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Welcome Back, Mr. Horton
Rudy Giuliani welcomes back Willie Horton to the presidential stage....
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Going on Maddow to Discuss McCain's Whoppers TONIGHT
I'm going on Rachel Maddow's MSNBC show tonight at 1:45am EST (11:45pm Denver time) to go over some McCain whoppers from the debate. In the extended entry, you can see what I think were some of the most egregious ones....
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TAKE ACTION: Help Fuel A Debate About the Real Issues
On Monday, September 22nd, I'm going to be debating conservative radio host Dennis Prager at a public forum here in Denver about the question "What's Better for America -- Liberal or Conservative Ideas?" The debate will be a serious look...
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Obama Asks Whether McCain Puts "Country First"
Last Friday morning, my nationally syndicated newspaper column asked whether, in fact, Republicans really do put "country first?" On the afternoon of the same day, Barack Obama asked the same question. Here's a snippet of my column (the video...
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Buh Bayh
In the last week, the national media has ramped up its speculation that Indiana senator Evan Bayh is going to be named to the vice-presidential ticket by Barack Obama. Mind you, this is all speculation - this is what our...
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NBC Calls Pledged Delegate Race for Obama
NBC News says the Pennsylvania results mean there is no mathematical way for Hillary Clinton to overcome Barack Obama's lead in pledged delegates....
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Exit Polls Show A Deep Racial Divide
Exit polls out of Mississippi tonight show a significant racial divide - and not just in white voters voting for the white candidate (Clinton) and black voters voting for the black candidate (Obama). The total electorate was split 50-50 black-white....
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Mississippi & the "Electability" Arguments
Per my post from a few days ago, I just wanted to point out today that Mississippi - the state that is holding a primary today - is a state that is exactly the kind that a Democrat could flip...
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Delegate Shaving?
SquareState has an update on Colorado's Assemblies, which are the step between public caucuses and the Democratic National Convention. It looks like Clinton may be using the process to narrow the final delegate count here in Colorado from what was...
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The False Assumptions In the "Electability" Arguments
It seems the longer the presidential nominating contest goes on between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, the more idiotic the pontificating and candidate spinning - especially when it comes to the so-called "electability" argument. The Clinton campaign, as exemplified by...
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Is Clinton Inappropriately Doctoring Television Images?
You make the call....
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Clinton: The Good, the Bad & the Silly
I was on CNBC this morning discussing the presidential race, and the impact of issues like NAFTA on the upcoming Ohio primary. You can watch it here. As I said to start the interview, NAFTA and trade policy in...
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A Primer for Tonight's Ohio Debate
For those planning to watch the Ohio presidential debate, make sure to check out this primer....
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The Urban/Rural Divide Between Obama and Clinton
Bill Bishop and Tim Murphy over at Daily Yonder take a look at how Obama is doing best in the bluest of blue areas, while Clinton is doing better in Rural America. Check it out....
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Caught Between Race and Class
The two taboo subjects in American politics, class and race, are now front and center in the Democratic nominating contest. As my new nationally syndicated newspaper column shows, the former is driving voting behavior and the biases against the latter...
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Post-Caucus, Pre-California Observations
Just back from my caucus here in Denver (my precinct went two-to-one for Obama). Here are some observations as I look at the resuts at 8:31pm mountain time (pre-California results)......
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Newsflash: Unpopular Egomaniac Desperate For News Attention
Today's AP story about the nationally unpopular and impressively egomaniacal mayor of New York....
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Zogby Poll: Obama Surging On Eve of Super Tuesday
Details here....
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Hayes on Obama
The Nation's Chris Hayes on the progressive case for Obama....
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The Edwards Impact
I won't regurgitate what lots of people are saying about John Edwards, other than to point folks to this post by OpenLeft's Chris Bowers. Beyond pushing the field to embrace more progressive legislation, Edwards is clearly the single biggest reason...
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Edwards Drops Out
Just hit the wires. I'll have more to say on it soon - am on column deadline for the next few hours....
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The Difference Between Edwardsism and Clintonism
Edwards' top economic adviser makes it clear: "All of the Republican candidates and now even some Democrats have made it clear that they want to continue the deregulatory legacy that was started by Hoover, revived by Reagan, largely unchallenged by...
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The Further Absurdity of Clinton Citing Edelman
Adding to my last post on Hillary Clinton citing her work with Marian Wright Edelman as supposed proof of her commitment to ending poverty, note this New York Times article from 8/1/96: "President Clinton's decision to sign a Republican welfare...
