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2008-10-22 10:18:57 Wolfram Blog
The New York Times recently published an
"Op-Chart" by Tommy McCall on its
Opinion page showing what your returns
would have been had you started with
$10,000 in 1929 and invested it in the
stock market, but only during the
administrations of either Democratic or
Republican presidents....
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2008-10-22 10:00:32 FastUpFront: Small Business Blog
The recent announcement of Sarah Palin
to the Republican ticket has spawned
much discussion and debate about the
ability of working women to balance
motherhood with careerism.
Women
traditionally have felt and still feel
that they need to change themselves in
order to succeed in the ...
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2008-10-22 09:56:02 NASCAR FanHouse
Filed under: NASCAR Gossip, NASCAR
Tracks, Sprint CupRepublican vice
presidential candidate Sarah Palin's
first man husband will take his turn on
the GOP's swing of NASCAR races with
less than three weeks remaining in the
presidential election.The Alaskan
governor's husband, Todd Palin...
, CindyMcCain , LowesMotorSpeedway , MartinsvilleSpeedway , SarahPalin , SprintCup , ToddPalin , TumsQuikPak500
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2008-10-22 09:34:18 Roll Call - Breaking News
House Minority Leader John Boehner
(R-Ohio) has been campaigning intensely
for Republican candidates in recent
weeks with his leadership post possibly
in peril after Nov. 4.
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2008-10-22 09:09:01 The Sideshow
I was reminded last night that they used
to call it "The Great Depression"
because it was bigger and more
far-reaching than the previous
depressions. That's what they used to
call them: "depressions". Only after
people started short-handing The Great
Depression as simply "the Depress...
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2008-10-22 08:06:11 Andrew Tobias
Published on October 20, 2008 ANOTHER
LIFELONG REPUBLICAN FOR OBAMA What does
it say to moderate Republicans that
Colin Powell joins Susan Eisenhower,
Julie Nixon Eisenhower, and such other
lifelong Republican voters as William F.
Buckley Jr.
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2008-10-22 06:58:42 Roll Call Print Edition Current Issue
With Rep. Tim Mahoney's (D-Fla.)
political future still uncertain as of
late Wednesday, Democrats continued to
portray the embattled lawmaker as a lone
bad apple, while Republicans hoped to
score political points in South Florida
and elsewhere.
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2008-10-22 06:37:01 Lawyer Advertising Blog - Attorney Advertising & Marketing Info
Winning an election is all about
advertising and it’s all in the
message. McCain is using the tried and
true Republican message which is attack
the opponent. This message has worked
very well in the past, but is not
working now. Attacking the opponent
works when the population...
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2008-10-22 The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
With the election now only 2 weeks away,
it's all hands on deck for those of us
who want to see Barack Obama become the
next president. The question that so
many people ask themselves is: What can
I do to help? Well, it depends on who
you are. Here are some ideas for all
sorts of p...
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2008-10-22 FlowingData
This is a guest post from Michael
Drumheller, Dirk Karis, Raif Majeed and
Robert Morton of Tableau Software. They
use Tableau to explore the relationship
between polls and predictive
markets.
Predictive markets such as
Intrade and the Iowa Electronic Markets
have attracted more attenti...
, Statistical , Statistics
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2008-10-22 L.A. Times - Politics
The Republican's campaign is struggling
to win the blue state to offset
potential losses of former red states.
John McCain's
efforts to snare Pennsylvania appear to
be faltering despite a substantial...
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2008-10-22 Hullabaloo
How Helpfulby digbyNothing like
deploying a bunch of cops on the streets
of American cities, looking for
marauding African Americans to help get
out the vote:Police departments in
cities across the country are beefing up
their ranks for Election Day, preparing
for possible civil unrest...
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2008-10-22 The Moderate Voice
The final days find male Caucasians in
the spotlight as John McCain pushes his
white hope, Joe the Plumber and David
Brooks focuses on Patio Man.
In a time
of unprecedented fear and worry,
traditional male breadwinners seem to be
the Republicans’ best target, but
the question ari...
, Newsweek , Sarah , 2004 , 1988 , Voting , John , Politics , 2008 , Gender , Republicans , History
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Despite all of the Palin-McCain talk
about "socialism" they still can get
around the fact that what we have
witnessed (and continue to experience)
is socialism for CEOs and the elite.
People who pumped up the market and made
commissions at every turn are still
sitting on those profits...
, employment , recession , Republican , real
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2008-10-21 Media Matters for America
On the October 20 edition of Clear
Channel's The Big Show with Bill
Cunningham, guest Rev. Jesse
Lee
Peterson said of former Secretary
of
State Colin Powell's endorsement of
Sen.
Barack Obama: "[H]e's clearly for the
color of the man and not
the character."
Cunningham replied, "Great
c...
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2008-10-21 Pharyngula
You really don't want to read about
another terrifying crazy Republican
woman, do you? Too bad. Here it is: a
good Christian homeschooling mom who
doesn't like gay people. And by "doesn't
like", I mean "wants them stoned to
death and everything they touch blown
up."
A friend recently ...
, Politics
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2008-10-21 Gordon's Notes
Sorry, I just love that title. Five
years ago Bachman might have had a quiet
life as a barking mad loon (sorry,
can’t stop) and talk radio favorite in
very safe congressional seat,
representing a mixed rural exurban
district east of Saint Paul. In the
YouTube era, however, a crazed ...
