The Campaign Finance Institute (CFI) study disclosing that Barack Obama actually raised most of his campaign money from "larger" not "small" donors has gained wide, approving, coverage in recent days, from USA Today to the New York Times and Los Angeles Times and countless web sites, even making Huffington...

For this holiday, Barack Obama should offer a special toast of Thanksgiving to Stephen Colbert for making his election possible. After all, Obama did not start surging, exactly one year ago, until Colbert suddenly pulled out of the race for the White House -- or was booted out.

Let's take...

Out of the frying pan into the fire? In his race for the White House, Barack Obama called long and often for sending many more troops to Afghanistan (even before we withdraw quite a few from Iraq). It was a required thing to say on the campaign trail to show...

Battle fatalities are way down in Iraq, thank goodness (though not in Afghanistan), but many U.S. troops are still passing away in "noncombat" ways, via accidents, friendly fire, suicides and so on. And in those cases, parents or spouses, and the media, are still often misled or lied to for...

Over at my magazine's site, starting over a week ago, we have been chronicling local anti-Obama incidents, many far from the national spotlight, usually involving racist attacks of a verbal, physical or even criminal nature. A few days ago, the Associated Press and some other news outlets picked up...

Since election day, the number of threats against the president-elect, and racial or violent incidents directed at his supporters, have soared. The Secret Service is concerned, calling it the highest number of threats against a President-elect in memory, but the national media until this weekend have largely ignored the disturbing...

This past Sunday, with the race for the White House finally over, Deborah Howell, the Washington Post ombudsman, examined the results of her paper's study of the fairness of its own election coverage in the past year. Soon articles, or links, relating to her piece were carrying headlines suggesting...

Kathleen Parker, the conservative syndicated columnist (in the Washington Post and many other papers) and frequent TV guest, earned plaudits from liberals during the fall campaign by bravely speaking out against the Palin pick (even urging her withdrawal), which drew the wrath of many of her fans. Then, in a...

Just for fun, one year ago this week, my magazine Editor & Publisher, as part of a cover package looking ahead to the 2008 campaign -- and predicting the historic influence of the Web -- we decided to have some fun and ask top campaign bloggers at the leading newspapers...

Maybe they should change the name of the show to Mourning Joe. While Joe the Fumbler has tried to jump on the Obama bandwagon, my search of the MSNBC site discovers a particularly acid attack on Obama by Scarborough from December 22, 2006.

Say it ain't so, Joe! Here...

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Everyone's making predictions on Tuesday's election with, as usual, the key "swing" or "battleground" or "tossup" states getting the most attention. Experts, or just plain gasbags, can juggle all sorts of information, from reports on the ground to one of seemingly 500 polls. But at my magazine, Editor & Publisher,...

It's always been one of my favorite mid-period Dylan songs (from Blood on the Tracks, for you youngsters), so it was good to see it getting thrust into the final days of the election campaign. I speak of "Idiot Wind' from the mid-1970s. It opens, "Someone's got it in for...

Forgive me, but when pundits label this year's presidential campaign "divisive" and "dirty," I have to laugh. After writing books about the 1950 contest for the U.S. Senate between Richard Nixon and Helen Gahagan Douglas and, especially, Upton Sinclair's race for governor of California in 1934, not much could happen...

Alaska's biggest paper, The Anchorage Daily News, today endorsed Barack Obama for president, despite -- or at least partly because of -- its state governor's presence on the opposing ticket. But it was just one of many joining in the Obama landslide of endorsements this weekend. It's now a rout,...

It had drawn wide local and national -- even political attention, with the McCain and Obama campaigns weighing in -- but now the Ashley Todd story has fallen apart. Police in Pittsburgh have now declared the tale a hoax and the woman, who has confessed, now faces charges for her...

Barack Obama's smashing lead over John McCain in newspaper endorsements could prove significant - especially since the deluge began four days ago, just as Obama began to sink in most polls.

By our count over at Editor & Publisher he leads by a better than 3 to 1...

Four and out? A sweep for the Democrats? I expected to sit down tonight and write the same script from the past three encounters: Obama or Biden easily win on points and demeanor, pundits call it a draw anyway, polls mock the pundits by showing an easy win for the...

More than eight days (update: now ten, since I wrote this) have now passed since New York Times columnist David Brooks admitted at a Manhattan forum, captured on video by Huff Post's Rachel Sklar, that Sarah Palin was not qualified for higher office -- "not even close" -- and is...

NOTE: I updated this today, Oct. 14, here.

A week ago there was a lot of chatter about whether Sarah Palin should step aside as John McCain's running mate. It's a little late for that, but now I wonder if the conservative who should stand down for...