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The Politics of Hopelessness
"You were a corporate lawyer sitting on the board at Wal-Mart." - Barack Obama to Hillary Clinton, 1/22/08 The exchange lasted about 3 seconds - if you flipped the channel for a moment, you might have missed it. That was...
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Establishment Attacks Obama For Being "Establishment" Candidate
This Associated Press story, and the attack by Bill Clinton, is truly hard to read without laughing. Bill Clinton - the face of the Establishment - is claiming Barack Obama is the Establishment candidate. He is further claiming that his...
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Judge Them By Their Enemies
Busy day for me today - finishing up last copyedits for my book. In the meantime, I did this little post over at the Campaign for America's Future. A good rule of thumb: Judge them by their enemies....
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For the Blowhards Who Insist It's a Two-Way Race...
For those of you who think the Democratic presidential nomination fight is just a two-way race between Obama and Clinton, check out this brand new poll from the Reno Gazette-Journal. Yup, that's right - it shows the Nevada caucus race...
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Just When You Think You've Seen It All...
Just when you think you've seen it all, we get the Clintons attacking their opponent for being too politically ambitious and career driven. I swear, if this was in the Onion I'd laugh out loud. Yes, THE CLINTONS - the...
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Class Politics Goes National
Economic class is the taboo subject in American politics, to the point where the word "class" itself has been made into something of an epithet by politicians deriding opponents for supposedly waging "class warfare." Of course, most often, those deriding...
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Urban vs. Rural in New Hampshire
Bill Bishop at the Daily Yonder has a good rundown of the rural vs. urban divide in yesterday's New Hampshire voting....
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Will I Live Up to My "Nostradamus" Billing?
I'm not one for lots of horserace predictions, but today, I figure I'd drop in a few guesses about what will happen in New Hampshire tomorrow. Heck, with 5280 Magazine calling me "Colorado's Nostradamus", I figure I need to engage...
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Tactical Idiocy
Though I have worked inside a number of campaigns, I don't spend much time writing about campaign tactics - mainly because campaigns are supposed to be about more than just political machinations. But when I saw this story, I had...
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Triangulation 2.0
Here comes the Clinton triangulation method of attacking the progressive movement: "Hillary's aides point to Obama's extremely progressive record as a community organizer, state senator and candidate for Congress, his alliances with "left-wing" intellectuals in Chicago's Hyde Park community, and...
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Can You Smell "The New Politics of Hope?"
Mmm...can you smell all the "new politics" of "hope" that Barack Obama promises? Smells awfully, um, old when you look at the shady backroom dealing....
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Thoughts About Iowa After A Vacation
I'm just back from a long vacation in which I tried to stay away from political news as much as possible. I find that stepping away from the day-to-day always helps ground me in reality - and realize just how...
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In Iowa Speech, Edwards Demands Answers From Clinton On NAFTA Expansion
This press release just came across the transom...looks like America's NAFTA-style trade policy is taking center stage in the presidential contest and shocker - Hillary Clinton is trying to hide....
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Edwards Move Makes Trade '08 Centerpiece
The Financial Times headline this morning says it all: "Edwards' Attack on Peru Deal Shifts Debate." The story summarizes John Edwards (D) announcement that he is opposing not only the Peru Free Trade Agreement, but the entire package of White...
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Edwards, Obama & Labor: Will the Populist Moment Become A Long-Term Movement?
In the last two weeks, something profound started happening out on the 2008 campaign trail - a momentum has started building like I haven't seen in my lifetime. Two out of the top three best-polling Democratic candidates are starting to...
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Webb - Dems Future Lies In Rejecting Rubin Wing; Is Obama Listening?
Following the New York Times' belated report on how economic populism is on the rise in the Democratic Party, I caught this from Virginia Sen. Jim Webb (D) in today's Washington Times: "He criticized what he called 'the Rubin wing...
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About David Sirota
David Sirota is a political journalist and nationally syndicated newspaper columnist at Creators Syndicate. He is the New York Times bestselling author of Hostile Takeover. He lives in Denver, Colorado. His daily blog can be found at CREDO Action. He contributes regularly to the Denver Post's Web site, is a senior editor at In These Times magazine and is working on his second book. He has been profiled in Newsweek and the Rocky Mountain News and is widely known for his reporting on political corruption, globalization and working-class economic issues often ignored by both of America's political parties. Sirota serves as co-chair of the Progressive States Network, a 501(c)3 organization that supports state legislators and that is a partner of CREDO.
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