, media , politics
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Over at the Campaign Spot, Jim Geraghty
wonders how the new ABC/Washington Post
poll could have the temerity to suggest
that Barack Obama is winning more
support among Democrats than John McCain
is among Republicans:The ABC/WashPost
poll in late September found 86 percent
of Republican...
, party , defectors , independents
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2008-10-21 The Caucus
The Republican nominee gears his TV
commercials toward key states, and
Democrats observe, drops the financing
of ads in some others.
, The , john , political
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2008-10-21 social-media WordPress.com Tag Feed
Today, I speak with Sarah Lyall, who is
a reporter in London for the New York
Times. I try and get in her head about
social media's impact on traditional
media, as well as how to be a successful
journalist, and the importance of
breaking from from your geography to
work abroad.
Wha...
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2008-10-21 Speedkill
The reaction to Colin Powell’s
endorsement of Obama is amusing.
You’ve all seen Limbaugh’s
reaction. Here’s Buchanan’s
similar reaction:
Gen. Powell does not
deny it, contending only that race was
not the only or decisive factor. “If I
had only that fact...
, 2008
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2008-10-21 Econbrowser
There is so much chaff floating around
about the roles of Fannie and Freddie
and of the Community Reinvestment Act in
the current crisis, despite the best
efforts of economists like Jim Hamilton
[0] [1], Mark Thoma and Janet Yellen,
that it seems worthwhile to once again
go through som...
, financial
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2008-10-21 Dorf on Law
My latest FindLaw column praises the
Supreme Court for its per curiam in
Brunner v. Ohio Republican Party. The
Court acted in a principled way, I say,
by applying the very restrictive law on
implied rights of actions for private
parties to sue to enforce Acts of
Congress. For the mos...
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2008-10-21 ThePoliticalCat
Welp. Apparently, The Daily Show decided
to take a look. Nice to know that
millions of our dollars are going to
Alaska to subsidize a bunch of assholes
who refer to the rest of us as
"goddamned jackasses" while telling us
their Mayor (who doesn't provide
anything by way of social servi...
, YouTube , Jon , 2008 , entertainment , taxpayers , funny , republicans , Palin
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2008-10-21 Samizdata.net
Greg Nemitz is running a write-in
campaign for the Idaho 2nd Congressional
District: I'm Gregory Nemitz. I'm a
conservative Republican running for
Congress as an official Write-In
candidate for Idaho's 2nd Congressional
District. Your Congressman, Mike
Simpson, recently voted twice for...
, North
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From the Wall Street Journal:Republican
former Secretary of State Colin Powell's
endorsement of Sen. Barack Obama is the
latest sign that the Republican Party's
coalition is fracturing amid the
stresses of the campaign....The
endorsement comes after a series of
events that have pointed...
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2008-10-21 A Piece of My Mind
I think Mr. Powell does a great job of
putting it all out there. I especially
liked that he called out the Republican
party for fear-mongering when it comes
to Sen. Obama.
, Politics
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2008-10-21 The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
"Saving Marriage" sounds like another
name for the No on Prop 8 campaign - the
effort to save gay marriage in
California from the reactionary forces
across the country that are trying to
snatch back this right, granted just
months ago by the state Supreme Court.
That's a Republican...
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2008-10-21 Personal Branding Blog - Dan Schawbel
Today, I speak with Sarah Lyall, who is
a reporter in London for the New York
Times. I try and get in her head about
social media’s impact on
traditional media, as well as how to be
a successful journalist, and the
importance of breaking from from your
geography to work abroad....
, Book , Career , Interview , People , Personal , Success , social
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2008-10-21 Michael Geist Blog
My weekly technology law column
(Toronto Star version, Ottawa Citizen
version, homepage version) assess the
use of the Internet in the last
election. Business increasingly
recognizes the need for an Internet
strategy that engages current and
prospective customers. In the
j...
, conservatives , liberal , politics , web , youtube
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2008-10-21 The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed
Miami Gardens, FL--
2pm--I pick up a
woman in a wheelchair for early voting.
Earlier in the day, I was knocking on
doors and asking them if they wanted a
ride to the polls. Volunteers and staff
are fanning out across the state in the
largest get out the vote (GOTV) effort
in history. ...
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2008-10-21 The Stinging Nettle
Saw an interesting post this morning,
linked through Andrew Sullivan, by Larry
Gellman. I don't know Gellman - assume
he's a Republican - and this isn't the
thrust of his post but I found one
comment interesting.
Money quote (for
me): "Anyone who is a religious
Christian can't honestl...
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2008-10-21 WSJ.com: Washington Wire - WSJ.com
Gary Fields reports on the presidential
race.
Exactly two weeks before Election
Day, a new poll confirms what many
election observers already anticipate
for Barack Obama—a record setting
turnout among black voters motivated by
his historic presidential bid.
A poll
released today b...
, Campaign
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2008-10-21 MediaShift
In October of last year, a man named
Leon H Wolf published a post on the
front page of influential conservative
blogging community RedState titled,
"Attention, Ron Paul Supporters (Life is
REALLY Not Fair)." One of a handful of
bloggers who run the site, Wolf and his
blogging colleague...
