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 Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III from Alabama sees defending Donald Trump as mission of Justice Department Sen. John ...

Everyone knows John McCain is a liar . Everyone knows McCain gets unhinged, and is a man unsuited for public service . Now, we see a m...

Though Maureen Dowd left out the deplorable GOP voter obstruction efforts that John McCain embraced in 2008, Dowd's column sums up what ...

Senator John McCain is the central front in the War on Error. No, that's too generous. The smug pitchman for escalation in Afghanistan i...

If you want to know why RNC Chair Michael Steele and his allies have become so shrill, it's not only because these guys are unhinged. Th...

Update : Mike Madden in Salon - "President Obama urges pork reform and signs a bill with earmarks in it on the same day. Republicans m...

Update : Herbert : "Freaking out over earmarks is like watching a neighborhood that is being consumed by flames and complaining that th...

Barack Obama outperforms Gore and Kerry among Protestants and evangelicals From MyDD : Barack Obama received a higher share of the Protestan...

First states to look for, election scoreboard, and leaked exit polling - Two key early states to look for: Indiana, after 5:00 PM (central):...

Brian Adams, a mathematics and computer science professor at Franklin & Marshall College, reports that there's a 99.98% chance that ...

National Journal Washington Insiders Poll Republicans (71 votes) Q. Who will win the presidential election? John McCain 18% Barack Obama 82%...

Let them whine. From the Washington Monthly : On MSNBC yesterday, far-right pundit Willie Geist said Obama's ad reminded him of ' th...

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

Team members of McCainCon are conducting last-minute system testing though the objectives have already been met: John McCain's campaig...

- Poll: Obama Widens Lead in Va. (Post) - We win Virginia, we win. - End of Battle Centers on Turf Bush Carried (NYT) - Enough said.

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...

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

No words of condemnation suffice to describe the repugnant anti-democratic actions of J.B. Van Hollen and the Republicans on voter suppressi...

The good news just keeps on coming. Voting in Fitchburg (pop. 20,501), Wisconsin (Dane County), located next to Madison, was brisk this last...

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