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Monday, March 17, 2008 - Posts

  • The Revote Veto


    Last week we surveyed the proposed scenarios for fixing the Michigan/Florida mess. Two of the four solutions involved costly Florida revotes. But now the chairman of the state Democratic Party tells us they’ve decided not to hold a revote. With that, Read More...
  • Cracked Kristol


    This morning, the New York Times ran a Bill Kristol column whose entire bloated argument balanced on a tenuous, factually incorrect fulcrum. Kristol claims that Obama can’t pretend he didn’t know his pastor, Jeremiah Wright, was a controversial firebrand Read More...
  • O'Bama


    In a race where identity politics is everywhere, you’d think Barack Obama would put more emphasis on his Irish heritage today. See above. ( Update 12:45 a.m.: Obama's campaign sends word that he wore a green tie to a dinner with the Irish Women's Society Read More...
  • Clinton Uncowed By Sinbad


    In her Iraq speech today in Washington, D.C., Hillary Clinton told the same story that comedian Sinbad mocked last week: [T]here was a saying around the White House that if a place was too small, too poor, or too dangerous, the president couldn't go, Read More...
  • Rush Limbaugh, Queenmaker


    Today the Boston Globe seems to confirm rumors that Republicans voted for Hillary Clinton in Ohio, Texas, and Mississippi to undermine Barack Obama’s candidacy. In Ohio and Texas on March 4, Republicans comprised 9 percent of the Democratic primary electorate, Read More...
  • Iowa 2.0


    For Barack Obama, Iowa just keeps on giving. First they handed him a decisive victory in the Democratic caucus in January. Then at this weekend’s district conventions, they gave him a second win in which he netted another nine pledged delegates, bringing Read More...
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