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Obama Campaign Uses Little Steps To Make Big Movement

Stephen Herrington | Posted 10.07.2008 | Home

Read More: Barack Obama, Canvassers, Campaign Tactics, Politics Local, Volunteers, Obama Biden, Grassroots Campaign, Obama Volunteers, Snohomish County, Campaign 2008, Precinct Meeting, Politics, Washington, Seattle, Election 2008, Home News
Stephen Herrington

What Obama's campaign does that is different is to ask canvassers and callers to personally take a stake in making a difference in the leanings of voters. Quite simply it is predicated on the very questionable statistical significance of one human influencing another.

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You Don't Need A Weatherman To Know Which Way The Wind Blows

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.06.2008 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

Whatever you believe about Bill Ayers and the Weathermen, the fact remains that he is not running for president. But John McCain doesn't really have any other arrows left in his quiver.

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I Want A VP Who Is Smarter Than Me

Pam Atherton | Posted 10.03.2008 | Home

Read More: Wasilla, Vice President, Debate, Middle Class, Joe Biden, Maverick, Shia, Intellectual, Nuclear, Anti-Intellectual, Intelligence, Vice President Debate, Elite, Folksy, Sarah Palin, Washington, Alaska, Sunnis, Hockey Mom, John McCain, Home News
Pam Atherton

I don't want someone who believes their biggest asset is that they know what it's like to shop at WalMart and take their kids to hockey practice in a mini-van. How will that help in negotiations and diplomatic missions with other heads of state?

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The McCain/Palin Debate Spin: We Won Because She Wasn't a Dithering Idiot

Michael Russnow | Posted 10.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Oakland, Alaska, Cnn, John McCain, Vice Presidential Debate, Gwen Ifill, Russnow, Washington, Michael Russnow, Gertrude Stein, Joe Biden, Sarah Palin, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, Politics News
Michael Russnow

What Gertrude Stein said about her hometown Oakland could also be said of Sarah Palin. "There is no there, there." Sarah Palin is simply without substance.

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Republican "Workout" Is A Cop Out

Ron Grande | Posted 09.30.2008 | Home

Read More: Washington, Main Street, House Republicans, Ideology, Ideological, Workout, Paulson, Wall Street Crisis, Credit, Bailout, Wall Street, Securities, Crisis, Financial, Republicans, Free Market, Political, Home News
Ron Grande

The House Republicans will be to blame for any calamities that may yet be in store for our economy. Their objection to the modified Paulson Plan was not ideological, it was political.

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America's Blown it, Bring in a Global System

Diane Francis | Posted 09.30.2008 | Business

Read More: Wall Street Crisis, Politics, Gold Prices, Deflation, Financial Meltdown, Global Crisis, Washington, Financial Crisis, Bank Bailout, Canada, Jim Cramer, T-Bills, Business News
Diane Francis

The world is very nervous because America's political rigamordis means that 25% of the global GDP cannot be repaired or even managed.

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U.S. is Great, But Its Government System Stinks

Diane Francis | Posted 09.29.2008 | Politics

Read More: Taxes, Wall Street Crisis, Debt Crisis, Wall Street, Washington, Parliamentary Systems, Financial Crisis, Main Street, Canada, Campaign Finance Reform, Economy, Politics News
Diane Francis

The economic crisis will pass but America's biggest crisis is the fact that Washington is an 18th Century American political system operating in the 21st.

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Winning the War on Voters: Will Institutional Mismanagement Quash Turnout Gains?

Ted Johnson, Maegan Carberry, Teresa Valdez Klein | Posted 09.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Young Voters, Variety, Politics, Mccain, Washington, Ted Johnson, Yard Signs, Wilshire, Barack Obama, Politics News
Ted Johnson, Maegan Carberry, Teresa Valdez Klein

Campaigns are focusing huge resources on turning out the youth vote, but this segment of the population always lags behind in voter percentages. Will this year be any different?

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When Palin Meet Ahmadinejad in Tehran?

Omid Memarian | Posted 09.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, John McCain, U.N. General Assembly, Washington, Sarah Palin, Tehran, Sara Palin, Afghanistan, Iraq, U.S. Republicans, Democrats, Barack Obama, President George Bush, Sarah Palin Iran, Politics News
Omid Memarian

Surprisingly, out of all the Middle Eastern leaders, no one is probably more similar to Palin than Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

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"Dear Sarah Palin: When the Myth Becomes Legend, What Should We Print?"

