Last week, according to CNN, the McCain campaign quietly fired its senior foreign-policy adviser, the neoconservative d-lister Randy Scheunemann, in a move that entirely escaped the campaign coverage. Scheunemann’s alleged offense was his alleged griping to Bill Kristol of the neoconservative Weekly Standard and The New York Times More…
Did foreclosures play a direct role in the election results? At the Orange County Register, real-estate blogger Jon Lansner thinks so. He matched up states with high foreclosures to voting patterns, and came up with this:
States that President-elect Barack Obama won had housing markets in far worse shape
Never have lawyers been so busy skirmishing over an election — and it probably won’t end on Election Day.
Today’s lawsuits and rulings include:
The Ohio GOP filed a lawsuit it had previously dropped against Jennifer Brunner, the Democratic secretary of state, claiming she hasn’t done enough to ensure that More…
As someone who’s lived almost my entire life in Virginia, this election means a great deal to me, as it does to most voters in the state.
For the first time since 1964, Virginia is in play in a presidential election. Many residents are surprised to see Virginia shaded blue More…
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin apparently caught her staff by surprise last month when she told NBC’s Brian Williams she would release her medical records to the public.
With the records still unreleased this week, and no indication from the McCain campaign that they would be forthcoming, several More…
As Republican charges of “fraud” and Democratic claims of “voter suppression” have escalated in the home stretch of the presidential election campaign, liberal activists have started blasting Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential team’s “voter protection” effort for not doing enough to ensure that all Democratic votes are going to be counted More…
TWI correspondent Ana Marie Cox comments on the logistics of following the candidates on the campaign trail. Video content included.
TWI correspondent Ana Marie Cox delivers this video report from a McCain rally in Fairfax County, Va. Here it is, after the jump:
On this last day before the election, Sen. Barack Obama is urging voters to relive some humiliating history. Speaking in Jacksonville, Fla., Obama will remind voters of the infamous declaration that Sen. John McCain made in the very same location about six weeks ago, according to a preview of the More…
The McCain campaign has kicked into overdrive for its final full day of campaigning before Election Day.
While Sen. John McCain maintained a leisurely schedule for much of the campaign — until recently, McCain rarely did more than two public events in one day — he and Alaska Gov. Sarah More…
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