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On election eve, Sen. John McCain announced his condolences to Sen. Barack Obama on the passing of his 86-year-old grandmother, Madelyn Payne Dunham. But other GOP officials spent Monday attacking Obama for his recent trip to visit Ms. Dunham.
The California GOP filed a last-minute complaint, contending:

The Atlantic’s Marc Ambinder has a wonderful catch. Take a look at these screen grabs from the Democratic National Committee and the Republican National Committee Websites and see if you notice who is missing:

Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign unveiled a new plank of its health-care policy on Friday. They outlined a plan to fight cancer, double funding for cancer research to $5 billion a year, protect cancer patients against health-care discrimination for pre-existing conditions and revive the National institute of Health, or NIH.
About 10 million Americans experience cancer during [...]

Sen. Barack Obama needs young voters to keep turning out at unusually high rates in order to win in November. While his campaign adeptly mobilized them in the primaries, and continues to empower young operatives in senior positions, the Democratic National Convention disappointed some youth advocates by under-using young people on stage, as I [...]

Sen. Barack Obama is the Democratic nominee largely because of unprecedented turnout by young voters in key primary states. (More data below.) Last week, walking around the speeches, panels and parties at the Democratic National Convention, it was clear that young voters are ascendant. Young people made up 16 percent of the delegates, a [...]

Up until Thursday night it had been a crowded week for the Democratic National Convention. There were too many delegates and reporters jammed into the Pepsi Center. The conversations of the faithful were crowded with anxieties about slipping poll numbers, soft messaging, elusive unity, and the omnipresent Clintons. Memories of disastrous Augusts (John Kerry in [...]

DAYTON, Ohio — While my TWI colleagues are preparing for Obama’s speech at Invesco, I’m here anxiously awaiting Sen. John McCain’s veep announcement, slated for tomorrow. Free tickets for the 12,000-seater still available!
Also, the mysterious ad announced earlier in the day by the McCain campaign is, in fact, a congratulatory message recognizing Sen. Barack [...]

DENVER — Here it is, one of the most spectacular displays of political pageantry in American history: Invesco Field, home of the Broncos, for the climactic event of the 2008 Democratic National Convention. In a few hours, Sen. Barack Obama will officially become the first African-American presidential nominee of a major party. This is history [...]

DENVER — In 2004, I was googling around to find something about Joe Biden for a piece I was writing. What I found was a short-lived blog titled Joe Biden Is Thugged Out, devoted to celebrating the Delaware Senator’s bodacious pugilism. Sadly, the blog shut down after a couple posts. But now, as Joe Biden [...]

DENVER–Tammy Duckworth — Iraq war veteran, Illinois Veterans Affairs director, amputee and netroots favorite — is smacking John McCain silly. She’s talking about supporting troops with more than rhetoric. Wants us to win in Afghanistan. “Instead of destroying the enemies who attacked us on 9/11, we diverted our military might to Iraq, which had nothing [...]