McCain Teeth Grit-A-Thon
Your Daily Politics Video Blog: We though McCain was steamed when he wouldn't make eye contact with Barack Obama. But he almost blew a fuse when he got some real questions from the editorial board of the Des Moines Register. In today's episode of TPMtv, we analyze the tapes (with a little help from the DSM-IV).
2008 General Election Roundup #1
Your Daily Politics Video Blog: The national polls haven't been great for John McCain of late. But the state by states are worse. We run through the latest numbers in episode one of our weekly 2008 General Election Roundup.
2008: Battle Lines Drawn
Your Daily Politics Video Blog: With the general election campaign now upon us, we thought we'd take a look at the map and see where the real swing states are this cycle.
McCain Leaves Fox Speechless
Your Daily Politics Video Blog: If you were awful enough to delight in John McCain's prebuttal speech trainwreck last night, feast your eyes on the Fox News commentators trying to decide if it was just bad or downright terrible.
From the progressive center of North Carolina comes this report from Brian Russell of yesh.com. He explores why music and politics go hand in hand, why young people get "it", and how music can change the world.
On Friday May 2 the Obama campaign held a free get out the vote event called Change Rocks. On this day it was held in Carrboro, NC, a small town just west of Chapel Hill. The outdoor rock concert featured local indie rock band Superchunk and the hotness of the moment Arcade Fire. It was...
Campaign Finance Deformed
Your Daily Politics Video Blog: John McCain: straight shootin' maverick and courageous champion of campaign finance reform. So then why is he currently doing his best to defy the FEC and make his own set of campaign finance rules? We puzzle it all out in today's episode of TPMtv.
In Little Rock, AK, Huckabee addressed his crowd and quipped that for the last few weeks, everyone's been calling it a two-man race - "well it is, and we're in it!" And in some ways he's right. He was wildly written off, but his heavy dose of Christianity and clever spoken charisma have given him some power in certain parts of the country, namely, Dixie. And in the heart of God's Country, he wasn't shy on the metaphors. Tonight he proved, he said, that "one small smooth stone is more effective than a...
More from our Ground Hound Chuck Olsen as he travels down South on his Southern Fried Super Tuesday tour.... These Christian fundamentalists in Lynchburg, Tennessee explain why they're supporting Mike Huckabee for president, their misguided ideas about Barack Obama and the Qu'ran, the Iraq War, President Bush, the wrath of God that protects Israel, and, of course, End Times.
If hope is the bedrock of this nation, then the Internet is its strata and Barack Obama is taking it by storm. To wit: You Tube viewers reading Obama's speeches interwoven with the man himself, a great video sent to us by Rob "Bobby Zazzali."
[WaPo] The American people, having won in violent revolution their freedom from the tyranny of kings, quickly surrendered to the idea that certain families are destined to lead -- as long as we get to pick them. Bush. Clinton. Bush. Clinton? While it would be extraordinary in our history for two families to occupy the Oval Office consecutively for decades, political dynasties are as American...
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