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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...
Stephen Hancock | Posted 08.14.2008 | Home
With the presidential nominee's Kansas roots, a Sebelius selection would make for a wonderful narrative, a tale of the heartland which could be spun to great effect at the Convention, and one that would help dispel the "exotic" aspersions cast at Obama.
HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 08.08.2008 | Politics
Not 90 minutes after Obama campaign manager David Plouffe made political hay out of John McCain's association with a deal that could cost over 8,000 O...
HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 08.05.2008 | Politics
On a day in which both presidential campaigns focused all their rhetorical might on debating energy production, Barack Obama claimed the most iconic m...
Paul Jenkins | Posted 08.04.2008 | Politics
It is McCain who needs to score exceptionally well among white voters, better in fact than any other Republican presidential candidate in the past 20 years, including George H. W. Bush.
Maura Judkis | Posted 08.01.2008 | Green
The Green Patriot Posters project is beginning its campaign with a series of bus posters in Cleveland, Ohio, designed by local artist Michael Beirut.
Bill Katovsky | Posted 07.31.2008 | Politics
Nothing energizes the right more than the fear of losing a presidential election. McCain has capitalized on this collective anxiety by constantly referring to himself as the underdog, while attacking Obama.
Brad Friedman | Posted 07.31.2008 | Politics
Mike Connell and his firm are currently employed by the John McCain campaign, as well as the RNC and other Republican and so-called "faith-based" organizations, has been reportedly threatened by Rove.
Jackson Williams | Posted 07.29.2008 | Politics
Here's my question: who's going to pay for changing all the signage when they turn "Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport" back into plain 'ol Anchorage International Airport, its name before 2000?
Brad Friedman | Posted 07.23.2008 | Politics
Former Ohio Sec. of State Kenneth Blackwell and disgraced former FEC chair Hans Von Spakovsky have confirmed that they will testify about the myriad crimes that occurred on and by their watch in the 2004 Presidential Election.
Richard Kirsch | Posted 07.21.2008 | Politics
Last February, found 78% of voters believe that health insurance companies "put profits before people." It turns out that a few months later the CEO of WellPoint, said yes, that's true!
Dan Treul | Posted 07.18.2008 | Home
"GM won't change anything until they have every operation overseas," says Danny. "This started back in the 1980s with Reagan... We know we're not going to get any help from McCain."
Rebecca Fannin | Posted 07.07.2008 | Business
What I sense in China is an optimistic spirit of millions of young people. It is uplifting to be around -- whereas as much as I don't like to admit it, Ohio is depressing and depressed.
Ari Melber | Posted 06.30.2008 | Politics
Barack Obama tapped his sizeable grassroots network on Saturday, coordinating over 4,000 "Unite for Change" meetups across the country through the cam...
Ari Melber | Posted 06.19.2008 | Politics
If Obama can close the deal out West -- winning back Colorado, Nevada and New Mexico while simply holding the states that went for Kerry in 2004 -- then he can win.
Daniel Nichanian | Posted 06.19.2008 | Home
In a demonstration of how close the race still is in Ohio, despite Obama's momentum, the latest poll has Obama trailing McCain within the margin of error. Another new poll from FL has Obama winning.
Chris Weigant | Posted 06.18.2008 | Politics
Hillary Clinton needs to start making some campaign appearances for Barack Obama and get on board the bandwagon in order to help this process along.
Dan Treul | Posted 06.17.2008 | Home
In another signal, perhaps, that the country is ready for change, newspapers across the Midwest showed either even-handedness or excitement for an issue that only years ago was considered taboo.
Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman | Posted 06.11.2008 | Politics
The Bush catastrophe is now winding down, exceeding all expectations for disaster. But if Barack Obama allows history to repeat itself yet again in 2008, this nation will plunge even deeper into the depths.
Al Eisele | Posted 05.27.2008 | Home
Bob Dole, who knows something about winning -- and losing -- presidential elections, has two pieces of free advice for the 2008 White House hopefuls.
Paul Jenkins | Posted 05.25.2008 | Politics
Clinton's increasingly desperate quest to show something for her decades of campaigning has taken on a vaguely insane turn, for which we should be grateful, even as it makes us queasy.
Chris Weigant | Posted 05.21.2008 | Politics
Last Thanksgiving, I took a vacation from the blog and (while I was gone) I ran a series of speech transcripts from all eight of the Democratic candid...
Paul Helmke | Posted 05.20.2008 | Politics
Sen. John McCain spoke to the National Rifle Association in Louisville last Friday, and the reaction seemed mixed. I had a few thoughts of my own aft...
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 05.08.2008 | Politics
By dignifying anything that Limbaugh says, Kerry and Team Obama do a disservice to the success that Obama's retooled stump tactics had in making the Indiana race closer.
Michael Shaw | Posted 05.08.2008 | Media
In a candid interview via satellite from China, Olympic...
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"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...
LOS ANGELES — Barack Obama is getting praise from Nashville, courtesy of one...
EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio — A Cleveland Clinic official says Democratic U.S....
NEW YORK — The suspense didn't quite compare to the identity of "Deep Throat,"...
USA Today reports that inventors, despite the clashing designs of airplanes...
There are over 6 billion people of people on the...
Last year I praised Rebecca Taylor and...
NAPLES, Fla. — Tropical Storm Fay rolled ashore in southwestern Florida on Tuesday without...
Chris Weigant | Posted 08.15.2008 | Politics