Adam Serwer

Hillary Clinton proved that working class whites would never vote for Barack Obama. –A. Serwer

I demand a recount. –A. Serwer

Things are still tight in Indiana, a pretty reliably red state. The CNN exits could portend some pretty bad news for McCain, though. He won men 52-47, but Obama is winning women with the numbers reversed. The key difference is that women in Indiana made up 53-47% of the vote this time. –A. Serwer

Latinos in Florida are generally known to be Right leaning because of the large population of Cubans, given that the Republican Party is seen as being tougher on Castro. But even with the McCain campaign hitting Obama hard as a socialist, Latinos are breaking for Obama 55-44%. But Bush won Latinos 56-44% against Kerry in […]

According to CNN, black voters haven’t made up a bigger portion of the electorate in Virginia than they did in 2004. At the same time, Jonathan Martin reports that Obama is cutting into McCain‘s margins in rural areas of the state. But certainly, the Obama campaign was hoping Virginia wouldn’t be this close. –A. Serwer

Wendy Weiser of the Brennan Center, working from an election protection call center, gave me an overview of the problems occurring out there: –Biggest nationwide problem are voter registration problems. Namely, registered voters are not appearing on the voter rolls, often in battleground states: Florida, New Jersey, New York, Colorado, and Ohio in Cuyoga and […]

My friend and Racialicious blogger Latoya Peterson has a fascinating new piece up on the main site exploring the ways race has been discussed in the context of the presidential election. Maybe the most fascinating section of her piece is the one examining the way in which the contest has, on some level, forced whites […]

Above: They say he’s the best at what he does. Is that voter fraud? Marvel Comics is using some of its top-tier characters in an effort to encourage comic book fans to vote. There’s only one problem: Included in the campaign are characters like Wolverine and Thor, neither of whom are American citizens. Wolverine is […]

Amanda Carpenter is leading the right wing blogosphere into a festival of hyperventilation over partisan Republican poll watchers in Philadelphia being ejected from polling places, something that hampers their ability to randomly accuse people they suspect are Democrats of voter fraud. Carpenter’s post is titled “A Repeat of 2004 Philly Voter Chaos, Fraud,” but notably […]

I got to my polling place at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Silver Spring at 8:30 A.M. The line was already around the block and curled into a nearby parking lot. This line looked like America — young professionals with hardpasses dangling around their neck, college students, older black folks, transit workers, couples […]