Swing State Style
Renata Espinosa is the New York editor of Fashion Wire Daily. She is also the co-founder of impressionistic fashion and art blog TheNuNu and a sometimes backup dancer for "The Anna Copa Cabanna Show."
The American heartland is influencing more than politics this season as sturdy, no-frills fashions hit the blues states.
Barack and the Boss
Charles Michener is a former senior editor at The New Yorker and Newsweek. He is writing a book about Cleveland for Knopf entitled The Hidden City.
Four years ago, John Kerry, bolstered by Springsteen, spoke in Ohio to a similar crowd. Today, Obama knows exactly what to say.
Dispatches From the Swing States
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As the campaign enters its final hours, Daily Beast correspondents report from the battlegrounds: Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania and North Carolina.
Arizonans for Obama?
Ruy Teixeira is a Visiting Fellow at Brookings and an expert of political demography and geography. He also co-directs a joint Brookings-American Enterprise Institute project: The Future of Red, Blue and Purple America.
William H. Frey, a senior fellow in the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution, is also a research professor in population studies at the University of Michigan.
Five reasons the swing states are going blue.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Martin Jacques is the cofounder of the UK think tank Demos, writes a regular column for The Guardian, and is a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. His new book, When China Rules the World, is available now.
Christopher Buckley's books include Supreme Courtship, The White House Mess, Thank You for Smoking, Little Green Men, and Florence of Arabia. He was chief speechwriter for Vice President George H.W. Bush, and is editor-at-large of ForbesLife magazine. His new book is Losing Mum and Pup, a memoir. Buckley's Daily Beast column is the winner of an Online Journalism Award in the category of Online Commentary.
The Daily Beast is dedicated to news and commentary, culture, and entertainment. We carefully curate the web’s most essential stories and bring you original must-reads from our talented contributors.
Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Jeffrey Koterba is an acclaimed syndicated political cartoonist. Since joining the Omaha World-Herald in 1989, he has been a finalist for Editorial Cartoonist of the Year from the National Cartoonists Society and has placed second in the National Headliner Awards. His work is distributed through King Features Syndicate to 400 newspapers nationwide, and has appeared in such publications as the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the Washington Post, among others.
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