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More Details of LGBT Presidential Forum Released

Published: July 25, 2007, 12:51 pm

Tags: Los Angeles, Summer 2007, 2008 Elections, Gay Rights, Lgbt, Politics

Intrepid lesbian reporter Karen Ocamb over at The Bilerico Project and Bloggernista have posted interesting details of the recently announced HRC/Logo Presidential forum, which is being marketed as The Visible Vote '08: A Presidential Forum. Former Capital Gang panelist and Time magazine reporter Margaret Carlson and Jonathan Capehart, an openly

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Democrats Likely To Win Presidency If Bush Remains Unpopular

Published: July 18, 2007, 2:26 pm

Tags: Poll, Barack Obama, Bill Richardson, 2008 Elections, Presidency, John Edwards, Hillary Clinton, Politics, Democrats

back the White House in 2008 due to the unpopularity of the current Republican president in particular and of Republicans in general. Happily, in his well-written (excellent topic sentences!) column Mr. Brownstein uses actual polling data and historical analysis of presidential results to bolster his claim:Bush won't be on the ballot in

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Democrats Lead Money Race

Published: July 17, 2007, 1:35 pm

Tags: Barack Obama, Money, 2008 Elections, Presidency, Hillary Clinton

I wish it were 2008 already! Or January 21,

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OR-Sen: Top Oregon Dem to enter race

Published: July 27, 2007, 12:31 pm

Tags: Or Sen, Oregon, Senate, 2008 Elections, Gordon Smith, Jeff Merkley

chamber majority in the 2006 elections, is now looking to take on Bush enabler Gordon Smith. According to an anonymous source, former FuturePAC guru Jon Isaacs appears to be heading at least the development of Merkley's initial team, if not the entire campaign. While the prospective candidate mulls the final decision over with his family this

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TX-Sen: Noriega seeks to avoid primary

Published: July 27, 2007, 10:52 am

Tags: Rick Noriega, Tx Sen, Texas, Senate, 2008 Elections, Mikal Watts

John Cornyn, R-Texas, in the 2008 general election. Noriega said he believed he had the stronger resume and greater potential appeal to Texas voters. “Whether it is serving in the war, serving in the legislative body, serving on the border, serving in disaster relief efforts after Katrina, I believe I offer the strongest contrast to John

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Republican Cattle Call - Comments Period - Late July '07

Published: July 30, 2007, 5:02 pm

Tags: 2008 Elections, Republicans, Cattle Call

they would place if the elections started today, using a mix of poll results, CW, media attention, buzz, and other intangibles. You can rank however you want." My only request is that you stick to the basic premise of attempting to rank the candidates in the order of their current likelihood of becoming the Republican nominee.

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Cattle Call 2008: Comment period 7/30

Published: July 30, 2007, 5:31 pm

Tags: Cattle Call, President, 2008 Elections, Primaries, Democrats

they would place if the elections started today, using a mix of poll results, CW, media attention, buzz, and other intangibles. You can use whatever metrics you think are relevant, but the point isn't to rank your favorites, it's to rank how they would place if the elections started today. This is your chance to rank them as you see fit.

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AZ-03: Dem challenger raising big cash

Published: July 31, 2007, 10:55 am

Tags: Az 03, John Shadegg, Bob Lord, Arizona, House, 2008 Elections

We picked up two House seats in Arizona last year to go from a 6-2 Republican delegation, to a 4-4 tied one. And with Rick Renzi's (AZ-01) continued ethical problems, we already have a solid chance at picking up that one. Now, thanks to Democratic challenger Bob Lord's stellar fundraising, we look to have another strong pickup opportunity in the

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Lorri Jean Has Online 'Dust Up' With Heterosexual Supremacist

Published: August 1, 2007, 1:06 am

Tags: Ballot Measures, 2008 Elections, Gay Rights, Conservatives, Blogging, Lgbt, Media, Politics, Marriage

ballot measure fight for 2008, the Los Angeles Times has added an opinion feature to it's website where the CEO of the L.A. Gay and Lesbian Center, Lorri Jean, another of my Gay Heroes, will be doing online verbal tussling with Ron Prentice of the California Family Council, a heterosexual supremacist organization.It's actually pretty

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Heterosexual Supremacists Circulate Even Worse Anti-Gay Constitutional Amendment

Published: August 1, 2007, 4:29 pm

Tags: California, Ballot Measures, 2008 Elections, Domestic Partnership, Heterosexual Supremacists, Conservatives, Lgbt, Politics, Marriage

Thanks to user KatRose over at Pam's House Blend Mad Professah was alerted to this newly amended version of the previously announced Randy Thomasson-sponsored amendment to the California state constitution which was also recently approved by the attorney general for circulation for signatures:1253. (07-0020) Marriage. Elimination of Domestic

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SD-Sen: Ensign and NRSC go after recovering Tim Johnson

Published: August 2, 2007, 11:11 am

Tags: Tim Johnson, Senate, 2008 Elections

From the subscription-only Roll Call: National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman John Ensign (Nev.) said Wednesday that the GOP is no longer putting off mounting an aggressive campaign to unseat Sen. Tim Johnson (D-S.D.) — even though the two-term incumbent is still recovering from a brain aneurysm that has sidelined him since

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MN-Sen: Pro-war group runs ad thanking Coleman for war support

Published: August 2, 2007, 2:47 pm

Tags: Iraq, Mn Sen, Minnesota, Senate, 2008 Elections

This is brilliant. Let's hope this pro-war group continues to run ads thanking vulnerable senators for their support for Bush's war. Democrats couldn't air a more damaging ad. Coleman has been trying to play both sides, pretending he's got concerns about Iraq while continuing to vote for this dramatically unpopular war. This ad makes it

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Grasping at straws: Bad idea if you're playing Jenga

Published: August 6, 2007, 2:19 pm

Tags: Yearlykos 2007, 2008 Elections, Diversity

Quick note on what I find to be one of the more interesting criticisms of the Yearly Kos gathering -- that being the WaPo's insight (does it count as an insight if Gina tells it to you to your face?) that YK07 was mostly male and mostly white. It's true. It's something I'm sure we'd like to see change, but it's true. Grasping at anything they

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Gibson radio show executive producer: Edwards "whored his wife's cancer as a fundraising gimmick"

Published: August 6, 2007, 8:18 pm

Tags: John Gibson, Fox News Radio, The John Gibson Show, 2008 Elections, Attacks On Progressives, Government Elections, John Edwards, Media, Propaganda Noise Machine

On the August 3 edition of Fox News host John Gibson's nationally syndicated radio program, the show's executive producer, who goes by the name "Angry Rich" on the program, claimed Democratic presidential candidate former Sen. John Edwards (NC) "whored his wife's cancer as a fundraising gimmick." He also went on to call him "a

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Debate's "brightest moment"? Few media note that even while attacking Obama, Romney agreed on substance

Published: August 6, 2007, 7:20 pm

Tags: Associated Press, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Usa Today, 2008 Elections, Barack Obama, Government Elections, Mitt Romney, National Security Foreign Policy, Rudy Giuliani

In covering the August 5 Republican presidential debate on ABC's This Week, many print media outlets reported former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney's attack -- in what the Associated Press' Mike Glover referred to as one of the debate's "brightest moments" -- on Sen. Barack Obama's (D-IL) recent foreign policy statements:

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