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Tim Fernholz breaks down how to make it happen: Whoever wins on Tuesday — based on today’s polls Barack Obama, but anything is possible in politics — will face a tough set of challenges come inauguration day. But the winner has a few months, barring any 2000-style post-election shenanigans, to assemble his team of top […]

Prospect fearless leader Mark Schmitt talks to Cato’s Brink Lindsey. Here’s a clip of them talking about the potential Obama transition and the possibility of a mandate and what that would mean: –The Editors

The TAP online team is excited to introduce our 2008 election night guide. We’ve listed some key House, Senate, and gubernatorial campaigns as well as swing counties, demographics, and ballot initiatives, and explained why each is important. We focus on regions where the polls close early in the evening so that, without knowing the results […]

Robert Kuttner makes the argument: The U.S. Treasury, at taxpayer expense, is pumping out an initial $124 billion in bailout money to 24 of America’s biggest banks, in hope of getting them to start lending again. But many of these banks are so traumatized that they’re reluctant to lend.So why waste the money on them? […]

Brentin Mock talks to Alabama congressional candidate Josh Segall: One hundred and fifty thousand new voters have been registered in Alabama since last December and almost two-thirds of them are under the age of 30. That must sound beautiful to 29-year-old Joshua Segall, the Democrat looking to unseat Republican incumbent Mike Rogers in Alabama’s 3rd […]

Today is the sixth anniversary of Paul Wellstone‘s death. Ezra wrote a moving tribute last year: When liberal was an epithet, Paul Wellstone wrote a book called The Conscience of a Liberal. When unions were in deep decline, Wellstone stood with them, and now the AFL-CIO now gives an annual award in his honor. After […]

Now that FiveThirtyEight shows Obama winning Indiana, it’s worth revisiting Lauren Bruce‘s piece from the primaries on the politics of the state: Here’s a tip for reporters and pundits covering the Indiana primary: If you can’t get through an article about Indiana without mentioning a certain 20-year-old sports movie, you aren’t qualified to write it. […]

The right, seeking someone to blame for Obama‘s surge in the polls, has seized on ACORN and, more generally, a supposed rash of voter fraud among poor minority voters. While the attention being lavished on it by FOX News and company is new, the technique is not. Back in April, Art Levine explored the history […]

The Prospect team will be watching and blogging tonight’s townhall debate. The rules are as follows: Tuesday’s match-up at Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn., will be moderated by NBC’s Tom Brokaw, with the questions to be culled from a group of 100 to 150 uncommitted likely voters in the audience and another one-third to come […]