, Citizen , Culture , Media , Online , Social , Weblogs , bloggers , daily , diaries , politics , redstate
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2008-10-21 Corrente
In response to caseyOR’s question,
what is UHC? I thought I’d try to
answer without getting too geeky or
wonky.
####################
UHC
This
abbreviation is variously used for both
Universal Health Care and Universal
Health Coverage.
The word coverage is
used in this cont...
, In , Department , HR , Medicare , single , UHC
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for failing to vet Sarah Palin before
choosing her for his running
mate:
Brett Blackledge, Adam Goldman,
and Matt Apuzzo of AP:
Alaska funded
Palin kids' travel: Gov. Sarah Palin
charged the state for her children to
travel with her, including to events
where they were not invited...
, Politics , Politics: , Sorting: , Sorting: , Utter
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2008-10-21 Florida Politics
"Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton wave
to a crowd estimated at 60,000 as they
leave Orlando on Monday"Reputedly the
largest campaign event in Florida
historyIn the meantime, "Republicans are
scrambling to limit Americans' right to
vote in Florida"
The Palm Beach Post
editorial Board t...
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2008-10-21 Gawker
What business does Sarah Palin have
spending $75,000+ at Neiman Marcus and
$50,000 at Saks if she's not planning to
be part of the "Washington elite" or
"seek their good opinion," as she told
the Republican National Convention in
September? She probably wants to look
snazzy on TV, beca...
, That's , Election , Fashion , John , Media , Politics , sarah , the
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Back in 1964, Lyndon Johnson and his
hatchet man Bill Moyers made the
infamous "Daisy" ad charging Barry
Goldwater would cause a nuclear war, and
it became a massive media story.
Reportedly the ad ran only once and yet
everyone came to know about it, thanks
to the press. In 1976 and ag...
, Colin , Joe
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2008-10-21 Salon: Glenn Greenwald
(updated below)
Time's Mark
Halperin was on some right-wing talk
radio show this morning -- where he
spends much of his time -- and agreed
with Rush Limbaugh that race motivated
Colin Powell to endorse Barack Obama:
Q: Is race part of that?
Halperin:
Powell himself said race...
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2008-10-21 Download Squad
Filed under: Features, News, Lists
If
you haven't been following the U.S.
presidential election, now is a good
time to start. With two weeks to go,
pundits everywhere are wondering whether
Barack Obama's lead over John McCain
will hold up. Whether you're a Democrat,
a Republican, or no...
, election , mccain , mccainvs.obama , obama , politics , president2008
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2008-10-21 TPMMuckraker
The GOP effort to suppress the vote has
reared its head in Nevada.
Yesterday,
Sue Lowden, the state Republican chair,
sent a letter to Democratic Secretary of
State Ross Miller, asking him to prevent
some from voting, because their
registrations are incomplete.
How
may peope are...
, ACORN , Voting
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2008-10-21 NPL Npindex top stories
Democrat Barack Obama focused on the
ailing economy in Florida Tuesday,
meeting with a panel of advisers and
accusing Republican rival John McCain of
fumbling his response to the financial
crisis
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2008-10-21 Drug and Device Law
You read it here first!It's hard to
scoop the mainstream media, so we're
jumping the gun to give ourselves a
chance: We're calling Barack Obama the
winner of the 2008 presidential
election.If North Carolina and Indiana
are seriously in play, then this
election is over, and Obama won it...
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2008-10-21 strategy WordPress.com Tag Feed
Biden's Misstep?"
Even Joe Biden
does not believe in Barack
Obama!
Presidential and
Vice-Presidential candidates of both
political parties periodically receive
background intelligence briefings by the
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and
the Federal Bureau of Investigation ...
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2008-10-21 Daimnation!
Another well-known Republican is backing
Obama, but I don't think the Democrats
will be trumpeting this one:
There have
been so many scandals since October,
2006, the month that I launched this
blog, that I just about forgot who Mark
Foley was.
I got an excited phone call
yesterday f...
,
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2008-10-21 ArchPundit
Progress Illinois covers Lake County
incompetence.
I’m not sure why
checking IDs for everyone is even a
concern in this case:
Starting in
mid-August, Helander’s staff began
flagging questionable mail-in voter
registration applications — over
1,000 in total by the tim...
, Uncategorized
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2008-10-21 Portfolio.com: Top 5
Voters using touch-screen voting
machines for early voting in two West
Virginia counties have complained that
when they tried to vote for Democratic
candidates, the machine registered their
vote for other Republican candidates
instead. At least three voters in
Jackson County, West Vir...
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2008-10-21 Musing's musings
Although my quasi-annual autumnal cold
has me, in the famous words of the
Nyquil commercials, "sniffling,
sneezing, coughing, aching, stuffy,
[and] fever[ish]," I did get a chuckle
out of this. And I will state up front,
for the wingnuts who might otherwise
miss this salient fact, that...
, 2008 , Conservatives/Neo-cons , Crooks/Miscreants/Liars , McCain , Republicans
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2008-10-21 American Dash
14 Days To ChangeA lot has happened in
the past few days when I was
inconveniently otherwise engaged so
let's catch up. First the news that
broke Monday evening, that Barack Obama
is flying to Hawaii to be with his
gravely ill grandmother. He will be
absent from the campaign trail on
...
, 2008
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2008-10-20 Legal Trade
When I go to vote this week I will split
my ticket for judicial candidates as I
always do.
