highclearing.com - 10/30/2008
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By Thoreau
The word "socialism" can mean many things to many people, anything from Western European style social welfare to state ownership of the means of production to the New Deal or the Great Society or a wide range of other usages. I'll let those who know (or at least ...
rasmussenreports.com - 10/29/2008
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rasmussenreports.com —
After several weeks of John McCain’s campaign attacks
on Barack Obama’s tax plan and idea of “spreading...
the wealth around”, the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds voters trust McCain more than Obama on taxes, 47% to 45%. Two ...
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McCain Trusted More on Taxes and Economy
fivethirtyeight.com - 10/29/2008
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fivethirtyeight.com —
Earlier tonight , I suggested that there were
in fact proportionately more undecideds among white voters than...
black voters, as the McCain campaign claimed today . This was based mostly on a recollection of numbers that I'd looked at several weeks ago ...
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The Undecideds
washingtonmonthly.com - 10/31/2008
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washingtonmonthly.com —
MAKING THE CASE.... Lawrence Eagleburger, deputy secretary of
State under Bush I, has been a McCain campaign...
advisor and occasional surrogate for nearly a year. As it happens, once in a while, Eagleburger strays from the script -- and that's...
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Making the case
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Crooks and Liars —
... plan post-mortum
Jesus' General: God hates Barack Obama and HOV lanes
Long waits continue to mar early voting; Video captures machine flipping votes in W.Virginia; Florida no-match list grows to 12,165 voters; Investigation finds thousands wrongly denied right to register in Houston; Bogus flier in VA tells Democrats wrong date for elections
The Bonddad Blog: The Detroit death march continues
Unqualified Offerings: Socialism? Is that all you've got?
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On Redistribution
PoliBlog: A Rough Draft of my Thoughts —
... those debates. What we don’t need (and are nonetheless getting) is a debate that charges one side as being “redistributionist” when it is patently the case that both parties support redistribution.
A little policy honesty would be nice–of course, it is simply easier to make dramatic charges than it is to have a serious policy debate (nothing new there, of course).
For further reading: Thoreau at Unqualified Offerings has some similar thoughts: Socialism? Is that all you’ve got?
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