Conservative blogs have been in a tizzy today about the circumstantial case made by The Jawa Report that a YouTube video attacking Sarah Palin as a secessionist could possibly be tied to the Obama campaign. Ethan Winner, a Los Angeles public relations specialist, who posted the video under the nome de plume “eswinner” has released [...]

In an interview on “CBS Evening News” tonight, Barack Obama’s running mate told Katie Couric that the campaign shouldn’t have played the Age Card. And he’s right.: CBS’ Katie Couric: “Are you disappointed with the tone of the campaign — the lipstick on the pig stuff and some of the ads? And you guys haven’t [...]

But it often isn’t. There are currently two alarming controversies regarding absentee ballots that — all blame aside — should cause us all concern. First, in Ohio, the Democratic Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner has rejected more than 1,000 absentee ballot applications that were produced by the McCain Campaign because the voters did not check [...]

• The economic crisis hurts us all. [Cute Overload] • “There are many, many places in the world not to get lost. And many people not to be when you are there. And many cunning plans to escape. In Abu Ghraib (Yes, that Abu Ghraib). An American contractor. Flagging down passing cars and asking for [...]

Ben Smith fact-checks the McCain campaign’s ridiculous conference call assault on the press. But it should be remembered that Steve Schmidt is doing this for two (nefarious) reasons: 1. he’s hoping to work the refs: if he complains enough about press bias, we mainstream sorts will cower, cringe and try to seek false equivalences between [...]

Cranking the dial around this morning, I heard someone encourage me to “vote for McCain…570.” Turns out two stations in town have changed their names in order to capitalize on interest in the election: Red Zebra flips recently acquired News/Talk WTNT-AM/Washington, DC, to Political Talk as “McCain 570 WTNT,” while sister Liberal Talk WWRC-AM becomes [...]

cgy1 comments on my last post: You do know that Sen. McCain’s female staffers in the Senate, on average, make more than his male staffers, and that McCain’s female staffers make more, on average, than Obama’s female staffers right? Just because McCain doesn’t agree with using federal law to legislate equal pay doesn’t mean he [...]

It seems to me that our elected officials would serve us better if they slowed down, held some hearings and negotiated the best possible bailout–one that recognized the best interests of taxpayers rather than simply focusing on saving the greedheads–instead of rushing off for their election year recess this Friday. I mean, c’mon guys: this [...]

Political convention holds that campaign operatives fight wars with reporters mostly in private–over tense drinks, in nasty emails, during expletive-laden phone calls, or from sneering looks on the campaign bus or plane. The McCain campaign, like other campaigns, does all that. But it has also long made public spats with networks, reporters and publications a [...]