by Denis Campbell
I promised to write again only when I was sure I could do so without spontaneously bursting into tears over the enormity of this result and… had something meaningful to say. Since the first part of that promise is not likely for some time and the news cycle rolls along without us, here [...]

After a most amazing 22-month campaign, the 47-year old African American Junior Senator from Illinois, Barack H. Obama was elected 44th President of the United States by what will eventually be a landslide number of electoral and popular votes.
Shortly after 4:00 GMT, the states of California, Oregon, Washington and Hawaii pushed him over the magic [...]

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11:00 Barack Obama is President Elect of the United States
California, Washington, Oregon and Hawaii. 
10:59 Here we [...]

(Having twice worked on or near K Street, it could not happen to a nicer bunch of people. -Ed.)
By: Jeanne Cummings, Politico Magazine
Congressional Republicans aren’t the only ones bracing for big Election Night losses. Their partisan brethren in the business trade associations and corporate offices are, too. 
Almost all of those high-paying jobs are held by [...]

 

by Andrew Sullivan, Editor, The Atlantic
On a spectacular September morning more than seven years ago, our world changed. I remain one of those who believe that that day remains indelible, and its lesson unforgettable. The civilized democratic world came under attack from a small but lethal band of religious fanatics bent on destroying free societies, [...]

by David Iglesias

Publisher’s synopsis – “The Bush administration’s drive to politicize the Justice Department reached a new low with the wrongful firing of seven U.S. Attorneys in late 2006. Their action has ignited public outrage on a scale that far surpassed the reaction to any of the Bush administration’s other political debacles. David Iglesias was [...]

 

by Sean Quinn, correspondent for fivethirtyeight.com.
“I slept and woke to the crazy exultant sounds of music and Dean and Marylou talking and the great green land rolling by. ‘Where are we?’ ‘Just passed the tip of Florida, man. Florida!”  
– Jack Kerouac, “On the Road” 
In Florida, the vote needs to be protected. Barack Obama supporter [...]

 

by Denis Campbell
Would anyone vote for him with his character and history if he’d been black? To be black in politics, means to be perfect in every way, every moment of every day. He would have had to set and live his life to an impossible standard of perfection ‘off’ his field of play that [...]

What UK Political Parties and Businesses Must Learn Before 2010 
by Denis Campbell
If you think this campaign was about tons of money for slick television adverts you’re wrong. The money helped Obama take his message into additional ‘red’ states, but this election was about getting to know the voter (the customer if you will) and giving [...]

Republican Convention McCain Delegate Declares for Obama!
Fred Bramante, a member of McCain’s New Hampshire Leadership Committee and a 2008 Alternate Delegate to the Republican National Convention today announced his support for Senator Obama’s Campaign for Change.
Bramante, a Co-Chair of Gov. Mike Huckabee’s presidential campaign and former Republican gubernatorial candidate, is a past Chairman and current [...]