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BY TAYLOR MARSH The first video above is a McCain flashback, compliments of the Obama’s rapid response team. The second video is McCain moving away from the attack ads, then reintroducing himself as "The Original Maverick." Obama’s spokesperson Bill[...]

After bubbling under the surface since the primary campaign, race has popped to the surface - and both the Barack Obama and John McCain camps are pointing their finger at the other as the culprit. McCain has accused Obama of playing politics with race[...]

Salon composite / AP photo Near the end of John R. Talbott's hagiographic "Obamanomics" we are presented with a handy list of the 25 "Greatest Threats to Our Prosperity." The breakdown makes for an imposing compendium of approaching doom, including everything[...]

Crossposted from Left Toon Lane, Bilerico Project & My Left Wing click to enlarge From Wikipedia: The second Klan rose in response to urbanization and industrialization, massive immigration from eastern and southern Europe, the Great Migration of African[...]

I thought our readers might like to get an insight into how last week's annual Netroots Nation convention went, and how it keeps the blogging world energized. Here is an inside look at the event. ('Netroots' stands for the online, networked, "bottom-up"[...]

"Events, dear boy, events." --Former British PM Harold Macmillan on the greatest threat to any government's plans. "In chaos there is opportunity" --Variously attributed. It's time for Republicans to decide: are we willing to stake the election on the[...]

Mitt Romney, Senator John McCain’s rival in the Republican primary, is now dutifully raising money and campaigning for the presumptive Republican candidate.

BY TAYLOR MARSH Will you hear her now? A spokesperson for Sen. Clinton implicitly distanced the candidate from Lieberman’s effort, telling the Huffington Post: "Senator Clinton fully supports Senator Obama. She continues to urge all of her supporters[...]

Politics is, by nature, a game of smoke and mirrors. An entire industry has been created to manage image and control message yet the following documentaries offer up behind the scenes observations of the very machinery of elections, free of spin and full[...]

I recorded this week's Current video, about John McCain's rough week, before I'd actually watched footage of the worst McCain moment of all: the GOP nominee struggling to answer a question about whether he believes insurance companies should have to cover[...]