YouTubing the Election YouTubing the Election
In America's first Web-driven election, campaign videos made by ordinary people--not campaigns or the news media--grabbed most of the attention
Nov 4, 2008 / Feature / Ari Melber
The Idiocrats The Idiocrats
Why do Internet boosters continue to confuse social networking with art?
Nov 4, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Alexander Provan
Voting Incidents Being Reported Nationwide Voting Incidents Being Reported Nationwide
After two years, $2.5 billion, hundreds of speeches and dozens of debates, the most historic election campaign in modern American history is finally drawing to a close. Yesterda...
Nov 4, 2008 / Peter Rothberg
The People’s Art Comes Out For Obama The People’s Art Comes Out For Obama
This election has seen an outpouring of political participation on walls, abandoned buildings, scaffolding and subway trains nationwide.
Nov 4, 2008 / Feature / Lucas Mann
Live-Tracking Voting Problems Live-Tracking Voting Problems
WASHINGTON, DC -- From Nation intern Emma Dumain, comes this dispatch: It's like the Situation Room here at Election Protection's National Command Center in Washington, DC, where...
Nov 4, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Virginia: The New Florida? Virginia: The New Florida?
More than two dozen polling places are reported close to a standstill as record numbers of voters cast ballots in this crucial swing state.
Nov 4, 2008 / Feature / Andrew Gumbel
One Hundred Percent One Hundred Percent
EMPORIA, VA -- Stipulating up front that this post violates the law of small numbers, but what the heck, I'm a reporter, right? We don't need no stinkin social science. Anyway, ju...
Nov 4, 2008 / Chris Hayes
From MLK to Obama: Birmingham Civil Rights Organizers From MLK to Obama: Birmingham Civil Rights Organizers
Many citizens of Birmingham believe a new movement is taking place as a result of the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s.
Nov 4, 2008 / American News Project
Our Low Turnout System Our Low Turnout System
EMPORIA, VA - There are no lines to vote in this sleepy town and 80 miles south of Richmond, but that doesn't mean turnout isn't high. When I asked a poll worker at the local soci...
Nov 4, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Jon Stewart Slams Anti-Gay Marriage Prop 8 Jon Stewart Slams Anti-Gay Marriage Prop 8
Jon Stewart rips Proposition 8, an initiative that would rewrite the constitution to eliminate the rights of same-sex couples to marry in California.
Nov 4, 2008 / The Daily Show