2008

• The Sleaziest Campaign Ads of 2008

  Talking Points Memo

  Here are five nominees for the most revolting, dishonest and remarkably sleazy campaign ads of the year.

• Obama's Latino Vote Mandate

  Steve Cobble & Joe Velasquez : Latinos

  Latinos backed Obama by a 2-to-1 margin on election day and could be the biggest force behind a longterm, center-left political realignment.

• Big Election Losers

  The Daily Show : Sarah Palin

  Sarah Palin launches a PR blitz to show voters all they missed by not electing her queen of America.

• Cool Hand Luke

  Mark Hertsgaard : Barack Obama

  The story of the plumber who helped deliver Indiana to Obama.

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  A New, Blue Dixie

  Bob Moser : Barack Obama

  Obama's "Southern strategy" pays off.

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  Obama Needs a Protest Movement

  Frances Fox Piven : History

  A grassroots push for reform can make Obama a great president.

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  What Obama's Victory Means

  Radio Nation : Barack Obama

  Nation editor Katrina vanden Heuvel on Barack Obama's victory and the coming battle for real progressive change.

• Thank You Mr. Greenspan, Thank You Mr. Bush

  Alexander Cockburn : Barack Obama

  Obama will face a bruising engagement with reality in the months ahead.

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  Courage in Ohio

  Connie Schultz : Unions

  In a nation hungry for heroes on election day, blue-collar Ohio delivered.

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  Election Night at The Nation

  Brett Story & VideoNation : Barack Obama

  A look inside The Nation's election night party and a glimpse at Obama victory celebrations in Brooklyn.

• President-Elect Obama Addresses Nation

  YouTube : Barack Obama

  Barack Obama delivers his victory speech after being elected the forty-fourth president of the United States.

• YouTubing the Election

  Ari Melber : Internet & New Media

  In America's first Web-driven election, campaign videos made by ordinary people--not campaigns or the news media--grabbed most of the attention

• The People's Art Comes Out For Obama

  Lucas Mann : Voters & Voting

  This election has seen an outpouring of political participation on walls, abandoned buildings, scaffolding and subway trains nationwide.

• Virginia: The New Florida?

  Andrew Gumbel : Voters & Voting

  As Virginians vote in record numbers, some key Obama strongholds were reported close to a standstill.

• From Birmingham to Voting for Barack

  American News Project

  Many citizens of Birmingham believe a new movement is taking place as a result of the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s.

• I Now Denounce You Chuck & Larry

  The Daily Show : Gay & Lesbian Issues & Activism

  Jon Stewart rips Proposition 8, an initiative that would rewrite the constitution to eliminate the rights of same-sex couples to marry in California.

• This Election's In Your Hands

  Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman : Internet & New Media

  The only one way Tuesday's vote will be protected is if citizens show up at the polls with cameras, note pads, cell phones and lawyers.

• Democrats Abroad Cast Their Votes

  Christopher Lisotta : Voters & Voting

  Energized by Obama's candidacy, expatriate Americans are voting in record numbers this year.

• The New Poll Tax: Long Lines

  MSNBC : Voters & Voting

  Rachel Maddow thinks that astronomically long waiting lines at voting sites are another form of Jim Crow era voter suppression.

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  Foreclosed: The George W. Bush Story

  Tom Engelhardt : President

  The property is worth a lot less than when he took ownership in 2000, and the world is far more dangerous place. Now it's up to the rest of us to clean up the mess.

• Obsessed With Election 2008

  The Today Show

  The Nation's Ari Melber discusses 'Election Obsession' and the internet's role in the public's high-level of participation.

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  Our Predictions

  Radio Nation

  Chris Hayes, Laura Flanders, Leslie Savan, John Nichols, Andrew Gumbel and Ari Berman preview Election 2008.

• Women's Choice at Risk on Election Day

  Reeve Hamilton : Reproductive Rights

  Attorney Sarah Weddington discusses the impact this election could have on reproductive rights.

• Political Haiku Winners

  Erica Landau

  From the thousands of politicized poets who submitted election-themed verse to People for the American Way's haiku contest, here are the winners.

• Stephen Colbert Endorses Obama

  The Colbert Report

  Colbert says he has the courage to cross party lines and to join a ticket that's got a pretty good shot of winning.