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Jason Linkins

Scritti Politti: March 30, 2009

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.30.2009 | Politics


L.A. Times contributor Andrew Klavan DOUBLE DOG DARES YOU intolerable lefties to listen...just listen!...to Rush Limbaugh's show! Because if you did,...

David Pinckney, New England Pastor, Houses Child Killer, Riles Town

AP | TRAVIS ANDERSEN | Posted 04.17.2009 | Home


CHICHESTER, N.H. — A pastor in this quiet, picturesque New England town thought he was doing the Christian thing when he took in a convicted chi...

Worst Week Ever: Republicans Unhinged

Paul Jenkins | Posted 03.29.2009 | Politics


Paul Jenkins

This week, just like the stock market (funny how that goes), Republicans hit yet a new low.

Holder, Race and Obama's 10% of the White Alabama Vote

Paul Jenkins | Posted 03.24.2009 | Politics


Paul Jenkins

The complicated picture of how America came to vote for its first black president reflects the country's multifarious attitude towards race

The Latest Pay to Play Scandal in the Senate

Bill Press | Posted 03.06.2009 | Politics


Bill Press

Judd Gregg apparently demanded a Republican Senate appointment in return for a Cabinet post. That's just as bad as Blagojevich.

Democrats in Congress Need to Learn How to Lead

Mitchell Bard | Posted 03.05.2009 | Politics


Mitchell Bard

I am losing patience with congressional Democrats' innate instinct to capitulate, something that has been evident since the November 2006 mid-term elections.

Achieving the Impossible: Expectations for an Obama Presidency

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 01.26.2009 | Politics


Lincoln Mitchell

The early keys to a successful Obama administration will be managing expectations and setting up an administration that will be proactive and not get sidetracked by the inevitable events and crises.

Winter Storm Knocks Out Power To Over 1 Million In Northeast

AP | DAVID TIRRELL-WYSOCKI | Posted 01.13.2009 | Green


CONCORD, N.H. — Temperatures fell over the ice-coated Northeast on Saturday, where storm-related power failures had already plunged more than a ...

GOP: Imploding, Meaningless, and Run by Crazies, But not Dead

Paul Jenkins | Posted 01.07.2009 | Politics


Paul Jenkins

Beyond its regional concentration, the Republican Party's face is from another time. Indeed, nearly half of the Republican caucus is composed of Southern white men.

Please, Bobby! End the Iowa/New Hampshire Hostage Crisis!

Will Bower | Posted 12.24.2008 | Politics


Will Bower

Bobby Jindal has begun the process of pandering to the upcoming, 2012 cycle of the "Iowa/New Hampshire Hostage Crisis."

Friday Talking Points [55] -- "Bretton Woods II"? Not Quite.

Chris Weigant | Posted 12.15.2008 | Politics


Chris Weigant

I have to begin here today by stomping all over a cutesy term the media has come up with for the upcoming economic "summit" George W. Bush is holding ...

NH County Treasurer Unseated By "Teenybopper" Student

AP | Posted 12.14.2008 | Politics


HAVERHILL, N.H. — A county treasurer who lost her bid for a fourth term last week to a 20-year-old Dartmouth College student from Montana blames...

Proposal For 2012 Primaries

Will Bower | Posted 12.12.2008 | Politics


Will Bower

The primary calendar we need most is one that is built on an orderly and rational plan, and not on an arbitrary, publicity-driven, system of one-upsmanship.

Sarah we hardly knew ye

Dave Winer | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics


Dave Winer

Cleaning up some loose ends. Obama won Pennsylvania and New Hampshire, two states that were on McCain's slim path to a win. Once those were decided, ...

Penn State: 1000 Youth in Line to Vote at 7am

Jake Brewer | Posted 12.05.2008 | Green


Jake Brewer

The youth vote is likely to make up 25% of the electorate today and is a powerful national voice that is demanding green jobs and clean energy to reinvigorate and re-power our economy.

College Students Travel to New Hampshire to Volunteer for Obama

Mary Ann West | Posted 12.03.2008 | Home


Mary Ann West

In the quintessential town of Keene, New Hampshire, volunteers waved as cars honked in support while standing on the picturesque Village Common, hoist...

The World Holds its Breath -- WE KNOW THE RESULTS

Linda Bergthold | Posted 12.02.2008 | Politics


Linda Bergthold

Obama has a lead that can overcome the Bradley effect or snow, sleet or rain, or the pundits constant need to keep this thing alive by mentioning obscure polls that show McCain getting closer.

Now Twitching with Every Twitch in the Polls

Rick Horowitz | Posted 12.01.2008 | Politics


Rick Horowitz

You're the ones who can't get this election out of your heads. You're the ones who, in this final push to November 4, have the TV and the radio on nonstop.

Fired Up and Ready to Go--Thousands Mobilize in NH

Josh Dorner | Posted 11.29.2008 | Home


Josh Dorner

Yesterday the Sierra Club's 2008 election magical mystery tour with Executive Director Carl Pope and Political Director Cathy Duvall took us to New Ha...

Friday Talking Points [53] -- Why McCain Is Losing, And Why Democrats Shouldn't Say So

Chris Weigant | Posted 11.24.2008 | Politics


Chris Weigant

John McCain is losing the race for the White House. Now, this doesn't mean he has already lost it -- we've still got to go vote, after all. I'll cov...

McCain: They Don't Like Him, They Really Don't Like Him

Paul Jenkins | Posted 11.20.2008 | Politics


Paul Jenkins

The expectations McCain brought to the race were impossibly high to fulfill, thanks to decades of media cheerleading and his ability to believe in his own hype.

Palin Feels A Kinship With New Hampshire

AP | HOLLY RAMER | Posted 11.15.2008 | Politics


DOVER, N.H. — Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin said Wednesday she feels a kinship with the moose-hunting, tax-hating voters of N...

Sam Stein

Palin Claims New Hampshire Is Part Of The "Great Northwest" (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.15.2008 | Politics


Sarah Palin drew some boos and shouts of confusion today, when while speaking in New Hampshire she mistakenly claimed that the Granite State was part ...

New Study: New Hampshire's Changing Demographics

James Warren | Posted 11.15.2008 | Politics


James Warren

If tiny New Hampshire is a swing state, John McCain has more than a financial crisis and high anxiety to worry about there.

How McCain Created a Referendum on McCain

Martin Nolan | Posted 11.03.2008 | Politics


Martin Nolan

These campaign phenomena were not gaffes, not aberrations, but revelations, confirming what many voters suspected. They were epiphanies of character.