Because I've been hanging
around courthouses as a journalist or as
a lawyer since about 1980, I know a lot
of the folks who wear robes. I've sat
endless hours, sometimes scintillated
and sometim...
, Courts
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2008-10-20 wxxi NewsRoom: WXXI Local Stories
The state's largest teacher's union has
rescinded a decision made in August, and
has decided to endorse a number of
incumbent Senators in their reelection
bid. Many are Republicans struggling to
hold on to power in the Senate.
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2008-10-20 IndependentReport
Stripped down to its components
McCain’s message to voters is
this: “Don’t forget.
He’s definitely black. And he may
be a terrorist.” That’s the
message. The nuts and bolts is a
concerted effort to keep Democrats from
voting — through intimidat...
, Politics
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2008-10-20 The Peking Duck
I am lifting the photo and the quote
from this site. Because Powell addressed
an issue of tremendous importance, and
he had the bravery to answer that vile
question, “Isn’t Obama a
Muslim”? with the noble words
McCain himself should have uttered when
confronted with s...
, Republican , US
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2008-10-20 ahistoricality
In response to a funny post at Terry's
blog, I got seriousStalin was a low-key,
low-charisma party functionary who
parlayed administrative responsibility
into strategic superiority; he wasn’t
as much an ideologue as he was a
power-hungry S.O.B. (he ended up
adopting large portions of...
, comments , progressive , Politics , history , bad
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2008-10-20 Crime & Federalism
This was exactly my thinking before the
market meltdown:
No libertarian can
hope to see the party of torture,
denials of habeas corpus, indefinite
detention without trial, and boundless
unsupervised executive power returned to
office. If our core root liberalism, if
our roots in the s...
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2008-10-20 Blue Mass. Group - Front Page
Election day 2008 is fifteen days from
today. And you've heard this line
before, but it's actually true: this is
probably the most important election in
many years, and for many years to come.
We have an opportunity not only to
elect a potentially great president, but
also to effect ...
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2008-10-20 The Gavel
Speaker Pelosi issued the following
statement on Federal Reserve Chairman
Ben Bernanke’s testimony this morning
before the House Budget Committee and
his support of an economic recovery
package. The House had passed an
economic recovery and job creation
package in September, but it ...
, Consumer , Budget , Retirement , Labor
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2008-10-20 Google News
New York Daily NewsHere comes stimulus -
question is howCNNMoney.com- 34 minutes
agoMomentum is building for a new
program to boost economy. But Democrats
and Republicans have very different
ideas on how to do it. By Jeanne Sahadi,
CNNMoney.Video: Bernanke Gives Nod to
More Government...
, Top
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2008-10-20 Google News
New York Daily NewsHere comes stimulus -
question is howCNNMoney.com- 34 minutes
agoMomentum is building for a new
program to boost economy. But Democrats
and Republicans have very different
ideas on how to do it. By Jeanne Sahadi,
CNNMoney.Video: Bernanke Gives Nod to
More Government...
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2008-10-20 Jezebel: Top
Sarah Palin, as you've heard and no
doubt seen, went on Saturday Night Live
this weekend, but despite reports from
HCD Research and the Muhlenberg College
Institute of Public Opinion that it
improved her favorability ratings, Alec
Baldwin says Democrats shouldn't worry
or bash SNL ove...
, not , amy , raise , reviews , sarah , sarah , saturday , tina , top
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2008-10-20 Everyday Citizen
For anyone who supports Barack Obama,
Colin Powell's endorsement on Sunday was
exciting. For those who support McCain,
expect to here it brushed off as a
non-event.
The fact is, I think that as
much as one might say Barack Obama won
Powell's endorsement, it is equally true
that John M...
, Campaigns , Barack , Candidates , Colin , John , Leadership , Patriotism , Presidential , Republican , Sarah
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2008-10-20 New Nebraska Network - Front Page
Although legislative candidate Tanya
Cook specifically proposed property tax
relief targeted at the poor, the
elderly, and the disabled in her
responses to a League of Women Voters
questionnaire, voters in Omaha's LD 13
have been subjected to a wave of
negative attacks against Cook fro...
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2008-10-20 WAKEUP NAPTOWN
I have to tell you, I'm not your
average, run-of-the mill
Republican.
Alright, I believe in the
sanctity of marriage and, yes, I would
vote pro-life, but I've spent the
better part of the last month trying to
convince my conservative boyfriend and
senior citizen parents to k...
, Local
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2008-10-20 Brilliant at Breakfast
Though I couldn't go to the debate
personally today due to a bad virus that
has laid me low, I have seen video of
some of it and have been looking at alot
of other video of the previous debates.
Currently Himes is ahead by 3 points,
within the margin of error, and I
believe that these ...
, chris , Congress , Debate , jim
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2008-10-20 The Daily Weasel
There's someone else who might have
been hurt by uber-Republican Colin
Powell's promise to vote for Barack
Obama in two weeks.
Apparently,
according to The Hill, Powell's
son, the most god-awful FCC
chairman in
that body's history, Michael
Powell, is a huge McCain...
, Election
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2008-10-20 Blogs of War
A significant portion of the
interview is devoted the issues related
to the bailout - a topic Barr recently
addressed in Time For Real Economic
Reform. It’s good stuff but his
positions on Iraq and Afghanistan, which
are addressed further in, are not quite
as well thought out....
