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| Blue America Welcomes Jim Himes |
| Published: July 28, 2007, 1:33 pm |
| Tags: Election 08, Netroots Blue America |
| (Guest Blogged by Howie Klein) Jim Himes is our Blue America candidate today. We’re trying to help him overcome rubber stamp Republican incumbent Chris Shays in southwest Connecticut. He’ll be live blogging at Firedoglake today at 2pm, EDT. But we also asked him some non-political questions that might help put him in some kind of |
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| John McCain's Media Team Quits Campaign |
| Published: July 27, 2007, 5:59 pm |
| Tags: Election 08, John Mccain, Campaigns Elections |
| AP Via Yahoo: Sen. John McCain’s advertising consultants have resigned from his presidential campaign, the latest in a rash of staff shake-ups in recent weeks. McCain communications director Jill Hazelbaker on Wednesday described the departure of Russ Schriefer and Stuart Stevens as amicable and said the Arizona Republican |
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| Rachel Maddow's Campaign Asylum: The GOP Protecting Kids? |
| Published: July 28, 2007, 3:44 pm |
| Tags: Election 08, Campaigns Elections, Air America |
| In the latest installment of Rachel Maddow’s Campaign Asylum, the good doctor takes a look at how the Republicans are pretty much on the wrong side of most issues that Americans care about. But one thing’s for sure, they have an unshakable desire to protect the children…that is, until they’re born. Rachel |
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| Thompson's Fundraising Underwhelming |
| Published: July 30, 2007, 7:01 pm |
| Tags: Fred Thompson, Election 08 |
| You know, Fred, George warned you: Prezidentin’ is “hard work.” If you’re not willing to put in the effort, don’t be surprised if the dollars don’t flow in. The Politico: Fred Thompson plans to announce Tuesday that his committee to test the waters for a Republican presidential campaign raised slightly more |
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| Giuliani exaggerating (again) |
| Published: July 30, 2007, 10:02 pm |
| Tags: Election 08, Rudy Giuliani |
| The New York Daily News, reports: It is Rudy Giuliani's favorite boast on the presidential campaign trail: I cut taxes 23 times as mayor of New York, he says, a claim inevitably met by applause. The impressive-sounding stat stars in radio ads this week in New Hampshire and Iowa, where the voiceover asserts that Giuliani cut or |
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| Mitt Romney Sez Hezbollah Style Diplomacy Would Be Good For America |
| Published: August 1, 2007, 12:02 pm |
| Tags: Election 08, Health Science, Middle East, Campaigns Elections |
| No, really…he did. Last weekend Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney held a town hall meeting in Ottumwa, Iowa. One of the members of the audience asked him if he would commit the money necessary to continue President Bush’s AIDS program in Africa as a way to restore good will toward America. His answer, while not picked up |
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| Senate Backpedals On Legislation Requiring Paper Trail For E-Voting Machines |
| Published: August 1, 2007, 8:38 pm |
| Tags: Election 08, Campaigns Elections, Voting Rights |
| enacting such changes by 2008. “Pushing the date back to the 2010 elections will give us more time to reach a bipartisan consensus with voting reform advocates and local and state officials to enact a new law that provides for increased accuracy and accountability at the polls without raising the specter of creating major new |
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| Traffic Jam After CNN/YouTube Debate |
| Published: August 2, 2007, 2:27 pm |
| Tags: News, Features, Cnn, Democrats, Presidential Election 08, Republicans, Web Sites, Youtube |
| Now that the first CNN/YouTube sponsored debate is over, the results are in and it seems that the debate may have helped increase the hits on the official campaign sites for the participants of the Democratic debate. Even though Hillary Clinton has been leading the recent polls, it seems that according to Hitwise, Barack Obama kept the lead in |
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| Romney, Hezbollah, and healthcare |
| Published: August 3, 2007, 8:15 pm |
| Tags: Mitt Romney, Election 08, Foreign Policy |
| The hyper-conservative World Net Daily has caused a bit of a stir on the right today with this report. Republican presidential candidate Gov. Mitt Romney has cited the social welfare network of the Lebanese Hezbollah terror group as a role model the U.S. should copy to help promote goodness and freedom around the world. This isn't |
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| The Cafferty File Looks At Tancredo's Pre-Emptive Foreign Policy |
| Published: August 4, 2007, 1:02 pm |
| Tags: Election 08, Republican Party, Right Wing Stupidity, Terrorism |
| Jack Cafferty looks at the simply unbelievable statement of Colorado congressman and Republican presidential contender Tom Tancredo advocating the bombing of Mecca and Medina to ward off the Islamic fundamentalist threat. What frightens me more is simply how many viewers (and presumably part of those die-hard 29%ers) agree with this bonehead |
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| Things Get Heated Early In ABC GOP Debate - Brownback Goes After Romney On Abortion Flip-Flop |
| Published: August 5, 2007, 12:18 pm |
| Tags: Election 08, Abc, Campaigns Elections, This Week George Stephanopoulos |
| The GOP Presidential Candidate Debate on this morning’s “This Week” started off with a bang as moderator George Stephanopolis played a robo-call sent out to Iowa voters from Sam Brownback’s campaign which attacks Mitt Romney’s stance on abortion and his claim to be pro-life. Brownback, who is not only pro-life, but |
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| McCain Digs At GWB: Everyone Will Know Who's Boss When He's President |
| Published: August 5, 2007, 4:30 pm |
| Tags: Debates, Election 08, John Mccain, This Week George Stephanopoulos |
| Wow, a little bit of the old “Maverick” popped out during the GOP debate on ABC this morning… Download (190) Play (233) QT later… (thanks to Scarce for the vid) McCain: I would do what some presidents have done in the past…a Vice President brings some area of expertise and talent. I would |
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| Jane Hamsher On CNN Talking About Mitt's Fit |
| Published: August 5, 2007, 10:02 pm |
| Tags: Election 08, Cnn, Civil Liberties, Abortion, Campaigns Elections |
| rolling. Download (508) Play (738) Download (240) Play (421) As always, Jane nails it on the head by pointing out that Romney and the other Republican candidates are in a bad position because they have to pander to their base on the issues of war, abortion and George Bush — all of which fall well |
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| Edwards Tries To Distinguish Himself From Clinton Over K Street |
| Published: August 6, 2007, 9:33 am |
| Tags: Hillary Clinton, Election 08, Lobbies, John Edwards |
| WorkingForChange: I’m just back from the YearlyKos Convention in Chicago, and wanted to point folks to two YouTube clips of what were the best and most telling moments - by far - of the conference’s presidential campaign interchanges. As you will see, after John Edwards pushed Hillary Clinton into a corner about her ties to Washington |
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| Huckabee gets punked |
| Published: August 6, 2007, 12:02 pm |
| Tags: Election 08, Republican Party, Right Wing Stupidity |
| See what happens when you don’t research a little bit and check those links? |
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