About '08 Roadies

'08 Roadies is a periodic diary of campaign dispatches by Washington bureau chief Walter Shapiro, who is covering his eighth presidential race, and Mike Madden, Salon's Washington correspondent.

Current Salon Politics Stories

• John McCain, Republican top gun at last

  The "imperfect" war hero steered clear of George W. Bush as he took aim at Barack Obama and tried to marshal his tarnished party.

  By Walter Shapiro

• Republicans, stop calling Obama elitist

  By Bill Maher

• Sarah Palin's real soul mate

  By Jeff Yang

’08 Update

07:52 EDT, Sept. 6, 2008

Mean Old Party From Fred Thompson to Sarah Palin, snarling Rudy Giuliani to smiling Lindsey Graham, Republicans bared their fangs this week to hide their unpopular agenda. And it might work.

By Joan Walsh

Joan Walsh

170

18:47 EDT, Sept. 5, 2008

Sarah Palin's pastor problem Move over Jeremiah Wright

By Nathalie Gorman

War Room

39

17:22 EDT, Sept. 5, 2008

McCain knocks Obama as "celebrity" again But Paris Hilton doesn't make an appearance in this new ad.

By Katharine Mieszkowski

War Room

28

15:47 EDT, Sept. 5, 2008

Woodward: Don't credit surge for Iraq turnaround In his new book, the investigative journalist credits covert ops with reducing violence in Iraq.

By Katharine Mieszkowski

War Room

26

15:54 EDT, Sept. 5, 2008

More dirt on Palin on the way? The National Enquirer is reporting that Sarah Palin had an affair with her husband's business partner, who reportedly just tried to have his divorce records sealed.

By Alex Koppelman

War Room

156

Salon Politics Blogs

• Joan Walsh

  Mean Old Party

  From Fred Thompson to Sarah Palin, snarling Rudy Giuliani to smiling Lindsey Graham, Republicans bared their fangs this week to hide their unpopular agenda. And it might work.

  Joan Walsh

• War Room

  Sarah Palin's pastor problem

  Move over Jeremiah Wright

  Nathalie Gorman

• Glenn Greenwald

  Will the GOP's negativity produce a backlash?

  Democrats like to tell themselves that Americans dislike the character attacks in which the GOP specializes. But that comforting thought is untrue.

  Glenn Greenwald