Big news events like the Olympics and the Democratic National Convention usually spark new media technologies and breakthroughs.
Here’s one, pointed out to us by Lost Remote. Washington Post reporter Ed O’Keefe recorded the clip above using his cellphone and streamed it live onto WashintonPost.com.
"This is one of the first times Read More
What happens when thousands of politics wonks descend on one poor, defenseless mile-high city for a few days? Why, lots of Craigslist posts offering or soliciting politically minded sex, of course.
Take this 39-year-old man, who is offering a "free spa quality sensual massage for Obama supporters!" He adds: "Would love to meet Read More
The Culture Czar has always had a soft spot for Gilmore Girls, the beloved mother-daughter dramedy that thrived on the WB channel for six seasons. In 2006, before the seventh season, the show’s new studio and its creators, Amy Sherman-Palladino and her writer-producer husband Daniel Palladino, couldn’t come to agreements on a new contract, and Read More
You don’t have to believe that the weekly column is an obsolete form to feel the digital imperative—especially if, like me, you used to blog every day as I did five years ago for Salon.com, my other home.
So now I’m on the blog again, live from the Democratic National Convention, and Read More
Florida will not hold a do-over primary and, while the public haggling between campaigns will continue for weeks and maybe months, this final compromise is looking increasing likely: A delegation based on the results of January’s "outlaw" primary will be seated at the convention, but with each delegate only receiving a half-vote.
What Read More
The Super Tuesday stalemate has only reinforced comparisons between the Hillary Clinton-Barack Obama contest and the fight for the Democratic nomination 1984, another one-on-one race that pitted an insurgent against the party establishment — and one that wasn’t settled until the party’s July convention in San Francisco.
In that ‘84 campaign, the Obama role was Read More
In an interview taped yesterday for Inside City Hall, Howard Dean expressed opposition to a brokered convention if the Democratic primary contests fail to produce a candidate with enough delegates to win the nomination.
Dean said he thinks there will be a nominee by March or April, and if not, "we’re going to have Read More
John Edwards is suspending his candidacy, as opposed to officially dropping out, because it will allow him to hold onto the 26 pledged delegates he has accumulated—plus any other he might pick up with his name still on the ballot across the country.
This is probably a meaningless distinction, but in the event that Read More
In theory, the idea of John Edwards as the kingmaker of the Democratic convention makes sense: Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama finish the primary season essentially tied for delegates, with Edwards running far back with 400 or so of his own. Then, with both front-runners short of the 2,026 delegates needed to win the Read More
Today is the deadline for Democratic presidential candidates to file with the state Board of Elections to get on the New York ballot, and Barack Obama’s campaign just announced that he has qualified for a full slate of delegates.
Here’s the slate, and the lists of delegates for Obama and Edwards.
If you Read More
