Obama's Idaho Awakening
Why did Idahoans glom to Obama with such religious zeal? The theories are as diverse as our state is not.
Why did Idahoans glom to Obama with such religious zeal? The theories are as diverse as our state is not.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 02.10.2008 | Politics
One of the electoral trends we've noticed in the early contests really took root on Super Tuesday: namely, that while Democratic voters were willing t...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 02.07.2008 | Politics
Mitt "the Quit" Romney has loosed the GOPocalypse upon McCain-hating conservatives today, dropping out of the race after failing to appeal to any vote...
Marc Cooper | Posted 02.07.2008 | Home
When Obama said Republicans would find a "whole dump truck" of dirt on Hillary Clinton he knew what he was talking about. She just poured $5 million into its tank.
AP | CHARLES BABINGTON | Posted 02.07.2008 | Politics
NEW ORLEANS — Democrat Barack Obama raised $7.2 million and rival Hillary Rodham Clinton collected $6.4 million since Super Tuesday, as he conti...
Huffington Post | Posted 02.07.2008 | Politics
In the wake of Super Tuesday voting, the Obama campaign has recieved a bump from the Intrade prediction markets. For the first time since the day be...
HuffingtonPost.com | Max Follmer | Posted 02.06.2008 | Politics
The split decision from Super Tuesday's coast-to-coast balloting has thrust the fight over the disputed delegations from Michigan and Florida back int...
Huffington Post | Posted 02.06.2008 | Politics
CLICK HERE TO SEE THE LIVE DELEGATE COUNT... See below for more updates. SCORECARD: GOP: McCain 9, Romney 7, Huckabee 5, DEM: Obama 13, Clinton 9 ...
Gerald McEntee | Posted 02.06.2008 | Politics
While the media may focus on celebrities and endorsements, the voters on Super Tuesday and in earlier contests this year have focused on issues, substance and solutions.
Peter Clothier | Posted 02.06.2008 | Politics
Our future as a planet and species depends on our ability to create a new paradigm, more appropriate to the realities of the 21st century. Obama offers a glimpse of what that might look like.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 02.06.2008 | Politics
Super Tuesday's results went a long way to reinforcing one distinct voting trend that emerged in the early-season primaries - while Barack Obama's mes...
John Zogby | Posted 02.06.2008 | Politics
What separates Clinton and Obama is not simply personality and tone, it's the fact that there are warring demographics that represent each candidacy.
HuffingtonPost.com | Max Follmer | Posted 02.06.2008 | Politics
In the wake of Hillary Clinton's decisive victory Tuesday in the California Primary, one pre-election poll from C-SPAN/Zogby/Reuters that showed Barac...
Politico | Mike Allen | Posted 02.06.2008 | Politics
In a surprise twist after a chaotic Super Tuesday, Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) passed Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) in network tallies of the nu...
Arianna Huffington | Posted 02.06.2008 | Politics
Obama and McCain's overlapping oratories could not have been more different. One soared; the other plodded. One caused goose bumps; the other caused eyelids to flutter shut. One felt newly minted; the other could have been given by Herbert Hoover (and maybe was). Read More The 2008 Race for President and the Search for Our Better Selves It is time we recognize that our search for a great president is also a search for our better selves. Finally, a political litmus test that matters: Which presidential candidate can lead us to do more good than we think we're capable of? Read More
Huffington Post | Posted 02.06.2008 | Politics
The Obama, Clinton and McCain camps came out swinging after yesterday's Super Tuesday elections. They went after their opponents and tried to manage "...
Daniel Nichanian | Posted 02.06.2008 | Home
Super Tuesday is gone and has resolved nothing. As of yesterday, there was an end in sight; now, no one knows how long this could last and if there ar...
Micah Sifry | Posted 02.06.2008 | Politics
If not for the internet, and all the campaign- and voter-generated activism it has enabled, Hillary would already be the Democratic Party's presumptive nominee.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 02.06.2008 | Politics
A dirty secret little of the campaign just may be that in this age of supposed gender enlightenment when men profess profusely that they have no problem backing a woman for president, many secretly do.
Warren Goldstein | Posted 02.06.2008 | Politics
Instead of the big money and party brokers having locked up the nominations early on both sides, in this season the voters--remember them?--turn out to be key.
Politico | Mike Allen | Posted 02.06.2008 | Politics
The Politico reports: In a surprise twist after a chaotic Super Tuesday, Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) passed Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) in ne...
Associated Press | Posted 02.06.2008 | Politics
With turnout far exceeding expectations, Democratic rivals Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton were separated by roughly 100 votes early Wednesday...
ABC News | Jake Tapper | Posted 02.06.2008 | Politics
His campaign thought dead and now resurrected, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee greeted his supporters ebulliently after winning contests in West Vi...
Daniel Nichanian | Posted 02.06.2008 | Home
The counties where Obama is the strongest are reported much more rapidly than Clinton's strongholds. Marin County (55-39 Obama) is 98% in, and San Fransisco (52-44 Obama) is 78% in.
Catherine Crier | Posted 02.06.2008 | Politics
Pundits focus on women, African Americans and Latinos. What about the white male? In the privacy of the voting booth, where will the white men go in November? Hillary Clinton should be worried.
After a three-night stay in Moscow, the Obamas touched down in Rome on Wednesday so Papa President...
Long before $150,000-gate, Sarah Palin seemed to...
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OH NOES! What happened on Fox and Friends today, people?
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Michael Ames | Posted 02.12.2008 | Home