Nation Topics - Presidential Election 2008 | The Nation

"If you look at Obama’s White House," says The Nation's Ari Berman, "it’s very much now a top-down, insider White House, following a very conventional Washington playbook. And the whole spirit of grassroots organizing and energy that really defined the Obama campaign has been largely absent."

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

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.

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

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

Obama's "Southern strategy" pays off.

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

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

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

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