Sarah Palin

By Patricia Murphy So how are independent voters responding to all of the drama in Washington? Not so well, it turns out. Chris Cillizza at The Washington Post writes that for the first time in four years, more independent voters lean Republican than lean Democratic. At the Capitolist, that's what we like to c...

Then read these Obama-supporters and Obama-liberal newspaper pundits: But by then, it'll be too late. You'll have the government against you, then. And you'll die before you can fight to reverse this havoc that you've allowed Obama and the Democrats to wreak.

 United States Discuss the latest news about the Obama administration and the world of politics with Ben Pershing, who writes the daily Rundown for The Post's Political Browser. Pershing was online June 9 at 11 am ET to take your questions. Ben Pershing: Happy rainy ...

 United States Boston: After seeing Palin again on clips from Fox, I was reminded why the nation reacted so negatively towards her in the election (besides the hardcore Republicans). Does the Republican party seriously consider her as a party leader heading into the ...

 United States Last year, Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin blazed trails for women in politics. But the paths for aspiring female leaders are still much rockier than many had hoped. Washington Post Magazine contributor Vanessa Gezari and Debbie Walsh, director of the ...

By James McPherson Also still among the top eight are my August prediction that Barack Obama would handily win the presidential election and my back-to-back June posts suggesting that the vice presidential nominees should be Joe Biden and Sarah Palin–though because a link to to it appears at the bo...

 United States - Obama's win proved that America is now a very large tent, but Sarah Palin appeals to a very small, one- or two-issue group, and yet the GOP sees a future ...

By Melissa Oh, and isn't the Republican Party supposed to stand foursquare against intrusions on privacy? Then why were Republicans so unmoved when it was revealed that the Bush administration had been conducting unprecedented surveillance of Americans' private electronic communications?

By Nancy Scola Micah makes note of the breaking news that two of Governor Sarah Palin's Yahoo.com email accounts seem to have been breached. Some of the accounts' contents have posted to the wild west that is 4chan.org, as well as elsewhere on the web. The details of the incident are still shaking out, and it'...

By The Editor THE Post today enthusiastically urges the election of Sen. John S. McCain as the 44th president of the United States. McCain's lifelong record of service to America, his battle-tested courage, unshakeable devotion to principle and clear grasp of the dangers and opportunities now facing...