fivethirtyeight.com - 12/11/2008
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As the Republican Party regroups and reassesses its electoral strategy, it's important to understand what happened in the Mountain West. Electorally, the emergence of the Mountain West as a true swing region puts backbreaking pressure on the Republican Party to nominate presidential candidates ...
strategypage.com - 12/15/2008
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strategypage.com —
December 15, 2008: This month, about 26 people
a day are dying from criminal and terrorist violence...
a day in Iraq. That's a bit lower than the death toll in northern Mexico, which on a bad day (like last November 3rd) saw 58 people killed. The police ...
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Mexico: Iraq Is Safer
abcnews.go.com - 12/8/2008
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abcnews.go.com —
Even as his campaign fell far behind in
the polls, Sen. John McCain refused to authorize the...
use of a fully-produced 30-second television commercial that criticized Barack Obama for his relationship with the controversial pastor, Reverend Jeremiah ...
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Watch: Rev. Wright TV Ad That McCain Would Not Run
travel.state.gov - 12/16/2008
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travel.state.gov —
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE Bureau of Consular Affairs
This information is current as of today, Mexico October...
14, 2008 This Travel Alert updates security information for U.S. citizens traveling and living in Mexico. It replaces the Travel Alert for ...
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MIG: Mexico Travel Alert
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An electoral-college lock?
The Reality-Based Community —
... Sean Quinn says that, against a standard "base" Republican candidate, Democrats now own 269 electoral votes. * 77 EVs on the Pacific Coast (CA, OR, WA, HI), * 117 EVs in the Northeast (ME, NH, VT, MA, RI, CT, NY, NJ, DE, PA, MD, DC) * 65 EVs in the Upper Midwest (MI, WI, MN, IA, IL), * 10 EVs in the Mountain West (NM, NV) So the Dems could lose Florida, Ohio, Virginia, Indiana, North Carolina and Colorado (and fail to pick up increasingly-competitive Arizona) and still manage to throw the election into the House of Representatives. (Quinn doesn't do the arithmetic on ...
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openleft.com 10/31/2008 — Barack Obama has won the 2008 Presidential Election.
Yes, you read that right. And no, I am not joking.
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McCain's Mountain of a Problem
fivethirtyeight.com 10/31/2008 — Our model does not make any specific adjustments for early voting, but it is presenting a major problem for John McCain in three states in the Mountain West region, where Barack Obama has a huge fraction of his vote locked in. In the wee hours of this ...
CNN's John King: McCain writes off Colorado, New Mexico, Iowa
dailykos.com 10/21/2008 — John King on CNN: Most people top in the McCain campaign now believe New Mexico and Iowa are gone, that Barack Obama will win New Mexico and Iowa. They are now off the dream list of the McCain campaign. More interestingly, most top people inside ...
Today's Polls, 10/31
fivethirtyeight.com 11/1/2008 — Is Pennsylvania John McCain's last, best hope? Perhaps it is. But that speaks as much to McCain's problems elsewhere on the map as any success he has had in the Keystone State. Pennsylvania does seem to be narrowing a bit: the Muhlenberg / Morning ...
A McCain Campaign Memo
marcambinder.theatlantic.com 11/1/2008 — The last thing the McCain campaign needs on election day is demoralized Republicans. Hence this memo, which recapitulates what Davis and co. said on a conference call with reporters this morning.
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Today's Polls, 10/29
fivethirtyeight.com 10/30/2008 — We're getting to you a little bit late tonight, so let's keep this short and to the point... With no fewer than 45 polls released since our last update, covering essentially all of the major swing states, we have a pretty good idea of where this ...
Joe the Plumber: Changing This Year's Race?
powerlineblog.com 10/17/2008 — As Paul noted earlier today, John McCain is "hanging around" in the Presidential race despite what would seem to be overwhelming odds. Maybe even doing a bit better than hanging around, as the current Gallup poll has Obama up by only two points, ...
What McCain-Palin Must Do to Win
gatewaypundit.blogspot.com 11/2/2008 — Here is the latest political dashboard posted at Yahoo.com: This includes all of the biased and weighted polls favoring Democrats from the past several days. Yahoo currently has Obama over McCain 333 to 181 and has posted this on their front page ...
New reports about Mexico, the failing state on our border
fabiusmaximus.wordpress.com 1/9/2009 — This provides a very brief look at two excellent reports about Mexico. Excerpts from each appear below.
“Mexico Security Memo - Year-end Wrap-up“, Stratfor, 5 January 2008 — Subscription only.
“After Action Report - Vistit ...
McCain to pound on Rezko dealings
swamppolitics.com 10/27/2008 — by Jill Zuckman
Mesilla, N.M. - With just nine days left in the race, the McCain campaign plans to step up its attacks against Barack Obama for his connection to Tony Rezko, the convicted developer who was an early patron of the Illinois senator. ...
Obama to nominate Daschle for healthcare post —
Reuters: Politics 12/11/2008
CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Barack Obama turns his focus on Thursday to healthcare -- a key element of his election campaign -- when he nominates former Senate leader Tom Daschle as secretary of Health and Human Services.
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