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Posted by Andrew Grossman | 05.13.2008 / 5:36 PM EDT
I just got a mass e-mail from the McCain campaign advertising its new store items: “Eco Friendly Clothes.”
I have done absolutely no research into this, but I’m willing to bet this is the first time a GOP candidate (maybe any major party candidate) has tried to sell “polo shirts made from biodegradable fabric” with the […]
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Posted by Dante Chinni | 05.13.2008 / 8:11 AM EDT
Whatever happens in today’s primary in West Virginia, Sen. Barack Obama looks to be headed for the top of the Democratic ticket in November. And when the book about Senator Obama’s improbable drive to the presidential nomination is written, a chapter or two is likely to include his campaign’s organizational skills.
While Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton […]
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Posted by Kathy Heicher | 05.12.2008 / 10:38 PM EDT
When the Eagle County Democratic political caucuses convened in February, the Hillary Clinton supporters consisted almost entirely of women my age. We Baby Boomer liberals shared a common philosophy: It was time for a woman president.
One woman, a mile-mannered career pre-school teacher, shed her normally quiet demeanor to deliver a couple of impassioned caucus […]
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Posted by Dante Chinni | 05.12.2008 / 10:59 AM EDT
Last Tuesday’s Democratic primary results in Indiana and North Carolina did not give Sen. Barack Obama the nomination, but he definitely has been acting a lot more like the party’s nominee since then.
His speeches now focus more intently on presumptive Republican nominee Sen. John McCain. He has demurred on requests to debate his Democratic […]
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Posted by Kevin Holsapple | 05.11.2008 / 10:05 AM EDT
How much should age matter in evaluating the candidates? Just watching them, both McCain and Obama seem to be younger than their ages. There has already been a good bit of attention to McCain’s advanced age … I think I heard it said that he would be the oldest president if he were to be […]
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Posted by Kip Ward | 05.10.2008 / 1:16 AM EDT
Well I guess this is it; finally Oregon matters. Who would of thought? According to Obama this is where Hillary’s candidacy will be finally laid to rest and he is probably correct. I remember about a year ago, we all thought that Hillary had the nomination in the bag. But that bag had a hole […]
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Posted by Dante Chinni | 05.09.2008 / 5:51 AM EDT
As America has had its eye on the Democratic nomination battle, another story has been unfolding more quietly on the Republican side of the ledger.
Since Sen. John McCain wrapped up the GOP presidential nomination on March 4, he has had some trouble bringing all of the party’s voters into the fold. He hasn’t broken 80 […]
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Posted by Michael O'Brien | 05.08.2008 / 3:33 PM EDT
The other day, Politico profiled Matthew Segal, a Kenyon College student and the founder of the Student Association for Voter Empowerment (SAVE).
The group, Segal told Politico, was borne out of irregularities he witnessed as a volunteer at Kenyon during the 2004 elections. The article also says Segal worked as a field producer for the […]
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Posted by Barton Howe | 05.08.2008 / 9:17 AM EDT
Not to sound too heady – OK, arrogant – but as a blogger for 1/11th of the Patchwork Nation, I see myself as the voice for Service Worker Center employees all over America. As a high school teacher, however, I’m not really part of that center, and I often wonder if I’m representing them fairly.
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Posted by Andrew Grossman | 05.08.2008 / 6:17 AM EDT
Coming to Ireland after a week of mostly tuning out the campaign in Italy (not by choice — no Internet where I was staying), I finally got my hands on an English-language newspaper. The analysis from Denis Staunton, The Irish Times’s reporter covering the race, is this: The race to the White House is over […]
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