In the 12 days between the first presidential debate Sept. 26 in Oxford, Miss., and the second debate last night in Nashville, Tenn., the United States took a 6.0 hit on the economic Richter scale. That fact changed not only the…
You know that vague, shapeless worry that never quite goes away? That sense that the things you count on for your security and that of your family — your spouse, your children, your brothers, sisters and parents — aren’t quite solid?
It…
Post-Dispatch multimedia designer Erica Smith created word clouds based on the candidates statements during Friday night’s debate.
The clouds graphically represent the frequency with which specific words are used. The larger the word, the more often it was used by the speaker.
You…
It would have been a shame if the first presidential debate had been postponed. The televised meeting between Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama restored a sense of gravitas to the 2008 presidential campaign after a week in which it turned…
After asking that tonight’s “Debate the Debate” party on The Platform be postponed so he could attend a sick cat, Post-Dispatch commentary page editor Eric Mink now has agreed to take part.
Together with John McCain’s decision to un-postpone his campaign and…
