6 August: A guide to 5 key campaign flip flops
5 August: Negative campaigning works for McCain
4 Aug: Obama sells out on offshore drilling
1 Aug: Has Obama played the race card?

NEW TO CRIKEY: Video reports from the US campaign trail!

The Southeast Homeschool Expo - Exclusive video coverage
Netroots Nation - Interview with Elise from Daily KOS
Netroots Nation - Interview with Jim Hightower from Hightower Lowdown

Crikey's US correspondent Guy Rundle is covering the 2008 presidential race right down to the wire.

Today in the US -- it's Python without penguins
These are a series of strange days indeed for the United States ... this has been one of them.
Obama's got game and watching the repeats:
Long and short of it is that McCain's taunt that Obama should visit Iraq has turned around on him about as magnificently as it could.
The old left collapses into the blogosphere:
The Netroots gathering -- with about 1000 attendees -- is a mirror of the blogosphere that generated it.

WANT MORE? VISIT THE CAMPAIGN ARCHIVE HERE

Do I pay more at Woolworths? Yes. I pay more money. But I can't shop at the smaller retailes with shorter opening hours, and I at my hourly rate I waste less time in double shopping by going to Woolies over the under-stocked Coles. Woolworths power might be out of hand because they give people what they need and their competitors have practices that are not compatible with modern living.
Bart on Why Graeme Samuel has plenty of interest in all things retail (1 comment)

Politics is indeed a strange business in WA. Noel Crichton-Browne writing a character reference for Troy Buswell? It reminds me of the days of Bjelke Petersen here in Qld where Kafkaesque absurdity reigned supreme. I guess that's life in a frontier state. The Liberal Party is just a laughing stock all over the Country.
Peter on Crichton-Browne: Buswell's departure a tragedy. Sniff. (20 comments)

Turnbull is not a leader of men. Intelligent yes but politically inept and lacking the abilty to connect with people. In the Republican schemozzle that Turnbull led he was outgunned by Abbott and unable to pull his disparate forces together. Costello and Abbott, who go back a long way to their Unversity days know Turnbull would be a big Left turn for the Liberals and a disaster. Its the Conservative base that needs mobilising and 'Howards battlers'. The next election is there to be taken. Those miners in the Latrobe Valley fired a warning shot across the bow of the good ship Rudd at the Gippsland poll.
John James on Costellogy: Why Turnbull should call Pete's bluff (24 comments)

  
BUCHAN: Water buybacks are not an overnight solution
CHRICHTON-BROWNE: Buswell's departure a tragedy
PASCOE: Why we won't have a (real) recession
KEANE: Costellogy: Why Turnbull should call Pete's bluff

 

A Crikey series of articles looking at whether the ABC is fulfilling its charter as a public broadcaster, what it should be doing and how to move forward.

The ABC: Outsourcings "R" us
What does the ABC's Charter actually mean?
ABC and SBS look to the future (and hope it's cashed up)