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Here's an exercise for some evening when you're curious about big nationwide trends in this year's elections.

NBC Universal is getting ridiculous with its shameless courting of President Obama. On the morning of Sept. 27, NBC's Matt Lauer interviewed Obama for a half-hour with no commercials. But it wasn't just on NBC. Their devotion to El Jefe is so transparent they aired it live on most of their other cable properties, including MSNBC, USA, Syfy, Bravo, Oxygen, Chiller, Sleuth, Universal HD and Universal Sports.

NEW YORK -- After living in New York City for a few weeks, I've reached a few conclusions about the great political divide in America.

Few things have captured in microcosm what has gone so painfully wrong where racial issues are concerned, like the recent election for mayor of Washington, D.C.

NEW YORK -- Question of the day: Why do presidents give the White House keys to Bob Woodward?

Members of Congress may be heading home by weeks end to start the final campaign for the fight of their political life.

WASHINGTON -- Although a Niagara of vitriol is drenching politics, the two parties are acting sensibly and in tandem about something once considered a matter of constitutional significance -- the process by which presidential nominations are won.

WASHINGTON -- When facing a tsunami, what do you do? Pray, and tell yourself stories. I am not privy to the Democrats' private prayers, but I do hear the stories they're telling themselves. The new meme is that there's a civil war raging in the Republican Party. The tea party will wreck it from within and prove to be the Democrats' salvation.