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Obama to meet Energy Smart Debbie

A. Siegel | Posted 07.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Environment, Energy, Dana Rohrabacher, Politics, Congress, Campaigns, Debbie Cook, Global Warming, Ca-46, Politics News
A. Siegel

Amid skyrocketing oil, gasoline, coal, and electricity (coming to a neighborhood near you) prices, 2008 offers Americans quite serious and stark choic...

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McCain's Veepstakes Dilemma

Christopher Ingram | Posted 06.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Taxes, Abortion, Republican National Committee, Al Gore, Gop, Florida, John McCain, Campaigns, Haley Barbour, George W. Bush, Immigration, Conservative, Race, Washington Establishment, Barack Obama, Lobbyist, Dick Cheney, Charlie Crist, Dan Quayle, George H.W. Bush, American Conservative Union, Wedge Issues, Hurricane Katrina, Hillary Clinton, Veepstakes, Missippi, Christopher Ingram, Politics News
Christopher Ingram

The question in deciding whom to pick for your VP running mate basically boils down to two things: geographic benefit and filling a void. McCain's weakness is his lack of support from conservatives.

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Barack Obama's Real Problem with the Jewish Vote

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 06.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Jews, Elections, Politics, John McCain, Campaigns, Obama Jewish Vote, Israel, Barack Obama, 2008 Presidential Election, Judaism, Politics News
Lincoln Mitchell

Lost in all the noise about Obama's supposed problems winning Jewish support is that he is winning this group by nearly 2-1. Obama should wish for such problems with Christian voters as well.

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New Litmus Test for the Democratic Nominee: Attack John McCain

Moira Whelan | Posted 04.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Campaigns, Mccain, Pundits, Superdelegates, Hillary Clinton, Media, Democrats, Attack Ads, Barack Obama, Politics News
Moira Whelan

Both the Obama and Clinton camps can use the upcoming primaries to go after John McCain with the kind of fervor they've reserved for each other.

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Inside Baseball

Chip Collis | Posted 03.24.2008 | Home

Read More: Huffington Post Offthebus, Campaign Life, Campaigns, Political Inside Baseball, Political Life, Offthebus, Home News
Chip Collis

Our political discourse has become all inside baseball, all the time, and every 3 AM ad, every SNL skit, every Wright sermon that is now infesting our conversations is not informing the judgment of those who truly do play inside baseball.

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Watch Your Language!

Ann Medlock | Posted 03.06.2008 | Media

Read More: Suburbs, Elections, Domestic Terrorists, Terrorists, Terror, Pre-Emptive War, Housing Media, Campaigns, Writing, Katie Couric, News, Torture, English Language, Media News
Ann Medlock

I love this language you and I read, write and speak. And I'm seriously doubting that it's known to some of the unseen people who write the news.

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Marc Cooper

Obama Storms Vegas and Chides Clinton

HuffingtonPost.com | Marc Cooper | Posted 01.16.2008 | Home

Read More: Henderon, Campaign '08, Campaigns, John Edwards. Naveda Caucuses, Las Vegas, Social Security, Democratic President Candidates, Marc Cooper, Barack Oabama, Health Care, Hillary Clinton, Home News

Henderson, NV -- Just three days before the "tie-breaker" Nevada caucuses this coming Saturday, Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama storme...

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Marc Cooper

Clinton Campaign Stung By Third-Place Finish

HuffingtonPost.com | Marc Cooper | Posted 01.04.2008 | Home

Read More: Polls, Elections, Victory Celebration, Campaign '08, Campaigns, New Hampshire Primary, Barack Obama, Iowa Caucus Results, John Edwards, Marc Cooper, Concession Speech, Hillary Clinton, Home News

Des Moines - After a stunning defeat and finishing third in Thursday night's Democratic caucuses, Senator Hillary Clinton congratulated Barack Obama a...

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The Narrative Narrative

Marty Kaplan | Posted 11.18.2007 | Media

Read More: Peggy Noonan, Campaigns, Amy Goodman, CNN Debate, Media Coverage of the War, Barack Obama, Campbell Brown, Mainstream Media, Media Consolidation, Cnn, Media Coverage of 2008 Election, Big Media, John Edwards, New York Times, Hillary Clinton, Campaigning, Wolf Blitzer, Media Bias, Marty Kaplan, Bill Moyers, Cnn Democratic Debate, Media News
Marty Kaplan

In the postmodern funhouse that imprisons prestige media, the job isn't to cover events, but rather to reveal their theatricality; the trick isn't to find truth, but to disclose "framing."

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Zephyr Teachout and Kelly Nuxoll | Posted 10.23.2007 | Home

Read More: FEC Data, Equity, Campaigns, Gender, Offthebus, Home News
Zephyr Teachout and Kelly Nuxoll

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Ron Dellums Blesses Hillary Clinton

Marc Cooper | Posted 10.04.2007 | Politics

Read More: Dellums, Campaigns, Democrats, Clinton, Politics News
Marc Cooper

Senator Clinton promised the former congressman that, if elected, she would appoint him as head of a key national policy committee. That congressman-turned-mayor is none other than legendary anti-war stalwart Ron Dellums.

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Prez Candidates Off Key on New Orleans

Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 09.24.2007 | Home

Read More: Katrina, Campaigns, Offthebus, New Orleans, Bob French, Musicians' Village, Home News
Karen Dalton-Beninato

Technorati ProfileMusicians Village Resident Bob French, a New Orleans bandleader and radio personality, riffs on what Obama, Edwards, Clinton and Tancredo promise and don't promise for The Big Easy.

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Trusted Politicians

Charles H. Green | Posted 09.11.2007 | Politics

Read More: Campaigns, The Art of Politics, Politics News
Charles H. Green

The art (or science, increasingly) of politics is combining effective majorities across various issues, while minimizing the perception of the minorities as being on the losing side.

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Bottom Line: Washington Democrats Want The War To Be A Republican Problem in 2008. Everything Else They Say is Blarney.

Thomas de Zengotita | Posted 09.10.2007 | Politics

Read More: Hillary Clinton, 2008, Campaigns, Iraq, General Petraeus, Success of the Surge, George W. Bush, Politics News
Thomas de Zengotita

Nothing is going to happen because Democrats don't want the slightest shred of responsibility dangling from their designer-label lapels for Iraq policy in the next 12 months.

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"Working" Stiffs

Frank Dwyer | Posted 09.10.2007 | Politics

Read More: Iraq, 2008, Campaigns, Success of the Surge, Politics News
Frank Dwyer

The surge is working! Really? The surge is working? That depends on what the meaning of "is" is. The surge won't "win," but it's working.

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Politics and BBQ

Pat Willard | Posted 09.05.2007 | Living

Read More: Campaigns, Politicians, Barbeque, Bbq, Living News
Pat Willard

Think how much easier the next year and a half will be if candidates set up some fragrant smoldering pits around the country and provide us voters with something we can really sink our teeth into.

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