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Study: Poor Ballot Designs Still Affect U.S. Elections
Study: Poor ballot designs still affect U.S. elections By Richard Wolf, USA TODAY WASHINGTON — Poorly designed ballots continue to plague U.S. elections, even after Congress set aside $3 billion to overhaul voting systems to prevent a recurrence of the flawed Florida ballots that deadlocked the 2000 presidential race, a study out today concludes. Problems…
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Fossil
Blame the Black Guy “John McCain. Where did you dig up that old fossil.” This advertisement (I don’t know where it’s running) responds to Sen. John McCain’s idiotic ad blaming Sen. Barack Obama for the high cost of oil. It does not explicitly say that oil was less than $40 a barrel when George W.…
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MoveOn Ad*
All in your head The McCain campaign finally rid itself of former Sen. Phil Gramm. Let’s put aside for the moment whether Gramm should be investigated and, possibly, imprisoned for corruption and economic crimes against this nation when he was a United States senator and destroyed banking in this country. The particular comments that led…
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A Double Standard *
Does The Media Treat Obama & McCain Differently? Love0 Share Tweet Share Pin
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Acknowledging History
Barack Obama at NAACP Annual Conference Love0 Share Tweet Share Pin
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Now, This is Satire!
Satire has to have an element of truth to it, I told a friend a couple of days ago in my argument with people over why the New Yorker magazine cover did not work as satire. I found this piece at Huffingtonpost.com talking about the same subject and using a political cartoon trying to puncture…
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Gate Gate
The Bush Administration’s efforts to prevent Senator Obama from giving a speech in front of the Brandenburg Gate strike me as rather scandalous and worthy of more press coverage here in the States. Cross-posted from Facebook. Love0 Share Tweet Share Pin
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Devastating
That is the only word that comes to my mind regarding the New Yorker magazine cover drawing of Sen. Barack Obama dapping his wife as an American flag burns in the fireplace in a White House with Osama bin Laden’s picture up on the mantelpiece. I don’t know how the New Yorker could have, whatever…
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Get ready to be disappointed.
Gail Collins makes a good point in today’s New York Times. Addressing the growing chorus of folks on the Left who have expressed dismay over Senator Obama’s so-called shift to the center, including the Times’ own Bob Herbert and most recently the Rev. Jesse Jackson, she notes that Obama’s been in the center all along:…
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'Integrity' update
I mean, did John McCain really just try to pass off as a joke his crack about killing Iranians? Are they responding to news of Iranian missile tests? Has no one been listening, or reading the news lately? File photo of an Israeli fighter jet taking off from an air force base. Hasn’t Israel been…