Next time you phone Aunt Betty in Des Moines and she answers with a bark, don't take it personally. Folks in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina have gotten lots of unsolicited telephone calls and visits lately from presidential campaigns. So says a telephone poll.
Imagine: You turn on the TV and see a campaign ad. Your neighbor down the hall, watching the same channel at the same moment, sees a different ad selected for her in part because she's Hispanic, single, owns a dog and drinks Bud Light.
Democrat Barack Obama on Monday sharpened his critique of lead rival Hillary Rodham Clinton, warning against a return to "divisive, special interest politics" that had demoralized the country even before President Bush took office.
Campaigning for office is typically a shoe-leather exercise, with lots of walking through neighborhoods and knocking on doors. But that's not easily done in some of New Orleans' devastated and largely depopulated sections.
Al Gore claimed he invented it. John McCain predicted it would revolutionize political campaigning. Howard Dean made it pay — and then some.
Signaling a new phase in the struggle for control of Congress, House Democrats have reserved time for more than $30 million worth of campaign advertising this fall in roughly two dozen congressional districts, with a heavy emphasis on the Northeast and Midwest.
"These are such important times. Everyday people want to examine the important issues and conditions facing our nation and our world.
Sure, the campaigns get nasty. Then again, in some countries the candidate who wins is the one who can have the most opponents killed in the night. There's so much sugar-coating and spin in our politics that we wonder what it would look like if the gloves really came off.
The Founders intended the House of Representatives, with its small districts and frequent elections, to be the pulse of American democracy. But today's House often has no measurable pulse at all, its arteries clogged with special interest agendas and self-satisfied members.
With Barack Obama having picked up 22 superdelegates since last Tuesday's contests in North Carolina and Indiana and Hillary Clinton picking up only 1.5, doubts over her campaign's viability are all but confirmed.
"The idea that Obama's army of small donors would actually compensate the fabulously rich Clintons for launching such aggressive, hateful attacks is more galling still. Magnanimity is one thing.
"The question, then, is not what kind of campaign they will run; it's what kind of campaign we will run."
Yesterday's This Week with George Stephanopoulos again revealed the terrifying possibilities of another Clinton administration. The show's format amounted to an hour-long campaign ad for the Clinton campaign.
She said, "Let me begin by saying I am black. In fact, let's get a few things straight about just how black I am. I am blue black in some light. Other times I'm a semi-sweet chocolate. My hair gets nappy in the rain. My skin gets ashy on dry days. My teeth are big and white.
t the very least, McCain's gaffes may be a systemic reflection of just how thoroughly McCain has been indoctrinated into the Bush/Cheney propaganda.
Mention the words Barack Obama and the eyes in the heads of the Fox News talking heads began to twitter and roll backward. It's one thing for the conservative news outlet to snipe away at a candidate like Obama. It's quite another to conduct an all-out viral smear campaign.
Last year fans of Jericho set a precedent – the ability of fans to unite to save their favorite television series. Since them Save Our Show campaigns have shown up everywhere.
The Orman for U.S. Senate Campaign announced its fourth quarter filing totals, amassing $457,269 with $451,100 cash on hand.
There are people who insist the idea of a North American Union (NAU) is simply a conspiracy theory. There are those who insist the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is simply a think tank of concerned leaders attempting to make the economic lives more vital for all.
a group of Democratic politicos have set up a new independent 527 organization called the American Leadership Project (ALP) with the express purpose of helping Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, beat Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, in Ohio, and possibly Texas and Pennsylvania as well.
An Election 2008 study by Experian Consumer Research suggests that Republicans, from ultra conservative to moderate voters, are trending toward greener attitudes and behaviors about politics and the environment.
Sam Roberts recounts the details of a race for a party's presidential nomination from 1860, when a riveting speech by Abraham Lincoln at Cooper Union was one of the turning points.
Clinton, unlike rival Barack Obama, has not released her tax returns. But disclosure forms that Clinton filed with the Senate provide some clues to her family finances.
America's health care crisis is neither inevitable nor unsolvable. Just as our nation has overcome tough challenges in the past, we can do so again. Ensuring affordable, quality health care is this generation's great challenge.
Few will have the greatness to bend history; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation ...
At first glance, the Edwards health care plan looks similar to several other proposals out there, including one recently unveiled by Arnold Schwarzenegger in California.
Greg Orman, Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Kansas, recently launched his official campaign website, www.voteorman.com, which features Web 2.0 technology and social networking pages.
Mitt Romney's choice in theme music could seem incongruous for a presidential candidate trying to shore up his conservative credentials.
Economists support John Edwards because as economists, they seek effective public policy aimed at sustained growth, full employment, an end to poverty, and progress toward solving the major social and environmental problems associated with health care, education, trade, taxation …
Former CBS anchor Dan Rather, covering the primary for the high-definition cable channel HDNet, said the new media is a plus overall, but there are some negatives. "When it comes to blogging and some things on the Web, there's little or no accountability," said Rather, who …
WASHINGTON -- Like Job after losing his camels and acquiring boils, the conservative movement is in distress. Mike Huckabee shreds the compact that has held the movement's two tendencies in sometimes uneasy equipoise.