tnr.com - 10/24/2008
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Two regions in this election contain a disproportionate number of battleground states: the Rust Belt (including Pennsylvania , Ohio , Michigan , Indiana , and Wisconsin ) and the Interior West ( Colorado , New Mexico , Nevada ). On that score, each candidate would seem to have a home-region ...
blogs.tnr.com - 10/22/2008
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blogs.tnr.com —
At our election discussion last week at the
Sixth and I Synagogue, Frank asked if anyone thought Obama...
could lose barring some catastrophic external event. I happen to think Obama's chances of winning are upward of 80 ...
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How Obama Could Still Lose
washingtonpost.com - 10/28/2008
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washingtonpost.com —
Yesterday, while reading the latest polling data on
John McCain, Sarah Palin and their appeal -- or...
growing lack of it -- to " independent women voters" it suddenly dawned on me: I am one of these elusive independent female voters, and I have the ...
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Why McCain Lost Me
blogs.abcnews.com - 10/22/2008
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blogs.abcnews.com —
ABC News' Teddy Davis, Hope Ditto, Arnab Datta,
and Ferdous Alfaruque Report: Facing criticism from John McCain...
that his tax plan constitutes "welfare," Barack Obama recently added a work requirement to one of his proposals. "They started saying this ...
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Obama Alters Tax Plan to Rebut McCain
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How The West Wasn't Won
FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right —
In an article at The New Republic, I explore why John McCain has been so vulnerable in his home region, the Interior West. Why is McCain performing so poorly in his own backyard? In part, he is fighting a Sisyphean battle against the demographic changes in the region. The Census Bureau measures how many people migrate into each state each year. In 2006, half of the top ten fastest-growing states were in the West, ranging from Nevada (3.5 percent) to Colorado (1.9 percent). These new residents generally fall into one of two categories: college-educated white ...
The Friday Political Thread: Write It Backwards on Your Face
Hit & Run —
... volunteer who admitted lying about a pro-Obama hate crime committed against her. The Week in Brief - Joe Biden declared pre-emptive war on Barack Obama. - Obamacons tumbled out of the woodwork. - Alan Greenspan was vewwy vewwy sorry. - John McCain got on the Joe the Plumber bus. - Ron Paul's ghost haunted the GOP. - Bob Barr pronounced McCain's defeat. Below the Fold - Nate Silver explains why westerner John McCain is losing the western states. (Reagan swept them twice.) - W. ...
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York: I Am Not President Bush.
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No matter what happens now, he goes down as one of ...
McCain targets Biden's comments in new ad —
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(CNN) – The Republican presidential ticket is continuing to target Joe Biden's comments at a Seattle fundraiser last week warning of a looming international crisis, launching a new ad Friday that declares, "It doesn't have to happen."
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