Well, David Almacy and I may only have managed to get on the air for a couple of minutes on election night, plus a few more live on the web (REAL news kept happening and bumping us out of the queue), but we WERE a part of Fox 5’s crack...
Ninety years ago today, my father’s father was an American infantryman in France, and I wonder if he actually heard the sound: for four years, the artillery of both sides had belched shells non-stop, battering away at the siege lines dug into...
A new country. Not too shabby.
– cpd
So here we are at the end: of campaign 2008 certainly, and of the modern conservative movement perhaps. Boo! That’s all McCain and his supporters have left. Obama is a “Marxist,” a “socialist” and a...
Hell of a season, eh? We’ve just about had everything — from lipstick on a pig all the way to a full-on financial panic, with two ongoing wars and the lingering effects of an oil-price shock playing in the background. Too much too much...
Here’s something to keep you busy for a couple of hours on a dreary Friday afternoon: a comprehensive collection of political campaign television commercials dating back to the 1950s. Revealing for more than just political reasons, since they...
(Hope I don’t have to eat my words on this one…. Update: Nope.) On the second night of the Republican Convention, let me depart from our normal programming here to predict that the Palin pick will be an absolute disaster for John McCain...
Read Scott Martin has already picked up on the first Obama/Biden online display ad, which started running on Time.com at 5 Eastern this morning — only two hours after the veep announcement went out over text. Read cheekily describes it as...
Okay, I’ll admit it — I’ve opened a lot of constituent mail in my time. My time in the Texas Legislature, that is: in 1991, as a wet-behind-the-ears 22-year-old (emotional age: closing in on 16), I started work for The Honorable...
If you’re a whiz at constructing advocacy or fundraising email campaigns, the Obama campaign would like to chat — you’d better be willing to relocate to Chicago for a few months, though. Responsibilities will include planning and...