dailykos.com - 11/5/2008
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Campbell Brown: For those people who have been worried about the possibility of one party controlling Congress and the White House, the last president to do that, of course, was....? John King: Ah, that was Bill Clinton, and... Brown: Jimmy Carter! Jimmy Carter had... Bill Clinton had ...
scottthong.wordpress.com - 11/4/2008
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scottthong.wordpress.com —
Think Barack Obama has McCain beat, based on
the polling data which all say that Obama is...
leading by several points? If so, you obviously must not know about the blatant and massive, documented pro-Obama and anti-Palin bias in the US media. But ...
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eschatonblog.com - 11/5/2008
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Jeebus, people, did you not live through the
first part of this century? Campbell Brown: For those...
people who have been worried about the possibility of one party controlling Congress and the White House, the last president to do that, of course, ...
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It Was All Just A Dream
directorblue.blogspot.com - 11/11/2008
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directorblue.blogspot.com —
Moments after the election the media breathlessly reported
that gun sales had hit record levels. What the...
media did its best to obfuscate is the vigor with which President-Elect Obama will pursue egregious restrictions like the "Assault Weapons" Ban ...
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Obama's Assault Weapons Ban plan disappears down the ...
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It Was All Just A Dream
Eschaton —
Jeebus, people, did you not live through the first part of this century? Campbell Brown: For those people who have been worried about the possibility of one party controlling Congress and the White House, the last president to do that, of course, was....? John King: Ah, that was Bill Clinton, and... Brown: Jimmy Carter! Jimmy Carter had... Bill Clinton had Democrats in the House and in the Senate? King: Very briefly. Brown: Very briefly. [Crinkles her nose] Didn't go so well. King: No it didn't.
CNN forgets the Bush administration
Political Animal —
CNN FORGETS THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION.... Remember, these folks get paid to provide expert political analysis. For those of you who can't watch videos from your work computers, the clip is from CNN's election coverage last night. Campbell Brown asks John King, "For those people who have been worried about the possibility of one party controlling Congress and the White House, the last president to do that, of course, was..." King responds, "Ah, that was Bill Clinton." Brown interrupts to correct King's error. "Jimmy Carter!" Brown said. "Bill Clinton had Democrats in the House ...
And I hope you're satisfied, you rascal, you
The Sideshow —
Someday I would like to know how many votes everyone really got - and what the totals would have looked like without the voter-suppression and vote-stealing. A triumph of bigotry over bigotry. Or something like that. Not the world's biggest surprise, for those of us who remember who betrayed their promises to vote for the ERA. (Also: Did these two nitwits actually forget already, or is it just that, like me, they can't bring themselves to think of him as a "president"?) John Cole wonders if there's a Bradley Effect for corrupt politicians, but I'm not hearing about what machines they voted on. The Brad Blog ...
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