They're missing the story again.

Remember when Hillary was a lock to win the Democratic nomination? And so was Romney? And watch out for Fred Thompson?

Obama winning? Not a chance.

Conventional media wisdom has been wrong much much more than it has been right.

So when 14 million people...

Republican leaders, from President Bush and John McCain on down, have fallen all over themselves to hail Barack Obama's election as the first African-American president. In McCain's concession speech, where he had to briefly calm down the mob he and Palin had stoked during the campaign with their...

Why anybody would second-guess President-Elect Barack Obama (It's still thrilling to type that) is beyond me.

Has he not done everything right? Who knows better than him and his people about what to do next? When people were screaming for him to attack, attack attack, he played rope-a-dope, stayed on...

How many I'll-never-forget-where-I-was-when's are happy memories? Think about it. From 9-11 on back to Pearl Harbor, since we've had instant mass communication, none of those moments are happy.

Last night was happy, and we'll never forget it.

We had some friends and family over last night. From 11 p.m., when...

Are you finding it hard to focus? When you think about the possibility of McCain winning next week do you feel lost and bewildered at what that would mean to your life? Do you feel like your head is about to explode?

Me too.

Are you hysterically ambivalent? Do you...

Seems that way. The Republicans appear to be following a script written by people who want to see them not only lose, but lose big and be humiliated and reviled at the same time.

What other explanation could there by for the sociopathic insanity of their campaign. One of these...

John McCain may have finally re-discovered a sliver of his humanity. It's too late, of course, and his candidacy was doomed anyway because of the depression of 2008 but for a brief moment the old bird looked like normal a human being.

He has looked off his rocker, to put...

While Democrats, most progressive bloggers and Obama supporters stand by idly, the GOP is once again ramping up the primary engine of the Department of Justice scandal -- bogus claims of voter fraud designed to disenfranchise thousands, if not millions, of low-income and minority voters. Once again,...

I was on FoxNews Radio today as part of "Battle of the Blogtalkers." Here's what I said that I hope made the right wingers spit-take their coffee:

I was given a topic to talk about but I feel don't have to stick to that topic. I just want to talk...

With the race tightening and an economic crisis looming, most political operatives are expecting that John McCain will double-down on his negative campaigning against Obama, with the last few weeks turning into a descent into nearly-unprecedented smear campaigning at a presidential level. As The Atlantic's Marc Ambinder points out...

Last night's debates have been judged a tie by some analysts, but given the economic free-fall due to Republican greed and deregulation favored by McCain, there was a lot more that Obama could have said about McCain's reckless, irresponsible response to the latest economic crisis.

Even though Obama

If anyone doubted that John McCain will do anything to get elected -- including picking an inept fundamentalist to be his Veep because it could energize Republicans-- his sabotaging of the bailout talks by political grandstanding should settle the question. He inflamed the revolt of the hard-right House...

As the race tightens, despite the economy's free-fall, Democrats and progressives are looking to Obama's "ground game" to be the under-the-radar factor that leads to his victory.
As political analyst Ian Fried points out:

The Obama campaign is not merely putting paid staff on the...

We all know that Cindy McCain owns the beer distributorship that has made her a multi-millionaire, or rather that made her father a multi-millionaire. But do you know the sordid backstory of her father, James Hensley, and the scandals surrounding him?

Including the 1976 murder of reporter Don Bolles?

As laughably ludicrous as the concept of Republicans changing things in Washington after being in power for eight years may be to you and me, I'd like to hear one reporter ask any Republican -- McCain, Palin, Davis, Rove, etc. -- two questions.

Who will you fire? Who will you...

Alaskan author Charles Wohlforth who wrote a piece in The New Republic
about how he and his wife broke into laughter when he heard that Sarah Palin was McCain's choice said today, "I was writing a travel book and I told my readers, 'avoid Wasilla. It's...

Think about the things we've learned about Sarah Palin and then consider them again if her name had been Steve Palin when you heard about them.

He fishes.

He watches his son play hockey.

He got elected mayor of a small town in a remote, sparsely populated state.

He ran...

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The Republicans have been George Foreman, hitting Obama with everything they had in their evil arsenal over the past few weeks.

Obama let them punch themselves out and then tonight he hit them with a solid right and then another and then a straight left hand.

The fight isn't over,...

That's what one Hillary Clinton supporter said today. She's right. Any rational human who decides to vote for John McCain deserves John McCain, George Bush, Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, Scooter Libby, Alberto Gonzalez, Condi Rice, John Ashcroft, Ronald Reagan, big oil, polluters, homophobes, wife-beaters, racists, anti-abortionists and those who have...