Election 2008: General

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Commentary & News

• Karl Rove: The 2008 election numbers are not as stark as the results
  

   

• Jeff Kimball: What's Going On In Ohio?
  

   

• Robert S. McElvaine: 1920+1932 = 2008
  

   

• Manisha Sinha: Will Obama be FDR to McCain’s Hoover?
  

   

• David W. Blight: First Things
  

   

• Keith Thomson: The Most Accurate Election Forecast? Hardcore Gamblers
  

   

• Archie Bunker, Mr. Clean, and more of history's greatest fictional presidential candidates.
  

   

• Daniel Pipes: Obama's Connection to Sirhan Sirhan
  

   

• Jim Sleeper: Treat, or Trick? Elections Officials, Beware!
  

   

• Peggy Noonan: Obama and the Runaway Train
  

   

• Gil Troy: Does Our Culture Condemn Us to Endure these Nasty, Partisan campaigns?
  

   

• David Sirota: Mandate '08 ... Reagan vs. FDR
  

   

• John Robben: Election Day 1964 (Dear Diary)
  

   

• Julian Zelizer: Taking It To The People
  

   

• Frederick Kagan: Security Should be the Deciding Issue
  

   

• Mark Naison: Our Goal on Election Day ... A Mandate to Bring Relief to the Nation's Suffering
  

   

• Fouad Ajami: Obama and the Politics of Crowds
  

   

• Reading between the lines of candidates' favorite books
  

   

• McCain Hopes for A Win, Obama Aims for a Mandate
  

   

• Alonzo Hamby: What Is the Obama Doctrine?
  

   

• Joan Walsh: What Obama really said in 2001
  

   

• John McCain in the Echo Chamber
  

   

• Liberal watchdog group: Limbaugh smears Obama with misrepresentation of comments on Constitution
  

   

• Dick Morris: How McCain could pull off a Truman and win
  

   

• Carol V. Hamilton: Let's Call the Whole Thing Off!
  

   

• Gil Troy: Where in the world is Michelle Obama?
  

   

• Father's Tough Life an Inspiration for Biden
  

   

• Victor Davis Hanson: The Obama Enigma
  

   

• Gil Troy: FUNDRAISING 101: When Republicans Raise Big Bucks, They Are Being Plutocratic, when Dems Do It They Are Being Democratic
  

   

• Jeffrey Kimball: Why Are Undecided Voters Still Undecided?
  

   

• Daniel Pipes: Obama Would Fail Security Clearance
  

   

• Thomas Sowell: Believers in Barack
  

   

• Dick Morris: The Populism Divide
  

   

• Jonathan Zimmerman: McCain has a new hero: Teddy, make way for Joe
  

   

• Mark Naison: How the GOP's Racially Coded Rhetoric Hurts the Nation and May Lose the Election
  

   

• Sean Wilentz: A Tale of Two Fine Roosevelts
  

   

• Ron Radosh: The Real Threat Posed by Bill Ayers
  

   

• Jason Zengerle: How David Axelrod learned to conquer race
  

   

• Amy Sullivan: How Catholics Are Judging Obama and the Democrats
  

   

• Jonah Goldberg: The media vs. Joe the Plumber
  

   

• Jason Zengerle: How David Axelrod learned to conquer race
  

   

• Paul H. Rubin: Obama is much more dangerous to economic freedom than FDR
  

   

• Mark Naison: How the GOP's Racially Coded Rhetoric Hurts the Nation and May Lose the Election
  

   

• Deborah Lipstadt: Learning to love Obama after Clinton's defeat
  

   

• E.J. Dionne: Hoover vs. Roosevelt?
  

   

• Juan Cole: Obama a socialist?
  

   

• Carl Bernstein: Ayers and the McCain-G. Gordon Liddy Symbiosis
  

   

• Peter Lawler: 8 Elections that Shed Light on Campaign 2008
  

   

• Chalmers Johnson: Back to 1932
  

   

• Fox News: Questions Linger Over When Obama Learned of Ayers' History
  

   

• Nate Silver: Uncommitteds and Persuadables in Historical Perspective
  

   

• Ron Radosh: Does Obama embrace Bill Ayers's dangerous education ideas?
  

   

• Norman Solomon: Projecting an Obama Victory?
  

