routinely drive from Chicago, down through the heavily industrial Gary/Hammond area known locally as "The Region," and from there, deep into Indian...

In an exclusive interview, the two men explain at breakneck pace what they're afraid of this year and what they hope voters will do to make sure the 2008 election is fair, open, and small-d democratic.

The site asks Obama supporters who share the McCain name to sign up, posting a photograph and a short paragraph. The site is only a few weeks old, and has 16 supporters pictured.

In their new ads, Obama portrays McCain as clueless on the troubled economy, while McCain attempts to scare voters and convince them Obama cannot be trusted on national security.

Community organizers around the country felt belittled by the Republicans' attacks, but also, paradoxically, emboldened by increased media visibility that their efforts have earned.

Obama is spending more in New Mexico on the Latino vote than both parties spent total for Latino outreach in '04. But the number one reason he's winning over Latinos here is the fact that he showed up.

"The way we keep G.O.P. strategists from stealing the election is to get out to vote and make sure that it's not a contested race. We don't want it to be close..."

Andrew Sullivan says he believes in "personal responsibility." But like most conservatives, he only believes in it for proles. Money buys morality in today's America--just like it buys administrations.

Alluding to his experience as a physician, Dean explained that in therapy, the intensity of pain must be stronger than the fear of change, of taking the steps that will make them well. He said the pain Americans are experiencing is now stronger than their fear of change.

With the new TV ad, Obama turned a Beltway kerfuffle into high political art -- and did so by borrowing from McCain, whose media strategy is to muddle Obama's trademarks by simply appropriating them.

Bloggers from the Middle East reflect on the pivotal day for the United States and around the world. "I buy all the events of 9/11... I just don't buy anything from 9/12 onward."

Aimed at voters in the battleground states the week of September 11, the film is more than a scare tactic or a campaign ploy. It smacks of classic propaganda, boosted by the authority of the Times brand.

Confronted with expert opinions as to the doubtful authority of the documents and the flimsy and biased arguments made by the authors, Clintons4Mccain leaders Adkins and Adams seemed genuinely shocked.

The best bet to weather natural disasters may be to live in an election swing state, then what happens in the the weeks after the disasters hit might really matter.

Montana is not completely red the way it was 12 years ago, when residents had Clinton to rage at. It's a place where the men are men and the women keep their voting records to themselves.

"My father had that job before me. I took over for him. So when I had to pack everything up and send it overseas, I was packing up equipment my father had used. We were packing up a community's way of life."

McCain is painting a vulgarized vision of the Reagan's America -- an iconographic vision of a long-dead past packaged as change for tomorrow. And he's hoping that working-class whites will fall for it.

download this clip! Outside the Republican National Convention in St. Paul MN. on Thursday September 4....

For the first time in American history, a major political party devoted a substantial portion of its national convention to attacking grassroots organizing. Those attacks reflected a longstanding tradition in American politics -- the conservative elite's fear of "the people."

Palin is sending a strange message on abstinence-only sex education; it clearly didn't work for her daughter. Indeed a lot of women are angry about that message and panicked over the enthusiasm Palin seems to be inspiring. Let me offer four reasons to calm down.

In 2001, gearing up for a run at the office of Alaska Lieutenant Governor, Sarah Palin drove from Wasilla to the Cook Inlet home of Bill Allen, the ole-boy millionaire at the heart of the scandal plaguing US Sen Ted Stevens.