Netroots Nation 2008: Caucus Refugee
Watch me desperately search for my caucus, for my voice, for my representation. Why are the Netroots excluding me? Why are they so hateful towards me and my people?
Watch me desperately search for my caucus, for my voice, for my representation. Why are the Netroots excluding me? Why are they so hateful towards me and my people?
Katie Halper | Posted 07.22.2008 | Politics
Contrary to popular belief, bloggers do have a sense of humor. The Netroots Nation gift bags included condoms.
Nathaniel Bach | Posted 07.21.2008 | Home
Obama's fifty-state strategy is not about his winning these states in this election. It's about "trickle up" politics and grassroots efforts on a national scale, all of which will help sow the seeds of future Democratic majorities.
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...
NY Times | Posted 07.14.2008 | Politics
In terms of lobbyists, few are more connected -- both west of the Mississippi and in the corridors of power in Washington -- than Steve Farber, a Denv...
AP | Posted 07.08.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The Democratic National Committee and Barack Obama's presidential campaign will hold meetings in all 50 states to get voters more i...
OffTheBus Listening Post | Posted 07.07.2008 | Home
WHO: Democratic National Committee Chairman Governor Howard Dean and Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius WHAT: Press conference call to discuss the ...
Arianna Huffington | Posted 06.20.2008 | Politics
Time Magazine has asked me to take part in its 10 Questions feature, where readers get to ask a question of someone in the news. It would be fun to see how many of the 10 questions Time picks are from HuffPosters.
Huffington Post | Posted 06.18.2008 | Politics
Cindy McCain's corporate jet use on the campaign trail straddles the line on campaign finance laws, according to a report in today's Wall Street Journ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Nico Pitney | Posted 06.13.2008 | Politics
As the man who guided (and pressured and arm-twisted) Democrats to historic congressional gains in 2006, what is Rep. Rahm Emanuel doing now about par...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.11.2008 | Politics
Howard Dean made an appearance on this morning's Morning Joe, where he tore into GOP nominee John McCain for the "sleazy" style of campaign he was run...
Micah Sifry | Posted 06.08.2008 | Home
Obama's victory suggests that the era of Big Money and Big Media pre-selecting the nominee of the Democratic party may well be over, in no small part because of the the Internet.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.05.2008 | Politics
Sixteen months after he launched his campaign for the White House, Sen. Barack Obama may, just now, be entering his campaign's most perilous stage. Fa...
Reese Schonfeld | Posted 06.04.2008 | Politics
Hillary has lost the nomination. If Obama loses to McCain, she and Bill will inherit the party once again. It might be in Hillary's interests not to do too much for the Obama campaign.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 06.03.2008 | Home
The Democrat who squirmed the longest on the hot seat during the Democratic presidential primary slog was not named Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama...
Tom Douglas | Posted 06.02.2008 | Home
There are at least two reasons why the DNC's rules committee should not even have met on Saturday to discuss resolving the flawed Michigan and Florida primaries. It was a net loss for the DNC.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.01.2008 | Politics
Ever since Geraldine Ferraro was released from whatever cryogenic tube was housing her lizard brain and propensity for verbal diarrhea, people of all ...
Ron Levitt | Posted 06.01.2008 | Home
The DNC's decision to give Florida delegates half votes got mixed reviews. The decision left many local party activists less than happy and supporters of Sen. Hillary Clinton combative.
CNN Political Ticker | Posted 05.31.2008 | Media
Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean had tough words for the media on Saturday, saying that the presidential race had been plagued by "b...
HuffingtonPost.com | Thomas B. Edsall | Posted 05.22.2008 | Politics
In a last ditch stand, Hillary Clinton is trying to turn the seating of the disputed Florida and Michigan delegations into a cause celebre, posing que...
Chris Weigant | Posted 05.16.2008 | Politics
Borah Peak, at 12,662 feet high, is the highest point in Idaho. [That may sound like a strange place to begin this column, but please bear with me.] I...
Keli Goff | Posted 05.06.2008 | Politics
Here's a look at the top 10 people and moments that are helping the Democrats return to the glory days of loserdom.
R.T. Eby | Posted 05.05.2008 | Home
So go ahead Indiana and North Carolina, step up and pull that lever for Clinton. You'll make Limbaugh's dream of riots in Denver come true, rhetorically if not literally.
The Huffington Post | Posted 05.04.2008 | Politics
During an appearance on Fox News Sunday this morning, Democratic Party chairman Howard Dean said that Fox's news coverage has at times been "shockingl...
Nancy Scola | Posted 05.03.2008 | Politics
The example of Howard Dean -- a losing candidate who just figured out another way to contribute, and significantly -- isn't a bad model to hold our candidates up against.
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Katie Halper | Posted 07.25.2008 | Politics