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I still think it's going to be Dubya, although it's by no means a sure thing. There are some significant factors going against him. His approval rating is in the high 40s, which is low for an incumbent candidate – but not so low as to completely doom him. A majority of people don't like the [...]
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I finally got my copy today of The Exception to the Rulers, by Amy Goodman with her brother David. It covers much of the Bush administration's shenanigans, but she's also gone after Bill Clinton, who described her questioning of him on her show Democracy Now as “hostile and combative.” Those aren't necessarily bad adjectives to [...]
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I was following coverage last night of U.S. conservatives trying to spin Osama bin Laden's video appearance into an indictment of Fahrenheit 9/11 — and Michael Moore's response. Here's how Newsmax.com opened their story: Al Qaida mastermind Osama bin Laden paid tribute to leading Kerry supporter, conspiracy filmmaker Michael Moore on Friday, by invoking a [...]
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The NYT asked some of the highest-profile bloggers to comment on what they saw as a key moment in the U.S. presidential election of 2004. Strangely, they didn't ask dailykos.com. Read the story here.
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Besides being a thoroughly decent human being who I think is on the right side of fighting for a humane America, Bruce Springsteen is a phenomenal lyricist. I thought John Kerry made a great choice in choosing his song No Surrender as a campaign theme, from the seminal 1984 album Born in the U.S.A. A [...]
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This is an outstanding column by the NYT's Paul Krugman: Faith in America. lorida's early polling was designed to make voting easier, but enormous voter turnout swamped the limited number of early polling sites. Over the weekend, people in some polling places had to stand in line for four, five, even six hours, often in [...]
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