Obama Election 2008

York, PA: Race Runs Deep

The Ballot Box | Posted 11.04.2008 | Home


The Ballot Box

By Mathew Katz and Laura Cameron Workers in the Obama campaign office in York County, Pennsylvania have been abuzz for weeks about Leslie Warris, an ...

Campaign Journal: Turning The Dial To CNN And MSNBC

Gail Turner Brown | Posted 11.02.2008 | Home


Gail Turner Brown

Gail Turner Brown is a Grassroots Correspondent for HuffPost's OffTheBus. This has been an amazing journey and to say people are excited is a huge un...

Off To Cover The Obama Grassroots: I Was Not Going To Be Long

Mayhill Fowler | Posted 11.02.2008 | Home


Mayhill Fowler

In one way or another, every reporter who like me has been committed to writing about this election--as if our very lives depended upon it--is experiencing dislocation. Where are we now?

What's Worse Than Election Anxiety?

Rusel DeMaria | Posted 10.30.2008 | Home


Rusel DeMaria

So I go to the local growers market Saturday and spend an hour talking with the people at the McCain table. I'm wearing my "Obama, Vote Nov. 4th" T-shirt, and they pretty much pounce on me when I walk up to the table. At first they try get me to put a McCain/Palin bumper sticker over Obama's name, but I politely refuse.

Campaign Journal: Focusing On Undecideds And Letting McCain-Palin Supporters Go Their Merry Way

Elissa Middleton | Posted 10.21.2008 | Home


Elissa Middleton

Elissa Middleton is an OffTheBus grassroots correspondent. Each week she contributes a campaign journal documenting her life out on the trail. We jus...

Republicans Ignore McCain in Favor of a Democrat (And No, it's Not Obama)

John Hood | Posted 10.16.2008 | Home


John Hood

MIAMI-- "Why watch it? McCain's already lost the election." So spoke a "nominally" Republican woman last night as she was taking a smoke break outs...

Former Kissinger Assistant: "Obama Knows More [About Foreign Policy] Than Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton When They Were Elected"

Denise Dennis | Posted 10.08.2008 | Home


Denise Dennis

The Philadelphian is a high-rise condominium overlooking the classical columns of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, with picturesque views of the Schuyl...

The Joke Is 'On' Not 'In' The New Yorker

Dwight Dunkley | Posted 07.17.2008 | Home


Dwight Dunkley

Like a tabloid talk show, the New Yorker cover was calculated to draw looks and sell advertising. But the so-called satire missed its mark.

Baby Mamas, Fist Jabs, Magazine Covers: Media Gone Wild

Felicia Harvey | Posted 07.14.2008 | Home


Felicia Harvey

Diversity is not a passing fad. References to all of the most negative and deplorable racial and ethnic stereotypes have got to stop. atire or no, they play on fear and advance it.