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November 10, 2008
Finding Fame With a Prescient Call for Obama
By STEPHANIE CLIFFORD
At 9:46 p.m., blogging on his site FiveThirtyEight.com, Nate Silver called the presidential election for Barack Obama. The television networks followed suit about an hour and 15 minutes later after most polls in Western states closed.
Of course, Mr. Silver had a head start: he [...]

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Newsweek has done a 7 part, very lengthy series of articles written from behind-the-scenes information gathered by their embedded reporters from within the various candidates’ campaigns. They were given great access but had to agree to not write about any of it until after Election Day. Below are links to the 7 chapters of this [...]

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For 34 Years, Eugene Allen Carried White House Trays With Pride. Now There’s Even More Reason to Carry Himself That Way.
By Wil Haygood
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, November 7, 2008
For more than three decades Eugene Allen worked in the White House, a black man unknown to the headlines. During some of those years, harsh segregation laws [...]

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Steffanie says this is totally me:

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During the campaign the frenzied crowds at Sarah Palin rallies did seem indicative of something frightening in the air, and it turns out that there was a reason to conclude this, Newsweek reports:
The Obama campaign was provided with reports from the Secret Service showing a sharp and disturbing increase in threats to Obama in [...]

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