In A Bind, GOP Throws Kitchen Sink At Obama
Prompted, it seems, by concerns over John McCain's foot-in-the-mouth admission that he did not know the number of houses he owned, aides to the Senato...
Prompted, it seems, by concerns over John McCain's foot-in-the-mouth admission that he did not know the number of houses he owned, aides to the Senato...
Jan McGirk | Posted 08.20.2008 | Home
During the Obama-McCain race, anti-Obama polemics have become dishonest and biased. McCain should repudiate all unfair attacks on his rival.
Miles Mogulescu | Posted 08.19.2008 | Politics
If Obama can both reconnect his inspirational personal story to the American dream and create a counter-narrative of McCain selling his soul to the Rovian devil, he can take back control of the campaign narrative.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.19.2008 | Politics
There was a thread of stern if not defensive outrage in Barack Obama's address at the Veterans of Foreign Wars on Tuesday. The Illinois Democrat did n...
Michael Shaw | Posted 08.19.2008 | Media
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.18.2008 | Politics
Back in March, the McCain campaign was apoplectic after Barack Obama, responding to claims that he had been endorsed by Hamas, accused the Senator of ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.18.2008 | Politics
Barack Obama implicitly acknowledged on Monday that common sense suggests he should be doing better in his campaign for the president. "We've got wo...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.15.2008 | Politics
The drawback of John McCain's attack on Barack Obama's "elitism": it makes his own wealth fair game. For the second time in as many days, critics of...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.13.2008 | Politics
In presidential campaigns, words matter. With Barack Obama belittled as an empty-suit orator and John McCain stifled by rhetorical blunders, the influ...
Paula Poundstone | Posted 08.06.2008 | Politics
There are only so many hours in a day. All of that time and energy put into finding fault in one's opponent siphons off minutes of quiet reflection about oneself.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.05.2008 | Politics
Barack Obama accused John McCain on Tuesday of running a campaign that the presumptive Republican nominee himself couldn't take pride in. Speaking at...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.05.2008 | Politics
Coming off a week in which he was compared to Britney Spears and Paris Hilton and saw his standing in the polls drop, Democrats' chief concern when as...
Gautam Dutta | Posted 08.02.2008 | Politics
The Constitution must be amended so that all naturalized citizens (including McCain) can also seek the White House.
Daniel Nichanian | Posted 08.01.2008 | Home
For the fourth consecutive day, Obama lost ground according to Gallup. Up 9 percent on Sunday, he now leads by 1 percent -- the narrowest the race has been since Obama embarked on the overseas tour.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.30.2008 | Politics
Responding to a harsh personal attack from John McCain, Barack Obama released a television ad late Wednesday evening accusing the the Arizona Republic...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.29.2008 | Politics
Sen. Barack Obama is set to open more than a dozen offices in Florida in the next two weeks alone, a commitment of resources that his campaign says wi...
Miles Mogulescu | Posted 07.27.2008 | Politics
McCain will opt for war as the first choice, not the last choice. With America now embroiled in two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, one has to worry about John McCain's desire to "bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran."
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.24.2008 | Politics
John McCain is still playing catch up to Barack Obama. As the Illinois Democrat speaks before the picturesque Victory Column in Berlin today, the Ar...
Jan McGirk | Posted 07.23.2008 | Home
We drove around the West Bank searching for Obama supporters, but even at venues with names in English, such as the Stars & Bucks cafe or Supermarket Baghdad, there were no Gobama banners to be seen.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.23.2008 | Politics
The McCain campaign implied on Wednesday that Barack Obama's commitment to preventing a future genocide was not sincere, attacking the Democratic cand...
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 07.17.2008 | Media
There's no doubt that Obama makes news differently than McCain. But there's a difference between covering candidates equally and meticulously allotting them equal time and coverage.
Feet In Two Worlds | Posted 07.16.2008 | Home
Both candidates have to overcome hesitancy among Latinos, Obama because of his race and the bitter primary battle; McCain because of his backtracking on immigration reform.
HuffingtonPost.com | Thomas B. Edsall | Posted 07.15.2008 | Politics
About a week ago, Republican media specialist Alex Castellanos asked pollster Scott Rasmussen to add a question to one of his surveys: If the November...
Posted 07.14.2008 | Politics
Rasmussen Reports' latest poll shows Barack Obama taking 44% of the vote while John McCain gets 42%. When "leaners" are included the numbers are even...
Mark Weisbrot | Posted 07.11.2008 | Politics
McCain's gaffe on Social Security indicates that he is not any better informed on major domestic policy issues than he is on foreign policy.
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I've read the comments. I know what some of you think. Yawn. It's not a story. He's not...
Obama's been to Hawaii. We're moving...
LOS ANGELES — Barack Obama is getting praise from Nashville, courtesy of one...
John McCain said in an interview with Politico on Wednesday "that he was uncertain how many houses he and his...
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HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.21.2008 | Politics