Steven Denlinger | Posted 09.22.2008 | Home

Read More: Print the Legend, Washington, George W. Bush, Harry Truman, Rorschach Test, Lion in Winter, Cowboy Myth, Power, Schmidt & Bounds, Sarah Palin, Dick Cheney, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence, Robert Frost, New Covenant, Dick Nixon, Tucker Bounds, Russia, Jibjab, Old Testament, Left, People of Israel, " Commander Adama, Rove, Sarah Barracuda, Battlestar Galactica, Right, Bambi, John McCain, Karl Rove, Alaska, House, Gone With the Wind, Texas, Annie Oakley, Joe Biden, God, John Ford, Barack Obama, Old West, Pride Worm, It's Time for Some Campaigning, Bible, "Guns and Religion, Steven Schmidt, Fox News, Westerns, Joe Lieberman, Southerners, Home News
Steven Denlinger

THE PRIDE WORM Power's a funny thing. It's like one of those worms on the television show House, which goes in through your upturned nose and invade...

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The Man Who Will be President.

Dr. Susan Corso | Posted 09.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: 1/21/09, See the Change, Capitol, Oath of Office, D.C., Washington, Barack Obama, 44th President, Michelle Obama, Politics News
Dr. Susan Corso

This election is not about the woman who could be president, it's about the man who will be president. It's time to put down the fear.

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Earthjustice Lobbyist Reacts to Offshore Drilling Ban Bill

Eric Kuhn | Posted 09.18.2008 | Green

Read More: Environment, Bbc, Earthjustice, Wall Street Journal, Lobbyists, Global Warming, Washington, Green News
Eric Kuhn

A day after the House passed plans to ease the offshore drilling ban, I spoke with prominent environmental lobbyist Martin Hayden on the legislation and his reactions.

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Changes in the D.C. Housing Market

John Vardas | Posted 09.11.2008 | Business

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John Vardas

Even with the troublesome market and the secondary mortgage failures plaguing the country over the past year, this city has, remarkably, been weathering the storm.

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The Delegate From Sadr City

Joshuah Bearman | Posted 09.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Delegates, 2008 Campaign, Dnc, Iraq, Democrats, Washington, Denver, Democratic Convention, Sadr City Delegate, Politics News
Joshuah Bearman

You may be shocked to learn that not all stories from the convention were about tactics, or personalities, or disunity, or overcoming disunity, or yet more endless parsing of personalities and stagecraft.

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The Clinton Convention Coup: Not Impossible

Judah Freed | Posted 08.19.2008 | Home

Read More: Democratic Convention, Dnc, Clinton, Washington DC, Democratic National Convention, p.u.m.A., Obama, Delgates, Democrats, Donedems, Dc, Barack Obama, Democratic Party, Washington, Florida, Hillary Clinton, Fisa, Michigan, Denver, Home News
Judah Freed

The pivotal issue is whether Clinton can pick up enough superdelegates who feel Obama's recent actions or McCain's consistent poll numbers cast doubt on Obama's electability.

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Alaska's GOP Congressmen Are Bridge to Nowhere

John Fund | Posted 08.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Alaska, Energy, Corruption, Earmarks, Washington, Politics, Ted Stevens, Don Young Scandal, Sarah Palin, Politics News
John Fund

Stevens and Young have done enormous damage nationally to the Republican brand -- Alaska has come to be dominated by welfare-state conservatives.

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Does This Mean Edwards is Now For Gay Marriage?

Paul Jenkins | Posted 08.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, John McCain, Lgbt, Monica Lewinsky, Washington, Civil Rights, Campaign Finance, Cindy McCain, War, Iraq, Democratic Party, Los Angeles, New York City, Barack Obama, Defense of Marriage Act, Same-Sex Marriage, Iran, Religion, Marriage, New Jersey, Sex, Elizabeth Edwards, John Edwards, San Francisco, Hillary Clinton, Massachusetts, Gay Marriage, Gay Issues, Republican Party, Politics News
Paul Jenkins

It is shocking that politicians with personal lives as deeply flawed as Edwards, the Clintons, McCain and others, set themselves up as defenders of an institution they have raped of all moral significance.

