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Jay Carney: 5 Facts About the New White House Press Secretary [VIDEO]

Welcome to the hot seat, Jay Carney. As many media outlets predicted, Vice President Joe Biden's director of communications will replace Robert Gibbs as the White House press secretary. The change takes effect in February. Surge Desk has the facts on the man who's about to live under a barrage of questions. 1. He's...

Opinion: When Political Pundits Go Bad

(Nov. 2) -- If there's one certainty after this election, is that political pundits will be out in full force, offering their expert opinions on what it all means, and boldly predicting the future health and well-being of the two political parties. Should anyone listen to them? Or would you be better off heading over to...

Poll: Number Who Call Obama a Muslim Rises

(Aug. 19) -- The number of Americans who believe, wrongly, that President Barack Obama is a Muslim has climbed significantly since he entered the White House and now accounts for nearly one in five people, according to a survey out today. Eighteen percent of the American population said that they thought Obama -- a...

Opinion: Earth to Conservatives on 'Journolist' Flap: Get Over It

(July 26) -- So conservatives are up in arms because liberal scribes mused on the Journolist message board about scuttling the Rev. Jeremiah Wright story and otherwise providing a helping hand to candidate Barack Obama? In the journalist -- as opposed to Journolist -- community, there's a term for a story like that: "Dog...

Opinion: Reid, Rage and Race

(Jan. 12) -- Conventional wisdom says I should be boiling over in sheer rage. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., had the audacity to say during the 2008 presidential campaign that Barack Obama was a light-skinned African-American "with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one." To quote the great...

Background on 2008 election

This electoral calendar 2008 lists the national/federal direct elections held in 2008 in the de jure and de facto sovereign states and their dependent territories.

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