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“Obama Proof Stocks” ad
This Google ad just showed up in my sidebar: Lovely. I expect we’ll be seeing more of this if Obama takes the Democratic nomination. (To be fair, however, the website for the shady newsletter the ad is promoting actually says “Whether Democrat or Republican – Clinton or Romney – Huckabee or Obama – if you
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Obama support post updated
Though it looks like there isn’t new content, I actually updated the post on Obama’s support below several times today so please check out the new material.
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Where Obama is winning and losing
There’s been some debate among pundits about where Barack Obama has been successful and why. To try to make some sense of what’s going on, I decided to actually look at the data. (My pundit card will soon be revoked.) One issue is how to compare across states given the change in the number of
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Unlikely Huckabee third-party speculation
With John McCain’s lock on the GOP nomination deflating elite interest in Michael Bloomberg, pundits have to look elsewhere to engage in pointless speculation about third-party presidential candidacies. Bizarrely, Robert Wright suggested on Bloggingheads that Mike Huckabee might run — an unlikely idea that was immediately squashed by Huckabee’s statement today on “Meet the Press”
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Romney’s “surrender” quote
As others have noted, Mitt Romney justified his exit from the Republican presidential race yesterday by smearing advocates of withdrawal from Iraq as wanting to “surrender to terror”: If I fight on in my campaign, all the way to the convention, I would forestall the launch of a national campaign and make it more likely
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Republican attacks on dissent since 9/11
December 2001: In response to Democratic plans to question parts of the USA Patriot Act during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, John Ashcroft suggests that people who disagree with the administration’s anti-terrorism policies are on the side of the terrorists. “To those who pit Americans against immigrants, and citizens against non-citizens; to those who scare
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Hillary’s nonprofit experience: Overhyped
A friend in law school point out that Chelsea Clinton appears to have fooled the Wall Street Journal into misrepresenting her mother’s career: Ms. [Chelsea] Clinton said that, as president, her mother will “get the government back into the student-loan business” and do away with the federal financial-aid forms that families must fill out, drawing
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More naïve primary->general extrapolation
The annoying pattern of silly extrapolation from the primaries to the general election continues. Rush Limbaugh is saying that John McCain needs Mike Huckabee as his VP to win the South: Some people think that McCain is going to have to choose Huckabee, because if you look at what McCain won last night… What Huckabee
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ABC News mocks misinformed voters
ABC News is now mocking misinformed voters — many of whom are obviously not highly educated — for going to polling places on the wrong day. The story is headlined “Dumbocracy” and comes with this “photo illustration”: Dumbocracy: Hundreds Try to Vote on the Wrong Day Voters in Non-Super Tuesday States Complain That Polling Places
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AFP doesn’t like conventions
The foreign news service AFP has a story on Howard Dean trying to avert a convention fight that includes some purple prose: A brokered convention has not been seen in decades, and harkens back to an era of shady political deal-making when powerbrokers and cash kings — instead of regular voters — chose one candidate