heritage.org - 11/3/2008
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The Bush plan would increase economic growth slightly more than the Gore plan. Both plans would increase the rate of economic growth by an average of 0.2 percentage points per year (from 2.7 percent to 2.9 percent) from FY 2001 to FY 2010 (see Table 1 ). However, by the end of FY 2010, real ...
thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com - 11/4/2008
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thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com —
Voters flocked to the polls early this morning
only to find parking lots already packed, turnout high...
and long lines already snaking around the block. Live blogging voters experiences at polls around the country.
(more)
At the Polls: Lines, Glitches, and Enthusiasm
slate.com - 10/28/2008
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slate.com —
Today, Slate's staff and contributors reveal how they're
voting in next week's presidential election. This continues a...
tradition we began in 2000 and repeated in 2004. It will come as little surprise to many of our readers—and certainly as no surprise ...
(more)
Why we're telling you how Slate editors and writers are ...
newsbusters.org - 11/3/2008
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newsbusters.org —
P.J. Gladnick's post regarding the audio of
Barack Obama telling the San Francisco Chronicle he will...
bankrupt coal industry has already elicited the response of : "unbelievable" from a West Virginia coal official. Governor Palin ...
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Obama: Energy Prices Will Skyrocket
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Heritage Looks at the McCain and Obama Plans
Angry Bear —
... The report is chock full of numbery goodness, but basically Heritage lets us know that things are going to be much better under McCain than under Obama. Good enough for me. So I was all set to vote for McCain when I remembered something. See, I remember running some numbers eight years ago to try to figure out how the economy would do under either major candidate, and then coming across their study looking at the Bush and Gore plans. I remember being shocked at how different their conclusion was from mine. ...
They also predicted 2-3 additional Yankees' titles above the CBO baseline
Lawyers, Guns and Money —
... As with most crystal ball economic forecasts, the Heritage Foundation's predictions about job growth under an Obama presidency should probably be taken as seriously as the CDA's prediction in 2000 that job growth would expand more vigorously under George W. Bush than it would under a Gore presidency. Specifically, they expected that Bush's proposed tax cuts would produce 1.5 million jobs above the Congressional Budget Office baseline. Instead, George W. Bush will finish two terms in office with the slowest rate of growth in non-farm employment of any president since Herbert ...
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