boomantribune.com - 11/11/2008
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Dan Eggen of the Washington Post got the assignment to do a set-piece pre-post-mortem on the Bush administration. You know the drill. You interview a few Bush staffers (current and retired), you get some quotes on how sad everyone is about how things are turning out. Everyone says that the ...
blogs.tnr.com - 11/10/2008
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blogs.tnr.com —
You hear lots of talk about which former
president Barack Obama should use as a model. Bill
Clinton comes up regularly. Franklin Roosevelt, too. But what about the guy in the White House now? I know, President Bush’s approval ratings are hovering ...
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Why Obama Should Copy Bush (Really!)
fivethirtyeight.com - 11/12/2008
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fivethirtyeight.com —
Although it might seem like we've already covered
all the ground there is to cover on the
Minnesota recount process, we may be able to draw some additional lessons from Florida's recount experience in 2000. In 2001, the National Opinion Research ...
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Minnesota Recount: Number of Discrepancies May Be Low
latimesblogs.latimes.com - 11/12/2008
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latimesblogs.latimes.com —
During the presidential primary campaign season of 1999-2000,
the New York Times publisher, Arthur Sulzberger (the junior
one), got up at a large banquet in New York City and took the opportunity of the public Q&A to demand to know when ...
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Nine years later the N.Y. Times still awaits its Bush ...
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