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That’s Putting it Mildly
Jeremy hit all the highlights of Barack Obama’s move to divorce himself from Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
As he spoke to reporters in North Carolina, Obama was visibly angry — and weary. (He got up early to play basketball More…
Obama’s Magnetic Ways
Battered by his performance among the regular folk of Pennsylvania and Ohio, Barack Obama’s campaign is working hard in North Carolina and Indiana to fight any suggestion that he is elitist.
And what better way to say "I’m not a snob" than with a car magnet, the More…
Nader Wants You!
Good news! It’s not too late to join a 2008 presidential campaign team.
Ralph Nader’s latest (and last?) effort is trying to sign up volunteers to help "confront corporate power." According to votenader.org, there are also a few "temporary paid positions," including:
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The Wright Stuff
Rev. Jeremiah Wright is about to have another moment. Actually, a few moments.
Barack Obama’s controversial former pastor has taped an interview with Bill Moyers that’s scheduled to run Friday on PBS.
According to an excerpt reviewed by More…
It’s Not That Clever
Time magazine did something sort of clever (and sort of creepy) with its new cover: a face, half Obama, half Clinton, merged into one, over the headline, "There Can Only Be One."
The Campaign Marches On
As the results of the Pennsylvania primary sunk in Wednesday, the question that had been forming for weeks became a chorus: Why can’t Sen. Barack Obama close the deal?
In the fight for the Democratic presidential nomination, Obama (D-Ill.) has enjoyed a commanding lead in both the More…
Six Long Weeks
If it seems like we’re out of practice waiting for primary returns, we are. It’s been six weeks since the last Democratic contest — in Mississippi.
The clever team at the NBC News political unit nicely summed up More…
Bush Hits a New Low
Sure, we might disagree about who the next president should be. But there’s little doubt that most Americans think someone new should move into the White House.
The latest evidence comes from a new Gallup Poll, which shows President Bush setting an all-time record for presidential disapproval. More…
Millionaires’ Dilemma
<p>I don’t say this often, but <a id="y5ht" href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89831082" title="thanks to NPR">thanks to NPR</a> — for pointing out Tuesday morning that, while Clinton and Obama are duking it out for the Democratic nomination in Pennsylvania, John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee, will be at the Supreme Court, at least in More…
A Win, But No Victory
<p>For weeks, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign has been dogged by a simple question: Given <a title="Sen. Barack Obama’s lead" id="xl1l" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/21/us/politics/21caucus.html?_r=1&ref=politics&oref=slogin">Sen. Barack Obama’s lead</a> in the delegate count – as well as his lead in the popular vote and the number of states won — what path could she More…
