swampland.blogs.time.com - 3/31/2009
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Voters in the New York's Hudson Valley go to the polls today to select a replacement for former Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand, who was appointed to fill Hillary Clinton's Senate seat. On the ballot are a former Wall Street type and a long entrenched Albany populist pol – a guy who has often ...
prwatch.org - 3/30/2009
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prwatch.org —
John Podesta 's liberal think tank the Center
for American Progress strongly supports Barack Obama 's escalation
of the US wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan . This is best evidenced by Sustainable Security in Afghanistan , a CAP report by Lawrence ...
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How Obama Took Over the Peace Movement
gatewaypundit.blogspot.com - 4/3/2009
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gatewaypundit.blogspot.com —
The DNC released a statement this week that
they had collected 642,000 signatures of pledges from across
the country in support of Obama's massive budget. They even wrote about it at the DNC blog : Too bad it's not true. They fudged their numbers. ...
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Busted!... Democrats Fudge Petition Numbers
theplumline.whorunsgov.com - 4/6/2009
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theplumline.whorunsgov.com —
The fellow who oversees Pew Research's political polling
is disputing the claim, made by some on the
right today, that the much-discussed new Pew poll showing a stark partisan divide in Obama's approval rating proves that Obama is a "polarizing" ...
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Pew Official Disputes Right-Wing Claim That Poll Proves ...
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How special is the special election?
Political Animal —
... Jim Tedisco has to be considered the favorite for one simple reason: he's the Republican in a Republican district. As recently as 2006, GOP voter registrations in the district outnumbered Democratic registrations by 15 points. Sure, Gillibrand won, but she ran as a very moderate Democrat, and only eked out a victory after news surfaced that the Republican incumbent's wife had called 911 to report domestic violence. What's more, the GOP, desperate for some good news, have invested ...
Tedisco concedes, Steele sweats?
Political Animal —
... litigation of absentee ballots. Still not all of the ballots have been reported in, but it became very clear over the last few days that there was really no way Tedisco could have pulled it off. Murphy's victory, while expected as the vote tallies came in, is nevertheless something of an upset win for Democrats. New York's 20th is a Republican district -- as recently as 2006, GOP voter registrations in the district outnumbered Democratic registrations by 15 points -- and Republicans invested ...
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CNN Political Ticker 3/31/2009
President Obama met with Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other House Democrats Tuesday to pitch his budget.
WASHINGTON (CNN) – President Barack Obama made a strong pitch for his budget to House Democrats in a closed-door meeting on Monday night, ...
Last-minute Obama turnout plea in NY-20 —
CNN Political Ticker 3/31/2009
This is not the first time the president has weighed in on the campaign.
WASHINGTON (CNN) — President Obama sent supporters a last-minute pitch Monday night to boost turnout in today's special congressional election in New York's 20th ...
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