The Barack Obama administration is pulling a lot of people from the Senate. That has already caused some big headaches. Now it looks like the protracted and highly secretive process to fill Hillary Clinton’s seat in New York may be violating state laws: Governor David Paterson has disclosed next to nothing about how he’s selecting [...]

Me, elsewhere: Over the last few months, there has been much finger-pointing as to which particular sect of the old GOP coalition is to blame for the policy failures of the last 8 years and the electoral failures of the last 2 years…..I think these accusations are deeply misplaced – the problems have not been [...]

 Estonia is setting the world standard for incorporating technology and voting. Last year, Estonia operated a successful internet voting election. In 2011, Estonia will become the first country to allow voting by cell phone. Voters will be required to get a special chip for their cell phone. The chips are free and allow for the [...]

Here’s what hardcore partisans on both sides often fail to understand: winning an election doesn’t mean most of the country agrees with their ideology. In fact, both the hardcore right and the hardcore left are minority positions whose influence is inflated not by numbers but by passion. They might be the “bases” of our two [...]

Danielle, here! I’m back in Philly, my home away from home, sitting in a swanky hotel lobby, facing a wall, like a crazy person, in order to borrow wireless. And I’ve just published a piece for ANP. Here’s the scoop… Today, registered voters in Philly found their names missing from local poll books, which are [...]

As the election neared, I heard more and more outlandish remarks about John McCain and Barack Obama. I was told that voting for Obama put me close to the ideology of the world’s tyrants. I read here in the comments that only the stupid, rich and racist are voting for McCain. I’ve seen, again and [...]

We all know these three guys… But do you know who Horatio Seymour is? Or how about DeWitt Clinton? Check out ALL of the losers over at Hurty Elbow.

At some point, we have to step back and try to grasp the sheer enormity of what Axelrod and Obama have wrought. We can just look at it and admire it as a spectacle, as a force of nature, much like staring at Niagara Falls, Mount Everest or the Grand Canyon. The Axelrod/Obama campaign has spent as much selling the Barack Obama brand as McDonald’s spends selling hamburgers. Obama is spending $293,000/hour to win the Presidency.

Hi, this is Danielle Ivory at the American News Project in DC. Thanks to Justin Gardner for allowing us to post story items here! We’ll start doing this regularly next week. Just by way of introduction, the ANP is an independent non-profit video news organization in DC. We produce pieces for the web, but offer [...]

Yesterday, in the comments to a post about John McCain’s chances at victory, there was a debate about what does and does not qualify as a rout. To avoid further linguistic confusion, I’ve developed the following chart relating margin of victory to its appropriate description. This is probably the most insightful and important election post [...]

Has a newspaper’s endorsement ever affected your vote? I couldn’t care less who my local paper endorses (The San Antonio Express-News went predictably for John McCain, in case you were dying to know). And, really, I couldn’t care less who any paper endorses. It all seems so self important. Thoughts?

No, I’m not talking about wedge issues, I’m talking about laying down the kind of organization that brings out the base. Dante Chinni of the Patchwork Nation blog at the Christian Science Monitor explains the effort. It’s interesting and sounds like smart politics to me. By the way, if you’ve never checked out Patchwork Nation, [...]

I found this Hardball segment to be enlightening given the fact that Bush won a second term and the very likely possibility that a relatively unknown politician will be elected less than a month from now. Thoughts?

While it’s true that not everybody the Dems registered will vote, and while it’s true that not everybody they registered who will vote will vote for Obama, I can’t help but think that these numbers signal at least another 1 to 2 points added onto the popular vote for Obama. Chris Matthews and Chuck Todd [...]

And given the current circumstances on Wall Street, my bet is he’ll get. MarketWatch has the details… Bloomberg announced Thursday he supports changing the term limits law to run for a third term. Observers have respected Bloomberg for restoring a sense of optimism to a post-9/11 New York City while encouraging tourists to visit, keeping [...]

Early today I shared a bunch of new swing state poll numbers and at the time I said that these were significant not only for the fact that Obama had cracked the 50% mark in most of them, but also for the fact that at this point in the election voters preferences usually don’t change [...]

It is official. Florida election officials are warming up for another election fiasco. Palm Beach County held an election on August 26. One of the races for judge ended up extremely close, only 60 votes separated two candidates. As election officials began preparations for a recount, they found that 3,500 ballots were missing. Rumors abounded [...]

Apparently, the controversy of the day revolves around John McCain’s ability to accurately state how many houses he and his wife own: Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said in an interview Wednesday that he was uncertain how many houses he and his wife, Cindy, own. “I think — I’ll have my staff get to you,” McCain [...]