2 days ago
deusx : Olbermann apologizes for RNC showing graphic video of September 11, Twin Towers falling - "Yes, John Mccain actually used the video of the Twin Towers getting hit and falling tonight. No decency whatsoever."
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2 days ago
deusx : The death of a taboo - 2008 Presidential Campaign Blog - Political Intelligence - Boston.com - "One of the most enduring taboos in American politics, the airing of graphic images from the September 11 attacks in a partisan context, died today. It was nearly seven years old. The informal prohibition, which had been occasionally threatened by p
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7 days ago
gleuschk : Sciencedebate 2008 - Barack Obama's answers to the top 14 science questions facing America (McCain hasn't answered yet)
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11 days ago
nelson : Obama gamerpic - Interesting crossover of politics to gaming. McCain, too
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16 days ago
nelson : Diebold counts most of your votes - Voting machine glitch, coverup, etc
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1 month ago
Eric Meyer : Obama and McCain Tax Proposals - Yet another one of those charts that each side will see as a strong argument for its candidate's policy positions and a powerful condemnation of the other side's candidate. [via Tim] [via]
deusx : Obama and McCain Tax Proposals - washingtonpost.com - "Obama's plan gives the biggest cuts to those who make the least, while McCain would give the largest cuts to the very wealthy. For the approximately 147,000 families that make up the top 0.1 percent of the income scale, the difference between t
gleuschk : Obama and McCain Tax Proposals - washingtonpost.com - nice to have some data
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3 month ago
gleuschk : Fight the Smears | Fight the Smears Home - trying to protect against swiftboatification. god I hope it works
Eric Meyer : Fight the Smears - It's a laudably proactive approach, but I doubt it will do much good-- there are people who desperately want those rumors to be true, and so will believe them regardless of their veracity.
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3 month ago
gleuschk : How Obama Did It: Big states, small states, caucuses and campaign strategy - the arcane arithmetic of the Democratic primaries and (especially!) caucuses
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3 month ago
gleuschk : NY Times Visualisation of Clinton/Obama supporters - guess the outlying AR postgrads are old political friends of the Clintons'?
Ethan Marcotte : Looking Back: How Different Groups Voted (Flash) - I played with this infographic for the better part of fifteen minutes. Which probably means they’ve done a thing or two right. ∞
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3 month ago
gleuschk : Is Barack Obama Muslim? - keep handy for those email forwards
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3 month ago
nelson : SF polling places - Sure would be nice if it was the same place every election
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4 month ago
nelson : The Obama sea - Enormous turnout in Oregon for the Obama rally
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4 month ago
Andy Baio : Things Younger Than John McCain - I didn't realize he'd be the oldest US President ever [via]
adamrg : Things younger than Republican Presidential candidate
Rod Begbie : Things younger than John McCain - The state of Alaska, the polio vaccine, and both of Barack Obama's parents are younger than John McCain. [via] #
jcgregorio : Things younger than Republican Presidential candidate (oh, and did I forget to mention “war hero”?) John McCain - List includes the Golden Gate Bridge.
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4 month ago
adamrg : The politics of obliteration - (In which I'm link-checked... I love me some MSM.)
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5 month ago
philgyford : Vote Match - Help to decide who to vote for in the London elections. For me it says: Paddick, Livingstone, Left List, Greens... Still hard to decide. (via Haddock)
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5 month ago
adamrg : Cash-strapped Clinton fails to pay bills - If she had paid off the $8.7 million in unpaid bills she reported as debt and had not loaned her campaign $5 million, the cash she would have had available at the end of last month to spend on television ads... would have been less than $2 million.
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6 month ago
adamrg : Obama Camp Memo on Clinton Saying She “Misspoke”
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6 month ago
adamrg : Status on campaign conference call MP3s - Dave Winer's on a mission to get all the campaign conference calls out there for people to listen to -- primary source spin is always nice to have.
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6 month ago
adamrg : An Education President - Like him or not, what Barack Obama did yesterday, in my opinion at least, epitomizes what we need our next president to be, namely a teacher.
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6 month ago
adamrg : Obama tells the Best Political Team on Television: You Have a Choice - In fact it was a speech aimed right at him, at the best political team on television, and all the makers of our election year spectacle.
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adamrg : Barack Obama on the Coundown with Keith Olbermann - Olbermann again proves that he is articulate, considerate, and incisive. He asks the tough questions, is adversarial without being an ass (I'm looking at you Russert).
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6 month ago
nelson : Delegate counts - Last night's election looks to have been a tie for delegates, which is bad news for Clinton
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6 month ago
nelson : Andreessen for Obama - nice endorsement, well written
Linkorama : An hour and a half with Barack Obama - Smart, normal, curious, not radical, and post-Boomer.
Rod Begbie : An hour and a half with Barack Obama - "What's the picture that emerges from these four impressions? Smart, normal, curious, not radical, and post-Boomer. If you were asking me to write a capsule description of what I would look for in the next President of the United States, that would be i [via] #
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6 month ago
adamrg : Clinton's OffShore Tax Connections - Appears that the truth is out there somewhere... now to find it and substantiate it.
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