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JOE, MEET IRONY. It looks like Joe the Plumber , the Republican Party's new mascot, had he registered recently, could have been disenfranchised by the very error-prone databases the GOP has been championing to prevent the virtually non-existent problem of voter fraud. Purging voters or blocking ...
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Guess Who Sees MSM Double-Standard on Biden's Latest Gaffe?
Guess Who Sees MSM Double-Standard on Biden's Latest Gaffe?
newsbusters.org — Guess who said the following this morning about Joe Biden's statement that America would be faced with... a major international challenge within the first six months of an Obama administration as foreign forces seek to test the young new president: ... (more) Guess Who Sees MSM Double-Standard on Biden's Latest Gaffe?
TAPPED Archive | The American Prospect
TAPPED Archive | The American Prospect
prospect.org — THAT BIG BAD POLL AND TONIGHT'S DEBATE. CBS News/ New York Times released their latest poll the... night before debate day -- way to capture that news cycle, fellas -- and they've got Obama up a ridiculous 14 points, 53-39. The McCain camp says polling ... (more) TAPPED Archive | The American Prospect
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Right-Wing Pundit On Voter Fraud Claim: Never Mind
TPMMuckraker — ... Then, attacking Adam Serwer of The American Prospect, who in an earlier post had questioned Geraghty's obsession with vote fraud, Geraghty wrote: ...

How To Beat A Wingnut In Three Easy Steps
Daily Kos — Via TPM's Zachary Roth,  here's a story about how Adam Serwer, a writer for The American Prospect and his own blog, Too Sense, won a dispute with National Review's Jim Geraghty without ever lifting a finger. We start with step 1, in which Adam Serwer blasts Jim Geraghty: It looks like Joe the Plumber, the Republican Party's new mascot, had he registered recently, could have been disenfranchised by the very error-prone databases the GOP has been championing to prevent the virtually non-existent problem of voter fraud. ...Jim Geraghty, ...

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