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Did Hillary's Election Strategy Work Two Years Too Late?
tnr.com - 18 days ago
Did Hillary's Election Strategy Work Two Years Too Late?
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Remember all the talk about Hillary's "inevitability strategy" a couple years ago, and (with the benefit of hindsight, of course) how dumb it was ? Well, reading these couple grafs from today's NYT story on Bloomberg's narrow election, it seems like the same strategy pretty much won ...
fivethirtyeight.com - 19 days ago
What Happened and Why?
— fivethirtyeight.com — The outcome of all seven contests that we were tracking tonight appears settled, or very nearly so: Virginia Governor: Republican Bob McDonnell wins by 17 points, toward the upper end of the range predicted by the pollsters, but not to anybody's ... (more) What Happened and Why?

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nypost.com - 11 days ago
1993 WTC 'plotter' in Mike meet
— nypost.com — A controversial imam who was an "unindicted co-conspirator" in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing was among a group of Muslim leaders invited yesterday to a meeting with Mayor Bloomberg at City Hall. Siraj Wahhaj has defended the convicted WTC bomb ... (more) 1993 WTC 'plotter' in Mike meet

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liberalvaluesblog.com - 19 days ago
Local Elections and National Politics
— liberalvaluesblog.com — I’ve already commented on the limited meaning of yesterday’s elections. The argument that all politics is local is over used and often false, but yesterday was one of the times when local politics were more important than national trends. The Wall Street Journal pointed out how ... (more) Local Elections and National Politics

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Remainders: Maine
Ben Smith's Blog — ... leads the 2012 field, and fewer than a third think Palin is qualified. Her biographers suggest she makes things up. Gaspard huddles in Wisconsin. TNR blasts Gration. Kerik pleads out. Tea Partiers take DC.   The left finds extremely bad taste. Gibbs is sure there's a Jon Voight joke there somewhere. Hillary bundler Reshma Saujani challenges Maloney. Clinton's inevitability strategy worked...for Bloomberg. Dinkins takes Obama to ...

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