Obama Supporters Angry But Well Behaved
Instead of looking for the real story on health care, reporters across America are looking for ways to turn it into a better, more sensational tale. A small, loud minority is getting all of the attention.
Instead of looking for the real story on health care, reporters across America are looking for ways to turn it into a better, more sensational tale. A small, loud minority is getting all of the attention.
Shawna Vercher | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics
Now we have a choice. Does health care reform pass away as legend and a political footnote?
Wendy Wanderman | Posted 09.03.2009 | Living
According to a recent report from the Trust for America's Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Top 5 states that have the highest percentage of overweight people are all Republican red states.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics
Under the new House proposal for health care reform, blue states will be picking up more than their share of the tab, according to a new study from th...
Gary Cohan | Posted 07.30.2009 | Politics
Republicans' private embraces are often in complete contradistinction with their own oft-trumpeted, Biblically-mandated "moral" guidelines for the rest of us.
William Bradley | Posted 06.26.2009 | Politics
The California Supreme Court's decision to uphold Proposition 8 is all the more tragic in that the initiative never should have passed in the first place.
Al Eisele | Posted 05.11.2009 | Politics
Sen. Mark Udall appears poised to play a key role in shaping the eco-politics of the 21st century.
AP | SHANNON McCAFFREY | Posted 04.11.2009 | Politics
ATLANTA — A showdown is shaping up in some of the nation's most conservative states over embryonic stem cell research, as opponents draw languag...
Andrea Chalupa | Posted 04.03.2009 | Style
I wonder how pill-popping Rush Limbaugh would explain this: a new study out of Harvard Business School finds that red-staters buy more online porn than their blue state compatriots.
Jesse Jenkins | Posted 02.27.2009 | Green
When it comes to the geography of climate politics, it doesn't break down along the much-ballyhooed "red state/blue state" divide.
Julie Fanselow | Posted 01.19.2009 | Politics
Many of us are succeeding, in places like Great Falls, Montana, and Omaha, Nebraska, as former GOP strongholds become more hospitable to progressive ideas and people.
Paul Helmke | Posted 12.21.2008 | Politics
Because of the Supreme Court decision, the gun violence prevention debate has shifted from the extremes to the middle.
Jeannie Ralston | Posted 12.15.2008 | Style
I've found that I've increasingly consulted the electoral map as I've been trying to zero in on our new home.
NY Times | KIRK JOHNSON | Posted 12.08.2008 | Business
DENVER -- Sales of handguns, rifles and ammunition have surged in the last week, according to gun store owners around the nation who describe a wave o...
Susan Smalley, Ph.D. | Posted 12.07.2008 | Living
I heard the other night a young girl describe an interview she conducted with the then Senator Barack Obama. She was able to ask him lots of question...
Laurel Kaufer | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics
As we have heard from the analysts on both sides for much of the last month, this year we saw "the perfect storm" hit the Republican party in almost every conceivable way.
Dave Winer | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics
Cleaning up some loose ends. Obama won Pennsylvania and New Hampshire, two states that were on McCain's slim path to a win. Once those were decided, ...
Gary Cohan | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics
Civil rights are not won in the war zone of national elections or State referenda but, rather, in a series of small but important evolutionary steps.
AP | BEN FELLER | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — President Bush has called Barack Obama to congratulate him on winning the presidency. The two-term Republican president told the I...
CNN | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics
Sen. John Kerry released the following statement in response to Sen. Barack Obama's victory: "Tonight we elected a President who has inspired a major...
The Huffington Post | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics
MSNBC describes the mood in John McCain's villa: Senior staffers are gathering to spend time with Senator McCain at the "family villa" they are usin...
Huffington Post | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics
See below for the results of election 2008! Daily Kos Map CNN's Electoral Map Google Map: Follow Presidential, Senate House Races CBS News ...
Media Matters | Posted 12.05.2008 | Media
Sometimes, the multitude of information and data that floods the airwaves on Election Day can be too overwhelming to keep track of. During MSNBC's co...
Richard Grenell | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics
Since Obama's problems from the Democratic Primary have not been resolved, nor reported by the national media, the Electoral College map signals trouble for the media's main man.
NY Times/Huffington Post | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics
Pundits and pollsters may be trying to take all the fun out of Election Day. So many have predicted a lopsided victory for Senator Barack Obama over S...
Dawn Teo | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics