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Every day until November 4, a series of writers and thinkers will discuss the election over instant messenger for nymag.com. For our inaugural conversation, we bring together Ross Douthat and Jonah Goldberg.
An avalanche of disclosures has led to questions regarding the seriousness with which John McCain vetted his running mate.
Poll numbers at the opening of the Democratic convention show that Biden was more than a shrewd pick; he may have been a necessary pick.
The jowly senator from Connecticut finds himself at the center of two campaign firestorms.
After endless rumination and media speculation, Barack Obama’s decision on a running mate is nigh. Nigh! Just how nigh, nobody is quite sure.
Veepstakes speculation is hot again, and the name on everybody's lips is Virginia governor Tim Kaine.
Were hopes for what way back when was called the “Dream Ticket” quashed yesterday by none other than Clinton’s former campaign chair, Terry McAuliffe?
Will you really pick your running mate this week or are you just trying to fulfill your own selfish need for media attention?
Virginia senator Jim Webb said that "under no circumstances" would he agree to become Barack Obama's vice-president.
The voices of outrage face off against those pundits who can afford to defend Clark.
It’s easy enough to pinpoint exactly who this year’s Republican vice-presidential candidate should be — but Arnold Schwarzenegger is not eligible for the post.
Obama is as starkly unusual a presidential contender as the country has ever seen, which means he can choose either to amplify or offset any of the characteristics that define his own candidacy.
A Clinton bundler said that the hire was the "biggest fuck you I have ever seen in politics."
Will Obama even be able to avoid tainting his platform of transformational reform with the business-as-usual politicians required in, you know, a presidential campaign? Maybe!
Maybe a little more vetting and a little less e-mailing with Scarlett Johansson would have been the way to go.
The Virginia senator: "Rednecks don't bowl, and I am one."
Let's be honest, the veepstakes is the funnest part of any presidential election. It's like drafting your fantasy baseball team, except you're not drunk and your Internet didn't freeze right when you were picking.
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