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Lately I’ve been thinking about Obama’s Philadelphia speech. In that speech, he got me to think about the color of my skin in ways I never had before.
It afforded me a new paradigm, a new way of thinking about my place in society. It also gave me the best insight into his problem solving skills. [...]

According to a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll, more than “one-third of voters said the 2008 presidential election has made them ‘more proud’ to be an American.
Former Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton may also have a hand in that sentiment.
Some 40% of women over 50 years old, a core Clinton constituency in the primary, said [...]

With Election Day upon us, it seems like there couldn’t possibly be a fresh argument to make for either candidate. But I think I have one.

The policy differences between Barack Obama and John McCain are clear and stark. It seems to me that, at this point, if a voter is choosing based on issues, it’s [...]

1. George W. Bush
2. The Iraq war
3. The economic implosion this fall.
4. Without the national security card McCain couldn’t win.
5. Hillary Clinton made Barack Obama a better candidate than he ever would have been on his own.
6. McCain picked Sarah Palin without vetting her, and believed she was interchangeable with Hillary Clinton.
7. McCain and his [...]

Barack Obama radiated confidence and John McCain displayed the grit of an underdog Monday as the presidential rivals reached for the finish line of a two-year marathon with a burst of campaigning across battlegrounds from the Atlantic Coast to Arizona.
“We are one day away from change in America,” said Obama, a Democrat seeking to become [...]

With iconoclast Ron Paul having ended his quixotic bid for the Republican presidential nomination – his platform had called for, among other things, ending the Iraq War, repealing the PATRIOT Act, returning to the gold standard and eliminating taxes on tips – his many dedicated supporters are up for grabs.
Even excluding his support in caucus [...]

Until 2000, it hadn’t happened in more than 100 years, but plugged-in observers from both parties see a distinct possibility of Barack Obama winning the popular vote but losing the Electoral College — and with it the presidency — to John McCain.
Here’s the scenario: Obama racks up huge margins among the increasingly affluent, highly educated [...]

Hillary is the only First Lady ever to run for president. And we have her to thank—as well as Obama—for the renewed energy American voters have for politics.
We also have Hillary to thank for putting issues of gender and power back into American politics.
As an intelligent and formidable opponent to Obama, Hillary brought the debate [...]