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Obama Is Killing the GOP With Kindness

Jacob Heilbrunn | Posted 11.17.2008 | Politics

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Democrats who worry that Obama is selling out to the opposition may have it backwards. His ingenious approach could end up marginalizing the GOP for decades.

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Obama Meets With McCain At Transition Office (VIDEO)

AP/CNN/HuffPost/NYDN/The Atlantic | BETH FOUHY | Posted 11.17.2008 | Politics

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Update, 2:40 pm Marc Ambinder at The Atlantic has a joint statement issued by Obama and McCain on the meeting: "At this defining moment in h...

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What Really Happened To The Old John McCain

New Yorker | Posted 11.09.2008 | Politics

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A defining moment of the "old" John McCain--as many Americans, even some of his friends, have begun to refer to him as he was before his run for the P...

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Obama: "We Have A Lot Of Work To Do" (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Posted 11.03.2008 | Politics

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Via the Jed Report, Barack Obama's campaign sends out a Get Out The Vote video reminding supporters that there's still work to do: ...

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Election Anxiety: Advice From Abraham Lincoln

Russell Bishop | Posted 11.03.2008 | Living

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By the time the votes are tabulated and our choice for President is confirmed, we will find ourselves standing at a critical fork in the road, one tha...

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Reading The Pictures: God, Obama

Michael Shaw | Posted 10.31.2008 | Media

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Framing Obama as an aspiring deity works like a red cape in the face of the Christian right by flaunting the notion Obama somehow sees himself as a God, God himself, or, the son of God.

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Obama, McCain Doing Interviews During Football Game Halftime

ESPN | Posted 10.30.2008 | Politics

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On the eve of the presidential election, with "Monday Night Football" from Washington as the backdrop, candidates Barack Obama and John McCain are pla...

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Obama Ad Uses Winking Palin (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.29.2008 | Politics

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John McCain is out with his own attack ad Wednesday morning. Watch it here. The Obama campaign is directing reporters to an ad it released Wednesday...

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McCain Remains Absolutely Anchored Down By Bush: Poll

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.28.2008 | Politics

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Poll numbers don't look good for John McCain these days. But the internal dynamics are even worse. A Pew Research poll released on Tuesday reveals th...

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Projecting McCain

Aimee Liu | Posted 10.28.2008 | Politics

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Aimee Liu

Virtually every attack McCain makes against Barack Obama is a projection of his own fear or loathing.

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Teachers Can't Vouch for McCain's "Voucher Plan"

Cheryl Lubin | Posted 10.27.2008 | Home

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Cheryl Lubin

As a high school teacher who dips into my own wallet to buy paper and pencils for students in the second largest school district in the land, I recognize the dangers of a pro-voucher McCain administration. Vouchers are not, as Obama so succinctly put it, the panacea for failing schools.

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What Is a Maverick Anyway?

Sarah Moglewer | Posted 10.27.2008 | Home

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According to Webster's Dictionary, maverick means "unbranded calf." In the case of McCain, could it mean someone who goes out against the pack? Well, in this case, that definition doesn't apply.

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The Four Types of Undecided Voters

Barbara Dehn | Posted 10.27.2008 | Home

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Barbara Dehn

With eight days to go, and two totally different candidates, how can anyone still be undecided? Turns out, there are lots of different kinds of undecided voters. They don't fall neatly into an easily parodied pigeon hole.

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Even Practical Omaha May Be Welcoming Change This Election

The Ballot Box | Posted 10.26.2008 | Home

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By Brad Davis OMAHA -- This city touts a market area of nearly 1.3 million, but it's still the sort of place where people ask where you went to high ...

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McCain Campaign's Old White People Strategy

Miles Mogulescu | Posted 10.24.2008 | Politics

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McCain's strategy is that there is enough of a "Bradley effect" that the election is 3%-5% closer than the polls indicate, and that scare tactics can convince another 3%-5% of white voters not to vote Obama.

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Weekly Roundup: OffTheBus Readers Engage in Social(ism) Networking

Chris Nelson | Posted 10.24.2008 | Home

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As scattered as the week has been now that all of the major campaign milestones have come and gone, turning the tables on John McCarthy, erm, McCain's criticism of Barack Obama this week has been the one thread in our inbox.

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McCain Adviser Endorses Obama

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 10.24.2008 | Politics

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The Wall Street Journal today rounds up the horde of prominent Republicans jumping ship to Barack Obama. Now one of John McCain's actual advisers has ...

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Middle Eastern Bloggers Disgusted by Slurs Against Muslims, Arabs and Blacks

Amira Al Hussaini | Posted 10.24.2008 | Home

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A Negro, a Muslim and an anti-American. These are just some of the names Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has been called over the pas...

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Anti-Muslim Heckling Deeply Troubling

E. Joyce Moore | Posted 10.24.2008 | Home

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E. Joyce Moore

I have two friends who I chose to reach out to for their view of the ongoing attacks by those associated with the McCain-Palin campaign on Senator Bar...

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Sam Stein

Obama Uses Bi-Lingual Robocall To Target Hispanic Voters

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.24.2008 | Politics

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It is a telling contrast, how differently the McCain and Obama campaigns have used robocalling to advance their political interests. While the former...

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Why Some Smart Women Think Palin is a Good Choice

Pam Atherton | Posted 10.24.2008 | Home

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A few of my very smart women friends think Palin has what it takes. I don't get it. Why can't they see what I see and what many conservative pundits are falling all over themselves to say? Palin is not qualified. I was so confused, I sought the advice of experts.

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Obama, McCain Bring Out Two Versions of St Louis

Jeanine Molloff | Posted 10.23.2008 | Home

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If the classic 'Tale of Two Cities' were ever to become a modern sitcom --- St. Louis could well be the setting. Just this past week, as politicos sp...

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Redesigning Democracy

Robert Koehler | Posted 10.23.2008 | Politics

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Two seconds of radio news was enough -- suddenly the 2008 presidential campaign collapsed around me in an unrecognizable heap of consumer politics as...

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Campaign Hate Speech Will Leave Our Nation Even More Divided

Rusel DeMaria | Posted 10.23.2008 | Home

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Obama's campaign ground game should remain intact and begin a new mission -- to communicate and bring people together, to begin a national dialog that heals wounds, promotes truth, and unifies us as one nation again.

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House GOP "Death List" Predicts Massive Losses

US News | Posted 10.22.2008 | Politics

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Voter displeasure with the war and economy, coupled with Sen. Barack Obama's popularity, has the House GOP running for cover. Even though polls have s...

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