This is coming from anonymous officials, but the Huffington Post is reporting that Senator Hillary Clinton was offered the Secretary of State job by President-Elect Barack Obama in a meeting Thursday in Chicago. Of course, I’m not too happy about the pick, seeing as Clinton did not make an appearance in my ideal Cabinet. Here’s [...]

Seven pages, 63 questions. That’s what someone who’s looking for a job in the Obama administration is going to face. All political appointees and White House employees have had to face scrutiny from the incoming administration before they were offered jobs, but many think Obama’s questionnaire is the most extensive and invasive yet. It was [...]

A few weeks ago, I profiled the five most interesting state ballot propositions. And while you guys were all busy witnessing history in Grant Park, Missourians, South Dakotans, Californians, Massachusettsians and Washingtonians were voting on five of the most contentious ballot referenda in the election cycle. Here’s how they fared.
California’s Proposition 8 – which would [...]

Editing’s cool and all, but making history is where it’s at tonight — which is why virtually the entire editorial board of North By Northwestern is at Grant Park. Call us irresponsible, or call us the elite liberal mainstream media. Either way, we peaced.
But we’d never desert you altogether, which is why we’re doing what [...]

Our political writers predict an Obama win tomorrow.

Faces only a voter could love. Photo by Joe Crawford (artlung) on Flickr, licensed under Creative commons.

For some reason, one of the most memorable details from that sad day in 2004 when John Kerry lost was a simple piece of trivia: The winner had already been decided a few days early. Apparently, history has [...]

America’s most important youth vote barometer has come out and the results have got to be encouraging for the McCain campaign. In the Nickelodeon Kids Pick The President Poll, Obama won with just 51 percent of the vote. McCain pulled 49 percent of the 2.2 million votes.
The results of an admittedly unscientific poll from [...]

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell announced his support for Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama on Sunday. Even though Powell has been a long-time player in the Republican party, his endorsement of Obama does not come as a shock following months of rumors that Powell would speak at the DNC in August. Now, [...]

With less than three weeks until the election, it seems that the Tribune’s endorsement of Barack Obama yesterday came late considering Obama’s history in Chicago politics. Although the reason for the delay was probably because the paper has never endorsed a nominee of the Democratic Party for president (Teddy Roosevelt is as close as they’ve [...]

Our live-bloggers are back for the third and (thankfully) final debate.

Join our bloggers, straight from America’s heartland — Evanston, Ill.!

Jonathan is our conservative blogger.

Just as the Obama campaign anticipated, McCain rolled out a fairly harsh attack of Obama’s honesty this morning, just hours before the two meet in Nashville tonight in their second debate. However, the attack is not on Obama’s associations, as was anticipated. I would assume that they’ll leave more personal [...]

    
Jonathan is our conservative blogger.

After having the chance to see Gen. Wesley Clark speak tonight about the many troubles facing our nation at home and abroad, I came back to my dorm, disappointed to read news of the increasingly negative, caustic tenor of the presidential race.
Apparently Obama, after hearing rumors this weekend of a more aggressive (and negative) McCain advertising strategy, decided to preempt any such attack by, [...]

Sarah Palin doesn’t think Barack Obama is a terrorist, just that he hangs around “with terrorists who target their own country.” She made the accusations yesterday, following the release of a New York Times article that acknowledged that Obama had worked with the founder of a terrorist group in the past.
The basis of her [...]

If you watched the debate on Thursday and you had strong feelings one way or another about Governor Palin—whatever those feelings were—chances are those feelings are stronger.
As Gail Collins wrote on Friday in the New York Times:
“The Republicans were euphoric over Sarah Palin’s debate performance, particularly the part in which she stood tall and [...]