Oct 29th, 2008 · Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama Wednesday night launches an unprecedented television blitz. The campaign ad will blanket most major broadcast networks. The ad will delay by 15 minutes the start of Game 5 of the World Series on Fox.
Oct 23rd, 2008 · Every campaign cycle, familiar voices come on to radios and televisions: the voices of negativity, the voices of doom. Scott Sanders and Dennis Steele, two of the master voiceover artists of the political world, talk about what's in demand this year.
Oct 23rd, 2008 · The host of MSNBC's nightly political roundup The Rachel Maddow Show offers a combination of perspectives not often seen on cable television — that of a former Rhodes scholar, an AIDS and prison reform activist, a left-leaning radio host and an openly gay woman.
Oct 15th, 2008 · The third and final presidential debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y., is in the history books. This was the last scheduled opportunity for Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama to go mano-a-mano on prime time television before the Nov. 4 election. With the help of NPR reporters, let's see if the candidates got their facts straight.
Oct 15th, 2008 · Adlai Stevenson, who tried to "talk sense to the American people," was an old-fashioned intellectual who believed in long speeches and the power of words. But in 1952, Stevenson faced Dwight Eisenhower on a new battleground — television — and lost.
Oct 9th, 2008 · Last week alone, Barack Obama outspent John McCain by about $6 million in television advertising. Jonathan Martin of Politico offers his insight on how the candidates are spending their money and time in the last days of the campaign.
Oct 4th, 2008 · Business is up at the Silver Lining Jewelry and Loan in Portland, Ore. Customers are selling everything from jewelry to television sets. The Oregonian newspaper reports that a woman even pawned her diamond wedding ring to help pay for gas and car parts.
Oct 2nd, 2008 · Civil Rights "cold cases" from the 1940s and 50s are being reopened by the FBI, in hopes of getting convictions or closure for the families of the victims. A new four-part television series premiering October 5th, Murder in Black and White, takes a look at several of the cases under FBI investigation.