Michael Sean Winters

nbsp In the heat of an election with its emphasis on tactical maneuvers advertising buys and ground operations it is difficult to detect the broad stroke of history as she marches on Yet march she does and in the past two weeks the economic crisis has resulted in unimaginable levels of govern

One of the problems for John McCain is hellip baseball In the past two weeks the economic crisis has moved undecided voters towards Barack Obama McCain has one month to pull those voters back to undecided and then win them over It is a tall order under any circumstance But it is especially dif

The vice-presidential debate was not quite as exciting as it billing Overall both candidates did what they had to do their performances confirmed what we knew about them and the lack of any major blunders means the night will pass quickly from public consciousness The expectations of high drama

Over at America a special Election Blog we are pleased to welcome John O Callaghan to our pages John is a professor of philosophy at Notre Dame Universaity and his first post can be read by clicking here Welcome John

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Memo to Obama Campaign Order 100 000 copies of Doug Kmiec rsquo s new book Can A Catholic Support Him and distribute them to the parish council members of every Catholic church in Scranton Pennsylvania and Denver Colorado and St Louis Missouri Those who have been following this blog will kn

Barack Obama took the lead in the presidential race yesterday No not the polls although he has certainly taken the lead there Voting began for real yesterday as new state laws that allow early voting and campaigns seek to take advantage In Columbus Ohio in 2004 voters waited in long lines to

Bipartisanship has become a mantra in Washington as the nation faces an unprecedented economic crisis And after 20 years of slash-and-burn partisanship there is something to be said for bipartisanship But yesterday the blame for Congress rsquo s failure to structure a bailout rests partly with

In 1936 near the end of the election campaign a Roman Catholic priest gave a nationwide radio address endorsing Franklin Delano Roosevelt for re-election In this critical hour I urge you to use every effort at your command among your relatives friends and acquaintances in support of Franklin D

Multiple verdicts emerged from last night rsquo s first presidential debate depending on what question or questions a given voter had Overall the cumulative answers to those questions probably made the debate a draw which is a political win for Obama The most important question for Obama to answ