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fivethirtyeight.com - 11/19/2008

An Interview with John Ziegler on the Zogby "Push Poll"

— fivethirtyeight.com — I had the chance this afternoon to speak with John Ziegler , a documentary filmmaker and former... radio talk show host who built the website HowObamaGotElected.com and is promoting a forthcoming documentary of the same name. Ziegler was responsible for ... (more) An Interview with John Ziegler on the Zogby "Push Poll"

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andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com - 11/21/2008

No Way. No How. No Brennan.

— andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com — Marc reports the Republican, former chief-of-staff for George Tenet (who authorized war crimes as CIA head), admirer... of Dick Cheney, CEO of the company one of whose contract employees improperly accessed Obama's and McCain's passports, and ... (more) No Way. No How. No Brennan.

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latimesblogs.latimes.com - 11/29/2008

Obama's small donor base image is a myth, new study reveals

— latimesblogs.latimes.com — Everybody knows how president-elect Barack Obama's amazing campaign money machine was based mainly on several million regular... folks sending in hard-earned amounts under $200, a real sign of his broadbased grassroots support. Except, it ... (more) Obama's small donor base image is a myth, new study reveals

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In which lambert apologizes, again, for being prematurely correct
Corrente — Bowers: Clearly, theories about Obama's secret progressivism are alive and well. These theories strikes a serious blow to the notion that progressives occupy the "reality based community." Many progressives are seriously arguing that Obama's centrist campaign rhetoric and centrist advisors are part of a larger, secret, and fundamentally deceitful plan to institute a progressive agenda and provide it political cover. That's the Phonebooth Theory.

Obama Advisers: He's Not Moving To The Center
TPM Election Central — The Washington Post's E.J. Dionne asks Obama advisers whether his appointments herald a shift to the center and is told that the answer is No: Obama's selection of a team of highly skilled pragmatists has already been described as a move to the political center, but Obama advisers and longtime acquaintances say that this is a misreading of the incoming president and his approach. They describe it as combining a practicality about means with an overriding concern about the corrosive effects of growing economic inequalities... Washington often divides the Democratic policy world between progressives and ...

11/25: Judging Obama By The Company He Keeps
Blogometer — ... in Pres.-elect Barack Obama 's cabinet. Chris Bowers is concerned about the policy implications of Obama's picks, as he thinks it's unlikely that Obama "has hired a bunch of centrists not to take their advice seriously in any way, but instead to make them institute a progressive agenda which he has already decided upon." Other liberal bloggers are holding their fire, as they don't believe that Obama's policies will necessarily reflect the ideological composition of his cabinet. ...