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The end of the satirical industrial complex?
Thomas Schaller
For the past eight years, Jon Stewart, Tina Fey and other comedians have had us laughing through our tears. If Obama wins, will the laughter die?
Obama racks up first win of election day
Mike Madden
Barack Obama beats John McCain in tiny Dixville Notch, N.H., the first time a Democrat has won the hamlet since 1968.
India’s all-important Obama endorsement
Andrew Leonard
A financial newspaper backs the Democrat, from 11000 kilometers away
Obama volunteers are busy in Phoenix
Mike Madden
Despite little attention from aides in Chicago, Barack Obama's campaign has a lively HQ on John McCain's turf.
Enter Salon’s Election Pool
Alex Koppelman
Tell us your predictions and you could win a free one-year subscription.
Obama’s grandmother dies
Alex Koppelman
The nominee had taken time away from the trail to be with his ailing grandmother, Madelyn Dunham.
The dismal science of voter turnout
Andrew Leonard
What works best for getting out the vote? An economist says knocking on doors. Who will knock on the most doors this year? Guess.
At an Obama phone bank, there’s enthusiasm, reason to worry
Rachel Fershleiser
One volunteer's story of a day making calls for Barack Obama, and the response -- some of it decidedly negative -- from those on the other end.
McCain and Palin stumping hard
Thomas Schaller
In the last eight days John McCain and Sarah Palin have ramped it up.
The credit card grinch who stole Christmas
Andrew Leonard
The new president will face an unfamiliar problem: Lenders are discouraging Americans from pulling out their plastic.
Tragedy on the trail
Thomas Schaller
Barack Obama's state director in Nevada, just 44, dies suddenly of heart attack.
“My Lord, I feel something is happening”
Jonathan Alford
Volunteering for an inspired Obama campaign in Pittsburgh, I couldn't help feeling that politics is being reinvented.
Two speeches by Barack Obama, eight months apart
Salon Staff
The full texts of two speeches given in Columbus, Ohio, one at the end of February 2008 and the other on Sunday.
Palin: Last of a breed
Thomas Schaller
Did Sarah Palin arrive just in time for the culture wars to end?
In thanks to Hillary
Thomas Schaller
Clinton made a historic run, sure, but she also made Obama a better candidate.
Have yourself an Election Eve cry
Joan Walsh
Videos and photos that could bring a tear to the eye of even the most hardened Republican.
Hillary: Barack is the man for the moment
Thomas Schaller
Hillary Clinton publishes two strong Op-Eds backing Obama.
Poll: Obama up in Ohio, Pa., neck-and-neck in Fla.
Alex Koppelman
Quinnipiac University's latest round of polling shows the Democrat slipping slightly in two key states, but maintaining comfortable leads.
Racists for Obama
James Hannaham
Plenty of white bigots will vote for Barack Obama on Tuesday. There are some things they fear more than black people.
I believe all the polls, and none of them
Greil Marcus
Will Americans do the impossible and elect a black president? The alternative is monstrous.
Sundown on Colorado fundamentalists
Mike Madden
A Sunday visit to the megachurch that praised George W. Bush suggests that its political end of days is near.
Black presidents we have known
Louis Bayard
What does it look like to have an African-American in the White House? Pop culture has offered versions awful and great, from Sammy Davis Jr. to Chris Rock.
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