nationaljournal.com - 10/24/2008
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OPENING ARGUMENT Racism Marginalized -- Even If Obama Loses Bigotry Is A Tough Sell When White Voters Seem More Predisposed To Call The Democrat's Race A Plus. Saturday, Oct. 25, 2008 by Stuart Taylor Jr. An African-American candidate with left-of-center views and less than four years in the ...
firedoglake.com - 10/28/2008
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firedoglake.com —
As if we needed more objective proof of
how totally divorced from reality the wingnutosphere is --...
and what an increasingly tiny fringe of the American political landscape they currently occupy -- check out the results of a Right Wing News poll of ...
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Poll Of Right Wing Bloggers Exposes How Delusional And ...
reuters.com - 10/26/2008
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reuters.com —
DALLAS (Reuters) - If Republican John McCain loses
the November 4 election as most polls predict, his...
party may be in for a rough period of soul searching. Analysts and some party activists say losing the White House will highlight the pitfalls of ...
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If McCain loses, what next for conservatives?
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dailykos.com - 10/31/2008
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dailykos.com —
Something struck me, the other day, and I
continue to be impressed by it. Despite all predictions,...
this election is not , in fact, about President Bush. He's a non-entity in it all. That's fairly remarkable. Aagainst the odds, the McCain/Palin ...
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A Marginalized Party
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Excellent Stuart Taylor Column
The Corner on National Review Online —
Friday, October 24, 2008 [image] Excellent Stuart Taylor Column [Roger Clegg] The always perceptive Taylor effectively skewers the racial-grievance crowd for ignoring the widespread white support for Obama and, instead, continuing its obsessive search for ever-more-elusive evidence of widespread white racism. ...
National Journal Crashed-and-Burned Watch (Yet Another Stuart Taylor Edition)
J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles —
We all remember that, to its eternal shame and disgrace, National Journal did not fire Stuart Taylor after he denounced our NATO allies for being "already in an overwrought tizzy about the supposed mistreatment of the 158 detainees at Guantanamo Bay..."
Stuart Taylor is back.
The stupidest moment is his denunciation of Jacob Weisberg:
"Racism is the only reason McCain might beat him," Weisberg asserted in August.... This is nonsense, and dangerous nonsense at that.... This is not to deny that an Obama loss could plausibly be attributed to race-based voting...
That is the stupidest moment in Taylor's ...
Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-up
Daily Kos —
Pundit time! Financial Times: Yes, we can. And yes, we did. Telegraph (UK): Senior Republicans believe that John McCain is doomed to a landslide defeat which will hand Barack Obama more political power than any president in a generation. William Kristol: McCain is screwed, so he might as well go out fighting and take as many people with him as possible and take his medicine like a martyr. Paul Krugman: What’s happening, I suspect, is that the Bush administration’s anti-government ideology still stands in the way of ...
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