Your Daily Politics Video Blog: Time's Mark Halperin has declared that John McCain "wins the week." Which week he's referring to is anybody's guess, because the prevailing consensus on this past week of financial turmoil is that John McCain lost badly.
Your Daily Politics Video Blog: Was Phil Gramm right about America being a nation of whiners in a mere mental recession? Will John McCain continue to receive his advice? We take a look at the weekend's continuing Phil Gramm fallout in today's Sunday Show Roundup episode of TPMtv.
Your Daily Politics Video Blog: The general election matchup between John McCain and Barack Obama received a symbolic champagne bottle smash against the hull last week when President Bush implicitly attacked Barack Obama's foreign policy as appeasement during a speech in Jerusalem. Obama fired back, McCain jumped in, and the ship was off and sailing.
Your Daily Politics Video Blog: There're freakouts and there are freakouts. And yesterday's Manic Act Out moments from John McCain were in a class by themselves. First he tried to cancel Friday night's debate and then he tried to beg off David Letterman's show by making up a story about having to hop on a plane to rush back to Washington. We wrap it all up for you today's episode of TPMtv.
Your Daily Politics Video Blog: We though McCain was steamed when he wouldn't make eye contact with Barack Obama. But he almost blew a fuse when he got some real questions from the editorial board of the Des Moines Register. In today's episode of TPMtv, we analyze the tapes (with a little help from the DSM-IV).
Your Daily Video Politics Blog: It was the latest night of the entire primary season. Although Obama and Clinton split North Carolina and Indiana 1-1 as expected, the real upshot is a new shape to this campaign.
Your Daily Politics Video Blog: It seems that with the latest economic meltdown John McCain finally realized he had to start running as a populist. This morning he hit all six network talk shows to share the talking points like so much wealth.
More at http://www.theuptake .org. Two lawsuits have been filed against New Mexico's Republican heavyweights on behalf of voters who endured visits from a private investigator and having their personal information publicly distributed via press conference.
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Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) and Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing featuring EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson, May 20, 2008
Your Daily Politics Video Blog: Are the Senate Dems finally going to toss Joe Lieberman overboard? We ask the question in today's episode of TPMtv and look at one way grassroots Dems across the country may be able to give the final push that sends him over the edge.
Your Daily Politics Video Blog: People certainly are incredibly jazzed about Sarah Palin. That tour de force ABC interview, the prolific earmark record, and of course all those "Bridge to Nowhere" lies. The Palin Factor rolls on!
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Responding to charges from Senator Norm Coleman in new TV ad, Al Franken says Coleman looked Minnesota in the eye and lied to them. Franken says he had no prior knowledge or involvement in bringing the suit that alleges money was funneled to Coleman by one of his wealthy supporters.
This is a news conference that aired live on The UpTake November 1, 2008
Talking Points Memo TV recently went with Senator John Kerry on a trip to the Colbert Report. This is the behind the scenes footage from Senator Kerry's guest appearance.
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As election time closes in, a federal law prevents the purging of voters from the rolls, even for the normal, valid reasons, like death or relocation, because it's too easy to make mistakes or manipulate the process. Colorado Secretary of State Mike Coffmann, who is also running as a Republican for a Congressional seat, has been purging tens of thousands of Coloradans from the voter rolls anyway.
Your Daily Politics Video Blog: Cute fun or a rehash of the notorious 2006 Harold Ford attack ad in Tennessee? The Sunday crowd debates the racial undertones, or lack thereof, in John McCain's current campaign tactics.
More at http://www.theuptake .org. When The UpTake arrived at the home at 3240 17th Avve. South in Minneapolis, the police and city inspectors were boarding up the house. The city said they had to board up the house because the owner wasn?t available, but the owner was in jail.
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