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• Bush Hits 25% Approval, 71% Disapproval

  Published: July 24, 2007, 1:51 pm

  Tags: Poll, Presidency, Politics

  The American Research Group has their latest polling results on President Bush's approval rating and the news is not good for "The Decider."Month Approval Disapproval UndecidedJul 2007 25% 71% 4%Jun 2007 27% 67% 6%May 2007 31% 64% 5%Apr 2007 33% 62% 5%Mar 2007 32% 63%

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• CNN Indicates "Bush Resigns"

  Published: July 20, 2007, 2:59 pm

  Tags: Humor, Presidency, Media, Politics

  David Ehrenstein has posted this excellent screen shot from CNN at his Fablog indicating "Bush Resigns" on the day that Tony Blair resigned as Prime Minister of Great Britain.

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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

  Today's Los Angeles Times has an op-ed by political reporter Ronald Brownstein ("Bush the Albatross") which repeats an argument Mad Professah has been echoing since last November: The Democrats have the upper hand in winning back the White House in 2008 due to the unpopularity of the current Republican president in particular and of Republicans 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

  Bloggernista yesterday posted a summary of the actual cash on hand available to Democratic presidential candidates:Barack Obama - $34 millionHillary Clinton - $33 millionJohn Edwards - $12 millionBill Richardson - $7 millionChris Dodd - $6.4 million The Los Angeles Times published an article today outlining that the Democratic campaign committees

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• With Democrats, it all Depends on Who Steals the Vote

  Published: August 3, 2007, 7:48 pm

  Tags: Political Commentary, Link Fest, Hotly, Contested, Defeating, Presidency, 2000, Gore, George, Election

  in 2000 George Bush won the Presidency by defeating Al Gore in a hotly contested election. The results were not known for more than a month because the Democrats demanded recount after recount and things ended up in the courts mostly because there were different vote counting procedures in... Visit Big Dog's Weblog for the rest of the story...

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• A Cacophony of Candidates In Town Tomorrow

  Published: August 8, 2007, 2:04 pm

  Tags: Barack Obama, Bill Richardson, 2008 Elections, Gay Rights, Presidency, John Edwards, Blogging, Lgbt, Hillary Clinton

  Tomorrow is the LOGO/HRC Democratic Presidential forum known as Visible Vote '08 in Los Angeles (Studio City, actually). As Mad Professah mentioned a few weeks ago, this is not a debate, but actually a series of sequential appearances by presidential candidates who will respond to questions from a panel of journalists, celebrities, and activists.

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• Barack Obama Releases LGBT Leadership Council

  Published: August 9, 2007, 3:29 pm

  Tags: Barack Obama, 2008 Elections, Presidency, Lgbt, Politics

  Today ("coincidentally" the date of the Logo/HRC Presidential Forum on LGBT issues) the Obama for America campaign released list of members on their long-awaited LGBT Leadership Council. (h/t Rod 2.0) The full list is in the LGBT section of the BarackObama.com websiteStampp Corbin, National LGBT Liaison, Obama for America; Former Human Rights

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• Report Cards from the Logo/HRC Forum

  Published: August 10, 2007, 3:49 am

  Tags: Barack Obama, Bill Richardson, Presidency, John Edwards, Dennis Kucinich, Lgbt, Hillary Clinton, Politics, News Analysis

  1. Hillary Clinton. Hillary was clearly comfortable wth the setting and came across as well-informed and empathetic. She was very specific about what she wanted to do regarding state recognition of same sex couples: repeal Section 3 of the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act. Unfortunately there are only 2 sections of DOMA. I believe though Clinton was

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• Why I can't support Mitt Romney

  Published: August 16, 2007, 8:08 pm

  Tags: Politics, Abortion, Abortion, Gop Nomination, Governor Of Massachusetts, Joseph Farah, Mitt Romney, Presidency, Republican Voters, Situational Ethics

  the GOP nomination for the presidency. Read the rest of the editorial here.

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• Dept. Of Terrorism's Choice For The Terror Presidency: Terror Queen Doesn't Actually Know Anything About Terrorism

  Published: August 23, 2007, 4:19 pm

  Tags: 2008, 9 11, Abortion, Crazies, Dept Of Terrorism S Choice For The Terror Presidency, Family Values, Fascists, Fear Mongering, Gop, Republicans, Rudy Giuliani

  Self-proclaimed Terror Queen Rudy Giuliani is, of course, running for President of 9/11. TIME Magazine describes his campaign this way: “He has no foreign policy experience, and he talks about terrorism as if it’s an enemy country on a continent only he knows how to find.” The magazine then spends about a million words describing

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• Competing Statewide Ballot Initiatives For California's Electoral Votes

  Published: August 23, 2007, 2:20 pm

  Tags: Law, California, Ballot Measures, 2008 Elections, Presidency, Politics, Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Republican operatives are circulating a ballot initiative that could radically change the dynamics of the 2008 presidential electoral map by assigning California's 55 electoral votes to that candidate which carries each of the state's congressional districts and not the statewide plurality. In 2004, President Bush carried 22 of California's 53

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• Fred's in finally

  Published: August 30, 2007, 8:42 pm

  Tags: Politics, Fred Thompson, High Expectations, Mike Huckabee, Nanny State, Presidency, Tax Spend

  Fred Thompson is going to announce his bid for the presidency on September 6. Will he be able to meet the high expectations people (including myself) have of him? We’ll soon find out. Mike Huckabee doesn’t think so, but I’m starting to have some doubts about Huckabee, too, with his tax-and-spend record and nanny state philosophy.

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• Fred's announcement video

  Published: September 6, 2007, 10:43 pm

  Tags: Politics, Fred Thompson, Presidency

  If Fred can keep talking like this I think he’s got a very good shot at the presidency.

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• Erap’s many mansions

  Published: September 7, 2007, 6:53 am

  Tags: Pcij Image Galleries, Governance, Pcij Investigative Reports, Erap, Joseph Estrada, Mansions, Pcij, Presidency

  THAT he has had numerous affairs has brought him either admiration, ambivalence or derision. But that he has built huge houses for them in posh subdivisions has made former president Joseph Estrada face questions about his wealth, adding fuel to the calls to have him impeached just two years after his landslide victory. In November 2000, [...]

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• Revisiting the Erap presidency

  Published: September 7, 2007, 5:06 am

  Tags: Governance, In The News, Pcij Investigative Reports, Erap, Joseph Estrada, Pcij, Presidency

  JOSEPH Erap' Estrada has always been an interesting character, but once he was voted into the vice presidency, he became a source of fascination for us at the PCIJ. After all, he was not just the vice president; President Fidel Ramos had also named him as head of the Presidential Anti-Crime Commission (PACC), where his [...]

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