Joel Hunter is a conservative, Republican megachurch pastor in Central Florida. He's giving the Democrats some free advice, if they care to hear it: Even if you stick with Roe V. Wade, you can show evangelicals that you are the pro-life party by showing us how you...

Last week, I introduced the co-author of Jesus for President, Shane Claiborne, who is a phenomenon with no equivalent outside of the born-again Christian subculture. He openly and unambiguously opposes capitalism and "empire," and because the source of his politics is the...

Shane Claiborne has an exciting new book out called Jesus for President, this one co-authored with co-conspirator Chris Haw. It's a beautifully designed, reframing of the Bible from Genesis to Revelation -- sort of an...

Suddenly, the DNC finds itself with the responsibility for saving the campaign of the eventual nominee, whomever that may be. But no one seems to notice.

If Super Tuesday had been decisive, then, by now, the presumptive nominee would already be two months into building the strongest national field campaign...

There's been a lot of talk of born again and evangelical Christian voters being up for grabs in 2008. All bets are off if Barack Obama (with his own conversion story as well as moral stands on poverty that connect with born agains) goes up against John McCain. But before...

Before the mainstream media descended on Nevada, I spent several days with the Clinton campaign there in early December. The field campaign, led by State Director Robby Mook and field director Marlon Marshall turned out to be an incredible example of passionate, yet cool-headed management and results-focused organizing.

Every single...

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Obama's Nevada staff pulled off a brilliant little piece of communications magic to keep the Oprah bounce aloft one more day here. As someone who's almost never been around the communications...

My wife Elizabeth actually reads Chris Dodd's emails. Against her will, she gets excited about them. (As someone who's worked as a professional political email writer, I am, unfortunately, completely immune.)

I've argued before that email is a medium suited, better than any other save a face to face meeting,...

In the 2004 primaries, the Dean campaign was hyped in the press as a grassroots revolution that was changing presidential organizing forever. But on Caucus day in Iowa, the Kerry campaign dominated -- a campaign that had notoriously little grassroots appeal.

The same "On the Bus" press that had hyped...

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This is the second in a series investigating the evolution of field organizing in the 2008 presidential campaign.

No one who attends a "Camp Obama" training weekend can deny that something truly beautiful is taking place inside the Barack Obama campaign. But beauty does not win votes. Is the...

This article, covering the Obama campaign's approach to the February 5 primary, is the first in a series investigating the evolution of field organizing in the 2008 presidential campaign. In it, Exley juxtaposes his own experiences from working inside the 2004 presidential cycle with the impact a more mature online...

"How can a group of citizen journalists best cover a presidential debate?" That was the question that several dozen of us Off the Busers attempted to answer using the CNN/YouTube debate as our practice run. This update covers what we learned and looks forward to the September 17...

In this clip Biden Campaign Manager Navarro answers the question, "Was this debate easier because Biden answered questions from the public instead of cynical journalists?"

Kerri Glover, one of our OffTheBus citizen reporters, interviews presidential candidate Joe Biden about the format of tonight's debate. For Biden, a YouTube mediated debate is no different than sitting down to a conversation in an Iowa living room. Here's how he describes it.

I couldn't resist asking Trippi why Edwards' Poverty Tour lasted just three days when Howard Dean's Sleepless Summer Tour lasted much longer. He got a little feisty...

UPDATE: OK, I looked it up -- and (technically) Joe...

Live from the debate

When the spin room was still quiet, a handful of young people were ushered in to prepare for an important task: holding up signs over the heads of the 'spinners' to identify them to the press. As you can see, they were thoroughly prepared... We've got...

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The media's coverage of the 2008 presidential race is making me sick. And so I'm joining the media. I'm proud to announce that I'm signing on with the Huffington Post and Off the Bus, a citizen journalism project co-published by Arianna Huffington and Jay Rosen, as a roving correspondent...