www.ft.com:
Forthcoming US elections, including two governorships, one House seat and a handful of mayoralties and referendums, will be scrutinised for what they imply for mid-term congressional elections a year from now. (Read More)
The Guardian:
In-fighting and back-stabbing among Republican party factions may end up gifting a safe seat to the DemocratsMajor US elections take place in years that are divisible by two, so the handful of "off-year" elections takes on gr (Read More)
The Guardian:
By cutting across the grain of US cable news, the sober-minded liberal pundit has become the best talkshow host in AmericaRachel Maddow first came on my radar in the spring of 2004, when she, along with Lizz Winstead and Chuc (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
Voters will be given the power to rewrite laws under Tory plans to transform the way parliament works by importing a popular scheme championed by Barack Obama in last year's US election.William Hague will tomorrow announce th (Read More)
World news: US elections 2008 | guardian.co.uk:
If rightwing operatives succeed in bringing down the community group, Democrats and minorities will have lost a valuable allyCommunism is dead. Al-Qaida isn't as scary as it used to be. But an American rightwing without a bog (Read More)
observer.guardian.co.uk:
Hillary Clinton's trouble-prone African odyssey threw up more controversy last nightHillary Clinton's trouble-prone African odyssey threw up more controversy last night when she appeared to equate US democracy with Nigeria's (Read More)
GretaWire:
Below is the pool report ....it is about Secretary Clinton in Africa:----------------Subject: Clinton VIP Pool Note #58Secretary Clinton just wrapped her townhall event and we are enroute hotel for the night. The event center (Read More)
The Guardian:
Web pioneer Marc Andreessen is leading a round of funding for US political blog network, TPM Media, which many say is a model for investigative journalism in the digital ageWeb pioneer Marc Andreessen is leading a group of an (Read More)
The Guardian:
The long-running battle for Minnesota's Senate seat is finally over. Democracy – and Al Franken – won fair and squareIn the end, the conspiracy theories became so laughable that the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee (R (Read More)
The Guardian:
David Plouffe, mastermind of Obama's 'web 2.0 campaign', downplays role of Facebook and Twitter in US election victoryDavid Plouffe, who masterminded Barack Obama's lauded web 2.0 presidential campaign, today admitted that it (Read More)
The Guardian:
The threat of eternal damnation didn't help the governor of South Carolina to keep his pants onSo. After a whirlwind few days of speculation regarding the whereabouts of Republican South Carolina governor Mark Sanford, we now (Read More)
Huffington Post:
In the lead up to the US elections less than a year ago, protesters gathered at the party conventions.The police were waiting for them at the DNC convention in Denver: (Photo by sonicquirt (Read More)
The Guardian:
Sunday and Daily Telegraph sales gain has continued over month of MPs' expenses exclusives, industry indicators suggestThe Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph newspapers have sold an additional 1m copies since they began run (Read More)
The Guardian:
Barack Obama wasn't the only winner in November's presidential election. Thomas Gensemer, whose company Blue State Digital managed Obama's slick online campaign, built his website my.barackobama.com, recruited 13.5 million su (Read More)
NPR Topics: News:
The Obama presidential campaign's list of supporters and donors — some 13 million e-mail addresses — is being transformed into a permanent grassroots organization that could give the president a powerful tool for (Read More)
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2008 was a year to remember for political junkies, so in 2009 we'll have to come down from our electoral high. At least there's an interesting race in Virginia. (Read More)
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Today the bipartisan canvassing board finished reviewing ballot challenges by both candidates and Norm Coleman's "lead" has dwindled to a mere five votes. At the same hour, the MN Supreme Court struck another blow to Coleman (Read More)