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The B-Team Is Alive and Well In McCainland

Mark Nickolas | Posted 08.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Montana, North Dakota, John McCain, Minnesota, Indiana, George W. Bush, West Virginia, Georgia, Rudy Giuliani Presidential Campaign, Barack Obama, Ground Campaign, Rudy Giuliani, New Mexico, Steve Hildebrand, Negative Attacks, Rudy Giuliani 2008, Washington, Michael DuHaime, Alaska, Attack Ads, Oregon, Politics News
Mark Nickolas

Considering that McCain continues to trail significantly, it's hard to see his path to victory when he's so out-gunned on the ground and running such a nonsensical strategy of which states to target or defend.

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Paris Hilton as Eleanor Roosevelt

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 08.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Energy, Paris Hilton, Europe, Washington, Eleanor Roosevelt, Congress, Franklin Roosevelt, Arsenal of Democracy, Barack Obama, Nazis, Christmas 1940, Depression, The Administration, Detroit, Luftwaffe, Axis, Paris Hilton Responds to McCain, Paris Hilton Ad, Politics News
Raymond J. Learsy

While our administration has done little and Congress not much more to get the oil monkey off our backs, we have Paris Hilton proposing enlisting industry, labor and government to a higher calling.

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Seth Colter Walls

McCain On Defense: New Ad Tries To Revive "Maverick" Identity

HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 08.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Maverick, John McCain, Broken, Washington, Campaign Ads, Mccain Maverick Ad, Politics News

Barack Obama's two consecutive days of offense seem to have already paid small dividends: the McCain campaign feels compelled to defend their candidat...

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Is Facebook the Answer to Low Turnout and Hanging Chads?

Ted Johnson, Maegan Carberry, Teresa Valdez Klein | Posted 07.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Oliver Stone, Politics, Wilshire and Washington, Washington, Ted Johnson, Brett Horvath, Your Revolution, Facebook, Maegan Carberry, Teresa Valdez Klein, Wilshire, Batman, Barack Obama, Politics News
Ted Johnson, Maegan Carberry, Teresa Valdez Klein

Brett Horvath has created an application that allows voters in Washington and Arizona to register to vote online in less than three minutes.

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Remembering About Forgetting

Sandy Goodman | Posted 07.13.2008 | Home

Read More: Jefferson, Lincoln, Senior Moment, Grant, Slaves, Willard Scott, Washington, Memory, Willard Hotel, Lee, Fdr, Tourmobile, Home News
Sandy Goodman

Memory is big these days. Especially for those of us getting on in years. I'm celebrating my 75th birthday later this month. I don't know which I'm mo...

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Wilshire & Washington

Ted Johnson, Maegan Carberry, Teresa Valdez Klein | Posted 07.09.2008 | Media

Read More: Variety, Politics, Entertainment, Washington, Ted Johnson, New Media, Maegan Carberry, Teresa Valdez Klein, Wilshire, Barack Obama, Media News
Ted Johnson, Maegan Carberry, Teresa Valdez Klein

Wilshire & Washington, the weekly Blog Talk Radio program that explores the intersection of politics, entertainment, and new media, launched this morning.

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Beating the Jaywalking Rap

Nicholas Stephanopoulos | Posted 07.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Jaywalking, Crime, Police, D.C., Washington, Washington Dc Crime, How to Fight Traffic Tickets, Washington DC, Politics News
Nicholas Stephanopoulos

While gunshots ring out and drug deals are executed just blocks away, DC's police officers spend entire days nabbing pedestrians who cross streets a little too soon or a little too late.

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Where Have All The Lost Guns Gone?

Diane Dimond | Posted 06.28.2008 | Home

Read More: Gas Prices, Tacoma, Sanford Abrams, Firearms and Explosives, 60 Thousand Gun Shops in America, Valley Gun Shop, Terrorism, Washington, Maryland, Unregistered Guns, Gun Control, Missing Guns, Bull's Eye Shooter Supply, John Muhammad, ATF Inspections, 30 Thousand Missing Guns in America Every Year, DC Snipers, Guns, Nra, Gun Shop Owners, Bureau of Alcohol, Lost Guns, National Rifle Association, Tobacco, Right to Bear Arms, NRA Spokesman Andrew Arulanandam, 30 Thousand Missing Guns, 82 Missing Guns Every Day, Parkville, Home News
Diane Dimond

Earlier this month the ATF quietly revealed that the owners admitted a substantial part of their inventory was either "missing, lost or stolen." After adding it all up the ATF concluded that, collectively, those registered gun dealers "lost" 82 firearms every single day!

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