Campaigns

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Multiracial man
The Obama campaign's deft use of the candidate's mixed heritage is making it harder to read his candidacy in terms of race.
Campaigning while female
After a close-up of her face appeared on the Drudge Report, Hillary Clinton was found guilty of -- horrors! -- aging.
Mitt Romney's biggest brand
The Republican contender sells himself as the ultimate presidential product. But will America embrace a bona fide corporate candidate?
Is Barack Obama an economic nationalist?
Was his campaign's attack on Hillary Clinton's ties to India a macaca moment? Or a chance to tell the world how he really feels about globalization?
Barack: Poster wars
Sen. Barack Obama searches for the perfect message.
Kerry: Pass on '08
The senator wants to work on avoiding "catastrophe."
Hillary's going exploratory
Senator makes an online announcement.
Foley's angels
How an obscure Long Island family ended up giving $156,000 in campaign contributions to the disgraced legislator and his political patron, Tom Reynolds.
Fun and games in Florida
Are voter mishaps in the Sunshine State a Republican plot, a Democratic scheme or just pure abject incompetence?
Too much ado about Iowa
In an election as close as this one, does the "smart crowd" behavior in electronic markets really mean anything?
Burqas and ballots
In one of the most male-dominated nations on earth, Afghan vice presidential candidate Shafiqa Habibi doesn't play second fiddle to anyone.
Looking for votes, finding America
Scared, angry and needing to act, I left California to volunteer for John Kerry in Pennsylvania. I changed some minds -- including my own.
In polls we trust?
Bush leads by 10 points. No, wait, Kerry's up by 5. No, Nader's on top! OK -- that's not true, but in the ever crazier world of election polls, who knows what's next?
The decay of DeLay
New and spreading scandals plague House Majority Leader Tom DeLay and his political empire.
Debate week worries
What Table Talkers are saying about fighting fair, community and how the media let them down.
The Iowa Electronic Markets are still going for Bush
Election-predicting traders are betting not just on a narrow Republican victory, but a landslide. What's behind the Bush bubble?
The stock market is voting for Kerry
When the market goes down, incumbent presidents tend to lose. It's down now, and headed further south.
How the Internet turned everyone into James Carville
Thanks to the Net, we've all got access to poll numbers, fundraising figures and endless political gossip -- and we all know exactly what the candidates need to do to win.
Kerry's Iowa problem
No bounce for the Democratic candidate in the Iowa Electronic Markets. So what do the gamblers know that the rest of the country doesn't?
What, me angry?
The right wing accuses me and my fellow Dems of being negative. Hell, we'd be smirking like W. himself if he hadn't trashed our country!
Class politics, JibJab-style
Populist rhetoric used to be the left's stock in trade. But as the whacked-out animation "This Land" proves, somewhere along the way rich vs. poor was replaced by smarts vs. substance.
Why won't DUMB work for Bush?
Dubya strategists puzzled as campaign launch fizzles.
Letters
The politics of war: Readers respond to "Missing in Action," by Tim Grieve, and "Be Very Afraid," by Mark Follman. Plus: Rice's "total inability" to accept responsibility.
The shopping of the presidency
Thanks to the media, choosing a candidate is quick, cheap 'n' easy!
Shafted
J. Steven Griles, the No. 2 man in Bush's Interior Department, has spent a lifetime undermining the federal government on behalf of Energy Inc.
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