An Obama Compendium An Obama Compendium
One of the most excruiating parts of election day is that it's an epistemic black hole. Not just for the public, for us reporters and even inside the campaign. The Obama campaign ...
Nov 4, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Tracking Voter Problems Part Deux Tracking Voter Problems Part Deux
Another dispatch from Emma. One thing to keep in mind. Today somewhere around 130 million people are going to cast votes. If there's, say, a 1% error rate, which would be tremendo...
Nov 4, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Live-Tracking Voting Problems Live-Tracking Voting Problems
WASHINGTON, DC -- From Nation intern Emma Dumain, comes this dispatch: It's like the Situation Room here at Election Protection's National Command Center in Washington, DC, where...
Nov 4, 2008 / Chris Hayes
One Hundred Percent One Hundred Percent
EMPORIA, VA -- Stipulating up front that this post violates the law of small numbers, but what the heck, I'm a reporter, right? We don't need no stinkin social science. Anyway, ju...
Nov 4, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Our Low Turnout System Our Low Turnout System
EMPORIA, VA - There are no lines to vote in this sleepy town and 80 miles south of Richmond, but that doesn't mean turnout isn't high. When I asked a poll worker at the local soci...
Nov 4, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Election Morning in Virginia Election Morning in Virginia
RICHMOND, VA -- It's drizzling here in the heart of the old confederacy. But the the Virginia for Change headquarters is packed full of volunteers manning a call center. The roo...
Nov 4, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Last Call Last Call
MANASSAS, VA -- On the final campaign stop on his epic, 21-month odyssey, Barack Obama looked weary. Back in February 2007, on a bone-chillingly cold day in Springfield, Obama ha...
Nov 4, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Trick or Vote Trick or Vote
Looking to combine your Halloween and electoral activities tonight?You're in luck. Trick or Vote isthe nation's largest costumed canvassing operation. They've gotcostumed canvass...
Oct 31, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Support Rashid Khalidi Support Rashid Khalidi
I haven't spent any time on the latest McCarthyite garbage McCainFoxDrudge is pushing, attempting to make an issue of Obama's "ties" to Palestinian-American historian and author R...
Oct 31, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Sweet Home Pennsylvania Sweet Home Pennsylvania
James Carville infamously described Pennsylvania as Philadelphia on one side, Pittsburgh on the other and Alabam in between. The Alabama portion, that part of the state with lots ...
Oct 30, 2008 / Chris Hayes