, Politics , Media , Video , Liberty
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2008-10-20 The Economist: US election 2008
Who is the most long-winded presidential
candidate?IN KEEPING with their
reputations as Ivy League intellectuals,
each of the three most recent Democratic
presidential candidates used longer
sentences in the final debate of the
campaign than their Republican
opponents. Barack Obama is ...
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2008-10-20 Maine Campus
With elections 16 days away, the
University of Maine student political
groups have set partisan differences
aside and are focused on one thing:
getting fellow students to vote.
On Thursday, Oct. 16, in coordination
with UMaine UVote, the College Democrats
and College Republicans hoste...
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2008-10-20 Green Left Infoasis
On the Financial Crisis of Iceland:
Chairman of the Left-Green Movement,
SteingrÃmur J. Sigfússon criticizes
the devastating neoliberal policies in
Iceland. (MR Zine) October 20, 2008Clean
Coal - A Contradiction in Terms: During
their recent debates, neither the
presidential nor t...
, Iceland , Police , Civil , Capitalism , Ecology , Veterans , Green , Republicans
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2008-10-20 Miss Moneypenny CPU
Cartoon Credit: Conservative
Punk
Obama wants to Spread the Wealth
Around…
“It’s not that
I want to punish your success. I just
want to make sure that everybody who is
behind you, that they’ve got a
chance for success too….
My
attitude is that if the ec...
, Blog , Campaign , Humor , Vote , Barack , Barack , Campaign , Campaign , Election , Indecision , Joe , Senator
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2008-10-20 One Vote Matters
I try to keep up with both conservative
and liberal media. This morning, the
buzz has all been about Colin
Powell’s endorsement of Obama. A
couple of items have particularly caught
my attention.
The first is a video that
I found on Daily Kos:
This video intercuts Colin
Powe...
, The , obama , powell
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2008-10-20 SIASA DUNI
By Paul Street Source: Black Agenda
ReportI'd like to suggest a different
headline for USA Today's recent cover
story on racial attitudes in the United
States: "White America's Head Still Up
Ass on Race: Obama Not Helping." The
"nation's newspaper's" story is titled
"Beyond Black and W...
, Barack
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2008-10-20 Can You Be A Part Of My Life
Open Letter to the Associated PressDear
piece of shit organization:Do you hire
your reporters straight out of
kindergarten or do you actually groom
them to lick the butt of "the one" and
write purposely misleading and false
articles. J'accuse you of being a fifth
column!Today your writ...
, poor , regulation , black , african , black , republicans , freddie , democrats , fraud
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2008-10-20 Blue Jersey - Front Page
In an article titled Wave Watch: Smith's
political minefield, the Politico raises
the profile of Chris Smith:
Rep.
Christopher Smith, a Republican who has
represented central New Jersey since
1980, probably didn't realize he was
walking into a political minefield when
his family reques...
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2008-10-20 Firas Durri: Enthusiast
Hillary Clinton spokesman Howard Wolfson
predicts,
John McCain, raised in
Nixonland, calls Senator Obama a
socialist, trots out a plumber to stoke
class and cultural resentments, and
employs his Vice-President to question
Obama’s patriotism by linking him
to terrorists. Nixonlan...
, Politics , barack , bush , clinton , election , hillary , howard , nixon , reagan , us
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2008-10-20 Salon
Put off by the McCain-Palin ticket,
suburban Republicans are backing Barack
Obama -- who might score a rare
Democratic win in the Hoosier State.
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2008-10-20 democracyarsenal.org
Colin Powell's endorsement of Barack
Obama is an important moment in the
Presidential campaign. Powell, a former
National Security Advisor, Chairman of
the Joint Chiefs and Secretary of State
is one of the most trusted public
figures in the United States. And he is
a Republican. His...
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With early voting going on arond the
country my wife and I decided to go
ahead and have the satisfaction of
having it completed. As I wrote in a
previous post, I was a bit suspicious of
our local clerk here in our little town
of 1200 between Milwaukee and Madison,
since the early vot...
, Presidential
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2008-10-20 Will Price
Who Could Make This Stuff Up?PALM BEACH
GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Tim
Mahoney, embroiled in an adultery
scandal and a tight race for
re-election, admitted Friday to having
at least two affairs but insisted he
broke no laws and will not resign. The
first-term Democrat conceded th...
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YoursOnDemand B001F2ECA6
After waiting two weeks, I finally
received the shirt. The printing on the
front of the t-shirt cracked while I was
putting it on! I am very disappointed!
Apparel $15.99 : Republicans Democratic McCain Obama
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2008-10-20 Megan McArdle
Ben Bernanke is throwing his weight
behind the idea of a fiscal stimulus
package during the country's time of
trouble. U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman
Ben Bernanke on Monday threw his
support
behind a second round of fiscal stimulus
by the government to
limit the risk of a
"protracted" ...
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2008-10-20 KP's Delegation '08 Blog
Incumbent Republican Phil English is
finishing his seventh term representing
this district, and he has not faced a
serious opponent since his first two
elections. This year, however, he is
being challenged by political neophyte
Kathy Dahlkemper, a local Democratic
businesswoman with a ...
, 2008 , District
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2008-10-20 Open Left - Front Page
Chris' note that the big media sites
were refusing to acknowledge Obama being
above 270 EC votes by any reasonable
polling analysis methodology was an
important point. For whatever reason,
reality is setting in with most of them,
and they are being forced to update with
Obama being ov...
