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I don't usually comment on sports, so take anything I say with a grain of salt. I'm no professional sports guy, nor do I play one on the web. But I h...
I don't usually comment on sports, so take anything I say with a grain of salt. I'm no professional sports guy, nor do I play one on the web. But I h...
Paul Rieckhoff | Posted 08.15.2008 | Politics
The irony is almost too great. Disabled veterans, who have made such tremendous sacrifices in defense of democracy, are now being denied assistance in voting.
Chuck Lasker | Posted 08.14.2008 | Home
"Four years ago Halliburton called a friend of mine looking to go to college and said that they'd pay him $90,000 if he agreed to drive a truck in Iraq for the private sector. He kept his minimum wage job."
Think Progress | Posted 08.11.2008 | Politics
This past May, the Veterans Affairs Department, led by Secretary James Peake, issued a directive prohibiting nonpartisan voter registration drives "at...
Heather Smith | Posted 08.05.2008 | Politics
In May the Department of Veterans Affairs banned voter registration drives in V.A. hospitals and other government buildings. Last week, the Senate int...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.30.2008 | Politics
Barack Obama's campaign may get a major electoral boon from an organization that was accused of conspiring against him in the primary. Women's Voice...
Wes Isley | Posted 07.25.2008 | Home
"If we win North Carolina, Obama will be president," Dean told the crowd. More voters turned out for the primary this year here than voted for John Kerry. "All it will take is registering people to vote."
Demos | Posted 07.16.2008 | Home
A U.S. District Judge has directed the Missouri Dept. of Social Services to begin providing voter registration applications and assistance to their clients. The law to do so has been ignored since it passed 15 years ago.
AP | NEDRA PICKLER | Posted 07.15.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean is embarking on a voter registration bus tour he hopes will help push Dixie to t...
South Florida Sun Sentinel | Posted 07.13.2008 | Politics
An escalating number of voters registering as Democrats is providing evidence that the 2008 election could produce a wave of support for Barack Obama ...
Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman | Posted 07.07.2008 | Politics
Helping people register to vote, working as a polling monitor, volunteering to be a vote count observer after the polls close are three ways to prevent the presidency from being stolen again.
Jonathan Leigh Solomon | Posted 06.30.2008 | Politics
When Obama eschewed the pundit's red-blue-purple state preoccupation during his '04 Democratic Convention speech, he was choosing poetry over polls.
Daniel Nichanian | Posted 06.30.2008 | Home
Democrats have pulled way ahead in the Penn. voter rolls as a result of the historic primary. And in Iowa, McCain is spending in areas covered in flood water, where people can't watch TV.
Tina Chong | Posted 06.09.2008 | Home
Obama supporters rallied Clinton partisans at the West Hollywood L.A. Pride Parade. Reactions were mixed. He's got a "magical quality," said one Obama supporter, sure that nthe Clintonites would come around.
Steve Cobble | Posted 05.16.2008 | Politics
Given the level of excitement among young people during this year's primary process, doesn't it make sense to register as many outgoing public high sc...
Posted 05.10.2008 | Politics
Today, May 10, marks the first day of what the Obama campaign is calling its "Vote For Change" project. From barackobama.com: On May 10th, Barack Oba...
Matt Stoller | Posted 05.08.2008 | Politics
Obama has created a number of significant infrastructure pieces through his campaign, displacing traditional groups the way he promised he would by signaling the end of the old politics of division and partisanship.
William McNary | Posted 05.01.2008 | Politics
I can say with great conviction, there was no effort to suppress or confuse African American voters, or any other voters in the state of North Carolina by Women's Voices, Women Vote.
Jacob Soboroff | Posted 04.21.2008 | Home
Last week I visited with Senator Bill Nelson (D-FLA) in his Washington, D.C. office to discuss his plan to change the way and day we vote, and why he chose now to introduce his plan.
Last night, John McCain's campaign manager Rick Davis...
In a candid interview via satellite from China, Olympic...
Update: Keith Olbermann had Rachel Maddow on "Countdown" Tuesday night to celebrate...
"How honest are we if we tell the truth most of the time &...
Obama's been to Hawaii. We're moving...
I've read the comments. I know what some of you think. Yawn. It's not a story. He's not...
UPDATE: A day after Roseanne's blogs from below...
The New York Times' Kit Seelye is backing up NBC's Andrea Mitchell, who reported on...
Michael Phelps, Michael Phelps, Michael Phelps. With all the play his name gets right now,...
NEW YORK — The suspense didn't quite compare to the identity of "Deep Throat,"...
As much as I dreaded turning 30, believe it or not I'm actually starting to...
Turning conventional neuroscience on its head, new research suggests the...
BURKE, N.Y. -- Everywhere that Janet and Ken Tacy...
Chris Weigant | Posted 08.15.2008 | Politics