Winning on the Merits
Democrats are high minded to a fault. The triple disasters of the last eight years, Iraq, Katrina and the economy, are the world's reward for Al Gore...
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Sarah Palin--The Next "Great McGinty"?
Roger Smith | Posted 10.03.2008 | Politics
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Sarah Palin--The Next "Great McGinty"? By Roger Smith Like most of America, I awoke this morning to read/hear the usual voices of the commentariat...
Harwood: Senior GOP Congressman Says McCain Has "Basically Lost"
HuffingtonPost.com | Nico Pitney | Posted 10.02.2008 | Politics
John Harwood of the New York Times and CNBC relays some grim news for Republicans tonight on MSNBC: Look, I talked to a senior Republican member of C...
The Obama-McCain Debate: Lingering Mysteries
Tom Farer | Posted 09.29.2008 | Politics
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Why did Obama, superior in intellect and character, jab lightly and otherwise play rope-a-dope rather than delivering decisive blows to McCain's inviting jaw?
McCain Advocates Dividing Up Countries Into "Us" Vs. "Them"
Brian Ross | Posted 09.29.2008 | Home
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McCain's call to bypass the United Nations and establish a club of democracies where two nuclear superpowers cannot be represented is naive and dangerous political thinking.
Paper Endorses First Democrat For President In 72 Years: Obama
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 09.28.2008 | Media
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The Record, of Stockton, California, may not be the most well-known of newspapers, but they have been, for a number of decades, one of the most consis...
Voters to Decide Death with Dignity in Washington State
Booth Gardner | Posted 09.22.2008 | Home
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Life is a series of decisions, choices that we make every day, and they may be simple and easy or difficult and momentous. The decision that a cancer ...
War Protesters Confront McCain In Swing-State Michigan
Dan Treul | Posted 09.17.2008 | Home
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The protesters believe we must end the occupation of Iraq and redirect spending toward human needs. "You're so old," called one to the McCain fans. "It's time to change the rules."
Paper vs. Plastic: the Country Picks a President
Margot Rogers | Posted 08.19.2008 | Home
Many Americans face one particular dilemma every time they go to the grocery store. Should they request paper bags or plastic bags? I'd like to compar...
Gotta Be There At Invesco Field
Calvin Gipson | Posted 08.12.2008 | Home
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Yes, I admit I'm caught up in Obamamania. I have been one of the fans (as the McCain campaign likes to describe me) ever since I saw Obama speak in January at Denver University.
McCain Makes Age an Issue
Hal Donahue | Posted 08.11.2008 | Politics
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Seldom are the great leaders of history old or feeble. If this campaign is going to be waged on fitness to lead as John McCain approved, then age must be considered.
What a Convenient Little War for The Republicans
Blake Fleetwood | Posted 08.10.2008 | Politics
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McCain gets to act and talk tough against the Russians, while Obama is on vacation in Hawaii, issuing "can't we all get along statements." It perfectly augments Republican campaign points.
Fashionably Politic - Team Nanette Lepore/The Creative Coalition
Paige Donner | Posted 07.09.2008 | Living
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Nanette Lepore began her dress design company in 1992 with $5000, a degree from New York's Fashion Institute of Technology and a dream. Her gross sal...
Some Blind Spots and Hypocrisies of European Obamamania
Andrei Markovits and Jeff Weintraub | Posted 06.10.2008 | Politics
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Despite the swooning praises of Obama from the western European chattering classes, the reality is that someone in their own countries with Obama's political style would actually turn them off.
The Perfect Date
Marcia Meier | Posted 06.09.2008 | Politics
Hillary was gracious in her defeat, and encouraging in her endorsement. I hope Obama takes her with him on the ride to the White House.
Wisconsin Diary: My Grandparents Think McCain's Too Old
Dan Treul | Posted 06.09.2008 | Home
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In a northern Midwestern town, at my cousin's graduation, I got a glimpse of something remarkable, something that may signal yet more troublesome news to the already troubled regiment of McCain campaign strategists.
Clinton-Obama: Republican Dream, Democrat Nightmare
Rick Rolf | Posted 06.07.2008 | Politics
Anyone who believes that a Barack Obama-Hillary Clinton ticket will be an unconquerable political juggernaut has never slumbered into a sweet dream, only to have it evolve into a nightmare.
Bill Is The One Who Owes Hillary
Beth Arnold | Posted 06.05.2008 | Politics
One must assume that Hillary did it for herself as well as for Bill -- Hillary was never a wallflower. She made definitive decisions.
Gore's Sacrifice Squandered
Dan Treul | Posted 06.02.2008 | Home
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Gore took a bullet for the party in 2000. The GOP cheated in FL and everyone knew it. But his sacrifice has been squandered by Clinton. Thanks to her, the GOP no longer has the market on voting fraud.
Rove's Next Trick -- If Obama Must Answer For His Minister Now, Just Wait to See What the Republicans Will Do To Clinton Inc. in October
Frank Schaeffer | Posted 05.04.2008 | Politics
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Backhanded compliments have fooled the Democrats into thinking Hillary would be harder to beat than Obama. If she gets the nomination, Rove's easy destruction of Hillary will begin.
A Detailed Analysis of McCain's Maverick Image in Cartoon Form
Lee Camp | Posted 05.01.2008 | Politics
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Michigan: Hillary Clinton's Secret Weapon
Blake Fleetwood | Posted 04.26.2008 | Politics
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Interesting story in the Detroit News this week by political analyst Susan J. Demas discussing how Clinton might quietly pick up 50 delagates vote...
Obama: Even the Conservatives' Right Choice
Beth Arnold | Posted 03.25.2008 | Politics
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To follow along with Carville's Biblical imagery, Obama has parted the Presidential Red Sea to lead even principled Republican conservatives to the Obama Land of unifying and transforming America.
Recommended RNC Websites
Lauren Kirchner | Posted 03.12.2008 | Politics
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Here's a couple of domain names, just off the top of my head, that I think will help the RNC really reach their base.
Hillary: If I Can't Have it, Nobody Will
Michael Seitzman | Posted 03.04.2008 | Politics
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Hillary has handed the Republican nominee a soundbite he can play over and over and over again. And this is someone who has professed as her goal to beat the Republicans at all costs.
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