Available for download / streaming audio -- Minnesota Public Radio aired Truth-Telling in the Media and the Fall Elections, a discussion panel hosted by UMN's Humphrey Institute during the RNC.

Guests included:

• Kathleen Hall Jamieson: Director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania and author of several books, ( Read more... )

April 27 North Carolina debate is apparently a go. Whatever, I'll just sit here setting Sims on fire the whole time.

For the Edwards fans among us who've been hoping for a ticket, he's ruling it out.

Wolfson "suggested" that Clinton's tax returns will be out "today or tomorrow." Says commenter MarkieBee:

Wanna bet they'll be one big black ( Read more... )

WASHINGTON - The National Archives and the William J. Clinton Presidential Library on Wednesday released more than 11,000 pages of Hillary Rodham Clinton's public schedule for her eight years as first lady.The long-awaited documents, released in response to a Freedom of Information Act request and a lawsuit, show her daily activities for the 2,888 ( Read more... )

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama is threatening to take action against the federal agency that's keeping secret the names of nursing homes it has designated as among the worst in the United States.As The Des Moines Register reported earlier this week, the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid has established a list of 128 ( Read more... )

Clinton said Obama's proposal was "crafted for politics" and the latest example of his shifting policy positions. Obama said much the same of her approach ( Read more... )

NEWSWEEK: Hillary's team says she was ganged up on by men in last week's debate. Does she get or deserve special treatment because she is a woman?
OBAMA: I don't think that Senator Clinton would ever suggest that she should be treated differently because she's a woman. And I actually thought that everybody was very courteous in their disagreements ( Read more... )

That's a nice impression of a CNN Political Ticker headline, but what he actually said was:

After listening to Obama address a crowded community center, a voter asked him to consider naming Gore as his running mate before the nomination is decided "as a way to take the wind out of Hillary's sails ( Read more... )