Yes We Can

Certainly Spring has been unkind to the Obama campaign and his supporters can't just blame Hillary's bottom-feeding anymore. The only bright side to Jeremiah Wright's twisted, egomaniacal schadenfreude is that the media so overplayed it that I can't believe that it will still be news in the fall (even though...

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Barack Obama's New Hampshire concession speech became one of the most important moments in this campaign. The speech was made into that powerful "yes we can" video and was downloaded and commented on a ton. What has been less commented on, but something which I think...

In February, when Barack Obama was at the height of his winning streak, Tom Foreman of CNN's Washington Bureau, wrote:

"One highly experienced Democratic insider told me that the Old Guard of the party is utterly confused by the appeal of Obama -- by the oceans of young people,...

In 1976, Bob Marley released Rastaman Vibration, which included what has become of his most memorable songs, "War." In it he took the text of Ethiopian king Haile Selassie's 1963 UN Conference speech and set it to music. The song (like the speech itself), while geared toward the liberation and...

1952: ADLAI STEVENSON (running against Dwight D. Eisenhower)
WHAT HE SHOULD HAVE SAID - You want a president who can't even pronounce the word "nuclear"?
WHAT HE ACTUALLY SAID - Let's talk sense to the American people! Let's tell them the truth, that there are no gains without...

A large chunk of this presidential election is shaping up to be about tone -- big change vs. little change, hope vs. experience. To see how these ideas are manifesting themselves among voters, one needs to look no further than Zazzle.com, the online site where people can design their...

As I watch the Clinton campaign go deeper into its downward spiral and possibly its death throes, it kills me to know that the Democrats have done what the Republicans were never able to do -- take down Hillary Clinton. I mean, I'm used to Hillary Hate coming from the...

In one last push to mobilize voters, Michelle Obama is asking her husband's supporters to get viral on Tuesday.

In a final salvo for Super Tuesday, the Obama Campaign blasted an email from Ms. Obama urging supporters to share the new music video "Yes We Can." The video...

In May 2005, Vanity Fair published a brilliant article about the '04 election and the Republican Noise Machine, by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. - The Disinformation Society [PDF].

I was thinking about what Obama said on Face The Nation today that "he didn't expect immunity from Republican attacks,...

A year ago as I was reporting for my book on technology and the 2008 race, The First Campaign, the founder of TechPresident.com, Andrew Rasiej predicted that 2008 would be remembered for the "voter-generated content" that transformed the election.

Now the Black Eyed Peas and Jesse Dylan (son...