Romney Campaign Hits The Panic Switch, And It Hits Back
And so the election season madness begins: Mitt Romney's campaign has lately been playing “Panic Switch” by Los Angeles band Silversun Pickups at various campaign stops around the country. But the band...
View ArticleOnce Rhymed About, Obama Finds Less Support from Hip Hop in 2012
Before the 2008 presidential election, hip hop stars like Nas, Young Jeezy and Sean "Diddy" Combs enthusiastically endorsed then-Senator Barack Obama through speech and song. But four years later, the...
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Obama Campaign Jumps into Fray on Auto Bailout
Seemingly enjoying the fact that neither Rick Santorum nor Mitt Romney supported the bailout of the auto industry, the Obama campaign is out with an ad rubbing it in. "When a million jobs were on the...
View ArticleCincinnati Engineer Sued for Tweet: Do You Fact Check your Tweets?
It was a case of crime and punishment in the digital age when Cincinnati-based mechanical engineer Mark Miller took to Twitter with a series of politically heated missives about a local municipal...
View ArticleWATCH | Music Videos for the 2012 Republican Presidential Candidates
A campaign season would not be complete without music. Watch official campaign and fan videos made in support of the 2012 GOP presidential candidates below.Let's start with the twangy fan video "Game...
View ArticleWATCH | Obama Campaign Releases 'Road We've Traveled' Documentary
As WNYC reported on Monday, Republicans are taking full advantage of YouTube to get the word out about their campaign messages. Now, it's the Obama re-election campaign's turn.On Thursday night, the...
View ArticleHow Obama's Campaign Video Stacks Up, Politically and Cinematically
The biographical campaign film has a long and proud place in U.S. political theater: from 1952's "The Man from Abilene," about Eisenhower, to 1992's "The Man from Hope," about Bill Clinton, these films...
View ArticlePolitical Ads on Public Broadcasting?
Public broadcasting doesn't have commercials. It has underwriting announcements — and few of them at that. But that could change, now that the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the...
View ArticleJohn Edwards Corruption Trial: Day 4 on the Stand for Former Aide Andrew Young
Today is the third day of the federal corruption trial of former Senator John Edwards, who is charged with violating campaign finance law. Edwards allegedly used money given to him by wealthy...
View ArticleCampaign Slogans from This Moment Forward
Presidential campaign slogans: we’ve come to know them, love them, loathe them, and in some cases, completely forget them. Some slogans, like Warren G. Harding’s "Cox and Cocktails,” sound perplexing...
View ArticleThe Culture Gabfest: 25 Sex Moves He Secretly Wishes You'd Try Edition
Slate critics Julia Turner, Dana Stevens and John Swansburg discuss the death of Cosmo editor Helen Gurley Brown, the new film The Campaign starring Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis, and the merits...
View ArticlePolitical Scientists Cover the Election in a New Book, Published in Real Time
When most political scientists sit down to write a book about a presidential election, they must submit their work through a vigorous vetting process, only for it to emerge months after the campaign...
View ArticleCovering the Totally Predictable Conventions
Political conventions used to be places where decisions were made and delegates truly participated. Now, they are just a series of scripted speeches covered by the media as though they are breaking...
View ArticleHave Swing State Voters Made Up Their Minds?
Over the summer, Anna Sale, politics reporter for WNYC’s interactive politics site It’s a Free Country traveled across the country speaking to swing state voters in Iowa, Colorado, Wisconsin, Florida,...
View ArticleOne Message for Voters, Another for Donors
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has come under sharp attacks from his opponents on the left after a video leaked this week in which Romney said that 47 percent of Americans "believe that...
View ArticleSlate: The Moochers, Beggars and Parasites Gabfest
Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, John Dickerson and Emily Bazelon. This week: Romney fingers freeloaders, author Sasha Issenberg explains The Victory Lab and SCOTUS officiates gay...
View ArticleSlate: The Media Is Skewing the Polls Gabfest
Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, John Dickerson and Emily Bazelon. This week: Has Romney imploded? Is the media gunning for Obama? Is the Senate up for grabs?
View ArticleSlate: The Barcalounger Gabfest
Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson and special guest Jacob Weisberg. This week: Biden/Ryan debate, Romney bounces back and SCOTUS revisits affirmative action.
View ArticleJoe Biden on the Leonard Lopate Show in 2007
Having watched Vice President Joe Biden debate Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan last night (you can hear Andy Borowitz's take on the night here), we thought we'd post the audio from Leonard's 2007...
View ArticleSlate: The Binders and Binders and Binders Gabfest
Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, John Dickerson and Emily Bazelon. This week: The Town Hall Brawl: Did Obama successfully neutralize lingering questions about Libya and did Romney lose...
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