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Palin Spends Precious Campaign Day in Solid Blue California

Alex Raine | Posted 11.06.2008 | Home

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Alex Raine

CARSON, Calif., 4 October 2008 -- This is not typical Republican territory, but Sarah Palin temporarily changed the demographics Saturday by filling t...

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The Weekly Roundup: OTB Commentators Eager To Gripe About Economy, Palin

Chris Nelson | Posted 11.03.2008 | Home

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Chris Nelson

The Weekly Roundup is a collection of musings from the vast expanse of our submission pool. It serves as your window into what your peers have been thinking and saying over the past week in the election cycle.

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Women In Arizona Offended By Palin's Wink

Marlene H. Phillips | Posted 11.03.2008 | Home

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Marlene H. Phillips

I watched the debate in a room full of rowdy, noisy folks last night in Tucson, Arizona. Comments flew across the room, most directed at Sarah Palin: ...

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Undecideds On CNN Ticker More Interesting, And Disturbing, Than Debate

Sari Levy | Posted 11.03.2008 | Home

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Sari Levy

All I can say is, praise the Lord I was in a Boulder Bar when it happened. I don't usually like crowds of any kind, ever, because basically I can't s...

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Watching in NJ, Is That Palin Or Tina Fey?

James Camner | Posted 11.03.2008 | Home

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James Camner

Our debate party took place at the house of our friends Stephen and Alexandra in Princeton, NJ. There were eight of us watching the debate. The educa...

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A Great Debate, Darn It

Christine Wicker | Posted 11.03.2008 | Home

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Christine Wicker

Glory, glory, they agreed that gay and lesbian partners should have the rights of other citizens. Partners should be counted as family in work benefits and hospital visits. If you're over 40, you probably never thought you'd see such agreement in an election.

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Sam Stein

McCain Camp's Pre-Debate Spin: Palin Doesn't Need To Pass IQ Test

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.02.2008 | Politics

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Listening to surrogates and aides to John McCain on Thursday, one is left with the impression that there is no great need for Gov. Sarah Palin to actu...

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President Palin? 30 Percent Of VPs Take Over Top Spot

Washington Independent | Posted 11.02.2008 | Politics

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Despite Vice President John Nance Garner's notorious description that the vice-presidency as not worth a pitcher of warm spit," the fact is that the o...

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The Difference Between A Functional Leader And A Fictional One

Deanie Mills | Posted 11.01.2008 | Home

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Deanie Mills

The American people feel sick and frightened and confused, and they want someone who can reassure them, not only that everything is going to be all right, but that a calm, sure, steady hand is on the Ship of State, quietly steering her past the hidden icebergs.

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Free Palin? McCain Camp Readies VP For Debate

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 10.30.2008 | Politics

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Despite bad reviews from all sides, John McCain's campaign has decided that having Sarah Palin do big broadcast interviews was a good idea, the Nation...

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Report: McCain Aides Complain That Palin Is "Clueless"

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 10.27.2008 | Politics

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Radio talk show host Ed Schultz reports: Capitol Hill sources are telling me that senior McCain people are more than concerned about Palin. The camp...

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Biden Has Done More Than Look At Russia Across The Horizon

Stephen Fox | Posted 10.26.2008 | Home

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Stephen Fox

Senator Biden has met and discussed policies with three UN Secretaries General, one queen, several kings, plus a few tough guys like Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and Serbian president Sloban Milosevic.

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Facebook 101: Friends' Political Beliefs Can Be Surprising

Rachel Farris | Posted 10.25.2008 | Home

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Rachel Farris

Traveling in Juneau immediately after the DNC was nothing but depressing. But then a new Facebook group gave me an unexpected jolt of hope in this election.

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McCain Camp Lawyer Illegally Advising In Alaska; Palin Attorney General In Hiding

Donald Craig Mitchell | Posted 10.24.2008 | Home

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Donald Craig Mitchell

Does McCain know he has sent a criminal to serve on the Palin legal team in Alaska? And does he care whether Talis Colberg, Sarah Palin's attorney general, intends to prosecute him. And if he doesn't, why not?

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This Country Needs An Intellectual

Sheila Suess Kennedy | Posted 10.24.2008 | Home

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Sheila Suess Kennedy

The charge of elitism is a manifestation of America's longstanding and unfortunate subtext of anti-intellectualism, and its use during this campaign is both revealing and disturbing.

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Alaskans Angry That Palin Is Suddenly Off-Limits

LA Times | Posted 10.22.2008 | Politics

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Jerry McCutcheon went to Sarah Palin's office here last week to request information about the firing of former Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan...

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Social Networking Site Provides Glimpse Into Global Community

Jane Wylen | Posted 10.19.2008 | Home

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Jane Wylen

I thought that, by interviewing some of my contacts on Livemocha, I could gain some insight into how we Americans look from the outside. One man living in China wrote: "The U.S. has good education and good medical care. Americans enjoy every minute."

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The Palin And McCain Administration: Sarah Flips The Ticket During A Rally (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Katharine Zaleski | Posted 10.19.2008 | Politics

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This video from a Palin event today catches the vice presidential nominee putting herself before John McCain on the ticket. Check out the video and re...

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Sam Stein

Biden, Clinton To Unite As Obama Woos Women Voters

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.16.2008 | Politics

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Barack Obama is continuing his effort to court women voters, with a fundraiser, new television ad, and a coordinated event with Hillary Clinton this w...

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Sam Stein

Obama Lays Out Plans To Woo Women Voters: Forget Palin, Focus On Equal Pay

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.16.2008 | Politics

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During a conference call with national female supporters on Monday, Barack Obama and his aides outlined a comprehensive strategy to target female supp...

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McCain Crowds Dwindle Without Palin

AP | JENNIFER LOVEN | Posted 10.13.2008 | Politics

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NEW YORK — If there were any doubts that the sidekick was stealing the show, they were put to rest when Sarah Palin took off for Alaska with a w...

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Palin (And McCain) Say Little And Fire Up The Faithful In Ohio

Mayhill Fowler | Posted 10.11.2008 | Home

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Mayhill Fowler

I had no idea Palin would change the dynamic of the election like this. There are 3000 enthusiasts waiting in the rain with me in Lebanon, Ohio, to see her, and a thousand more crowding the barricades behind us.

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Obama Thinks Like a Leader, And Therefore Might Lose

Rusty Russell | Posted 10.10.2008 | Home

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Rusty Russell

Nearly every admonishment of Obama these days includes some call for the candidate to cut to the chase. Simplify the speeches, they say. Chop down the answers into blurbs. But what all these freelance campaign managers miss is this: Barack doesn't think that way. He's not a refrigerator magnet guy.

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Behold, the McCain-Palin "Truth Squad!"

Jeanne Devon ("AKMuckraker") | Posted 10.10.2008 | Politics

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Jeanne Devon (

I bet they'll dispel all those horrible claims about her stand on reproductive rights, troopergate, intimidating staff, raising taxes and being called the Queen of Earmarks! They're really gonna clear the air. Right guys??

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Revisiting Palin's Recycled Stump Script Line by Line

Larry Persily | Posted 10.10.2008 | Home

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Larry Persily

Given that convention speech snippets may be all voters can expect to hear from Palin in the coming days and perhaps beyond, it's worth reviewing some of the assertions she made to the crowd in St Paul.

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