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Newsweek's Secrets of the Campaign is great stuff, reporting "consisting of exclusive behind-the-scenes reporting from the McCain...

"Sen. Barack Obama is poised to be the nation’s first black president, winning by a narrow margin, and enjoying very large Democratic m...

Update : Voting-rights activists cut a deal with Colorado's secretary of state late Wednesday that will ensure some 20,000 voters remove...

Update : Politics of bigotry may finally be over Amid the voter suppression, the GOP corruption (for example Wisconsin Atty Gen. J.B. Van Ho...

Check out this letter from James Dobson's Focus on the Family that I ran across on MyDD . What's interesting is that there are 100,...

For the first time, Pollster.com shows Obama breaking the 51 percent mark as he opens up his eight-point lead over John McCain. Obama natio...

Incredible! Bush wants the US DOJ to look into the Ohio voting controversy, seeking forced provisional voting that suppresses legal voters. ...

A veteran elections official said today that Dane County is preparing for a record-breaking, 90-percent-plus turnout in the Nov. 4 president...

Great stuff in the Democratic Strategist by J. P. Green knocking down the voter fraud nonsense that Wisconsin's Attorney General and t...

Poor John McCain. His campaign embraces McCarthyite tactics ; appeals to fear and racism , throws around the GOP charges of voter fraud , an...

I just knew that there is something about Barack Hussein Obama that the white half of me should not and cannot trust. The same goes to thos...

via mal contends - Wisconsin is ground zero, along with some seven other states, in the 2008 presidential election. Small-time (by marketin...

via mal contends - Update : Dem strategists see landslide Nothing like seeing a mean, miserable, race-baiting old bastard sink. The Evans-N...

Hitting back hard at John McCain's last-minute smears and lies, Barack Obama's campaign is releasing a documentary detailing John Mc...

Put that lying, *&^$*%! McCain away.

Since modern conventions in 1992 and the atonal culture war drums, upbeat tones, looking to the future and speaking to issues that hit home ...

Paris hits John McCain . Kewl.

via mal contends - Robert Novak opines that "Republican losses in Congress will range from bad to catastrophic ... ," and yet Nov...

Update : Andrew Card laughed off Morning Joe for "Time Horizon" (updated w/Video) ; from The Nation, see Graham Usher: Obama in ...

Some are coming to the conclusion that the religious right's hostility to John McCain notwithstanding, they are settling for the guy. Th...