campaign 2008

The Obama campaign just rolled out a new YouTube video with Natalie Portman rallying young Americans. But she’s not asking them to vote for Obama.
Instead, the campaign tapped Portman to push young people who already support Obama to press their parents to do the same. It’s part of a larger effort by the Obama [...]

I just received some materials from ACORN that shed light on its procedures for handling falsified registrations.
Consider the following example from Lake County, IN., which many critics of ACORN have pointed to as a case of voter fraud:

Aboard Straight Talk Air, an adviser to Sen. John McCain said Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin alters the electoral map, and gave a glimpse into her role in the campaign’s strategy. From the pool report:
In his view, Sarah Palin ticket takes Montana, Georgia (and Alaska) out of play for Democrats, although adviser says he never thought [...]

St. Paul–Standing on the floor of the Xcel center last night made me embarrassed about where I come from. Born in Ohio to immigrant parents, with a father who came from nothing — meaning no shoes till he was nine — who then rose to the supposed academic elite, I’ve always played the role of [...]

Here’s something that slipped under the radar yesterday.
According to the Center for Responsive Politics, a non-partisan organization that tracks money in elections, employees of a law firm founded by Charles Keating Jr. have bundled more than $50,000 in contributions to Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign.

Democrats may enjoy characterizing Palin as “Quayle in a pantsuit,” but they should be cautious.

As Sen. John McCain accepts the GOP presidential nomination on Thursday night, his opponent will enter the “No Spin Zone.”
Yes, Sen. Barack Obama is headed for Fox News, in a bid for Republican votes, by appearing for the first time ever on Bill O’Reilly’s prime-time show. While McCain aims his acceptance speech at voters [...]

WASILLA, Alaska– I’m here at the Mat-Su Frontiersman’s offices flipping through their print archives. I was curious about what then-Mayor Sarah Palin said at the time about giving her top managers a loyalty test and eventually firing her chief of police.
I’m reading an article from October 1996, in which a reporter named Laura Mitchell Harris [...]

PHILADELPHIA — On the campaign trail, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the designated GOP vice presidential nominee, paints herself as a McCain-style earmark terminator. At a rally Sunday in O’Fallon, Mo., Palin made just this claim:

“In Alaska now, with the budget under control, we have a surplus. I’ve never hesitated to protect the wages and the [...]

PHILADELPHIA — Now that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is in the national spotlight, speculation about how she will hold up to the intense media scrutiny is rampant. On an otherwise lazy holiday weekend, a slew of revelations about Sen. John McCain’s running mate surfaced, suggesting the McCain campaign’s self-styled intensive vetting process may not have [...]