SAN FRANCISCO — A coalition of Spanish-language media and community organizations kicked off a massive voter registration drive Thursday, aiming...
WLKY | Posted 09.25.2008 | Politics
JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. -- At the 'Campaign For Change' headquarters in downtown Jeffersonville, volunteers called supporters, while others painted brigh...
Dwight Dunkley | Posted 09.25.2008 | Home
A Commander-in-Chief needs to have the killer instinct to understand you destroy your enemy, thoroughly; you do not let up to give him time to breathe when he is flailing.
Chris Weigant | Posted 09.24.2008 | Politics
Today was a banner day for Obama in the national polls (especially the one that puts him up nine points, 52/43) -- but they are largely meaningless, since that is not how we elect our president.
Howard Schweber | Posted 09.24.2008 | Politics
McCain's desire for a break is understandable, given the poll numbers and the seemingly endless stream of gaffes, flubs, and inconsistent statements coming out of his campaign.
Christopher Ingram | Posted 09.24.2008 | Politics
Voters don't want change. When the American voting public goes to the polls and re-elects the same bunch of losers to Congress year after year, they should expect to get more of the same.
Francesca Biller-Safran | Posted 09.24.2008 | Home
For the better part of four months, besides working overtime in a job that supports our family, my husband has been volunteering locally, making phone calls, maintaining political blogs to get the message out, and keeping up on the latest issues of the presidential race.
Andrew Sargus Klein | Posted 09.23.2008 | Politics
There are so many questions out there surrounding our voting system.
Chris Weigant | Posted 09.19.2008 | Politics
Back in Volume 36 of this Friday Talking Points column, I pointed out what seemed to me to be an obvious observation -- that the media was going a lot...
Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 09.19.2008 | Politics
This will be the third straight election which could be described as very close. This is all but unprecedented in American history.
Logan Perkes | Posted 09.19.2008 | Home
Sarah works hard to convert her fellow Republicans with her unique insider advantage. She realizes how the Republican message works, how it exploits fear. "It's all the same -- that terrorists are coming and we need to be on offense."
Chris Weigant | Posted 09.17.2008 | Politics
The national trend for Obama may have turned around in his favor in just the last couple of days. So even though things look grim here, Obama is already starting to bounce back.
Jim Wallis | Posted 09.17.2008 | Politics
While the Obama campaign made many mistakes in responding to Sarah Palin, they didn't resort to the attacks on her family and faith that some in the media did.
Michael Shaw | Posted 09.17.2008 | Politics
With just 48 days to go in a campaign defined as much as anything for its Us or People Magazine style of symbolism, my question is: why isn't Michelle Obama being deployed more visibly by the Obama campaign?
Chris Weigant | Posted 09.15.2008 | Politics
Her performance was so strong and so well focused that it would be foolish not to immediately send her out on the campaign trail and/or to as many television interviews as she can squeeze into her schedule.
Jake Goldman | Posted 09.15.2008 | Politics
It's not often that I'm awake at 5am, stumbling through sidewalks looking for a cup of coffee to clutch. Most of the time, I couldn't think of anyth...
Chris Weigant | Posted 09.12.2008 | Politics
Surprise! It's our first anniversary column! But before we get to that, I have to pass on this information, in the hopes nobody will get stung by a v...
Rick Siegel | Posted 09.11.2008 | Home
The 'either you are with us or against us' election strategy created a paradigm much too simple for today's world. We cannot strip down who is going to govern this country to one question: Are you blue or are you red?
Chris Weigant | Posted 09.10.2008 | Politics
It's time to fight fire with fire -- point out McCain's most embarassing votes, and paint him as an extremist or a party hack while doing so. Also paint him as anti-middle-class.
Chris Weigant | Posted 09.08.2008 | Politics
Because the clock is running out on Bush and because his domestic popularity continues to fall, Maliki is using the international media to boost his own popularity with the voters in Iraq.
David Weinberger | Posted 09.08.2008 | Media
The tag line at the Canadian Conservative Party's website, attacking Liberal party candidate Stephane Dion seems oddly 19th century.
John Shay | Posted 09.08.2008 | Politics
Interestingly, Sarah Palin appears to be the perfect person to carry out a dead-old-man-walking strategy.
Mike Lux | Posted 09.08.2008 | Politics
The Republican convention was a success, and we are in for a hell of a ride, but the race is still wide open. I believe this race will turn on four things.
Max Blumenthal | Posted 09.05.2008 | Politics
Sarah Palin's pastor Larry Kroon delivered a sermon called "Sin Is Personal To God" in which he warned that the sinful habits of Americans would invite the wrath of God.
Chris Weigant | Posted 09.05.2008 | Politics
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AP | JULIANA BARBASSA | Posted 09.25.2008 | Politics