Election Night Webcast
Our election night webcast was produced by the Political Reporting program at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, in association with the News 21 Initiative on the Future of Journalism Education. Listen to the archive of the webcast, view images from the evening and the show schedule here.
Continuing the Dream
Many factors went into making Barack Obama the man he is today. But had he come of age at any other time, the color of his skin would have dashed any of his hopes.
Ian Sherr traveled to Selma, Alabama, to revisit its civil rights legacy and to find out exactly what Barack Obama’s presidency means to the people who struggled all those years ago.
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The Old Dominion
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has been surging in polls. There’s been a lot of talk about the growing Democratic electorate in the Northern Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C. Political reporter Kim Geiger takes us to the southern part of Virginia to explore just how strong Obama’s support really is.
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Bright and Love in dead heat for votes
by Ian Sherr
MONTGOMERY, AL—Since Bobby Bright was asking for his vote, Roger Gaither thought this would be the perfect opportunity to ask the Democratic congressional candidate what might be the most important question of the campaign.
“People around here talk about how when you were asked if you support Obama, you raised your hand and said ‘yes.’ Is that true?”
Gaither, the owner of the Gallery antique shop in Wetumpka, about 20 miles north of here, had recently seen a television ad designed to portray Bright as out of step with Alabamans because of his support for Democratic Presidential hopeful Barack Obama.
Now, here was the Mayor—campaigning right at Gaither’s counter.
Local Politics a Factor in Florida’s 16th
Kim Geiger reports from Fort Pierce, Florida.
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Website links Obama Volunteers and Donors
Kim Geiger investigates a new website designed to help people campaign for Obama.
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Shifting Sands – Nevada’s 3rd District is Leaning Blue
by Tuomas Forsell
Republican congressman Jon Porter is fighting a race of his life in Nevada’s 3rd district.
Democratic candidate Dina Titus is looking to turn the district blue, and an influx of new residents, rising unemployment and one of the highest home foreclosure rates in the country could tip the race in her favor.
Musgrave Has Tough Fight In CO 4
By Nicholas Kusnetz
FORT COLLINS—Marilyn Musgrave should be a shoo-in for reelection based on the overwhelmingly Republican electorate here in Colorado’s 4th congressional district. Instead, the three-term incumbent who went to Washington pushing a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage is fighting for her political life. This staunch conservative spends her time on the stump talking about her bi-partisan work in the House, while ads attacking her Democratic opponent flood the airwaves.
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