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ICYMI: Another GOPer For Obama
Hotline On Call Part Deux — ... Former Sen. Charles McC. Mathias Jr. (R-MD) endorsed Barack Obama today in a Washington Post editorial: ...

Mods dig Obama
Jonathan Martin's Blog — The Obama mod squad bandwagon picks up another disillusioned Republican: Charles McC. Mathias Anybody heard from Charles Percy recently?

Obamacon Watch
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — ... and the Bull Moose. Most of the Mathias family has voted Republican ever since. In 1964, as a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives, I astounded many of my friends and supporters by voting for Barry Goldwater, despite disagreeing with many of his views and despite his lack of support in my congressional district. I publicly endorse the Democratic candidate for president with a sense of the historic significance of the choice before us all," - former senator Charles McC. Mathias Jr. ...

Tuesday's Mini-Report
Political Animal — ... : in just its second month, "The Rachel Maddow Show" on MSNBC is beating CNN's "Larry King Live" in the key demo that advertisers care about. * Another Republican is backing Obama: this time, it's former Rep. Charles McC. Mathias Jr. of Maryland. * Wait, the McCain's Keating scandal ...

"Mac" Mathias endorses Obama
The Reality-Based Community — ... Back in the day, when there were liberal Republicans — Javits, Lindsay, Hatfield — Charles McC. Mathias was a liberal Republican Congressman and then Senator from Maryland. As befits someone whose great-grandfather ran downballot from Lincoln, Mathias was a loyal Republican; he went so far as to endorse Barry Goldwater for President. He has known John McCain since before McCain first held public office. Mac Mathias endorsed Barack Obama today.

Welcoming Ken Duberstein to the Traitors’ List
The Moderate Voice — Welcome aboard, Mr. Duberstein — you “former Reagan Chief of Staff and longtime GOP insider” you. With Pressler and Mathias, that makes three more of us this week alone. And so on … as Mr. Vonnegut (were he still alive) might conclude. —————— THE LIST Susan Eisenhower, Christopher Buckley, Alison Goldwater Ross, C.C. Goldwater, Francis Fukuyama, Larry Hunter, William Weld, David ...

Welcoming Ken Duberstein to the Traitor’s List
The Moderate Voice — Welcome aboard, Mr. Duberstein — you “former Reagan Chief of Staff and longtime GOP insider” you. With Pressler and Mathias, that makes three more of us this week alone. And so on — as Mr. Vonnegut (were he still alive) might conclude. —————— THE LIST Susan Eisenhower, Christopher Buckley, Alison Goldwater Ross, C.C. Goldwater, Francis Fukuyama, Larry Hunter, William Weld, David ...

Traitors
N/A — ... Eisenhower, Christopher Buckley, Alison Goldwater Ross, C.C. Goldwater, Francis Fukuyama, Larry Hunter, William Weld, David Friedman, Charles Fried, Arne Carlson, Ken Adelman, Doug Kmiec, Wayne Gilchrest, Jim Leach, Lincoln Chafee, Lowell Weicker, Linwood Holton, Jim Whitaker, Bill Ruckelshaus, Dennis Sanders, Larry Pressler, Charles Mathias Jr., Ken Duberstein ...