Big Election Losers
The Daily Show : Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin launches a PR blitz to show voters all they missed by not electing her queen of America.
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Cool Hand Luke
Mark Hertsgaard : Barack Obama
The story of the plumber who helped deliver Indiana to Obama.
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Obama Needs a Protest Movement
Frances Fox Piven : History
A grassroots push for reform can make Obama a great president.
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What Obama's Victory Means
Radio Nation : Barack Obama
Nation editor Katrina vanden Heuvel on Barack Obama's victory and the coming battle for real progressive change.
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Thank You Mr. Greenspan, Thank You Mr. Bush
Alexander Cockburn : Barack Obama
Obama will face a bruising engagement with reality in the months ahead.
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Courage in Ohio
Connie Schultz : Unions
In a nation hungry for heroes on election day, blue-collar Ohio delivered.
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Election Night at The Nation
Brett Story & VideoNation : Barack Obama
A look inside The Nation's election night party and a glimpse at Obama victory celebrations in Brooklyn.
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President-Elect Obama Addresses Nation
YouTube : Barack Obama
Barack Obama delivers his victory speech after being elected the forty-fourth president of the United States.
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YouTubing the Election
Ari Melber : Internet & New Media
In America's first Web-driven election, campaign videos made by ordinary people--not campaigns or the news media--grabbed most of the attention
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The People's Art Comes Out For Obama
Lucas Mann : Voters & Voting
This election has seen an outpouring of political participation on walls, abandoned buildings, scaffolding and subway trains nationwide.
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Virginia: The New Florida?
Andrew Gumbel : Voters & Voting
As Virginians vote in record numbers, some key Obama strongholds were reported close to a standstill.
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From Birmingham to Voting for Barack
American News Project
Many citizens of Birmingham believe a new movement is taking place as a result of the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s.
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I Now Denounce You Chuck & Larry
The Daily Show : Gay & Lesbian Issues & Activism
Jon Stewart rips Proposition 8, an initiative that would rewrite the constitution to eliminate the rights of same-sex couples to marry in California.
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This Election's In Your Hands
Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman : Internet & New Media
The only one way Tuesday's vote will be protected is if citizens show up at the polls with cameras, note pads, cell phones and lawyers.
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Democrats Abroad Cast Their Votes
Christopher Lisotta : Voters & Voting
Energized by Obama's candidacy, expatriate Americans are voting in record numbers this year.
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The New Poll Tax: Long Lines
MSNBC : Voters & Voting
Rachel Maddow thinks that astronomically long waiting lines at voting sites are another form of Jim Crow era voter suppression.
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Foreclosed: The George W. Bush Story
Tom Engelhardt : President
The property is worth a lot less than when he took ownership in 2000, and the world is far more dangerous place. Now it's up to the rest of us to clean up the mess.
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Obsessed With Election 2008
The Today Show
The Nation's Ari Melber discusses 'Election Obsession' and the internet's role in the public's high-level of participation.
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Our Predictions
Radio Nation
Chris Hayes, Laura Flanders, Leslie Savan, John Nichols, Andrew Gumbel and Ari Berman preview Election 2008.
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Women's Choice at Risk on Election Day
Reeve Hamilton : Reproductive Rights
Attorney Sarah Weddington discusses the impact this election could have on reproductive rights.
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Political Haiku Winners
Erica Landau
From the thousands of politicized poets who submitted election-themed verse to People for the American Way's haiku contest, here are the winners.
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Stephen Colbert Endorses Obama
The Colbert Report
Colbert says he has the courage to cross party lines and to join a ticket that's got a pretty good shot of winning.
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Web Puts Dog-Whistle Politics on a Leash
Ari Melber : Internet & New Media
Self-appointed Internet cops are forcing accountability for the dirtiest tricks in politics.
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No Bradley Effect for Barack Obama
The Daily Show
Barack Obama dismisses accusations from the right and shares his optimism for November 4 with Jon Stewart.
This week, what it all meant. Nation Editor Katrina vanden Heuvel on Barack Obama's victory and the coming battle for progressive change we can believe in. (13mb mp3)
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