Web Search powered by YAHOO! SEARCH
07.07.2008 4:30 pm

The $1 billion campaign

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Spending in this year’s presidential election cycle by all campaigns and affiliates has already surpassed $900 million - that’s more than double the total spent in the 2000 primaries ($430 million), the last time both parties had competitive primary races.

This New York Times…

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (2 votes, average: 3 out of 5)
Loading ... Loading ...
07.03.2008 1:38 pm

Al-Jazeera on the American elections

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

al-JazeeraPerusing al-Jazeera’s Arabic-language website the other day, I saw an article from mid-June about the presidential contest between John McCain and Barack Obama, specifically over statements they had made about their views on terrorism.

I thought it might be interesting to translate…

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (6 votes, average: 4.33 out of 5)
Loading ... Loading ...
07.02.2008 9:45 am

Who’s funding the candidates?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

money.jpgBarack Obama sparked considerable controversy in recent weeks when he announced that he would not commit to public financing for the general election campaign, despite his earlier pledge to do so. This makes Obama’s the first completely privately-financed general election campaign since the…

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (2 votes, average: 5 out of 5)
Loading ... Loading ...
06.29.2008 11:32 pm

Obama getting shown up in ‘Show Me State’?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

McCain supporterThe hand wringing has reached a fever pitch (is that even possible?) at Talking Points Memo, the liberal political blog and website.

TPM solicited thoughts by Missouri readers about recent polls which show John McCain with a healthy lead in the…

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (1 votes, average: 5 out of 5)
Loading ... Loading ...
06.28.2008 9:27 am

Anatomy of a smear

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

smearFrom the Washington Post.

And an effort to combat it.

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading ... Loading ...
06.26.2008 12:36 pm

Election 2008: Electoral Map Scenarios

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Though we are still a little over four months away from the presidential election, I thought it might be interesting to take a look at the “scenarios for victory” put forward by strategists at both the Obama and McCain campaigns…

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (2 votes, average: 5 out of 5)
Loading ... Loading ...
06.26.2008 11:14 am

McCaskill, Mars and Mary Tyler Moore: Open thread

Obama seeks support from Hillary Clinton’s donors, gets the cold shoulder (via TPM media).

And  he takes heat from the netroots about his support of telecom immunity (via Huffington Post).

It doesn’t get much funnier: Karl Rove is spearheading an effort to…

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading ... Loading ...
06.26.2008 10:38 am

Ralph Nader rips Obama for “talking white”

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Not satisfied with his already low opinion among Democrats who blame him for costing them the election in 2000, Ralph Nader is apparently shooting for a special level of hostility:

“There’s only one thing different about Barack Obama when it comes to being a…

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading ... Loading ...
06.24.2008 5:42 pm

Seal of disapproval

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

seal_opt.jpgThe Barack Obama campaign Tuesday retired the Great Seal of Barack, saying it had been created for “one-time use” only at a Democratic governor’s meeting last Friday. Right, and the “Mission Accomplished” banner was the Navy’s idea.

The seal got bad…

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading ... Loading ...
06.24.2008 4:35 pm

Like the raging river, it’s back: The Open Thread

The telecom immunity bill surfaces again. Sens. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., and Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., vow to filibuster. That’s a promise we’ve heard before. Read it here, via Huffington Post.

And she returns like royalty. Politico reports on HRC’s return to the Senate.…

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading ... Loading ...
06.23.2008 9:00 pm

Tuesday editorial: Compromising on privacy

nsa_opt.jpgThe Senate this week is expected to give final passage to an overhaul of the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The bill restores some measure of the privacy protections that the Bush administration trashed — even as it helps cover…

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading ... Loading ...
06.23.2008 11:25 am

President Bush not alone in low approval ratings

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Just about everyone is aware that President Bush’s approval rating has been hovering right around 30 percent for some time now. This is nothing new for most reasonably informed observers — Bush’s approval rating is cited in just about every single news story about the presidential race between Barack Obama and John…

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (2 votes, average: 3 out of 5)
Loading ... Loading ...
06.20.2008 2:30 pm

Our Patchwork Nation

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

For the 2008 election, the Christian Science Monitor has unveiled its “Patchwork Nation” project — which has classified each county in the United States as one of eleven different types of “communities.” These range from “Boom Towns” to “Evangelical Epicenters” to “Monied ‘Burbs.”

Click on the map to go to the CSMonitor site

The…

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (1 votes, average: 5 out of 5)
Loading ... Loading ...