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Do you love Russ? Do you want to know more about Russ? If so, we are having the very first (that we know of) Massachusetts For Feingold meeting and want anyone who is interested to come on down! Check out Mass For Feingold for more information on the group.
The details:
7:00pm, Tuesday April [...]

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Another online cooperative community to see what kind of potential it might have for enhancing the presence of progressive political causes online is Squidoo, a name that evokes tentacles stretching and exploring dark corners and crevices - something that the Internet is quite useful for

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Romney officially announced that he is giving up on the Republican Party here in Massachusetts in order to turn his sights to national Republicans.  Eric Fehrnstrom, a Romney spokesman, acknowledged that governor’s sights are no longer at home; he attributes the reason for the lost interest on Romney’s new role as chairman of the Republican [...]

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Russ Feingold leads the Democratic field with 48% of the vote in the straw poll at Daily Kos.
Wesley Clark has 15%, Mark Warner has 12%, John Edwards has 6%.  “No Frickin’ Clue” beats all the other candidates for fifth place with 3%, even Hillary Clinton who ties with “Other” at 2%. Tough crowd.
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This past weekend I blogged about Mass. Governor Mitt Romney’s strong showing in the Southern Republican Leadership Conference’s straw poll of potential 2008 Republican presidential candidates.
If you’re interested in learning more about Governor Romney, the Washington Times today has a brief write up on who he is, and where he stands on certain issues. [...]

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I will work like hell for Russ Feingold for President in 2008, but any other Democrat who failed to stand up when called to duty? They might as well be Republicans.

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I know you’ve been holding your breath waiting to hear the Democrats’ election-year platform — I have, certainly. And while they haven’t officially released it, Pelosi gave the CWA a preview:

In a speech to the Communications Workers of America on Tuesday, Pelosi mentioned Democrats’ opposition to outsourcing. She said Democrats will end tax subsidies for companies that [...]

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John Hawkins at Right Wing News has written what he calls the conservative case against John McCain in 2008, and has made some pretty convincing arguments. Check them out and let me know what you think.
Related Toldjah So posts:

Frist wins straw poll, Romney makes strong showing
What’s up with McCain?

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Just a tiny bit of digging into the substance of John McCain’s political career makes it clear that McCain is every bit as much the right winger that George W. Bush is.

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Hat tip to Are You Conservative.

If you are not a Republican, neocon, and/or right-wing fundamentalist, you have reached this page in error. Do not scroll down, do not read anything beyond this paragraph. You must leave now.

To everyone else:

The following is an urgent and confidential message from Vice President Dick Cheney, and not intended for [...]

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Russ Feingold has a great solution to the President’s all too frequent flouting of the law: censure him. Yesterday on This Week with George Stephanopoulos, Sen. Feingold announced that he has created a resolution by which the Senate, and I presume the House, can censure President Bush for pretending he had authority which he [...]

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Reuters reports that Senator Bill Frist won the straw poll at this weekend’s Southern Republican Leadership Conference.
The surprisingly strong showing in the straw poll came from Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney. His 2nd place showing in the first choice straw poll and the 12% he garnered in the second choice poll is [...]

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Words, words, words. Everyone thinks they remember how many commandments there were, but has anyone actually thought to go to the mountain and see for themselves? This is exactly what I did back in 2001. And here is the photo. Incontrovertible pictorial evidence of The [...]

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Alpha Patriot is blogging the Southern Republican Leadership Conference, and he reports that Frist won the straw poll. Wait, not so fast:

Update: The Hotline has released some interesting statistics. Among them, 82% of Frist’s votes came from Tennessee delegates with only 97 votes of his 526 votes coming from other states. And while he [...]

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Via the Boston Globe:
WASHINGTON — As Senator John F. Kerry prepared to make a return to presidential-style politics with a classic day of New Hampshire campaigning, he said that the 2004 run left him tougher and more eager to fight.
‘’When you get knocked on your ass and lose a race, you’ve got to stop and [...]

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I don’t quite understand what’s going on here:
Facing a loss at a 2008 straw poll event this weekend, Senator John McCain of Arizona told his supporters to write in President Bush [?] as a sign of support, leaving many sputtering.
“For the next three years, with our country at war, he’s our president and the [...]

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Total Ballots Cast are figures published by most election agencies that show the total number of people having cast ballots. Typically, a number of these ballots for any given contest (e.g. President) are invalid - either the voter decided not to choose a candidate for President (called a “blank” …

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