2008 presidential campaign

Today's paper has an article about where the two presidential candidates stand on various employment/free trade issues.For the most part, it's a more balanced article than what we've seen in the last few days from the paper, but I must question why claims by unions get so much attention.

A federal court ruled tonight that Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner violated federal election laws by not taking adequate steps to validate the identity of newly registered voters.

Palestra.net has been doing some great reporting about voter fraud and questionable activities in Columbus, especially in the last 7 days when people could both register and vote on the same day.I wrote about Shelby Holliday's story on a homeless man voting in Ohio before going back 'home' to Chicago.

Yesterday, Sen. Joe Biden, the vice presidential running mate of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, told CBS's Katie Couric that the Obama attack ad on Sen. John McCain’s ignorance of computers and technology was “terrible.”

While some Ohio elected Democrats think their fellow Ohioans are racist, it turns out that perhaps the problem is in their own party.An AP-Yahoo News poll that found one-third of white Democrats harbor negative views toward blacks — many calling them "lazy," "violent" or responsible for their own troubles.

Yep - it's true. Rep. Charlie Rangel, when asked why Democrats are so afraid of Sarah Palin and her popularity, said, "You got to be kind to the disabled."The reporter then questioned Rangel on this, to see if he did, indeed, mean Sarah Palin. He did.If I had been the reporter, I probably would have turned the comment back on Rangel by interpreting the 'disabled' to apply to the Democrats who are so afraid of her...but that's just me.

I've said it before, and I say it again, the place for opinions in the print media is on their editorial pages. But are four editorials in 10 days a bit of piling on?That's what our local paper, The Blade, has done with the vice presidential pick of Gov. Sarah Palin.

Since being announced as the running mate to Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, Gov. Sarah Palin has suffered the onslaught of the liberal left - and survived.I know it's not easy knowing that just about every rumor that's ever been told about you is now repeated across the internet - instantly. But it's even harder when it's your children they're talking about.Tonight's speech shows she's got what it takes to not only survive such attacks, but also how to hit back. And she did so with a velvet glove, using soft words in a strong way.

There's been a lot of discussion about comments by former Sen. Phil Gramm, a top economic adviser to presumptive GOP nominee John McCain, that were published in an interview with The Washington Times. The Times said Gramm said he expects a McCain administration would inherit an economy “weighed down above all by the conviction of many Americans that economic conditions are the worst in two or three decades and that America is in decline.”