Elections Blog

From a self-described, unconfirmed “low-placed source” at State, Secretary Rice is sending a group of investigators “to kick asses and take names” – OR convincingly demonstrate that Blackwater’s hired guns acted in self-defense when they allegedly shot and killed Iraqi civilians. That’s a tall order. Proving a “negative” and/or what was an individual’s “intent” (or [...]

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After months of on-again, off-again speculation, and just before what was billed as a major fund raising effort, Newt has (wisely) pulled the plug on his presidential bid:
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) decided Saturday morning not to run for president just as his staff was preparing to launch a website to seek $30 million [...]

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Before getting into some serious blogging, here’s a crib sheet on what’s been happening in the ‘08 field:

Following news that Newt Gingrich would enter the race if he could get $30 million in pledges by October 21, 2007, Gingrich officially stated today that he would not be entering the race after all.  Why? Because the [...]

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Fantasy sports meets the 2008 presidential race…go ahead and sign up, you know you want to!…

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By a vote of 76-22, the U.S. Senate on Wednesday overwhelmingly approved a measure sending another rebuke to Tehran, this one aimed at sending a message to the Islamic regime to end military tactics targeting U.S. forces in Iraq.

The Kyl-Lieberman Amendment sponsored by Sens. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) and Joe Lieberman (I-CT) was described by Sen. Jim Webb [...]

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Yes, says Tom Bevan:
…[T]he growing conventional wisdom that Hillary is unstoppable is at best massively premature and at worst flat wrong. In fact, it’s altogether possible we may look back at this past week, with Hillary basking in the media’s rave reviews of her Sunday talk show PR extravaganza and the congealing CW anointing her [...]

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Old dogs don’t learn new tricks.  The Democrats, in accordance with their “death by a thousand investigations” strategy since the 2006 election, are calling the liberal dinosaur, Congressman Henry Waxman, back to active duty.  (Waxman has a history of attacking Condi.  See our blog post from earlier this year, Democratic Witch Hunt Targets Condi.)
Within a [...]

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I can’t excerpt this piece, because it must be read in its entirety, and I can’t add anything of value to it, so I’ll simply say: read the new George Will column.  Pronto…

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President Bush is quietly providing back-channel advice to Hillary Rodham Clinton, urging her to modulate her rhetoric so she can effectively prosecute the war in Iraq if elected president.
In an interview for the new book “The Evangelical President,” White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten said Bush has “been urging candidates: ‘Don’t get yourself too [...]

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Please note: As far as we are aware, there’s no underlying racial implication to the expression, “The Black Swan.” Rather, it is the title of Nissam Nicholas Taleb’s book, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, released in April, 2007. With a penchant for citing philosophers and writers that (with luck) most of [...]

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Hillary Clinton has remained measured in her words regarding Iraq and the Bush Administration, but those she is holding fundraisers with are showing little such discipline. She is holding a fundraiser with author John Grisham tomorrow in Charlottesville, Virginia, and he took the opportunity to unload on both Iraq and the Bush Administration:
“The war is [...]

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Republicans gather in Michigan over the weekend, but otherwise it’s a fairly regular campaign weekend.
Barack Obama…

Obama campaigns in Iowa Friday and Saturday.

Bill Richardson…

Richardson fundraises tonight in New Mexico and takes a weekend off the trail.

Dennis Kucinich…

Kucinich starts a three day swing through California on Saturday; his trip wraps up with a visit to the Tonight [...]

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The Democratic race for president is getting ugly. The latest cat fight comes courtesy of two, high-profile political women. 
Elizabeth Edwards, wife of former senator John Edwards, is accusing Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton of stealing the health care plan outlined more than seven months ago by her husband, John.
According to Elizabeth Edwards:
“Does Mrs. Clinton’s plan seem very familiar [...]

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Ralph Nader is talking.
The onetime Green Party candidate appeared at an anti-war rally in Washington Saturday, where he chastised “spineless, gutless” Democrats in Congress for failing to boot Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney from office.
“The impeachable offenses of Bush outnumber any other list of impeachable offenses of any US president. Not only did he and [...]

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