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2008-10-20 Capital Eye
At CRP we're diligently updating the
congressional election profiles on
OpenSecrets.org based on the candidates'
campaign finance disclosure reports due
last week to the Federal Election
Commission. Some races have been getting
more media attention than others because
they are highly c...
, About , Congressional , Politicians
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2008-10-20 wosu NewsRoom: WOSU News
An Ohio Supreme Court justice has
removed herself from a dispute over how
voter registration information is
verified. Justice Maureen O'Connor, a
Republican, recused herself Monday from
a case involving GOP fundraiser David
Myhal and Democratic Secretary of State
Jennifer Brunner.
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2008-10-20 Blue Hampshire
Why am I not surprised?
The
indefatigable Henry Waxman released a
report last Wednesday detailing how "in
the months before the 2006 elections,
the White House Office of Political
Affairs 'enlisted agency heads across
government in a coordinated effort to
elect Republican candidates to...
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2008-10-20 Cotton Mouth
The Financial Times interviewed
Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour about
the upcoming elections. He's obviously
not very excited about the hard work of
the Obama campaign to register thousands
of new voters in Mississippi this
election cycle.Haley Barbour, the
Republican governor of Mi...
, Haley , President , Voter , Barack , Voter , Voter , 2008
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2008-10-20 Gawker: Top
Neel Kashkari is the intense young man
tapped by the Treasury Department to
lead our nation's financial bailout. The
national media could paint only the most
basic picture of him: a high-achieving
Republican ski bum who rose quickly from
Wharton to Goldman Sachs to, today, a
position o...
, Secret , exclusive , money , Neel , politics , the , top , wall
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2008-10-20 Obi's Sister
Fifteen days to go…
Our church has
started a two-week prayer vigil.
Fausta wonders why Obama doesn’t
just duct-tape Biden’s mouth shut.
My favorite Okie notes Smirky Joe
quipped that Obama will be
“tested” in his first days
in office and we won’t ...
, America , Books , DimWitDems , Election2008 , Faith , Fourth , Politics , Stop , The , War
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2008-10-20 Scholars and Rogues
Link of the Week (as opposed to the
Weakest Link):
In an American Prospect
article, “Business as
Usury,” Thomas Geoghegan writes:
“Had we protected the poor and the
weak, the problems of our mighty banks
might not be so great. Why don’t
we have a ‘National...
, Afghanistan , business , capitalism , society , sports , war , bailout , Barack , Democrats , financial , John , NFL , Republicans , Swift , Wall
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2008-10-20 Kingdom Seeking
Like many, I have grown tired of the
negative campaigning. I am disgusted
by all of the distorting, twisting, and
manipulating of facts by both
Presidential candidates in order to
impugn the credibility of each other.
I listened to all three Presidential
Debates and the Civil Forum...
, Contemporary , Kingdom , Missions
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2008-10-20 SquareState.net - Front Page
So says CNN's John King.
Kos provides a
transcript:
Most people top in the
McCain campaign now believe New Mexico
and Iowa are gone, that Barack Obama
will win New Mexico and Iowa. They are
now off the dream list of the McCain
campaign. More interestingly, most top
people inside the Mc...
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2008-10-20 TIME.com: Swampland
Does this mean an Obama presidency would
be a cakewalk?
Sayeth Adelman:
Primarily for two reasons, those of
temperament and of judgment.
When
the economic crisis broke, I found John
McCain bouncing all over the place. In
those first few crisis days, he was
impetuous, incons...
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2008-10-20 Brains and Eggs
It's the first day of the early voting
period in Texas, and here's this week's
edition of the Texas Progressive
Alliance's weekly round-up, compiled for
me by Vince from Capitol Annex.The Texas
Cloverleaf took part in Blog Action Day
this past Wednesday. Find out how you
can combat pov...
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2008-10-20 Wired: Threat Level
Voters using touch-screen voting
machines for early voting in two West
Virginia counties have complained that
when they tried to vote for Democratic
candidates, the machine registered their
vote for other Republican candidates
instead.
At least three voters in
Jackson County, West...
, E-Voting , Election
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2008-10-20 The Personal Finance Weblog
© w.marsh
Most of us have no clue how
things got so bad so fast. It's like
it happened in another world, a world
that unfortunately holds a lot of our
money via our retirement funds. Ferris
Bueller's teacher is here to sort it
all out:
I don't know what the
future will br...
, General
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2008-10-20 hummingbirdminds
Laramie's Chris Rothfuss, Democratic
challenger to Wyoming Republican U.S.
Sen. Mike Enzi, sent this e-mail to his
supporters:Friends,The "Letter to the
Editor" deadline for the Casper Star
Tribune is fast approaching. Letters
will only be printed if they are
submitted by 5 p.m. on Tue...
, U.S. , Albany , Wyoming , elections , Chris , Democrats
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2008-10-20 Left In Alabama - Front Page
All ACORN All the Time:I want to know
why do Republicans hate our
Democracy?Because that's what this
whole "voter fraud" foofara is about.
John McCain and Sarah Palin and Lou
Dobbs and the rest of the right-wing
torch brigade that have been after ACORN
and the Ohio Secretary of ...
