Thursday, June 26th, 2008
This one is a puzzle. Ruben Carbajal, a writer in Brooklyn, NY, took the photo a few weeks after the primaries started. I love the fact that the poster references a specific neighborhood and is on a mailbox, but who controls Obama, Edwards, Clinton, and Giuliani's marionette strings? Is the ...
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Thursday, June 19th, 2008
[Mr. Wright / Flickr]
This is a brief step back to the meta: a look at webby aspects of the campaign.
Abhi lives in North Dakota. He reminisced recently that the 2004 Democratic National Convention inspired him to create Sepia Mutiny, a South Asian American group blog. This is part of the ...
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
Up for grabs on Sunday: the 63 Democratic delegates from Puerto Rico. Eliina from Chicago just spent a long weekend in San Juan with her boyfriend Josh. In addition to waterfalls and local vistas, they sampled some of the primary build-up. This poster, for example, in the window of the ...
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
This genius composition by victoriabernal needs minimal introduction: There are some pink rabbit peeps who live in Los Angeles. They like Obama. (James Mills found them.)
[victoriabernal / Flickr]
You may disagree with the peeps's politics, but in most ways they're just like you and me: They make coffee. (Sometimes it turns ...
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Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
Even if you're an Obamamaniac, the angel wings in this photo may seem a little over the top -- but the graffiti is on an old sewage drain, so maybe that balances things out. However you read it, it's a great picture, no? PixelHoundSF took it somewhere in the Bay ...
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
A light palate cleanser between between heavier offerings: via Sue Salinger, a toddler speaks her political mind:
[asaaaaad / Vimeo.]
Hard to come up with a punchline after that one.
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
It seems that a Clinton victory in West Virginia today may be a foregone conclusion. In a completely unscientific survey, there are certainly more Hillary signs than Obama signs in this picture from Shepherdstown, WV, taken by Marylander Pang Tubhirun (hat tip to Misa Dayson):
[pangalang / Flickr]
It looks like the ...
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Friday, May 9th, 2008
[Dean Terry / Flickr]
Beth Martin Birky teaches women's studies and English at Goshen College in Indiana. She recalls vividly her sixth-grade entree into electoral politics: "I remember my first voting booth: a cardboard refrigerator box in the hallway of Oak Street Elementary school in Orrville, Ohio." Birky's been a dedicated ...
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
Emily Green, a University of Michigan College Democrat, wonders why abortion has been a sleeper issue so far in Campaign 08 (via Larissa Zhou):
It fascinates me that in one of the most polarizing, controversial, and highly contested elections of the past 30 years, that one of the most polarizing, controversial, ...
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
Barack Obama must be pretty happy with his big victory in North Carolina and slim loss in Indiana. The days leading up to yesterday had some fairly ugly moments, though. This picture, emailed to Kate Sherrill, a college librarian, shows one of them in Vincennes, Indiana (hat tip to James ...
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
The delegate math is looking tougher than ever for Hillary Clinton after the Indiana and North Carolina primaries. This barbed advice on how she might rejigger the numbers was found by our very own John Barth. The video was made prior to the Pennsylvania primary, so a few of the ...
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Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
Democrats in Indiana and North Carolina voted today after days of rallies and knocking on doors. (Republicans voted, too, but...) These two pictures are from the last couple of weeks on the campaign trail. In Indianapolis, Brian Bruner captured what may be the best Hillary hat of the entire election ...
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