Luke Russert’s objectivity hardly that of his dad’s

Tim Russert, God rest his soul, was perhaps the most objective TV news man in American history. His son, Luke, who is reporting from the convention for MSNBC/NBC News, is hardly as objective. The CNN cameras caught a glimpse of Luke Russert clapping wildly when Sen. Robert Casey, D-Pa., got the crowd pumped up tonight with a “Four [...]

Kennedy almost missed speech Monday night

U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., nearly couldn’t make it to the stage to deliver his dramatic speech last night, The Boston Globe is reporting. Click here for more details.

MSNBC offers gavel-to-gavel Web coverage of DNC

MSNBC is offering gavel-to-gavel coverage, on the Web, of the Democratic National Convention. Click here to get to the video player [the only bad feature of our new WordPress blog is that we cannot, as yet, embed videos in posts that aren't Youtube or Google].

Black AIDS leaders call for national AIDS strategy by next U.S. President

In an historically unprecedented move, more than 30 national HIV/AIDS organizations and leaders representing African-American, Latino, Native American/Alaska Native and Asian & Pacific Islander communities have joined forces in an urgent call for the development and implementation of a comprehensive national AIDS strategy.
The demands to the Democratic and Republican presidential nominees come in response to long-standing [...]

Let the fun begin at the convention

The next two weeks are all about why so many people love talking and taking part in politics.
And in just a few hours, the Democrats will kick things off with the start of their convention in Denver. And could the conventions ever be more important than they are this year?
Both Sens. John McCain and Barack [...]

Video: Obama ‘introduces’ Biden

I just got the e-mail from Obama: It’s Biden!

Big news, folks: Obama made his VP selection! I have the name! [Of course, this might have meant something if the text and e-mail came to my inboxes in a timely manner]!

If I had relied on the e-mail from Barack Obama to learn who his new vice-presidential running mate was to be, I would [...]

It’s Biden—finally

Barack Obama has chosen Delaware Sen. Joe Biden to be his running mate. Click here for full coverage from CBS News.

Quirky rules about the Presidential Election might surprise you—in fact, they will surprise you

There are some really quirky laws governing a Presidential Election. For instance, did you know that if a president-elect dies before he’s sworn in, but after Congress certifies an election that the vice president-elect would become the president? Or, did you know if a Puerto Rican person lives on the mainland [or Hawaii or Alaska], [...]

Still no word from Obama on Veep selection

We were supposed to hear who Barack Obama picked to be his vice-presidential candidate. Yet there’s still no word yet—and it’s after 5 p.m. Friday. Stay tuned. In the interim, here’s a good video on the election from CBS News. [Oh, and one final thing ... since we'll be writing a lot about Obama and [...]