Month: July 2005
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George Allen campaigns in New Hampshire
I neglected to note that George Allen headed up to New Hampshire a week ago Saturday for some early 2008 campaigning after passing his anti-lynching resolution. Luckily, he didn’t escape questions about his ugly racial history. Here’s the Richmond Times-Dispatch report: Kathy Sullivan of Manchester, chairwoman of the New Hampshire Democratic Party, said she knew
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The politics of 2008 bumper stickers
First I saw a Kucinich 2008 bumper sticker in Chapel Hill last week, then yesterday I saw a Boxer 2008 bumper sticker in Durham. Given that neither one of them is a declared candidate and the election is more than three years away, it seemed a little strange. Turns out there are a bunch of
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O’Connor was not the swing abortion vote
Matthew Yglesias has a Tapped post making a point I’ve been meaning to make: namely, five judges on the current court besides O’Connor support the core finding of Roe v. Wade, which means that O’Connor’s retirement does not place basic abortion rights in direct jeopardy. Liberals are going to get this wrong by the thousands
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What is John Zogby talking about?
Zogby International, the polling firm of John Zogby, announced its latest poll yesterday with a press release headlined “No Bounce.” The release states that “President Bush’s televised address to the nation produced no noticeable bounce in his approval numbers, with his job approval rating slipping a point from a week ago, to 43%, in the