With no further comment, I post: UPDATE: Actually, I lied. I do have a comment: “Hey Factcheck.org people, I dare ya.” UPDATE 2: “Due to the extraordinary number of inquiries,” the McCain campaign responds: “It sounds like Paris Hilton supports John McCain’s ‘all of the above’ approach to America’s energy crisis – including both alternatives [...]
It’s Michael that usually handles the conveying the gist of the enormous amounts of email people on the campaigns’ press lists get every day. But cleaning out my in box this morning, I was struck by the almost absurdist quality the missives can take on, especially when viewed en masse: ICYMI, “Fact check: Broken,” and [...]
Friend of Swampland, or at least friend of Swampland commenters and my husband, Tom Frank will be reading from his brand-new book, The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule, tonight at Politics and Prose, here in Washington. I can promise from previous experience that he is an extremely entertaining performer, a kind of natural-born monologist and [...]
Her first two appearances will be in swing states that she won during the primary season.*: Chicago, IL—The Obama campaign today announced that Senator Hillary Clinton will campaign for Senator Obama in Nevada and Florida later this month. Senator Clinton will host Campaign for Change rallies and voter registration events in Las Vegas, Nevada on [...]
The Commission on Presidential Debates has just announced the lineup of moderators for the three presidential debates and the vice presidential one: First presidential debate Friday, September 26 The University of Mississippi, Oxford, Miss. Jim Lehrer Executive Editor and Anchor, The NewsHour, PBS Vice presidential debate Thursday, October 2 Washington University in St. Louis, Mo. [...]
McCain’s Sturgis trip was supposed to be colorful. I think it was. Your pool was kept company by a crew of bikers on a balcony above the temporary stores, shouting a host of things (some nice, some not). They threw a few strands of beads our way, encouraging the reporters to perform activity a lá [...]
The debate continues. Terry Neal, who was at the Washington Post when the two of us covered the 2000 campaign, has an interesting piece over at TheRoot.com accusing McCain and the Republicans of exploiting resentment of “uppity” African-Americans. Note: Before you assume you’ve heard this argument already, you should know that Neal declares unequivocally that [...]
