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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.
Would someone please give Nader some attention?
Alex Koppelman
The now-perennial presidential candidate's campaign sends out a video about the search for "Obama Nuts."
Barack Obama 2.0
Joan Walsh
Compare two speeches Obama gave in Ohio, nine months apart, and you'll hear a good candidate become a great one.
Pa. GOP uses Wright for anti-Obama ad
Alex Koppelman
In a state key to John McCain's hopes, the Republican Party brings up Barack Obama's former pastor.
Does McCain have a path to the presidency?
Alex Koppelman
With polls in Pennsylvania tightening up, there's a glimmer of hope -- but, for now, only a glimmer.
The Post and “the most disliked president since polling began in the 1930s”
Glenn Greenwald
The Washington Post documents the incomparable failure of the Bush Presidency, while its ombudsman urges that the Right be more accommodated.
Overcoming in Ohio
Walter Shapiro
In bellwether Perry County, the Ku Klux Klan once thrived. Now, Republican truckers and coal miners are backing Barack Obama.
The single worst expression in American politics
Glenn Greenwald
As so many politicians do, Joe Biden perverts the Constitution when he instructs Obama critics that they will soon refer to him as "our commander in chief."
Postcard from Pennsylvania: What are they so scared of?
Salon Staff
At a rally in York, Pa., Palin supporters share their fears for a country run by Barack Obama.
Sultan Barack, his harem, and Sarah Palin’s medical records
Glenn Greenwald
What's the only thing worse than the Right trying -- still -- to claim that Obama is a Muslim? Their cowardly refusal to admit they're doing that.
Axelrod on Arizona: “Yes we can”
Mike Madden
Barack Obama's top aide claims the campaign is serious about its chances of beating John McCain in his home state.
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