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The Sunday Word: A Race So Close and So Tense
Posted from The Caucus 40 days ago
Turmoil at home and abroad shakes the presidential campaign here at home. (original story)
McCain and Israel
Posted from TIME.com: Swampland 59 days ago
With all the economic news, foreign policy has slipped below the radar screen, but a hat tip to Josh Marshall for linking to this report about the rather incredible show put on by two of McCain's foreign policy advisers at a weekend retreat sponsored by the Washington Institute for Near East policy: [Max] Boot called the Bush administration’s renewed efforts to promote Israeli-Palestinian talks a mistake. He also cast Israel's talks with Syria as betraying the stake that the United States has invested in Lebanon's fragile democracy. "John McCain is not going to betray the lawfully elected... (original story)
Iowa blows away competition, wins wind award
Posted from Radio Iowa News 175 days ago
Governor Chet Culver will be in Texas next week to accept an award on behalf of the Iowa Department of Economic Development. The American Wind Energy Association has selected the IDED to receive its 2008 State Leadership Award. The association's executive director, Randall Swisher, says Iowa deserves recognition for attracting several major wind energy manufacturers to the state. Mike Tramontina, director of the IDED, says: "We've really worked hard to not only recruit new companies to the state, but we've really worked especially hard at linking existing Iowa companies to those new man... (original story)
Austin paper says Netroots story "compromised our standards"
Posted from Romenesko 122 days ago
Austin American-Statesman | Editor & Publisher American-Statesman editor Fred Zipp says the front-page feature "included doses of irony and exaggeration [and] made assertions (that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi might find herself at home politically in Beijing, for example) and characterizations ('mara... (original story)
Gramm Steps Down From McCain Camp
Posted from The Caucus 126 days ago
Just over a week after drawing outcry for his comments about a "nation of whiners" fretting over a "mental recession," Phil Gramm announced he was stepping down as co-chairman of Senator John McCain's campaign. (original story)
Angst among flood victims apparent in Obama visit
Posted from Radio Iowa News 113 days ago
The angst and the anger of flood victims was apparent Thursday as Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama met with a small group of Cedar Rapids-area residents affected by June's flood. Obama sat in a half circle with the group inside the Czech Museum and Library's vacant entrance hall. To... (original story)
Blogtalk: All About Palin
Posted from The Caucus 83 days ago
In ways subtle and not, gender is at the core of bloggers' musings on Gov. Sarah Palin as Senator John McCain's running mate choice. (original story)
CNN=Politics Daily
Posted from CNN Political Ticker 106 days ago
CNN=Politics Daily is The Best Political Podcast from The Best Political Team. (CNN) – In the latest installment of CNN=Politics Daily, deals are being made between Baghdad and Washington to pull troops out of Iraq by 2010. CNN’s Brian Todd has the details on the projected two-year timeline.... (original story)
The Fix on You Tube/Facebook/Twitter
Posted from The Fix 166 days ago
Nineteen months down, five to go! In a presidential campaign that hasn't stopped making news for the better part of the last year and a half, the decision by Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) to formally step aside in favor of Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) on Saturday gives The Fix a rare opportunity to... (original story)
CNN=Politics Daily
Posted from CNN Political Ticker 112 days ago
CNN=Politics Daily is The Best Political Podcast from The Best Political Team. (CNN) — In the latest installment of CNN=Politics Daily, Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama spar over McCain's accusation that Obama is playing the “race card." Dana Bash reports on McCain’s aggressive claim that... (original story)
Credit Counseling service seeing more mortgage problems
Posted from Radio Iowa News 184 days ago
An agency that assists Iowans with financial problems is reporting a 20-percent increase in the number of people seeking help with foreclosure issues. Karen Atwood is CEO of Consumer Credit Counseling Service of Northeastern Iowa. She says most people entering their offices are dealing with credit c... (original story)
Sam Says Election Favors Iraq Withdrawal
Posted from ABC News: Politics 178 days ago
Donaldson believes Obama is wise to reject a McCain-led trip to Iraq. (original story)
Ferraro suggests she may not vote for Obama
Posted from CNN Political Ticker 186 days ago
Ferraro is a supporter of Clinton's presidential campaign. (CNN) — Geraldine Ferraro, the outspoken former Democratic vice presidential candidate and a supporter of Hillary Clinton's White House bid, told the New York Times she may not vote for Barack Obama should he be the party's nom... (original story)
Poll: Obama leads in Montana
Posted from CNN Political Ticker 179 days ago
Sen. Obama campaigned in Billings, Montana last week. (CNN) – Sen. Barack Obama appears to be headed for a win in one of the final contests of the Democratic nomination race, according to a new poll of likely Democratic primary voters in Montana. Obama’s support stands at 52 percent and Clint... (original story)
McCain and the Danger of Being Didactic
Posted from The Fix 176 days ago
Over the last 48 hours, Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) has delivered what amounts to an extended foreign policy lecture to his almost-certain general election opponent -- Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.). McCain has blasted Obama repeatedly over the fact that the lllinois senator has not been to Iraq in more than... (original story)
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