Political Phile

This is really appalling.

Following his funeral, FBI agents called Anderson’s widow to say they wanted to search his papers. At the time, the FBI confirmed it wanted to remove any classified materials from Anderson’s archives, located at George Washington University, before they are made available to the public.

The government eventually backed off.

FBI chief called columnist a jackal, papers reveal - CNN.co

This strikes me as an eminently sensible design decision. Previous campaigns were doing it wrong! There’s only one President.

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Doug Ross at Director Blue points out a curiosity from yesterday’s joint appearance by Barack Obama and Joe Biden in Springfield, Illinois yesterday, and not just the fumbled announcement or Biden calling his running mate “Barack America”. Take a look at the signs passed out to the crowd (for free?) at the rally. Do you see a difference between the way the names are presented in this design?

Note how the “Biden” fades into the blue of the sign. This becomes more pronounced in the video of the event, and Doug has screencaps to demonstrate this. Now let’s take a look at how previous campaigns have juxtaposed the names of the running mates with those of the presidential contenders: