Oct 31 All Tied Up: Poll Shows Deadlocked Race in Final Stretch By Christina Bellantoni Volunteers in Columbus, Ohio, make phone calls for Mitt Romney on Tuesday. Photo by Eric Thayer/Reuters. It's a scary proposition for both campaigns -- a tied race, with both President Obama and Mitt Romney within the margin of error in… Continue reading
Oct 30 Watch New Nevada Congressional District Race Unleashes Big Money and Attacks New Nevada Congressional District Race Unleashes Big Money and Attacks… Continue watching
Oct 30 Watch A Week Until Election Day, Campaigns Focus on Disaster Relief A Week Until Election Day, Campaigns Focus on Disaster Relief… Continue watching
Oct 30 Univ. of Montana Students Report on Close Senate Race By Imani Cheers Two University of Montana School of Journalism students are reporting on the closely watched Senate race between Sen. Jon Tester, the Democratic incumbent, and Republican Congressman Denny Rehberg. Libertarian Dan Cox is mixing up the contest and threatening to… Continue reading
Oct 30 Sandy Shifts Attention to Local Leaders, Away From Presidential Race By Christina Bellantoni The skyline of lower Manhattan sits in darkness Monday night after a preventive power outage. Photo by Eduardo Munoz/Reuters. Cars on 14th Street and Avenue C under water. The largest public transportation system in the world shuttered. 5,700 flights… Continue reading
Oct 30 Watch Political Campaigns Target Off-the-Grid Voters with Digital Armies of Volunteers As Americans watch less broadcast television and spend more time online, political campaigns face difficulty reaching voters with traditional methods. Hari Sreenivasan reports how the Romney and Obama campaigns, with the help of new tools to gather data and target… Continue watching
Oct 29 Watch Author Bill Ivey Argues for Rediscovering Values at Heart of American Ideal Author Bill Ivey Argues for Rediscovering Values at Heart of American Ideal… Continue watching
Oct 29 Watch Hurricane Sandy Could Spell Trouble for Early Voting and Last Campaign Efforts Hurricane Sandy Could Spell Trouble for Early Voting and Last Campaign Efforts… Continue watching
Oct 29 Digital Campaigns May Decide the Election By Hari Sreenivasan I'm a registered independent who lives in a battleground state, but I'm also what's known as an off-the-grid voter, meaning I've lived with a DVR for a decade and fast forward right through those campaign ads. I haven't had a… Continue reading
Oct 29 ‘Frankenstorm’ Sandy Becomes Campaigns’ October Surprise By Christina Bellantoni President Obama listens to a briefing on Hurricane Sandy at FEMA headquarters in Washington, D.C., on Sunday. Photo by Dennis Brack/Pool via Getty Images. All politics is local. Especially when swing states are in the path of Hurricane Sandy. Continue reading