The Democratic Party celebration at INVESCO field was only a week ago tonight, but it seems like a season past. It was supposed to be a hard act for the Republicans to follow. Barack Obama was supposed to get a Mile-High bounce from Denver. Bush and Cheney were going to...

ST PAUL -- Warning that reading this piece is going to be like watching an episode of Generation Kill. You know the outcome -- in this instance, that Sarah Palin nails the speech at the Republican Convention that introduces her to the country -- even as the story unfolds.

Twelve...

St PAUL -- They're tough as boot leather, these Republican women come to the Twin Cities -- even the ones who wear Chanel flats and pearls. And they're hoppin' mad -- to use Texas delegation talk -- about what they see as attacks from the "left-wing" blogosphere and The New...

ST. PAUL -- The hurricane has been downgraded -- and I'm not talking about Gustav but the Republicans' love affair with Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin, their party's presumptive vice presidential nominee. Unalloyed elation didn't last the holiday weekend. Friday in Dayton and Sunday in Minneapolis, Republicans were telling me, again...

"There was nobody I wanted to vote for -- but now I'm so ecstatic," crowed Vickie, a forty-five year-old who works at the Southwest Ohio Development Center. Vickie's enthusiasm for Sarah Palin, the presumptive Republican vice-presidential nominee, is the predominant mood among the women at the Dayton rally where Friday...

DAYTON, Ohio, 28 August 2008 -- Barack Obama likes to go to the Lincoln Memorial in the middle of the night, when no one else is around and it's quiet; he sits there and thinks. Over the past year on the campaign trail, the Senator, now the Democratic Party nominee...

Hillary Tuesday, Wherein Denver becomes a Beltway Hollywood outpost.

Biden in the Hen House; Emily's List Tea For Hillary, Pelosi not so much; Media Elites munch on fatuousness and some pretty Good Salmon; Midday at the Oasis.

Michelle and Early Joe:

Tuesday morning early in Denver Michelle Obama...

DENVER -- Speaking at a luncheon hosted by the Denver Press Club at the Denver Athletic Club today, former California state legislator and '60s political activist Tom Hayden predicted that Barack Obama will lose the 2008 Election. "An African-American candidate talking about economics and a white war hero -- it's...

DENVER -- It's 4 PM in the Convention Center, and I've been churched, well churched, sitting through the first official event of the 2008 Democratic Convention, the two-hour "interfaith gathering." A lot of Democrats have passed on the opening event, for the Wells Fargo Theater in the center is only...

DENVER, Saturday, at the Press Tilt-A-Whirl -- Think of my reporting from Denver as an extra layer of froth on your daily latte, because much of the action here is just fun. Take the Saturday night party, hosted by the city of Denver and underwritten by Qwest, for 15,000 of...

The voters of southern New Mexico -- I would like to say simply "New Mexicans," but that doesn't sound right in our immigration-fraught climate -- are hungry to meet the presidential candidates. "We matter, even if we are small-town America," Susana Martinez, the local district attorney, says as she introduces...

LAKE FOREST, Calif. -- The telling moment Saturday night at the Saddleback Civil Forum on the Presidency comes just before the end when the mega-church's pastor Rick Warren asks Senator John McCain "What about -- you -- we're seeing Russia reasserting itself in Georgia, and maybe now Poland. What's happening?"...

Mary Matalin, I've always admired your feistiness and fine mind -- and over the last year I appreciate as well how difficult it is for women in media, for there is indeed an undercurrent of sexism, and that means you, Jake Tapper, yukking it up on This Week with George...

When Senator John McCain takes the stage at Bally's Convention Center in Las Vegas on Saturday, his audience -- those among the several thousand members of Disabled American Veterans (DAVs) who can -- rise to their feet in a spontaneous standing ovation. At the end of McCain's speech, the audience,...

HENDERSON, Nev. -- Barack Obama has a sweet rally today in Keehi Lagoon Beach Park and then a week in Honolulu with his family. John McCain is quipping about the life-sized butter cow making her debut right about now and then taking the speaker's box at the Iowa State Fair....

STURGIS -- What does it say about the McCain Campaign that the poster for Monday's event featured a bar blond in chaps and bikini-top riding a buffalo, her left hand in a tuft of b-hair, her right cradling a beer? John McCain -- his photo -- is smaller and below...

**Update/Correction**
Michelle Obama's office has clarified details about the Park Avenue article. Although dated 2008 in Park Avenue magazine, Leibovitz apparently took the photograph last year for Vogue magazine. Moreover, Katie McCormick Lelyveld, Michelle Obama's press secretary, states that Park Avenue writer Steffi Kammerer never interviewed Mrs. Obama. "The...

In the wake of Senator Obama's appearance in Berlin last Thursday evening, the site for his speech, the Victory column in the Tiergarten, has become prophecy. If Senator McCain achieves what would until Thursday have seemed to be an improbable victory come fall, his opponent's decision to give a foreign...

9:00 PM, BERLIN, 24 July 2008

Back at the Adlon and pondering the speech. Live blogging, you only capture a moment. I'll be thinking about Obama's introduction of himself to the Old World for a long time. Basically, he gave the speech that many of us Americans knew he would...

BERLIN -- On what used to be the East German side of the Brandenburg Gate, Linnea and Julia, two American college students, have been spending this sunny Wednesday afternoon handing out blue postcards advertising Barack Obama's appearance tomorrow at the Siegessaule, the Uberphallic Victory statue in the Tiergarten, less than...