Salon interviewed Alexandra Pelosi, best known for her documentary “Journeys With George” (2000) and as daughter of the current Speaker of the House. In her new documentary Pelosi attends McCain-Palin rallies and interviews rank-and-file Republicans about their fears. One thing I have always liked about Pelosi is that she treats people like humans first, not [...]

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Above is a sample of sketches I have done recently on the election and posted to a special Election 2008 Sketchbook Page. I am too freaked out right now about all the things that could go wrong today, so I can’t really think straight. So in lieu of an actual political cartoon, please enjoy these [...]

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Mike Madden on candidate “flip-flops”, campaign strategy, and the voters’ moods: What this discounts, though, is how American voters may really feel about each candidate’s evolving campaign in 2008. They probably don’t want to see their candidate abandoning campaign promises once they take office — but after seven long years of a Bush administration that [...]

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Bob Dylan doesn’t need a weather man to know which way the wind blows: “America is in a state of upheaval,” Dylan told The Times. “We’ve got this guy out there now who is redefining the nature of politics from the ground up.” The 66-year-old went on: “I’m hopeful that things might change. Some things [...]

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From the Gaurdian’s Hillary Clinton campaign retrospective photogallery. Suzanne Goldenberg also writes not the first and certainly not the last autopsy of Clinton’s candidacy. Also, Goldenberg and Ewen MacAskill join most of the American media to declare Obama the Democratic winner. But I am not so sure. Clinton still claims a popular vote majority – [...]

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Man, if I were Hillary Clinton – currently riding high on a 10 point margin of victory in Pennsylvania – I would find a way to remove the tongue from my husband’s mouth. Because I (Hillary Clinton, that is) can’t really enjoy my hard-won win without Mr. Megaphone saying dumb crap like, say, accusing black [...]

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