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Archive for October 21st, 2008

The AP reports:
 
Gov. Sarah Palin charged the state for her children to travel with her, including to events where they were not invited, and later amended expense reports to specify that they were on official business.
The charges included costs for hotel and commercial flights for three daughters to join Palin to watch their father in [...]

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Apparently, according to Keith Olbermann, McCain and Palin have gone suddenly quiet on the voter fraud attacks. I hadn’t noticed, since it’s only been a couple days and I can’t stand to listen to their madness all the time anyway. But my oh my, would you look at why what you’re hearing from them all [...]

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Nate Silver slices & dices Jim Geraghty’s harrumphing about polls (still dreaming of PUMAs, silly man) with his usual understated thoroughness. Go, read ye all of it.
 
Among Democrats, Barack Obama is now winning 88 percent support, comparable to John Kerry in 2004 or Al Gore in 2000. And there are a couple of points’ worth [...]

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Now that I would love to see. The Daily Show’s resident expert has been sadly AWOL of late, so it’s great to see him here. John Hodgman, fake expert extraordinaire:
 

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What relevance, you might ask? Is a candidate not allowed to accessorize on the campaign trail? Oh, by all means, please do–just knock off the fake populism while ringing up those six-figure expenses. Politico has the numbers, Jed has the hat-tip. 
 
The Republican National Committee appears to have spent more than $150,000 to clothe and accessorize vice [...]

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Jon’s turn to call out the GOP’s intolerance and newly blossoming McCarthyism.
 

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A longtime Republican State Senator in Wisconsin announced on Tuesday that she would be supporting Barack Obama, in part because of the negative tone of the McCain-Palin campaign and, specifically, the use of “dishonorable” anti-Obama robocalls.
“All of us should be extremely wary of the half truths and outright untruths that have been spread by the [...]

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