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Obama campaign mobilized a powerful Internet organization. Now, observers speculate about how he will continue to use it to help him govern.

Washington - A powerful new lobbying force is coming to town: Barack Obama's triumphant army of 3.1 million Internet-linked donors and volunteers.

In a mass e-mail thanking them, written moments before his Grant Park victory speech, Obama put them on notice. "We have a lot to do to get our country back on track, and I'll be in touch soon about what comes… Continue

A friend from Las Vegs, Nevada framed this historic election perfectly right about noontime on election day. "The hands that picked the cotton are the hands that are picking the next President of the United States."

Barack Obama's election is laden with so much significance it seems an impossible task to even attempt any systematic unpacking. But this much is for certain: the full impact of the Oval Office being occupied by a black man has yet to hit home. This single fact alone overshadows eve… Continue

Johnstown, PA


Since a supporter at a Palin rally here waved a stuffed monkey with an Obama headband, and the county's own congressman declared "There is no question that western Pennsylvania is a racist area," Johnstown, PA has become a symbol for the simmering racism that i… Continue

Forty-nine debates going back through the primary season, and if you're anything like me, you watched almost all of them. An act of total patriotism. And now, at long last, we're done.

Joe the Plumber.

Insofar as the presidential debates are concerned, I feel like they were essentially consistent in nature. All three were wins for Obama. The first two, of course, are already a done deal, with Obama winning handily in the court of public opinion and poll numbers moving strongly in his di… Continue