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My friends are talented
You should know that “The Hollywoody Show,” a satirical online video series about entertainment co-produced by my friend (and former Spinsanity co-editor) Ben Fritz, is now featured on the newly launched Comedy.com. (Woody first appeared on Dateline Hollywood, the satirical entertainment news site that Ben co-edits.) Also, Julie Buxbaum, one of my wife’s best friends
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NY Post’s “Clinton Alamo” graphic
Via Angus at Kids Prefer Cheese, a fantastic New York Post photo composite of your favorite dynastic couple: Amusing, and much classier than their offensive “surrender monkeys” cover from 2006:
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New Obama support graphs
Following up on my post on where Obama is winning and losing, here are some updated graphs breaking down his support at the state level. First, here’s a plot of a flexible polynomial fitted to state two-candidate vote totals by date — you can see the upward trajectory in Obama’s support levels, though the line
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Ron Paul: The elephant in the room
I’m usually a hater when it comes to people floating third-party scenarios, but why isn’t anyone talking about a Ron Paul third-party run? What is he going to do with all that money? He can’t possibly spend it all on his lame ads, can he?
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Return of “Taliban wing” jargon
Josh Marshall resuscitates an unwelcome bit of liberal jargon by referring to the so-called “Taliban wing” of the Republican party: The truth is that there’s little apparent difference between Obama’s position [on Israel] and Hillary’s or, for that matter, anyone else in the mainstream of the Democratic party or most of the non-Taliban wing of
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Maureen Dowd misquotes Hillary on Obama
Maureen Dowd Sunday: Hillary says Obama is “all hat and no cattle.” You’d think she’d want to avoid cattle metaphors, so as not to rile up those with a past beef about her sketchy windfall on cattle futures. She could simply say he’s all cage and no bird. Via Bob Somerby, what Hillary actually said:
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Bill Kristol hits the airport bookstore
It took David Brooks four years to write his first New York Times column about a random book he found on his way to catch a plane: Last week, while driving from a campaign event in Keene, N.H., I stumbled upon a used bookstore that I hadn’t seen since I was a teenager. I stopped
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Russert brings back the “Capital Gang”
It’s great to see Tim Russert using his position as moderator of “Meet the Press” to bring some new voices into the Sunday show world. Oh wait… Then we reunited the renowned “Capital Gang” for some insights and analysis on this extraordinary campaign. With us, Margaret Carlson of Bloomberg News, Al Hunt of Bloomberg News,
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Obama v. Allen?
From the troubling counterfactual department: What if George Allen was the presumptive GOP nominee right now? Many Republicans have lamented that he would have been the candidate with the greatest appeal to the different wings of the party. But he also has an ugly history on racial issues that could have made a general election
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Obama post cited in the Inquirer
My post breaking down state-level support for Barack Obama is cited by Jonathan Last in today’s Philadelphia Inquirer (where we had a Spinsanity column back in 2004): None of this is to say Obama cannot win white votes, too. His victories in quite-white Iowa, Minnesota and North Dakota all prove that. But those are caucus