   

• Mark Naison: The McCain Palin Strategy of Character Assassination Will Not Work This Time
  

   

• Obama's foes see link to ex-radical
  

   

• KC Johnson: Evaluating the"Sleaziness" Factor
  

   

• Godfrey Hodgson: America’s election faultline
  

   

• Louis René Beres: Crowds, Conventions and the Slow Death of Individualism in America
  

   

• Gil Troy: McCain's Speech Less Flashy Than Palin's -- and Less Partisan
  

   

• McCain Claims He Knew Iraq War Would Be ‘Long And Hard And Tough,’ Contradicting Pre-War Statements
  

   

• Gil Troy: Nationalism Sometimes Wins as Self-Interest Mingles with Self-Sacrifice
  

   

• Jeffrey Wasserstrom: The Parallels Between China's Olympics and Our Political Conventions
  

   

• Deepak Tripathi: On the Race for the White House
  

   

• Barack Obama Will Win the Presidency, Political Scientists Forecast
  

   

• John Fund: Obama Should Come Clean On Ayers, Rezko And the Iraqi Billionaire
  

   

• Obama reaches next milestone on symbolic anniversary
  

   

• Witnesses to Martin Luther King's dream see a new hope
  

   

• Obama outdoor speech echoes JFK's 1960 move
  

   

• Ian Breen: Notes on Past Conventions
  

   

• Dick Morris: A strategic opening for McCain
  

   

• John B. Judis: Avoiding A Long, Disappointing Fall
  

   

• Sean Wilentz: How Bush destroyed the Republican Party
  

   

• Gil Troy: Obama ... Historical Immortality at 47
  

   

• Gil Troy: The Clinton Catharsis was a Con – and a Historical Hijacking
  

   

• Joshua Spivak: Let's stop hyping the conventions
  

   

• Michael Nelson: If Obama loses, is racism to blame?
  

   

• Decades Later, John Kennedy's New Frontier Speech Echoes
  

   

• Kennedys And Conventions: An Emotional History
  

   

• David R. Stokes: Obama’s Very Un-JFK Moment
  

   

• Victor Navasky: Making History at the Convention
  

   

• Mary L. Dudziak: Fannie Lou Hamer's convention
  

   

• Sean Wilentz: A Liberal’s Lament
  

   

• Julian Zelizer: Barack Obama Does Not Have to Be Another Jimmy Carter
  

   

• Gil Troy: DNC Day 1: Celebrating the American Dream
  

   

• David Greenberg: Why Biden's plagiarism shouldn't be forgotten
  

   

• Drew Westen: What Obama Needs to Do in Denver
  

   

• KC Johnson: Biden Historical Trivia
  

   

• R.J. Eskow: It's Dukakis all over again
  

   

• Dick Morris: Back-to-back conventions and the outcome of the election
  

   

• David R. Stokes: Acceptance Speeches Can Actually Matter
  

   

• Jane Dailey: Why didn't Obama mention MLK's visit to Berlin when he was in Berlin?
  

   

• Experience called poor predictor of presidential success (News Story)
  

   

• Julian Zelizer: Is the convention really a boost?
  

   

• Julian Zelizer: Senator Ted Stevens and John McCain's"Two-Face" Problem
  

   

• Andreas Daum: No Free Lunch: Obama and Nietzsche in Berlin
  

   

• Michael Barone: Ghosts of 1976 in Today's Campaign
  

   

• Ross Douthat: The GOP's Carter Moment
  

   

• Daniel Henninger: Will Obama Let the Sunshine In?
  

   

• Laura Miller: The works that have influenced Obama illustrate that he would be the most literary president in recent memory -- and one likely to govern from the center
  

   

• Dick Morris: Obama Fakes Right
  

   

• John Steele Gordon: 2008 ... A Watershed Election?
  

   

• Victor Davis Hanson: Election 2008 ... Steady vs. Changeable
  

   

• Ted Widmer: When Democrats court evangelicals, they have history on their side
  

   

• Alan Schroeder: It's too bad McCain and Obama didn't agree to a July 4th debate
  

   

• Victor Davis Hanson: Barack W. Bush?
  

   

• Ron Radosh: Obama in Independence
  

   

• Rick Elgendy: Who's right ... Obama or Dobson (or neither?)
  

   

• Ron Briley: McCain and Foreign Policy ... Challenging the Conventional Wisdom
  

   

• David Greenberg: How the Republicans Claimed the"Patriotism" Mantle in Presidential Politics
  

   

• Leonard Steinhorn: Electoral College Mischief
  

   

• William McGurn: John McCain's JFK Opportunity
  

   

• Gary Hart: America’s Next Chapter
  

   

• Gil Troy: Do We Need a Moderometer to Push for Centrism?
  

   

• Joshua Spivak: The real reason running mates matter
  

   

• Stanley I. Kutler: The Vice Presidency ... Hype and Flourishes
  

   

• Matthew Dallek: Democratic unity still out of reach
  

   

• Allan Lichtman: The (Non-Electoral) Case for the Obama-Clinton Ticket
  

   

• Julian Zelizer: Veep choice ... A balancing act
  

   

• Robert S. McElvaine: America's 40 Years War at an End
  

   

• Jeremy Young: So You Want To Run A Third-Party Presidential Campaign?
  

   

• Daniel Pipes: Obama vs. McCain on the Middle East
  

   

• David Greenberg: Gene McCarthy's response to RFK's death crippled the Dems
  

   

• Gary Hart: The Perserverance of Idealism