realclearpolitics.com - 1/2/2009
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The 2008 campaign did not make history. It was made by history. Conventional coalitions and events elected Barack Obama.
Looking back, there remains a disconnect between the myth of the 2008 campaign and what occurred. Some history was made. After 43 white men, a black man will be president. A ...
blackfive.net - 1/7/2009
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blackfive.net —
When you read moving tributes like this to
men like this you somehow feel smaller, like your...
portion is less than it could, or should be. We hear about Ranger Tillman and all that he sacrificed and forget about LCPL Phelps and all that he and his ...
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Are we seeing a Democratic realignment
Betsy's Page —
David Paul Kuhn has one of the most perceptive analyses of the 2008 election results that I've seen. Read the whole thing. Of course, we can't reach any conclusion about whether or not we're seeing a realignment of the electorate towards Democrats. We'll need a few more elections before we'll be able to look back and judge where we've been and where we're going as far as the electorate. But Kuhn's detailed analysis of the election results do point to one pretty sure conclusion. Without the economic collapse, Obama might still have won, but it would have been quite a narrow ...
Remainders: Leadership
Ben Smith's Blog —
Obama's leadership numbers are sky high.
Kuhn argues that his election wasn't actually a realignment.
End of an era: the great Sunny Mindel moves on.
Fox rings in the new year with 'Magic Negro.'
Josh Levy argues that progressives need to organize outside the Obama rubric.
Caroline is a diner person.
And Chait wants to put the Marxists in charge of naming bowl games.
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Plus ça; change
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Change we cannot and do not believe in
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Change I Can Believe In
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50% chance of depression in US
gulfnews.com 12/21/2008 — San Francisco: The US economy has a 50 per cent chance of falling into a depression during the next three years, said Roger Farmer, a member of the National Bureau of Economic Research's economic fluctuations and growth programme."There's a ...
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