Politics

April 29, 2008 - Facing South has come across an interesting new piece of information in the case of the deceptive North Carolina robo-calls that are drawing outrage from the State Board of Elections and voting rights advocates.

April 29, 2008 - As we reported earlier today, illegal robo-calls giving false voter information to mostly African-American households in North Carolina are very similar to calls made to voters in southern Virginia before that state's primary this spring (as well as Ohio last year).

April 29, 2008 - UPDATED at 10:22 am with information about Virginia -- CK

April 25, 2008 - During presidential candidate John McCain's visit to New Orleans yesterday, reporters asked him about Pastor John Hagee's statements that Hurricane Katrina was God's judgment against New Orleans for a gay pride parade.

April 25, 2008 - Are Sens. Clinton and Obama fighting hard for North Carolina? Earlier this week, columnist Rob Christensen suggested that the Democratic presidential hopefuls were largely bypassing the state, given that the result -- an Obama victory -- is considered a foregone conclusion:

April 24, 2008 - It appears either Georgia or Mississippi will be the first state to carry out the death penalty after last week's Supreme Court decision: Georgia first execution in nearly a year set for May 6

April 24, 2008 - We got an anonymous comment yesterday from someone responding to Chris's recent post about the South Carolina church sign asking if "Obama" and "Osama" were brothers. As comment moderator, I aim to avoid spreading misinformation in our forum.