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Hammering homeboy
Thomas Schaller
Talk about rapid response: The Democratic Party and candidate already have materials and video out pummeling homeboy.
Veep too late
Thomas Schaller
Whomever he chooses, Obama should have moved earlier to select his running mate.
Obama: The big-spending fiscal conservative
Andrew Leonard
The New York Times tackles Obamanomics -- and does a darn good job.
Waiting for Cheney
Thomas Schaller
Tarmac delays are sinful and insulting to regular people, but only if you're a liberal.
The Democratic convention just got less boisterous
Rebecca Traister
A brief eulogy for Ohio Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, the first African-American woman elected to Congress in Ohio.
Less dessert
Thomas Schaller
Obama gets back to basics with some long-overdue, Hillary Clinton-style messages for kitchen-table voters.
One devastating home movie
Andrew O'Hehir
As the floodwaters rose in New Orleans, "street hustler" Kim Roberts turned on her camera -- and captured a story more thrilling than any Hollywood blockbuster.
Are Obama supporters planning 9/11 fundraiser?
Mike Madden
An e-mail invites supporters to join Warren Buffett at a campaign event in D.C. on the seventh anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones dies
Mike Madden
The five-term Democrat from Ohio, 58, had suffered a brain aneurysm Tuesday night.
Poll: McCain’s running a negative campaign
Mike Madden
An NBC/Wall Street Journal poll shows voters think John McCain, not Barack Obama, is running a negative campaign. So why is it working?
Ralph Reed makes cameo in Obama ad
Mike Madden
A new commercial in Georgia links a John McCain fundraiser with the GOP lobbyist -- and with Jack Abramoff.
In defense of race-based rooting
Gary Kamiya
At the Olympics, you sometimes find yourself rooting for athletes because of their race. And that's OK.
Sayonara, superdelegates
Mike Madden
Barack Obama's campaign wants to revise the rules for the Democratic primaries for 2012. There would be fewer superdelegates and later elections.
John McCain’s summer of slime
Joan Walsh
The GOP nominee will say anything to get elected -- and the media is letting him get away with it. Plus: Bill Maher to Obama: Pick Hillary!
Obama drops a veep hint — maybe
Mike Madden
Barack Obama refers to his vice president as "he," spurring speculation about the pick to dizzying new heights.
Oh, Hillary’s brother, where art thou?
Mike Madden
Hillary Clinton's brother Tony Rodham meets with McCain advisor Carly Fiorina in Pennsylvania. So much for party unity?
Debunking anti-Obama e-mails
Mike Madden
Error-filled chain e-mails designed to scare voters away from Barack Obama are circulating widely on the Internet. Salon deconstructs a pair, one smearing the candidate, the other his wife.
Bateman: Barack Obama meets Rick Warren, confronts evil
Salon Staff
Actual audio from the Democratic candidate at Saddleback.
Gore to speak on final night
Thomas Schaller
After much anticipation as to when Gore would speak, the former veep gets an unusual and unusually potent spot: Thursday night.
Obama bares teeth in Orlando
Thomas Schaller
Finally, the senator realizes that sometimes he will need to show a bit of anger if he wants to win this thing.
What Obama needs most
Salon Staff
Beyond readiness to assume the presidency, there are other things Obama needs to consider as he makes his veep decision.
Rice: Military power is “not the way to deal in the 21st century”
Glenn Greenwald
Bush's secretary of state sermonizes against the use of military force as a means of delivering a message.
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