2008 election

Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) introduced legislation today to bar political parties from challenging the eligibility of voters whose homes have been foreclosed.
Kucinich, who ran losing presidential bids in 2004 and 2008 and faced a stiff primary challenge earlier this year, drafted the legislation following a report in the Michigan Messenger that a Macomb County Republican [...]

Sen. Barack Obama just issued a response to the attack on the U.S. embassy in Yemen today, which resulted in the deaths of 16 people, including six attackers. No Americans were killed.
Obama’s condemned the attack and stressed his commitment to redoubling efforts to destroy Al Qaeda:

John McCain has promised to appoint conservative Supreme Court justices who could radically alter the ideological makeup of the court.

Sen. Barack Obama ripped into his Republican rival today for undermining American workers and prioritizing a foreign corporate agenda over domestic manufacturing.
“Ask the workers across this country who have seen their jobs outsourced!” Obama told a gathering of Florida Machinists in a satellite address. “The very companies that shipped their jobs overseas have been [...]

As Art Allen reported yesterday, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is a proponent of a video game-style of hunting,  where hunters shoot animals, like wolves and bears, from the sky in a low-flying airplane.
This morning I found a disturbing new ad from Defender’s of Wildlife Actionfund in my inbox describing Palin’s enthusiasm for the activity.
According to [...]

Gov. Sarah Palin’s predator abatement program doesn’t give the wolves a fighting chance; she tried to strip power from their defenders, too.

Why is an issue likely to affect millions of Americans not discussed this election cycle?

A reader over at TPM speculates:
Whatever you think of the [Alaska Gov. Sarah] Palin speech, whether it was cynical or alienating to anyone outside the base, it was solidly written. I’d even say well written. [Sen. John] McCain’s wasn’t. It was decidedly second rate, not just badly delivered but clumsily written (except for the part [...]

While most news channels focused on Sen. John McCain’s big night on Thursday, it was a battle of the B.O.s on Fox News.
Sen. Barack Obama, the Democratic presidential nominee, made a much-hyped appearance on “The O’Reilly Factor” to tangle with Bill O’Reilly. The talk-show host had been pushing so hard for an Obama visit, of [...]

VP candidate rose to power by looking out for No. 1. Now that she’s on the national stage, she could be back to politics as usual.