Your Daily Video Politics Blog: It was the latest night of the entire primary season. Although Obama and Clinton split North Carolina and Indiana 1-1 as expected, the real upshot is a new shape to this campaign.
Your Daily Politics Video Blog: The polls start closing in two hours. Find out what the final polls say, what to expect tonight and even the little noticed trend that could determine the outcome of the race.
Your Daily Politics Video Blog: In today's episode of our Weekend Clip Extravaganza we toast all the special moments we shared with Mitt Romney lo these many months. Varmint shooting, dog torture, so many silvers, Mack Daddy Mitt ... Ahhh, yes ... I Remember It Well ...
Your Daily Politics Video Blog: The late Sen. William Proxmire saved his Golden Fleece Award for federal government boondoggles but he might have made an exception for GOP direct mail firm BMW Direct -- which takes obscure Republican candidates and turns them into money-making machines for itself.
Your Daily Politics Video Blog: It was quite a week: John McCain forgetting which party he's in, Pat Buchanan and Tucker Carlson saying they're not going to take anti-White Man prejudice any longer, Tim Russert channels angry Iraqi nationalists and so much more.
Day 3 of Minnesota's Senate recount brings some welcome comic relief in the name of write-in candidates on challenged ballots: Lizard People and Flying Spaghetti Monster, with a little Frankenstin [sic] for good measure.
Video by Noah Kunin and edited by Chuck Olsen for The UpTake: http://theuptake.org
Your Daily Politics Video Blog: The general election matchup between John McCain and Barack Obama received a symbolic champagne bottle smash against the hull last week when President Bush implicitly attacked Barack Obama's foreign policy as appeasement during a speech in Jerusalem. Obama fired back, McCain jumped in, and the ship was off and sailing.
Your Daily Politics Video Blog: With the parade of stuttering, parsing and forgetting witnesses that the Bush administration has produced, it can be easy to take such performances for granted. But we'll never forget General Services Administration chief Lurita Doan. That's because when it came to testifying before Congress, Doan was something special.
Your Daily Politics Video Blog: People certainly are incredibly jazzed about Sarah Palin. That tour de force ABC interview, the prolific earmark record, and of course all those "Bridge to Nowhere" lies. The Palin Factor rolls on!
Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) and Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing featuring EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson, May 20, 2008
Your Daily Politics Video Blog: We though McCain was steamed when he wouldn't make eye contact with Barack Obama. But he almost blew a fuse when he got some real questions from the editorial board of the Des Moines Register. In today's episode of TPMtv, we analyze the tapes (with a little help from the DSM-IV).
Your Daily Politics Video Blog: Time's Mark Halperin has declared that John McCain "wins the week." Which week he's referring to is anybody's guess, because the prevailing consensus on this past week of financial turmoil is that John McCain lost badly.
Your Daily Politics Video Blog: It seems that with the latest economic meltdown John McCain finally realized he had to start running as a populist. This morning he hit all six network talk shows to share the talking points like so much wealth.