Sen. Barack Obama’s 10-point loss in Pennsylvania turned the universe upside down in a few hours. Suddenly, he was no longer his party’s front-runner. Suddenly, he was facing questions about his candidacy in the general election. Suddenly, and rather remarkably Internet pop-up windows, of all things, shifted from “should Hillary quit” surveys to, “can Hillary [...]
Add Comment A Facebook “education-workshop” is scheduled to be held in D.C. next week for politicians interested to learn about, what else, social networking. The Facebook Political Summit page describes the event for crack campaign staffers as a “lively seminar about how Facebook and social media can be an integral part of your campaign and constituent strategy. [...]
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Another good question for the Republican candidates… and one that should be asked of all the candidates: Would-be presidents all, how about addressing the discriminatory effects of Christian-influenced policy formulation?
Brownback’s answer comes in this ad: “We’re close to being able to overturn Roe vs. Wade. We’re one justice away.”
If the questions being submitted online are any measure, the Republican YouTube presidential debate could be heated— and therefore good. These are two of our favorites so far: over LA; under Philadelphia.
The Vanity Fair expose killing on Bush Administration incompetence is busting out beyond the usual VF readership of 300 ziillion because it kills using the words of the very neocon theorists who engineered the insane “liberation” of Iraq. David Rose, who interviewed the neocons, told his interviewees that the piece was slotted to run in [...]
He’s a bible-thumping, anti-gay marriage, privileged son of the south. He’s Harold Ford Jr, and he’s the key to the midterm elections and a barometer in many ways for the future of the country.
He wants to change course in Iraq, proposing to divide the country, former-Yugoslavia-style, into three roughly independent cantons or states. He attacks [...]
Salon’s video blog offers a gem today: a Republican National Committee ad that ran on CNN this weekend, featuring no candidate positions, no policy info, no attack on rival candidates, nothing but grainy footage of Osama and other men in Arab garb doing “scary” things that look like maybe combat training or parody martial arts [...]
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More on the epic Wyclef performance from Chris Nelson, including a sick photo gallery and descriptions of the electric vibe at the event.
Wyclef Jean courts the Latino vote for Obama.
Brooke-Sidney Gavins gets RZA of the Wu-Tang to open up about the DNC and the election.
Torey Van Oot interviews local Denver voters about their choice in November.
Max Zimbert talks to a local cabbie about Obama.
Tricia Romano remembers the failed mayoral bid of Mark Green.
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Download portions of P+P founder Farai Chideya’s book “Trust” and mash it up as you please under a Creative Commons license.
Brian Frank discusses the politics of fatness in America in the context of recent anti-Big Fat legislation here in L.A.
Cheap Thrills: Obama’s Texting Blitz From an Ad Girl’s Perspective
Britney, Russell Brand, and the elephant in the room. 
Shazia Haq: The Boredom’s Are Anything But Boring
From Shaft to Chef, we bid adieu to Isaac Hayes, cool before cool was cool.
Tricia Romano muses on her time spent watching the late Bernie Mac, and how he got her through a self-imposed social exile.
Geek Love: I am an GTD Geek, Hear Me Roar.
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