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2008-10-20 The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
In the tradition of Republican
the-business-of-government-is-business
governance, Wall Street is reported to
be skimming 10% off the top of the
bailout. Incredible as this seems, that
is the story reported over the weekend
by Britain's The Guardian newspaper and,
oddly, not widely hea...
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2008-10-20 0007 Undercover TAGMEMAWARD CAT
ABC News' Matthew Jaffe Reports: Sen.
Joe Biden, D-Del., on Sunday guaranteed
that if elected, Sen. Barack Obama.,
D-Ill., will be tested by an
international crisis within his first
six months in power and he will need
supporters to stand by him as he makes
tough, and possibly unpopula...
, Obama
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2008-10-20 WSJ.com: Political Perceptions
Here’s a summary of the smartest new
political analysis on the Web:
by Gerald
F. Seib and Sara Murray
With just
over two weeks left in the campaign, it
certainly can’t hurt to be endorsed by
a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff and former Secretary of State.
That’s w...
, Political
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2008-10-20 Effect Measure
I'm not a fan of Colin Powell. He was
there and helped start this catastrophic
war. Maybe he tried to resist it in
private but in public he shouldered the
weight of selling it. He bears
responsibility for it. He knew better
but he was, as always, the good soldier.
So now Powell has bro...
, McCain
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2008-10-20 Legal Schnauzer
News came recently that my former
employer, the University of Alabama at
Birmingham (UAB), is going through a
rough financial patch.With the Bush
economy crumbling all around us, things
aren't looking so bright on Birmingham's
Southside. Tax collections in Alabama
are way down--hey, th...
, UAB , Rob , Carol , Bob , Dax , Don
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2008-10-20 The Blog
Age has finally become an issue for John
McCain. But the problem isn't the
candidate's 72 years; it's the
antediluvian approach of his campaign.
McCain is running a textbook Rovian
race: fear-based, smear-based, anything
goes. But it isn't working. The glitch
in the well-oiled mac...
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2008-10-20 Adventures of an Australian English Teacher
Model of a ship used in ancient China.
A well. These wells are still being
used. An old alleyway In a museum Old
building Waterway at the entrance to the
Ancient town - sides of the river and
bridges made of small rounded stones.
Old building at entrance made of rounded
stones.We had ...
, Longmen , ancient
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2008-10-20 BlueGrassRoots - Front Page
Many years ago, I struck up a
conversation at a conference with a
citizen of a third-world nation
struggling to establish democracy. He
was shocked and disbelieving at the
failure of more than half of eligible
voters in the U.S. to actually exercise
their right to vote. I'll never f...
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2008-10-20 PoliticalBase.com Blog
As I mentioned a few days ago, I had the
honor of spending 45 minutes on the
phone with former Iowa Governor Tom
Vilsack (D) on Friday morning about a
range of topics for our next "10
Questions" segment.
As you probably
know, Vilsack served two terms as Iowa's
governor (1999-2007), ha...
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2008-10-20 FSU College of Law Research Center Blog
The problem with American higher
education may not be too much politics
but too little, at least that seems to
be the conclusion of a recent book:
Closed Minds? Political Ideology in
American Universities. The Chronicle of
Higher Education recently discussed the
book. Here's a brief ...
, Books , Education
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2008-10-20 TRAIL BLAZERS
In this Web ad, U.S. Senate
Democratic hopeful Rick Noriega says he
was moved by witnessing the first free
election in Afghanistan, when he was on
National Guard duty there in 2004. "You
see that, you never wonder again if
voting matters," he says. "Now, it's our
turn."
In this ...
, Ads , Democrats , Republicans , Texas
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2008-10-20 Daylight Atheism
This just keeps getting better and
better.
Earlier this month, I wrote
about the Senate campaign of Elizabeth
Dole and how it was attempting to stir
up anti-atheist bigotry to use against
her Democratic challenger, Kay Hagan.
Now, it appears that the national
Republican Party has joine...
, The
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2008-10-20 Wired: Threat Level
The office of Ohio Secretary of State
Jennifer Brunner on Monday afternoon
said that it is limiting the
functionality of its web site after its
tech department had detected a security
breach.
“Due to security concerns
experienced by the Secretary of
State’s website, full function...
, Election
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2008-10-20 Democrats.com - The Aggressive Progressives!
I'm going to step out on a limb and
predict Obama will win by 7%, which is
1% more than his current lead. And
I'll predict Democrats end up with
58 Senate seats (a gain of 7) and 258
House seats (a gain of 22).
When the
new Congress begins, the Republican
Party will be power...
, Campaign , Republicans
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2008-10-20 Keystone Politics - Pennsylvania's Trusted Source for Political News and Analysis Since 2004
Incumbent Republican Phil English is
finishing his seventh term representing
this district, and he has not faced a
serious opponent since his first two
elections. This year, however, he is
being challenged by political neophyte
Kathy Dahlkemper, a local Democratic
businesswoman with a ...
, 2008 , District
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2008-10-20 Coaching Tip: The Leadership Blog
White women age 45 to 64 are one of this
year's most hotly contested voting
blocs, evenly divided between Barack
Obama and John McCain, and wide open to
being pulled either way, according to a
recent Associated Press-GfK poll.
A
sizable 44 percent of them remain
persuadable--that is, ...
, Current
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2008-10-20 Burnt Orange Report
It appears this election cycle is living
up to the hype. Travis County is
reporting that 32,607 Austinites have
already voted.
