vanityfair.com - 1/7/2009
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The Obama tide lifted some clear winners, including polling savant Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight.com, gun-shop owners, Black Eyed Peas front man will.i.am, MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow, and, of course, Oprah. As for the losers, Joe Lieberman tops the list.
firedoglake.com - 12/31/2008
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firedoglake.com —
Having had a chance to digest all the
back-and-forth over the appointment of Burris, I really can't...
see any reason why the Senate should not seat him. The Illinois legislature had their chance to strip Blago of his appointment power and call a ...
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If The Senate Democrats Accept Lieberman, Why Not Burris?
digbysblog.blogspot.com - 1/1/2009
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digbysblog.blogspot.com —
Wednesday, December 31, 2008 Control The Team by
digby Jane Hamsher sez : The Illinois legislature had...
their chance to strip Blago of his appointment power and call a special election, but the Democrats got cute and decided they didn't want to risk ...
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... . For in a year in which all the other pollsters were often wrong, Nate Silver was always there. James Wolcott put it best in his column in the current Vanity Fair: ...
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