openleft.com - 10/18/2008
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It is fair to say that 2008 is shaping up to have the necessary ingredients for a Democratic mandate, but such things are never certain so it would be good to put some thought into what needs to happen for a broad mandate for progressive change.
The first thing to understand is that a mandate ...
pajamasmedia.com - 10/13/2008
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pajamasmedia.com —
October 12, 2008 I FIND THIS EMAIL FROM
READER DONALD GATELY DEPRESSING. Click "read more" to read
it. Gately writes: I consider myself a libertarian/conservative. Like many people of that bent, I was uncomfortable with Bush when he was nominated. ...
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article.nationalreview.com - 10/16/2008
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Trial-Heat Election Model Predicts 52.7 McCain Victory
Stop The ACLU —
... in my lifetime, I’ve been paying some attention to the symposium on forecasting the 2008 elections at PS: Political Science & Politics, the journal of the profession at the American Political Science Association .The symposium features ten research articles, both on the presidential race and the congressional elections.Considering all the attention in the media and the blogosphere to a seeming Barack Obama November landslide , readers might want to mull over the piece from James Campbell, “ The Trial-Heat ...
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