You knew it had to happen. But what’s surprising is this was created and is being funded by the Republican Party of Pennsylvania. In fact, their user account on YouTube only has two videos in it, with this being one of them. Will McCain denounce this tactic? We shall see…

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 [...]

Normally this wouldn’t make the blog, but we’re talking about an election official here. She clearly should have known better. From IndyStar.com: FRANKLIN, Ind. (AP) — A Republican county election clerk distributed copies of an apparent chain letter referring to Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama as a “young, black Adolf Hitler” to two employees but [...]

Looks like the race is tightening up in Pennsylvania’s 12th district. From Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: Democratic Rep. John Murtha leads retired Army Lt. Col. William Russell by a little more than 4 percentage points, within the Susquehanna Poll’s 4.9-point margin of error. The poll of 400 likely voters was conducted for the Tribune-Review on Tuesday, amid [...]

Joe Klein gets the interview… [BO] Well, during the course of this campaign probably our response to those Reverend Wright videos had to be a spot decision, because frankly it was unanticipated and I hadn’t seen those incendiary videos before. The decision to make it big as opposed to make it small. [Q] To make [...]

This came after the Meet The Press endorsement… Looks like Ayers and the Muslim attacks really hurt McCain. What’s more, Powell seems to be really staying on top of the race, as he mentioned that congresswoman from Minnesota and her insipid “anti-American” comments. That was a very small news item, but we talked about it [...]

“There’s no question Western Pennsylvania is a racist area.” – John Murtha talking taking to Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Broad charges of racism are dumb, lazy and don’t give credit to those who fight against areas where it does exists. Murtha has subsequently apologized, but this is one Dem politician I’d love to see put out to [...]

I don’t know if you could point to another Republican who has been as sympathetic to the ideas of immigration reform. And yet McCain is floundering when it comes to this group. From Politico… Polls show Obama winning the broadest support from Latino voters of any Democrat in a decade, while McCain is struggling to [...]

You know the presidential campaign has taken a turn against John McCain when everyone stops talking about how close the elections will be and starts talking about Barack Obama’s big lead and the potential for a rout. So, should Obama supporters start ordering the cake and balloons for their November election-night parties? Maybe not yet. [...]

Looks like the numbers may not accurately reflect actual voter preference since they were drawn from a group already skeptical about Obama. From Politico: The AP study also seems to have been conducted among a population of Democrats more skeptical of Obama than normal. While both the ABC News/Washington Post polls and the massive weekly [...]

Here’s an interesting poll. A new AP-Yahoo News poll has found that as many as one third of white Democrats have negative views towards blacks. Words used to describe blacks by these whites included “lazy” and “violent.” White Republicans are even more likely to hold negative racial views, but the poll was less interested in [...]

45 years ago… How’s the dream holding up today?

Not only has McCain’s latest celebrity attack ad gotten goofier, it’s also starting to reveal the particularly distasteful “white women like the black guy” tactic that Republicans have used in the past to scare voters away from African American candidates. First, let me once again point out that McCain is just plain lying that Obama [...]

I’m losing hope that this campaign will be any less petty and deceit-filled than any other in recent history. Take this story: Yesterday, Barack Obama was stumping in Missouri and said: “Nobody thinks that Bush and McCain have a real answer to the challenges we face. So what they’re going to try to do is [...]

This is the type of stuff that makes me want to throw things… Warren Ballentine, one of black talk radio’s new stars, was on a tear against Senator John McCain as he broadcast from the Greenbriar Mall here last week, blithely dismissing Mr. McCain’s kind words about Senator Barack Obama at the recent N.A.A.C.P. national [...]

I literally could not believe it when I read it (the article is from February), but here we go…because Obama came from a white mother and a highly educated black father…it follows that he’s more predisposed to be a Communist. I know, it sounds like the stuff of fiction, but take a read from Lisa [...]

What was this man thinking? Jesse Jackson has been on literally thousands of television programs and he’s well aware that mics are always on. And yet…he said this: “See, Barack been, um…talking down to black people on this faith based…I wanna cut his nuts off. Barack, he’s talking down to black people.” But to be [...]

Not that this is any big surprise, but many claimed he would have problems with this voting bloc after the primaries. Gallup’s numbers prove otherwise… As Gallup points out, these numbers are bigger than Kerry’s, but not as big as Gore’s, although this may just a shift from Democrats general over the past 8 years [...]

In a long interview with the Rocky Mountain News, Ralph Nader accused Barack Obama of downplaying issues of poverty, “talking white” to win votes and appealing to “white guilt.” Now, I’m not going to write the usual “oh my God, he’s so racist!” post because in no way is Nader implying Obama is inferior because [...]

Words are slippery little things. Meanings can shift with the slightest alteration in modifier or tense or conjunction. Even writers who labor over every word choice can oftentimes compose sentences or whole paragraphs that end up far too open for interpretation. The spontaneity of the spoken word can create even greater confusion. Take Don Imus’ [...]