CU Dem Zach Sims had a piece published in the Columbia Spectator this week; he one of six people asked to write about the most important issue of this election. You can see all of the responses here. Zach’s is posted below: As much as the rhetoric of a new America and a new American [...]

Probably thousands of people are rushing the security fence in the hope of seeing Barack, even though it seems unlikely he will come by here John McCain is almost an afterthought. And, just for the record, he didn’t come by his thousands of adoring fans.

9:42 As Obama ends, he gets an enormous wave of cheers. John McCain must envy him. 9:40 Obama knows his campaign and how intense it is, even for young people. On my first day in the campaign, my boss asked me how much I could work because she’d “work me up to the point where [...]

9:26 Obama mentions veterans again. Why didn’t the veteran, John McCain, not care enough about veterans to take note of them? 9:23 The screen is having trouble again. 9:20 Judy Woodruff is smart. She knows that, no matter what John McCain says, military recruitment and retention is not good. Barack Obama supported the new GI [...]

UPDATE VI: McCain got some applause here, but not for himself. He got it for praising Barack Obama. Richard Stengal, Barack Obama, and Judy Woodruff have probably already received about as much applause as John McCain has. UPDATE V: McCain is getting a decidedly lukewarm response here, probably because he hasn’t said much controversial. UPDATE [...]