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Palin and the activist court

Maybe the reason Sarah Palin can't name Supreme Court cases she opposes is because the bench is so reactionary.

McCain is all smiles today

Steve Schmidt and Mark Salter must have dressed down the senator after his grumpy-old-man act in Des Moines.

Corsi goes to Africa

Right-wing author heads to Kenya to investigate Obama's family and deliver $1,000 check to Obama's brother.

Palin: Master of the nonanswer

Former Alaska gubernatorial candidate Andrew Halcro pipes up with a useful Palin primer.

That's 18 in a row for Obama

The last 18 national or battleground state polls show the Democrat leading.

Obama and the Jews

He loves them, he hates them … the story keeps changing.

Millions, billions, trillions

How John McCain capitalizes on the innumeracy of American voters.

Breaking: McCain bails on Michigan

The map for McCain to make it to the White House just shrunk a bit more.

McCain, Palin differ on privacy

When Sarah Palin flubbed her answer on a question about a right to privacy, she wasn't just breaking with the conservative movement but with her running mate as well.

Team Salon live-blogging Biden-Palin debate

Stay here for play-by-play and insightful commentary from Salon bloggers Thursday night.

Is Sarah Palin just playing dumb?

A few hours before the V.P. debate, Democrats point reporters to 2006 clips showing a poised, confident Sarah Palin in previous encounters. Will she surprise the world tonight?

Why you shouldn't break out the bubbly yet

With Barack Obama's striking advance in the polls, some people are already saying John McCain has little chance for a comeback, but it's still too early to celebrate.

Biden-Palin pre-game thoughts

Some final observations before the big matchup the world will be watching.

Live-blogging the debate, Part 1

Joe Biden and Sarah Palin square off.

Live-blogging the debate, Part 2

Sarah Palin delivers the most predictable line of the night.

Live-blogging: The robot dance

Sarah Palin needs to loosen up, and fast.

Folksy Sarah

She throws those little words and phrases in there.

Live-blogging: Back to the future on Iraq

Looking for an argument about the war, Sarah Palin fell back on some old chestnuts, but they didn't serve her well.

Foreign policy shift

Palin should be shakier now but will probably just go on attack.

Iraq and Afghanistan

Biden got stuck at one point, but Palin is just too unserious.

Shout-outs and there ya go agin

She is really getting annoying and undermining her seriousness.

Biden's very sincere

Questions colleagues' judgment, not their motives.

Currently in War Room

Why 60 doesn't matter

Saxby Chambliss' victory in Georgia means the Democrats won't have their filibuster-proof majority -- but they aren't too worried about it.

Thursday, Dec 4, 2008 03:15 EST

Rendell apologizes for comments about Napolitano

The governor of Pennsylvania had been caught on a hot mic saying Janet Napolitano is a "perfect" DHS secretary because she doesn't have a family.

Thursday, Dec 4, 2008 02:40 EST

Has Obama broken his first campaign promise?

Barack Obama promised to institute a windfall profits tax on oil companies, but the policy was quietly removed from his Web site.

Thursday, Dec 4, 2008 00:55 EST

Inside the mind of Lou Dobbs

Is there anything the CNN host can't connect to his obsession with illegal immigration?

Thursday, Dec 4, 2008 00:20 EST