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Biggest Obstacle to Fair Election May Be Long Lines

By | 11.04.08 | 9:02 am

Forget the claims of voter fraud, like Disney characters and dead people voting. The real problem in this election is likely to be not that ineligible people show up to vote, but that lots of eligible voters never make it through the long lines and bureaucratic hurdles to cast ballots More…

On Election Day, Obama Says the People Are the Answer

By | 11.04.08 | 6:01 am

CHICAGO, Ill. — Walking through Sen. Barack Obama’s national headquarters last night, it was striking to see how quiet things were on election eve.

The downtown office building was filled with operatives working late into the night, though the ranks were thinned because some people were deployed to the field. More…

Obama Lawyers Defend ‘Vote Fraud’ Efforts

By | 11.03.08 | 2:20 pm

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…

Breaking: Obama Launches Final Attack on McCain

By | 11.03.08 | 10:51 am

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…

McCain’s Final Push

By | 11.03.08 | 9:53 am

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…

Former Secretary of State Says Palin Not Ready

By | 10.31.08 | 11:08 am

With a new CBS/New York Times poll finding that 59 percent of registered voters don’t think Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is ready to be vice president, one of Sen. John McCain’s most prominent supporters is publicly saying what much of the rest of the country seems to More…

Touting GOP Outreach, Obama Talks With Maddow

By | 10.31.08 | 10:15 am

Sen. Barack Obama granted an exclusive interview to MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow on Thursday night, huddling with the popular new prime time host in an appearance that’s sure to fire up plenty of Obama’s supporters.

Obama Rallies the YouTube Vote

By | 10.31.08 | 8:45 am

The Obama campaign is intensifying its YouTube outreach in the closing days of the election, stacking its official channel with as many as 10 new, high-quality videos a day.

Some spots are short, upbeat videos aiming for mass appeal. This week’s viral hit, “Make History,” for example, broke into More…

Obama Deploys Robot to Fight Ayers Attack (Video)

By | 10.31.08 | 6:01 am

Maybe there’s too much caffeine coursing through the Obama campaign’s new media department. Or maybe they’ve just had it with Sen. John McCain’s robocalls about Bill Ayers.

The latest item on Sen. Barack Obama’s official YouTube channel is a wacky, dorky, irreverent video titled, really, “Robots Attack!

Wonder why they More…

Obama Busts Out the Email Tricks

By | 10.30.08 | 10:45 am

Sen. Barack Obama has one of the most sophisticated organizations in political history, as many observers have noted, and his aides’ attention to detail is striking. The campaign has been pelting supporters with emails for 20 months now, for example, but it saved one email trick for the homestretch.

After More…