Will Bayh Bring Bad Design?

To the otherwise impeccably designed Obama campaign? Seems hard to believe.

Re: Does This Mean Anything?

The answer to Karen’s question is probably, No. Then again, as long as we’re waiting for the actual answer, couldn’t the fact that obamanelson.com takes you to the Obama campaign website mean that Obama is going to pick Ben Nelson, not Bill? After all, someone wrote this last paragraph on the Nebraska Democrat’s wikipedia page: [...]

Does This Mean Anything?

Someone* who thinks it could be Florida Senator Bill Nelson notes that if you try www.obamanelson.com, it takes you to the Obama campaign website. Not true for obamabiden or obamabayh. I also tried obamasebelius and obamareed. *H/T: Michael Cialdella, former Bob Dole campaign staffer, as relayed to our Kristina Dell UPDATE: Commenter Superterrificdelegate has figured [...]

Barack Obama: How He Did It

TIME.com’s amazing photo editor Mark Rykoff has put together a lovely photo essay of the spectacularly talented Callie Shell’s behind-the-scenes view of the Obama campaign. (You might like it even better if that annoying woman weren’t talking over it.) CLICK PHOTO TO WATCH SLIDESHOW:

McCain, From the Vault

TNR’s Noam Scheiber, author of a new, exhaustive piece on McCain’s courtship with his current wife, uncovers this campaign ad from McCain’s first congressional campaign. The ad was shot in 1982, when McCain was about 46 years old, which is roughly the same age Barack Obama is today. Like a high school English teacher, I [...]

Dark Horses

Chicago, Illinois Reading the tea leaves on Obama’s stops en route to Denver (Eau Claire, Wisconsin; Davenport, Iowa; Kansas City, Missouri; Billings, Montana) yields a couple of Dark Horses candidates: Dick Gephardt* of Missouri and my favorite, Brian Schweitzer of Montana. Their families have already met, remember that photogenic July 4 parade? He’s an incredibly [...]

In the Arena

Today in Iraq: Uh-Oh

The Maliki government, which may be well on its way to becoming not-so-democratic, is making a move against the leadership of the Sunni Awakening Councils. The decision of these Sunni to switch sides, to jojn us, to accept U.S. funding, was at the heart of the “success” of the surge. But now you have Iraqi [...]