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

• Watching Republicans makes me insane

  I watched the convention and I thought I was going to lose it.

  By Cary Tennis

• McCain and Palin go to Dobsonville

  By Jeralyn Merritt

’08 Update

09:06 EDT, Sept. 8, 2008

Poll: McCain over Obama, 54-44 A new survey shows John McCain got a big boost from his party's convention -- will it last?

By Alex Koppelman

War Room

1

23:23 EDT, Sept. 8, 2008

Palin watch ends! She'll talk to ABC's Charles Gibson next week. What should he ask her?

By Joan Walsh

Joan Walsh

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23:04 EDT, Sept. 7, 2008

Palin watch Day 8 and counting, and still no interviews.

By Joan Walsh

Joan Walsh

224

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

315

18:47 EDT, Sept. 5, 2008

Sarah Palin's pastor problem Move over Jeremiah Wright

By Nathalie Gorman

War Room

66

Salon Politics Blogs

• Joan Walsh

  Palin watch ends!

  She'll talk to ABC's Charles Gibson next week. What should he ask her?

  Joan Walsh

• War Room

  Poll: McCain over Obama, 54-44

  A new survey shows John McCain got a big boost from his party's convention -- will it last?

  Alex Koppelman

• Glenn Greenwald

  The mighty, scary press corps

  Journalists convince themselves that Sarah Palin is afraid to face their aggressive, adversarial questioning.

  Glenn Greenwald