1771 people voted at the
various mobile voting locations
throughout Austin, 24207 people voted at
the various early vote locations, and so
far 8,400 mail bal...
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2008-10-20 The Washington Independent
Ben Bernanke (WDCpix)
Democratic
leaders, who hope to inject billions
more borrowed dollars into the economy
before the end of the year, got a little
boost from the chairman of the Federal
Reserve on Monday.
Appearing before the
House Budget Committee, Fed Chairman Ben
Bernanke emphasi...
, Congress , Economy , Slot , Slot , bernanke , federal , house , Stimulus
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2008-10-19 damnum absque injuria
Matea Gold of the L.A. Times writes that
the crowd at yesterday’s McCain
rally in Virginia booed when McCain
mentioned that Sarah Palin would be
appearing on Saturday Night Live that
evening. If you were at the rally,
please confirm or deny. As one who
attended the North Caroli...
, Miscellaneous
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2008-10-19 Salon: War Room
So what does the right wing think about
Colin Powell's endorsement of Barack
Obama? One word: Race.
Rush
Limbaugh sets the tone:
From Politico's
Jonathan Martin:
"Secretary Powell
says his endorsement is not about race,"
Limbaugh wrote in an e-mail. "OK, fine.
I am now resear...
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2008-10-19 The Economist: Democracy in America
Powell's endorsement of Obama measures
how far McCain has strayed
MY COLLEAGUE
expects conservatives to minimise the
meaning of Colin Powell's
endorsement of Barack Obama by arguing
that Mr Powell doesn't represent
them. I'm sure he's rig...
, Barack , John , US
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2008-10-19 Cato-at-liberty
Dropping in the polls and running out of
time, John McCain has finally gone on
the offensive against Barack Obama on
core Republican values that appeal to
libertarians, conservatives, and Reagan
Democrats. In his Saturday radio address
he seized on Joe the Plumber’s
question to c...
, Government , Tax
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2008-10-19 Overlawyered
As you may recall, I wrote a piece last
week for City Journal taking issue with
various calls around the liberal
blogosphere for having the McCain-Palin
campaign investigated or even prosecuted
for supposed incitement to violence
against its opponents (a charge for
which credible evide...
, Uncategorized , Barack , free , John , politics , Sarah , Susan
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2008-10-19 Appalachian Greens
Ever hear that at a football game? I
have, and it disturbs me. If you can't
play fair and expect to win, then just
don't play at all. Unfortunately, folks
in the Republican Party don't hold with
my philosophy. First Florida, then Ohio,
and now right in my backyard.This
disturbing story...
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2008-10-19 Graphictruth
Typing "Racists for Obama" into Google
brings in more results than you could
believe. Could this be the end of the
Southern Strategy? Via
FiveThirtyEight:So a canvasser goes to a
woman's door in Washington,
Pennsylvania. Knocks. Woman answers.
Knocker asks who she's planning to vote...
, US , Barack , patriotism , racism
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2008-10-19 AlexRudloff.com
Been awhile since I posted some
poli-talk regarding the campaign.. So..
here we go. Random rants. Economy Man,
what a complete and utter change of pace
in this president election. Starting
with McCain's grandstanding of the
suspension of his campaign for the
bailout (which the notion o...
, alexrudloff , postgorilla , 2008 , biden , mccain , obama , palin , politics , powell , presidential , rant
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2008-10-19 In the Dark
When you venture out in public, perhaps
to appear on Hardball with Chris
Matthews, it might be wise to tone down
the craziness just a smidge. Rep.
Michele Bachmann from Minnesota learned
that the hard way. Bachmann appeared on
Hardball this past Friday, where she
said Sen. Barack Obama...
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2008-10-19 The Matlock Blog
The big news in politics today is that
President Bush’s former Secretary of
State, Colin Powell, is endorsing
Senator Barack Obama for president.
Personally, I don’t see why this is a
big deal. It doesn’t matter.
Senator Obama will win the presidency in
sixteen days. Conv...
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2008-10-19 washingtonpost.com - Politics
MINNETONKA, Minn. -- On paper, it makes
little sense that Democrat Ashwin Madia
is running a close race for Congress in
the Minneapolis suburbs. He is a
30-year-old political neophyte
challenging a respected Republican
statehouse leader for an open seat held
by the GOP since 1960.
, Minn. , Candidate , a , Poster , Boy , for , Democratic , Hopes ,
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2008-10-19 Angry Bear
However, it's just a Republican in
California. Who are re-registering
people to be Republicans, without their
knowledge, on the guise of opposing
child molestation. (h/t Laura Rosen)Will
wait patiently for John McCain's attack
on Mark Jacoby (not this one).
, Republican , voting , 2008
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2008-10-19 Choosing Hope
Washington State Friends,Now that
ballots are in our hands until that
moment we attach a stamp and commit them
to the US Postal Service, or drop them
in a ballot collection drop box on
election day, I want to share my own
observations.Once again Washington State
is just "blue enough" t...
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2008-10-19 Randylewiskemp's Weblog
A Walk Through Wayne’s World
In
Shakespeare’s Hamlet, there is a phase
that states,” neither a lender or a
borrower be.” I like to rephrase it
– “neither a Democrat nor a
Republican be.” I guess that makes me
an Independent. Today there is much less
of a clear distinction...
, Entertainment , Practical , election , Senator , unemployment
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