2006 Elections

Why Obama has to stay above 50 percent Why Obama has to stay above 50 percent

A GOP operative argues that in a race between a white and black candidate, "undecideds" vote white. Meaning, "undecideds" will break for McCain.
By Bill Greener Oct 27, 2008

  • Dixie is gone with the wind

    No economic-populism-inspired revivals are going to turn the region blue. Virginia's Jim Webb is a lonely exception.
    By Thomas Schaller August 19, 2008

  • More ways to call Hillary Clinton the C-Word

    A very special T-shirt just for country music fans.
    By Katharine Mieszkowski January 25, 2008

  • The GOP's crowded closet

    The party's culture of concealment has led to embarrassment and personal destruction. Isn't it about time for the right to cure its homophobia?
    By Joe Conason August 31, 2007

  • The legend of Rahm

    Was Rahm Emanuel the reason the Democrats took back the House in the 2006 election? A Chicago reporter makes the case.
    By Edward McClelland May 8, 2007

  • The Democratic freshmen on Iraq

    A list of how the House of Representatives' new Democrats voted on the Iraq war supplemental Thursday night.
    May 25, 2007

  • What was Charlie Crist thinking?

    Why did a Republican governor just add tens of thousands of Democrats to the voter rolls in Florida?
    By Farhad Manjoo April 6, 2007

  • Bush's long history of politicizing justice

    It's not only the U.S. attorneys who are threatened by partisan politics. Since Day One, the Bush administration has been quietly dismantling the DOJ's Civil Rights Division.
    By Alia Malek March 30, 2007

  • MoveOn moves in with Pelosi

    The netroots group's support proved crucial to passage of the Democrats' Iraq spending plan. But antiwar activists say MoveOn has been co-opted by its access to power.
    By Farhad Manjoo March 23, 2007

  • How U.S. attorneys were used to spread voter-fraud fears

    Long before it fired eight U.S. attorneys for political reasons, the Bush administration had politicized their jobs by making them push a favorite GOP talking point.
    By Mark Follman, Alex Koppelman and Jonathan Vanian March 21, 2007

  • What Hillary won't say about Iraq

    As transcripts show, Sen. Clinton's views on the war have slowly changed since 2002, but she still can't say her own vote to authorize force was a mistake.
    By Tim Grieve February 14, 2007

  • For McAuliffe and Schumer, it's all about the money

    Two new books by prominent Democrats are a reminder that the would-be party of the middle class runs on money from the rich.
    By Walter Shapiro February 13, 2007

  • How to speak Republican

    Conservative word doctor Frank Luntz explains what Bush should say about the war, why Nancy Pelosi should keep quiet, and what the GOP can learn from Barack Obama.
    By Katharine Mieszkowski January 23, 2007

  • State of indifference

    Unlike past presidents dealing with the consequences of war, Bush has walled himself off from the public and the Congress it elected.
    By Sidney Blumenthal January 23, 2007

  • DLC to Ford: Don't drop dead

    Tom Schaller's Salon piece attacking the DLC and Harold Ford reveals that he understands neither the organization nor its chairman-to-be.
    By Ed Kilgore January 22, 2007

  • The GOP hides from Iraq

    At the party's winter meeting Tony Snow reassured worried Republicans that the president is not in the fetal position. But pep talks couldn't chase the fear that an unpopular war could doom the party in '08.
    By Michael Scherer January 21, 2007

  • Enough with the new bipartisanship

    Barack Obama may "hunger for a different kind of politics," but it won't happen without a reorientation toward a more progressive center.
    By Joe Conason January 19, 2007

  • The party's over

    It's time for Democrats to step up and do what they were elected to do: Oppose this president's disastrous war with a smart and courageous strategy.
    By Joan Walsh January 5, 2007

  • The Dems come marching in

    Checks and balances return to Washington, but will the new Democratic majority be able to do anything to end the war in Iraq?
    By Walter Shapiro January 4, 2007

  • Salon Person of the Year: S.R. Sidarth

    The Virginia native and son of Indian immigrants changed history with a camcorder and introduced Sen. George Allen -- and the rest of us -- to the real America.
    By Michael Scherer December 16, 2006

  • George Allen, past and future

    On his way out of the Senate, Sen. Macaca says he could have run a better race.
    By Tim Grieve December 8, 2006

  • The Democrats' war on families?

    Republican representative says marriages will suffer if members of Congress have to work five days a week
    By Tim Grieve December 6, 2006

  • Generation Dem

    Beyond the failure of Karl Rove, the momentous 2006 elections signaled the emergence of a younger, bluer America that could reshape politics for years to come.
    By Sidney Blumenthal November 30, 2006

  • There is a gay agenda -- winning elections

    Gay millionaires and their allies poured unprecedented sums into the 2006 election -- and it worked.
    By Kerry Eleveld November 29, 2006

  • The words they said

    Gingrich on speech, Tancredo on Miami, Dole on debt.
    By Tim Grieve November 28, 2006
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