Most Jamaicans keep their homes pretty low-key. Huts made with wooden slats or metal sheets dot the landscape along the coast and for miles inland. Most of them are no more than one large room, so families congregate on the fields outside instead. Hustlers hoping to make their money from tourists spend the hot, lazy [...]

Chris Nelson weighs in on Obama’s candidacy, the punditry poison, and the speech from Invesco Field.

Max Zimbert interviews some political heavyweights on the Dem’s chances in Ohio and Iowa.

Much has been made of the likeness of Obama to JFK. Watch for yourself.

Gallup Daily: Obama Moves Ahead, 48% to 42%

The McCain people have painted Obama as a celebrity yeah, yeah. And celebrities have a knack for weird names.
So does Sarah Palin, the GOP Vice Presidential nominee. She is a mother of five and their names: Track, Bristol, Willow, Piper and Trig.
Yeah that’s as weird as any celebrity baby name.
So you’ve got to ask yourself: does [...]

Dems Turning a Whiter Shade of Palin: Sen. John McCain stunned the nation when he announced his VP choice: Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. The young pro-life, anti-corruption, anti-gambling, mother of five Republican may be adding balance to the bill. Should not the Democrats have seen this coming? Is it possible the Sen. Hillary Clinton-contingent, those [...]

“With profound gratitude and great humility, I accept your nomination for the presidency of the United States,” said Barack Obama—and the 85,000 strong crowd at Invesco Field went wild. At the same time, the packed crowd of students, TV news broadcasters, professors, and political analysts gathered in Annenberg’s East Lobby at USC last night, also [...]

Last night, the grassroots organization, MoveOn.org had nationwide, “Yes We Can!” parties all across the country. In an attempt to bond with my fellow common man, I watched Barack Obama’s acceptance speech at V Lounge in Santa Monica. I settled on V Lounge because, is there anything more “LA” than attending a political event at [...]

With such an eventful week underway at the DNC, it’s been difficult to stay on top of all sides of the news. We each have our preferred television news sources, and most of us just don’t have the time to channel surf for the sake of hearing what the pundits of the other party have [...]

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Our P+P team is inside Invesco Field.
They are sending text messages and emails and updates.
Here’s a sampling:
Chris Nelson, 5:10:
Coachella, Lollapalooza.. anything you’ve been to where humans do their best cattle impersonation does not compare to the sight of the line to get in right now.
Brooke-Sidney Gavins, 5:16 p.m.:
Observation:
Udall likes the Bill Clinton thumbs up.
Kaine speaking [...]

Most pundits agreed that Hillary Clinton delivered a big speech on Tuesday night, but what impressed the liberal punditry the most-including the likes of Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann, was her “sock to the face” of John McCain, 71. The chattering classes agreed that the Dems need to take the gloves off, because that’s the [...]

There isn’t a man, woman or child in America who doesn’t know that there is an election looming. But with the Internet and cell phones coursing with information, escaping presidential politics requires more than keeping the television set unplugged for two years. But like America, the rest of the world has been watching, reading and [...]