Democratic Convention

Ken Bazinet of the NY Daily News is one of the Obama Transition pool reporters who has shown a flair for keeping the "just-the-facts" chronologies pretty interesting, and he gave us some good stuff today: (via email) While your pool was waiting in the motorcade for departure, about two dozen people ...

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Published: 12/9/08

Political Machine Launches Fran Drescher Senate Bid?

Former Nanny star and cancer activist Fran Drescher has thrown her hat into the ring as a replacement for Hillary Clinton in the US Senate. From New York Magazine:(h/t James Kotecki)Fran Drescher wants to replace Hillary Clinton in the Senate. She says she's qualified. "I've just been given the ...

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Published: 09/5/08

Fact-Checking McCain/Palin

By David Knowles

For a few years of my life, I worked part time as a fact-checker at a magazine. It's a tedious job, going through text and ferreting out mistakes, exaggerations, or outright falsehoods. Thankfully, when it comes to politics, we have the services of the good people at Factcheck.org, a non-partisan ...

Published: 09/5/08

McCain Tops in TV Ratings?

By Christopher Weber

The Nielsen numbers are preliminary but it appears more people tuned into watch John McCain's speech last night than did Barack Obama's last week. But only barely. About 38.9 million viewers saw the McCain speech, compared to about 38.38 million for Obama. The ratings appear to mirror the national ...

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Published: 09/2/08

St. Paul In Stark Contrast With Denver

By Caleb Howe

Last week I was walking in what I referred to as an alien landscape. Amid the Democrats, the greens, and the protesters, I observed as an outsider. I assumed that I would, naturally, be more at home here among all the Republicans in St. Paul. The settings are markedly different. From the type of ...

Published: 09/1/08

Bill Clinton's Kiss Miss a Diss?

I hate headlines like that, yet I am powerless to resist them. Unfortunately for Bill Clinton, Hillary has no problem resisting the allure of his smooch.I also hate segues like that.I'm not gonna lie, this clip is funny, but the ham-fisted mockery of the Fox and Friends crew kinda ruins it for me. ...

Published: 09/1/08

Barely Political, Mostly Sober in Denver

As many regular readers are aware, I've maintained an ongoing investigation of Obama Girl (Amber Lee Ettinger) for several months now. She was in Denver, and thanks to Barely Political's Ben Relles, I finally had the chance to meet Miss Ettinger. It was all so simple, really. We scored an invite to ...

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Published: 08/31/08

Denver Scrapbook

Caleb Howe and I have just spent the week in Denver, covering the goings-on and the goings-in at the Democratic National Committee Convention, and we took more pictures and video than we knew what to do with. That's not exactly true, though. I'm going to do this with it. This being throw up a ...

Published: 08/29/08

Floor Fight: Sarah Palin for Vice President

By Tommy Christopher and Caleb Howe

McCain Pick 'An Empty Pantsuit'Tommy ChristopherDenver, CO - John McCain has announced Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his Vice Presidential nominee. I heard the news via text-message this morning from a strong Hillary Clinton supporter who now supports Obama. Her take is likely to be predictive of a ...

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Published: 08/29/08

Obama's Speech (With Poll!)

By David Knowles

Here it is, in case you missed it last night: ...

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