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The 2004 Electoral Vote Map 286-252 for George Bush by Denis Campbell My EU media colleagues have a hard time understanding that daily national tracking polls mean little. On November 4th, voters will enter and cast ballots in 50-statewide winner-takes-all contests.

After a nerve-rattling week in which the U.S. financial system was shaken to the core, here's a simple question: Why on Earth would anyone want to be president right now?

Josh Marshall headlines as “Sadly Nuts” a post responding to John McCain’s retort, to questions of Sarah Palin’s qualifications to serve as president, “If they want to go down that route, in all candor, she has far, far more experience than Senator Obama does.” Says Josh, Set aside the bravado.

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Now that it’s official and everything… (h/t Cesca) A historic day. LBJ’s 100th birthday, and tomorrow is the 45th anniversary of King’s “I Have A Dream” speech. Wow wow wow… Possibly related posts: (automatically generated)Season Finale: ObamanationPut away the sharp objects over at Democratic Central - Murtha just complem…Why can’t Clinton close the deal?

In honor of President Johnson’s birthday we have excerpted from The Wages of Globalism: Lyndon Johnson and the Limits of American Power by H.W. Brands. Brands is a Professor of History at Texas A&M University. In the excerpt below he looks at the origins of Johnson’s foreign policy ideals.

A Historical Perspective On Divided Democratic Conventions [ Posted Monday, August 25th, 2008 – 04:54 PDT ] Today begins the 2008 Democratic National Convention. The media (or some sections of it, I should say) have been pushing for a big rousing fight on the floor of the convention in Denver — the

Days before Dems convention, looking back at AC and Chi By Max Pizarro Category: President Tags: Robert Kennedy, Richard Hughes, Michael Murphy, Lyndon Johnson, Brian Hughes Brian M. Hughes, Mercer County executive: Politicker file photo  The Murphy-Hughes brothers’ first Democratic National Convention was the last one staged in New Jersey: 1964, Atlantic City.

But six months after Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE) ended his long-shot presidential campaign, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee appears to be in serious competition to be Barack Obama’s running mate.

The buzz this week is all about who Sen. Obama will chose as his Vice Presidential nominee. I have been talking with friends and the question keeps coming up, “How important is the pick?” The answer - it is one of those choices in life you can only “screw up”; getting it right often has little to no impact on the candidate’s chances of winning the White House.