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More From Newsweek: Debate Format and Climate Change

By | 11.07.08 | 1:33 pm

Many are fascinated by the behind-the-scenes campaign news/gossip reported in Newsweek’s election special. One of the more interesting tidbits to me was that both candidates were somewhat uncomfortable with the format of the presidential debates.

Newsweek reports this quote from Barack Obama while he was preparing for a debate — More…

The Vice Presidency — By the Numbers

By | 10.02.08 | 8:14 am

Despite Vice President John Nance Garner’s notorious description that the vice-presidency as not worth a pitcher of warm spit,” the fact is that the office, and who holds it, matter enormously.

That was true in Garner’s time and even more so today. Nine vice-presidents before him had advanced to the More…

The Gimmick Candidacy

By | 09.30.08 | 12:01 pm

The Christian Science Monitor’s Jimmy Orr has a piece today asking what could the McCain campaign possibly have left up its sleeve, after two months of surprises?

Dowd Gets No Love From McCain Camp

By | 09.29.08 | 10:05 am

What do the McCain campaign and the Bush administration have in common?

Neither one likes The New York Times’ columnist Maureen Dowd much. The Washington Post’s Howard Kurtz includes this little nugget in his piece today about the media circus surrounding Friday’s presidential debate:

Presidential Debate Preview

By | 09.26.08 | 7:53 pm

For a man who had pressed for a series of town hall debates across the country in which he, the Republican nominee for president and his Democratic rival would travel the country like Bing Crosby and Bob Hope, Sen. John McCain enters tonight’s debate as a battered candidate whose campaign More…

McCain Goes Loco

By | 09.25.08 | 9:33 am

Where to even begin…

Last night, President George W. Bush helped to bail out Sen. John McCain following the latter’s erratic decision to suspend the campaign so he can come to Washington to help bail out Wall Street. Bush invited both candidates to the White House for More…

Colo. McCain Staffer Accidentally Leaks Talking Points To Reporters

By | 09.24.08 | 6:22 pm

PolitickerCO‘s Jeremy Pelzer reported that the McCain campaign’s regional spokesman in Colorado, Tom Kise, accidentally emailed reporters the campaign’s internal talking points on Sen. John McCain’s decision to suspend his campaign.

From our sister site, The Colorado Independent:

Presidential Debates Launch MySpace Portal

By | 09.17.08 | 6:15 am

Today the Commission on Presidential Debates launched an online toolset through MySpace, in a dedicated portal called MyDebates.org.

Organizers say this is the “first” time that the commission has injected “online functionality” into the debates during its 21-year history. The tools is intended to “personalize the debates” and integrate More…