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CNN called Pennsylvania for Obama.
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And Ohio.
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Archive for the ‘Campaign 2006’ Category
November 4th, 2008
Category: Campaign 2006
March 3rd, 2008
Category: Campaign 2006
Yes, we’ve been observing a unilateral cease-fire.
But if you keep lying about our candidate, we might just have to start telling the truth about yours.
And that wouldn’t be fun for anyone, would it?
November 8th, 2006
Category: Campaign 2006
Now that the bubbles are starting to go flat on the campaign champagne, Democrats need to start thinking-and quick-about what their agenda is and what sequence it ought to be dealt with.
November 8th, 2006
Category: Campaign 2006
“Who’s going to call Bush and tell him what happened?”
[chi chiamerà George Bush, per dirgli cosa succede?]
-Beppe Severgnini, in Corriere
November 8th, 2006
Category: Campaign 2006
If I got this right, Bush knowingly lied about his plans to ditch Rumsfeld because an election was looming. The idea, I guess, is that the republic is stronger when voters don’t know what’s going on, or am I missing something?
Another vessel staying the course right onto the rocks. Dang.
November 7th, 2006
Category: Campaign 2006
Mark informs me that absentee ballots have already been counted in VA. So…if that’s true, then I’m much more optimistic for Webb. There’s an automatic recount in VA if the final result is under 1%, so Dems still need to send every lawyer in a 1000 mile radius into the state. But if this is [...]
October 27th, 2006
Category: Campaign 2006
This blog has adopted the VA 10th district race as one of our favorite turnover opportunities, only partly because both Mark’s and my public policy programs would benefit by damaging the competition at Georgetown, and electing its dean to congress would definitely do that, hee hee.
Today’s insider poop is that the DCCC, which listed it [...]
October 15th, 2006
Mark’s observation about McCain’s sudden non-appearance for Tom Reynolds shows Arizona’s senior senator at his most canny. The question is at what point he becomes too clever-by-half.
Remember that the only thing that McCain cares about is winning the Republican nomination. Under normal circumstances, that would mean pulling out all the stops. But [...]
October 5th, 2006
Category: Campaign 2006, Foley follies
Harold Ford to Republicans:
“I’m not going to take a lecture on morality from a party that took hush money from a child predator.”
August 13th, 2006
Category: Campaign 2006
Tom Edsall thinks that Lieberman’s loss shows that upscale Democrats don’t care enough about the views of lunchbucket Democrats. I disagree.
