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POPSFmr. Bush aide: Beat Joe Wilson at the polls Mark McKinnon says: "as long as louts ... can spout off ... and get rewarded with re-election, then louts will continue to spout off. And we will continue to claw our way to the very bottom of the political swamp." Gives $1,000 to Wilson's opponent.
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POPSWhich states have the most Medicaid-funded births? I wonder why it is that the states that most decry government spending are the ones that take the most federal money per capita to deliver their babies? Note Huckabee's Arkansas and Palin's Alaska and McCain's Arizona and Barbour's Mississippi and Jindal's Louisiana and Demint's S. Carolina.
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POPSRight-wing terror tactics: here we go again! Remember Bush scaring us to war over weapons of mass destruction? Remember McCain's Convention images of the Twin Towers collapsing? Remember Palin's refrain that Obama was "palling around with terrorists?" How many times will Americans listen when right-wingers cry "Wolf?"
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POPSThat horrible media double-standard toward Palin the same conservative commentariat that vilified both Clintons 24/7 now whines that Palin is receiving “the kind of mauling” that the media “always reserve for conservative Republicans.” So said The Wall Street Journal editorial page last week. You’d never guess that The Journal had published six innuendo-laden books on real and imagined Clinton scandals, or that the Clintons had been a leading target of both Letterman and Leno monologues, not to mention many liberal editorial pages (including that of The Times), for much of a decade
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POPSBacking Iranian demonstrators could prompt crackdown Republicans turn up the heat on Obama to come down hard on Iran; Administration knows that American support could be just the excuse Iran's govt needs to touch off a crackdown and kill the reform movement. Wake up, GOP, how many times will you undermine reform in Iran?
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POPSBuchanan teams up with white nationalist Invites editor of racist website to speak at his upcoming conference, who has published such statements as "Better teachers means whiter teachers," and "the white a.k.a. American vote." MSNBC should drop Buchanan.
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POPSAmount Obama received from AIG: Zero! Employees of AIG - a different matter - gave quite a bit, but not as much as they gave Bush in 04. And the #3 winner from AIG employees in 08? John McCain. If you contributed to the campaign of a public official at your work, would it be accurate to say that the company you work for made the contribution?
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POPSHow did rich and poor voters vote in '08? Amazing! Who would've won if only rich people voted? Or only poor? Or only middle-income? Among poor voters only 2 states (Idaho and Wyoming) remain red. Hello Christians - whose side were you on?
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POPSThe Marie Antoinette CEOs Seeking big bonuses and luxury digs while not getting it that the era of dollars for ineptitude is over. This one might have become a McCain cabinet member.
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POPSObama seeks McCain's input Plans collaboration on some of McCain's favorite causes, like cutting corporate welfare. Unprecedented and so smart; many issues don't divide along ideological lines, and joint effort could be a big blow to gridlock.
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POPSPossible McCain win scenarios Which states to watch: Out of 10,000 simulations, McCain wins 624. "there are some states that truly do appear to be "must-wins" for McCain. In each and every one of the 624 victory scenarios that the simulation found for him this afternoon, McCain won Florida, Georgia, Missouri, Indiana and Montana. He also picked up Ohio in 621 out of the 624 simulations, and North Carolina in 622 out of 624. If McCain drops any of those states, it's pretty much over.