susiemadrak.com - 24 days ago
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Cross-posted at Brendan Calling
Exit polls suggest that voter turnout tonight was low among people under the age of 30, as well as minority voters — i.e., the people who gave the president his margin of victory in 2008. Some of that is just inevitable — college kids are just not going to ...
thenextright.com - 26 days ago
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thenextright.com —
[ Disclosure: I worked with the Doug Hoffman
campaign . However, the views here are my own....
I have not discussed this at all with the Hoffman campaign. ] The bottom line on NY-23 : Doug Hoffman just won the Republican Primary. The general ...
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What Did NY-23 Mean?
riehlworldview.com - 25 days ago
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riehlworldview.com —
The subject of NY - 23 came up
during a chat with Representative Bob Latta R -...
OH today. Along with touching on that when I profile Latta, I'll pass a bit of it along here as I felt his primary insight important. For the record, Latta considers ...
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NY - 23: What Went Wrong And What Went Right?
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... that means. What we need, of course, is a big fat public works stimulus that puts huge numbers of people to work, and a good, solid, fully-funded single-payer health care plan. What we have instead are bad Democrats like Ben Nelson. (via) "Imagine that! Blue Cross tells stockholders one thing and insurance regulators another, which leads you to wonder: Who did they lie to?" (Also: Even the conservative Washington Post. And the lame Democratic leadership. And as a not-to-be-missed bonus, William Shatner reads Levi ...
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