Month: June 2006
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Cokie Roberts: Iowa-1 “doesn’t really have any immigrants”
Today on NPR’s “Morning Edition,” analyst Cokie Roberts understated the significance of immigration in Iowa’s 1st District, where it has become a hot issue among Republican candidates in a competitive open-seat Congressional race: And that’s surprising, Renee, because Iowa is about 94 percent white, as opposed to the rest of the country being about 75
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Political incivility watch: Havesi and Malkin
Our political discourse continues to sink to new lows. The state comptroller of New York, Alan Havesi, was forced to apologize after praising Senator Chuck Schumer as a metaphorical presidential assassin: The man who, how do I phrase this diplomatically, who will put a bullet between the president’s eyes if he could get away with
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California assembly passes National Popular Vote
The movement led by National Popular Vote to award the presidency to the candidate with the most votes via an interstate compact took a step forward on Tuesday as the California Assembly approved the measure: Seeking to force presidential candidates to pay attention to California’s 15.5 million voters, state lawmakers on Tuesday jumped aboard a
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Misleading paraphrase of Howard Dean
Here’s an example of how political myths are born through inaccurate paraphrases. Yesterday Washington Times columnist Greg Pierce claimed that Howard Dean had “suggested that opponents of homosexual ‘marriage’ are bigots.” This explosive claim that was immediately trumpeted by Matt Drudge, who inflated it to state that “Dem Chair Dean Compares Gay Marriage Opponents To