McCain Campaign Tried Using Assault Hoax to Slime Obama
According to one of the actual police reports documenting the charade's unraveling, Ashley Todd says she can't remember whether she mutilated her own face, or had someone else do it.
According to one of the actual police reports documenting the charade's unraveling, Ashley Todd says she can't remember whether she mutilated her own face, or had someone else do it.
Greg Mitchell | Posted 11.24.2008 | Politics
John Moody, executive vice president at Fox News, has commented on his blog that "this incident could become a watershed event in the 11 days before the election.
Tom Cosgrove | Posted 11.24.2008 | Politics
My dad was a plumber. My dad was a Republican. And if my dad were alive today, he would never vote for John McCain. My father would respect McCain's ...
WSJ | Posted 11.24.2008 | Politics
The Barack Obama campaign occupies a storefront on N. Main Street across from the county courthouse. A stream of people filters through to pick up but...
Disgrasian | Posted 11.23.2008 | Style
Both World Series teams happen to be from two important swing states, Florida and Pennsylvania. Kinda puts a new spin on the idea of a state being "in play," doesn't it?
Hal Donahue | Posted 11.22.2008 | Politics
The candidate calls himself Lieutenant Colonel Russell. Like him, I'm a retired LtCol, but I seldom go by that title and if I do use it, I always identify myself retired as required by regulations.
Nick Antosca | Posted 11.22.2008 | Politics
If Obama wins, then you get to express your jubilation by having long-awaited celebratory sex with another, or several other, similarly elated individuals (console McCain voters at your discretion).
AP | MARK SCOLFORO | Posted 11.18.2008 | Politics
LANCASTER, Pa. — Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin on Saturday made a pitch for a ninth-inning comeback from a minor-league baseb...
Chris Rodda | Posted 11.17.2008 | Media
A teacher has reportedly shown the anti-Muslim propaganda film to her high school class warning the students that if Obama is elected, some of what they saw in the film would occur.
Aimee Lee Ball | Posted 11.16.2008 | Politics
We asked the people we visited the same question that Ronald Reagan asked in the 1980 election: Are you better off now than you were four years ago?
Bart Motes | Posted 11.16.2008 | Media
Websites cannot substitute for the hard work of grassroots campaigning: particularly phone banking and canvassing. But they can augment the work of local organizers and volunteers.
Paul Helmke | Posted 11.15.2008 | Politics
Last week, the Brady Center released its report on the impact of military-style semi-automatic assault weapons on American families and law enforcemen...
Philly.Com | Posted 11.15.2008 | Politics
Authorities are trying to find out who sent a threatening letter containing a suspicious substance to one of Barack Obama's South Philadelphia campaig...
AP | MARYCLAIRE DALE | Posted 11.13.2008 | Politics
PHILADELPHIA — Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton offered a Democratic rejoinder to the Republican chant of "drill, baby, drill." Said the one-time pre...
Pete Cenedella | Posted 11.10.2008 | Politics
What's happening at these McCain-Palin rallies is a series of convulsions and spasms no less primordial than those we make at the end of life -- a kind of death dance.
Kelly Nuxoll | Posted 11.09.2008 | Home
At a McCain event in Pennsylvania, the Lehigh County Republican chairman encouraged supporters to spend nights volunteering, saying, "Think how you would feel if you woke up on November 5th and Barack Obama--Barack Hussein Obama--were president."
CBS Local News | Mike Parker | Posted 11.07.2008 | Politics
CBS local news reports: A former governor and a former candidate for governor, each with political opinions that couldn't set them further apart were...
HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 11.03.2008 | Politics
Democrats cheered on Wednesday when news broke that John McCain's campaign was abandoning Michigan, pulling down its ads and sending staffers to other...
Forbes | Maryclaire Dale | Posted 11.01.2008 | Green
PHILADELPHIA - A New York restaurant has filed a potential class-action suit over alleged price-fixing in the egg industry, days after the Justice Dep...
TPM.COM | Posted 11.01.2008 | Politics
In an unusually candid interview, a top official for the largest union backing Obama said that internal union polling shows that the race remains much...
Paul Jenkins | Posted 10.31.2008 | Politics
All told, 20 states are currently at high risk of loss by the Republican party in either the presidential election, the Senate race, or both. How is that for expanding the playing field?
Erin Medlicott | Posted 10.27.2008 | Home
Greensburg, PA: Speaking to a packed house in the Greensburg Salem High School gym Thursday, Democratic VP nominee Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE) criticized t...
Paul Jenkins | Posted 10.18.2008 | Politics
Now that it has thoroughly discredited the market economy it was ostensibly pushing, the Republican Party is left with no clear, logical economic agenda.
Paul Jenkins | Posted 10.14.2008 | Politics
At some point it becomes hard to blame the traditional media for its improper coverage. Clearly, the McCain/Palin lies have not gone unnoticed -- yet, there is barely a blip in the polls.
AP | RAMIT PLUSHNICK-MASTI | Posted 10.11.2008 | Home
SHANKSVILLE, Pa. — Searching for an economic boost and home to perhaps the most compelling story of 9/11, rural Somerset County is trying to pul...
Erik Ose | Posted 11.24.2008 | Politics