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Who has the best resume?

May 9th, 2011
by Jordon Cooper.
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Timothy Egan points out that the best looking resume doesn’t always make the best leader. Harry S. Truman was ridiculed as a haberdasher — a wonderful old word that fell out of use as men’s clothiers gave way to big-box retailers. He was also the only 20th-century American president without a college degree. Yet Truman [...]

How Barack Obama Won

Jan 18th, 2009
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Chuck Todd & Sheldon Gawiser have a new book out and it is pretty good.  MSNBC has an extended excerpt from the book The 2008 election got started early, before the first candidate, Tom Vilsack, officially announced in November 2006. The campaign began in 1999, when word first leaked that then first lady Hillary Clinton [...]

2012

Oct 29th, 2008
by Jordon.
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In case you missed it, Sarah Palin talked openly about running again in 2012 if her and John McCain should lose.  I wasn’t that surprised with it as she was brought with the idea that she would help McCain win and in the end, she helped him lose.  What I am surprised that even if [...]

Sarah Palin’s gone “rogue”

Oct 26th, 2008
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According to CNN, she isn’t playing by the campaign’s script.  Now McCain’s people are tossing her under the bus.  These things tend to happen when you recruit a VP candidate on looks and folksy language rather than experience.

2 to 1 advantage for Barack Obama

Oct 25th, 2008
by Jordon.
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According to Editor and Publisher, Barack Obama leads John McCain in newspaper endorsements, including most of the major American papers: LA Times, NY Times, Sacramento Bee, SF Chronicle, SJ Mercury, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Boston Globe, NY Daily News, The Houston Chronicle. McCain: San Diego Union-Tribune, Tampa Tribune, Boston Herald, New York Post, [...]

Fight Back

Oct 18th, 2008
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One of the best ads I have seen in years. Obama ’08 – Vote For Hope from MC Yogi on Vimeo. via

Hillary Clinton joins the GOP

Oct 14th, 2008
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Gives John McCain election strategy on how to beat Barack Obama.  Of course it has nothing to do with her wanting to run again in 2012.

Think about this…

Sep 29th, 2008
by Jordon.
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Click for larger version. If for a minute you would like ponder the significance of this chart.  Does this mean we have passed "peak rock" and by drilling off shore will it mean the end of the boy bands?  Because if it does, I could see myself supporting McCain/Palin.

Friedman on Sarah Palin

Sep 3rd, 2008
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On John McCain’s extreme makeover With his choice of Sarah Palin — the Alaska governor who has advocated drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and does not believe mankind is playing any role in climate change — for vice president, John McCain has completed his makeover from the greenest Republican to run for president [...]

Contextless Links

Aug 23rd, 2008
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How big of a roll is racism going to be in the next election? Pretty big if you look at the polls. ::  Much evidence points to racial prejudice as a factor that could be large enough to cost Obama the election. That warning is written all over last month’s CBS/New York Times poll, which [...]

Barack Obama can come up with dumb policy ideas too

Aug 1st, 2008
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This one is right out of George W. Bush’s playbook.  A $1000.00 rebate to everyone when the United States has a massive trade deficit.  As people go out and buy more stuff from Wal-Mart, the rebate makes the economy weaker in the long term.  To say I am a little disappointed is fair.  I understand [...]

FactCheck.org

Jul 30th, 2008
by Jordon.
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During the election months ahead, you may want to bookmark FactCheck.org which provides non-partisan fact checking of ads, statements and releases by the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania.  It isn’t as much fun to read as the old Spinsanity.org used to be but it stilll provides a useful tool to us [...]