Obama's base of small donors was almost exactly the same percent as George W. Bush's in 2004 -- Obama had 26% and the great Republican satan 25%. Obviously, this is unacceptable to current popular thinking.
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Obama's base of small donors was almost exactly the same percent as George W. Bush's in 2004 -- Obama had 26% and the great Republican satan 25%. Obviously, this is unacceptable to current popular thinking.


The attendees, who dined buffet style because there were only a few tables scattered around, had each paid $50,000 to be there, according to the pool reporter's notes. Let's do the math on that: That's $5,000 per minute of candidate speech per person.

John McCain's campaign on Tuesday unveiled a new squadron of politicians whose duty will be to battle perceptions that are quickly forming about the Republican party's vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, the governor of Alaska.

A Secret White House History, 2006-2008,” looks at the Bush administration’s review of the Iraq war in October 2006, which “did not include military participants and proceeded secretly because of White House fears that news coverage of a review might damage Republican chances in the midterm congressional elections.”

Invigorated by back-to-back political conventions, Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama grappled for the mantle of change Friday as the fall race for the presidency took off in states teeming with the independent voters they needed to win.

Palin: “Our nation is at a crossroads also. We'd either better be making decisions to allow this American supply of energy to be tapped or we're going to become more and more beholden to these foreign regimes."

Several analysts have speculated as to why John McCain plucked Sarah Palin, an obscure governor from the "forgotten" state of Alaska as his selection for Vice President. While there are many reasons that make her an appealing choice for him, the primary reason has only been touched on, but will become more apparent in the coming weeks.

Russia bulldozes into Georgia ... but why are they so cocky? Because they know the U.S. is stretched too thin in the Middle East. A woman discussed this on Wednesday with John McCain at a McCain town hall meeting in Las Cruces, New Mexico.

Yes, heaven forbid we would discuss the fact that if elected, John McCain would be the oldest president entering his first term of office, and wonder openly if his age might affect his ability to lead. ABC's Good Morning America, broadcast August 10, 2008, wondered if age jokes should be off limits in this presidential race.

Democrats have been cited as embracing technology to more extent than the GOP (though a close look at YouTube might dispel that concept), and in an email sent to supporters Sunday night, the Obama camp has extended a technological hand to let you know (if you really, really want to) who his VP choice is first, via SMS or email.

As I wrote previously, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Suskind asserts in his latest book, "The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism,that the Bush adminstration ordered a back-dated letter linking Iraq to 9/11 be forged. On Friday Suskind released a transcript of a conversation between himself and the Central Intelligence Agency's former Deputy Chief of Clandestine Operations Robert Richer.
Cindy Sheehan, who has been heavily involved in antiwar politics since the death of her son Casey, has qualified for the ballot, collecting the signatures needed to get on the ballot as an independent candidate for Congress. This sets her up for a November race against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
As the Beijing Olympics begin, it's only appropriate that we highlight the first annual Candidate Girl Olympics, Obama Girl vs. McCain Girl.

A federal grand jury has subpoenaed several former senior Justice Department attorneys for an investigation into the politicization of the Department's own Civil Rights Division, according to sources close to the investigation.

Certainly the outlook for democracy seems pretty bleak-and how could it be otherwise? The surest way to make a problem worse is to pretend it isn't there, which is exactly what our press and politicians have been doing; and the rest is, unfortunately, history.

Pulitzer Prize-Winning author Ron Suskind's latest book, "The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism, available Tuesday, has already stirred up quite a storm of controversy. In the book, Suskind alleges that not only did the White House know Iraq had no WMDs, President Bush ordered the CIA to forge a back-dated, handwritten letter from the head of Iraq's intelligence service, Tahir Jalil Habbush, to Saddam Hussein, linking Iraq to the 9/11 hijackers.

Sunday on Meet the Press, when asked by host Tom Brokaw, Senator Joe Lieberman (I-CT) virtually guaranteed he would speak at the Republican National Convention, if asked.

On Friday, the Wall Street Journal reported that Wal-Mart has been warning its managers that a Democratic victory in the fall would lead to unionization at Wal-Mart stores. Of course, even Chinese Wal-Mart stores have a union. Wouldn't want that in the U.S., though, right?
