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Viral Videos From DNC08 in Denver
techPresident — While network TV has cut back its coverage of the national political conventions to an hour a night, and within that hour we often get more of the network "stars" bloviating than straightforward speechifying from the convention floor, the internet is, as my colleague Andrew Rasiej likes to say, "the Tivo of our times." A glance back at the speeches and media moments in Denver and their YouTube views suggests a couple of episodes must have strong word-of-mouth, since people are going to watch the stuff they heard about but missed. These include: John Kerry's speech, which was widely praised as one of the best of his career: More than 55,000 views ...

Compare and Contrast
Newshoggers.com — By BJ Forget all the spin and partisan rhetoric. At the end of the day it comes down to two men, who within a week of each other, both got up and told everybody what their vision for America was. Watch them both, side by side, what they said and what they didn't say, without any commentary. This is both of them making their best case for why ...

'This is a fight for the future.'
Daily Kos — Tuesday, August 26, 2008 It was the second day of the 2008 Democratic National Convention, and I was still getting used to having a press pass and being part of "the new media", instead of being "just a blogger". In fact, I was getting used to everything. It was the first time I had ever attended a large political convention, much less the most important meeting for our party. ...

Campaign 08: Are Voters Really This Finicky?
The Nation: Top Stories — I wake up this morning and The Today Show informs me that suddenly after a week of hearing about Obama's post-convention bounce, John McCain is now ahead and has all the momentum. Supposedly white women voters , who as recently as last week were supporting Obama nearly 10 percent more than McCain, were now supporting McCain 12 percent more than Obama. Naturally the on-air pundits attributed nearly all of this to the surprise addition of Sarah Palin to the GOP ticket, but would that many white female voters simply switch sides like that? Are they that ideologically flexible? I have this regular debate with my fellow progressive friends about ...

Barack Obama's Lucky Tie (Style)
Swampland — This is how the President of the United States like it when the pressure is on: Cherry-red, with thin silvery-white diagonal stripes. He wore this tie last night. (See it here .) But that's not all. Gabriel Winant, an eagle-eyed blogger at Salon, lays out the pattern . Well, there's last night. Then there's the president's quasi-State of the Union speech . (He was standing in the House of Representatives chamber, with Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi behind him. It counts.) That's not all, though. He wore this tie for his victory speech in Grant Park on the night of the election. That was a big one. He had it on when he delivered his “closing ...