A group of people have gathered beside a gazebo in an outdoor park to discuss the presidential election. But the park isn't real, it's in the online virtual world of Second Life, where pixelated avatars fly around and interact with each other. ...more

November 4, 2008

TAMPA - A largely young, racially diverse crowd of several hundred people chanting "Yes we can" at the top of their lungs showed up for the opening of Barack Obama's statewide campaign headquarters in an Ybor City office building this afternoon. ...more

July 16, 2008

NEW PORT RICHEY – Bill Bunting of Hudson will serve as chairman of John McCain's presidential campaign in Pasco County. Bunting, longtime chairman of the Pasco County Republican Executive Committee, is one of the names with ties to West Pasco on the Florida leadership team the political staff of the presumptive Republican presidential nominee announced Friday. ...more

June 20, 2008

Before he was a journalist, Tim Russert, who died suddenly Friday, was a pol. In both incarnations, he was a pro's pro. Throughout, he was an awfully good guy. ...more

June 17, 2008

Campaign Memories The Iowa caucuses cause all the candidates running for president to move to New Hampshire where it was an interesting and refreshing experience for this writer to spend weekend after weekend there in Nashua and Manchester and other cities in 1984 to campaign as the "Buckeye Brigade" for John Glenn, my Muskingum College alumna and graduate in New Concord, Ohio, where he was reared. ...more

January 10, 2008