The Annenberg School has been all over both conventions, teaming up with Politico to host a few panel discussions. We caught the tail end of one at the Minnesota Public Radio building in downtown St. Paul. The panel’s title was “Bridging the Political Divide in the 2008 Election. Professor, Dean Emeritus, Geoffrey Cowan welcomed the [...]
Add Comment Commenters offer an unfiltered look at what people think about a story or a website, but they are sometimes more of a headache for a site, than a benefit. While insightful discussion does happen in the forums, as this piece in Politico notes, the anonymity of commenters allows for racist and prejudicial inflammatory remarks that [...]
The first image above is a button that was on sale at the Texas GOP Convention. According to Politico’s Ben Smith: “The speakers were generally respectful of Obama, the Dallas Morning News reports, but this is the sort of stuff that the RNC has been warning state parties about for months.”
From P+P contributor Ryan [...]
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