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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.
Subject, verb, POW
Thomas Schaller
If McCain stole the cross-in-the-sand story from Solzhenitsyn he is not going to admit it, but he will express outrage at the insinuation and play the POW card, again.
Dixie is gone with the wind
Thomas Schaller
No economic-populism-inspired revivals are going to turn the region blue. Virginia's Jim Webb is a lonely exception.
Sandbagged at Saddleback
Joan Walsh
Evangelical voters simply can't vote for somebody who's pro-choice, Rick Warren tells BeliefNet -- after Obama's visit.
Sunday morning at Saddleback Church
Mike Madden
Most of Rick Warren's churchgoers still back McCain, but praised Obama's "values." The weekend's big winner was Warren.
The attention-driven Warren, Book III
Thomas Schaller
Fishers of men need the right bait, and Rick Warren's television show had two presidential nominees on the end of the line.
The attention-driven Warren, Book II
Thomas Schaller
Warren gets defensive when pressed again about the "cone of silence."
De-“(br)othering” Obama in Denver
Thomas Schaller
The New York Times has the key piece Monday about how the Obama camp will use the Democratic National Convention to recast its nominee in eyes of wary voters.
Saddleback up
Thomas Schaller
It's not clear who won the Rick Warren evangelical grilling Saturday night, and maybe McCain cheated.
Did you hear that Alaska has more oil than the Middle East?
Peter Dizikes
Busting the myths about cheap and unlimited oil being broadcast by Rush Limbaugh, Jerome Corsi and other dinosaurs.
Our cupboard was bare
Heather Ryan
I had a master's degree. I had a job. But to feed my three children, I had to swallow my pride and go to a soup kitchen.
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