Many factors went into making Barack Obama the man he is today. But had he come of age at any other time, the color of his skin would have dashed any of his hopes.
Ian Sherr traveled to Selma, Alabama, to revisit its civil rights legacy and to find out exactly what Barack Obama’s presidency means [...]
Election 2008
Continuing the Dream
November 24, 2008 – 8:06 am
Musgrave Has Tough Fight In CO 4
October 29, 2008 – 11:15 pm
By Nicholas Kusnetz
FORT COLLINS—Marilyn Musgrave should be a shoo-in for reelection based on the overwhelmingly Republican electorate here in Colorado’s 4th congressional district. Instead, the three-term incumbent who went to Washington pushing a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage is fighting for her political life. This staunch conservative spends her time on the stump talking [...]
Listening Posts: Debate Watching in CO 4
October 7, 2008 – 11:45 pm
Fort Collins, Colorado – All the hope and energy of Colorado’s blossoming Democratic party were on display here Tuesday night as hundreds of enthusiastic Barack Obama fans crowded into Avogadro’s patio restaurant to watch the second presidential debate, cheering their candidate and jeering his opponent, Senator John McCain.
It is this energy that Colorado Democrats up [...]
Listening Posts: Debate Watching in MN 3
September 27, 2008 – 11:33 am
MINNEAPOLIS – Republicans said John McCain nailed it. Democrats said Barack Obama was downright presidential. And the undecided voters here at the Hopkins VFW Post said nothing they heard in tonight’s much anticipated debate pulled them off the fence.
Minnesotans of all political stripes congregated at house parties, restaurants and community centers throughout suburban Minneapolis to [...]
“Do I Know You?” Characterizing the Youth Vote
March 18, 2008 – 6:31 pm
(Written for KALW radio request to speak about the youth perspective on the elections.)
I’m a hot commodity in these presidential elections. And if you’re under 30, you are too. It doesn’t matter that you’ve never picked up a newspaper and I’m a journalism student. We’re practically the same person.
That is, according to the media [...]
The other youth revolution
March 18, 2008 – 2:54 pm
So I’m told there’s a “youth revolution” happening this election. Its leaders can be found scrawling witty one-liners in chalk on steps and sidewalks of campuses nationwide, holding posterboard and chanting inspirational phrases, and, of course, glued to MTV’s Rock the Vote and Saturday Night Live in their dorm rooms. Apparently, I’m supposed [...]
The beneficiary of spectacular attacks in Iraq
March 17, 2008 – 9:39 pm
Despite the Republican presidential candidate’s assertions, in the event of a terrorist threat of attack, the only beneficiary among the three remaining candidates is John McCain alone.
On Friday, McCain said that “Al Qaeda or another extremist group might attempt spectacular attacks in Iraq to try to tilt the U.S. election against me.” This is a [...]
