Throughout the day, Jason Cherkis and I will bring you moving pictures from political hotspots in D.C. and Virginia. Look out for candidate interviews, voter testimonials, and copious b-roll of long, snaking lines at the polls.
Our first vid comes from Iglesia Festival (polling station for precinct 35), where we spoke with Alice Bell.
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...The Corner's John Derbyshire:
Now here's a subversive little thought about that Khalidi tape that the Los Angeles Times is guarding like a cargo of plutonium.
A funny-'cause-it's-true riff from the Lakeview Terrace star about how Barack Obama needs to keep his cool no matter how apoplectic John McCain acts.
Funny, that is, until the very end, when Jackson straight-talks about "the elephant in the room."
"That's what we fear most as black people who want him to...be elected: Win, and somebody's [...]
At the close of her interview with Joe Biden on Wednesday, Diane Sawyer re-aired a clip from the SNL veep debate. The footage, in which Jason Sudeikis plays Biden, left the candidate in stitches. Viz.:
This, to me, is an awkward exchange. First, politicians need to stop making jokes about hair-plugs, even if [...]
8:50 PM ... Alright, bitches: It's on. We'll be live-blogging the Joe Six Pack event of the presidential debate season—the town hall—for the next hour and a half. Thanks for tuning in.
8:57 PM ... Booooring
8:59 PM ... These are the country's undecided voters: Judge them.
9:00 PM ... Oh, you unconstrained home viewers. Brokaw smirks for [...]
Yet another story detailing Bill Clinton's preference for talking up John McCain over campaigning for Barack Obama:
Former President Bill Clinton was hesitant to characterize Barack Obama as a "great man" Sunday, a phrase he had no qualms using last week to describe Obama's rival John McCain.
Clinton told NBC's Tom Brokaw that it was only earlier [...]
According to Radley Balko, the McCain camp aired the above ad an hour or so before McCain told the press that he would be participating in tonight's debate, which leads one to believe that the McCain team knew there was a chance that his "Campaign to Suspend My Campaign" campaign wasn't going to work.
What a [...]
Last week, I reported on Obama's radiant, mesmerizing, slightly spittled High Definition look as he accepted the Democratic nomination for president. In the post, I reasoned that if even the 47-year-old NILF came off as less-than-perfect in HD, the 72-year-old McCain had an even tougher beauty contest in front of him. (Earlier, Slate's Timothy Noah [...]
Last night, I watched Barack Obama's acceptance speech on a neighbor's high-falutin' High Definition television. The up-close-and-personal HD technology appears to benefit no face on TV—silver fox Anderson Cooper could stand to lay off the foundation; silver Wolf Blitzer's glinty eyes make him look perpetually high. Barack Obama, however, looks somehow even more fantastic; one [...]
