Off the Bus
Joshua Levy, 05/02/2008 - 11:44am

Color of Change pushes the popular vote as the Democratic decider; a video of John McCain being asked about a calling his wife a nasty name; Sidney Blumenthal's been sending around Obama rumor emails -- will he blame the "vast right-wing conspiracy"?; The GroundReport and the future of news; bloggers see the momentum shifting Clinton's way; robo-call voice Lamont Williams Twitters; and the Clinton campaign asks supporters to make t-shirts but still doesn't get online community.

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Joshua Levy, 04/23/2008 - 10:31am

Hillary wins PA, boxing metaphors take over the universe; John McCain is the ultimate winner of PA, and liberal groups keep attacking; Off The Bus provides the sanest coverage of the primary; Willie Horton ad-man Floyd Brown re-emerges; the Lieberman/Lamont hackery fracas rears its ugly head, again; Alan Rosenblatt live on Johnny's Par-tay tonight at 9 ET!; and the Obama campaign posts a video of... Chuck Todd.

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Joshua Levy, 04/16/2008 - 10:13am

Cindy McCain steals recipes from the web!; Jay Rosen has it out with members of the MSM covering Bittergate; Aaron Swartz launches the excellent watchdog.net; a new vid pairs John McCain with George Bush, again; the Obama campaign calls McCain and Clinton on their lobbyist connections; and the Nader campaign enters the 21st century with a pretty good YouTube video. Leave Ralph Nader alone!

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Micah L. Sifry, 03/14/2008 - 11:22am

Semi-pro campaign journalism gets a mid-term review; Republican consultant launches NoJohn.com; Chuck DeFeo shares his secrets for getting attention online; Obama gets naked with his earmarks, will Clinton follow?; and now you can listen in too on those campaign conference calls.

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Joshua Levy, 03/03/2008 - 11:53am

Obama's neglect of the netroots bores progressive bloggers; Obama's broad coalition of supporters, cultivated online, may negate the need for the netroots; dueling "red telephone" ads and a much-needed parody; six seconds of silence on a Clinton campaign call; a new aggregation site has a misleading about page; what if Bloomie were stilling running?; and Off The Bus profiles a whopping 200 superdelegates.

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Joshua Levy, 02/13/2008 - 11:53am

Barack Obama and John McCain sweep the Potomac Primaries; but while Obama enjoys all kinds of voter-generated support, there's nothing on the tubes in support of McCain; a new blog tracks the online advertising habits of the candidates; what if bloggers had access to the candidates? We can dream; a social greeting card wishes John Edwards well; a Norwegian perspective on the election; an online jokester gets serious; stop teh we can haz cheesburger madnez!; and some insight into Obama's text-messaging operation.

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Joshua Levy, 01/21/2008 - 12:00pm

Jay Rosen explains why campaign coverage sucks, but does it nicely; Zack Exley gets in-depth about the Clinton campaign's field operation; political journalists are Twittering; allegations of voter suppression from the Clinton campaign in Nevada are gaining traction; expat Democrats can now vote in the primaries online; Micah Sifry schools Brian Lehrer on online political video; Duncan Hunter drops out; and Fred Thompson is still in it for now, though is obits are being written anyway.

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Joshua Levy, 12/21/2007 - 11:32am

Off the Bus' Kristin Gorski asks if all this digital detritus is hurting or helping the election; Tom Tancredo bows out, but leaves behind his legacy on immigration; Curt Schilling is a verbose blogger, but maybe we need more of those!; and Jake Tapper uncovers two anti-Obama URLs connected to the Clinton campaign.

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Joshua Levy, 11/20/2007 - 12:00pm

The Giuliani Quote Generator Facebook app automates absurdist phrases; Off The Bus speaks truth to the polls, launches its new Polling Project; Ask Your Lawmaker Diggifies the public's questions to the candidates; is Karl Rove a better pundit than Markos Moulitsas?; A clip from the Joe Scarborough show is another example of journalists focusing on anything but the issues; VetVoice, a site devoted to veterans' issues in the campaign, launches with a number of candidate posts on the way; analyzing and voting on campaign logos; a new Obama video takes health care head-on; and TechCrunch interviews John Edwards.

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Joshua Levy, 11/08/2007 - 11:21am

The conservative punditocracy reacts to Ron Paul's Haul; a new phony email campaign targets Barack Obama; is Hillary Clinton now the target of a vast online right-wing conspiracy?; an Edwards supporter claims MoveOn is playing favorites with Hillary Clinton; OffTheBus and Brian Lehrer team up for a new citizen journalism project; and in the absence of new material from Hollywood, Slate's Bruce Reed finds comfort in the words of Mitt Romney's five sons.

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