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Monday, November 20, 2006
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? for president?
CNN: "Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-New York, remains the frontrunner for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination in 2008, with more than twice the support of any of her potential rivals, a new CNN poll shows: New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton 33%; Illinois Sen. Barack Obama 15%; Former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards 14%; Former Vice President Al Gore 14%; Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry 7%; Retired Gen. Wesley Clark 4%; Delaware Sen. Joe Biden 3%; New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson 3%; Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh 2%; Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack 1%."
Thanks to Political Wire for the link.
"2008 pres"
6:34:28 PM 
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Obama for president?
Guardian Unlimited: "Democratic Sen. Barack Obama, who is contemplating a run for the presidency, on Monday called for a 'gradual and substantial' reduction of U.S. forces from Iraq that would begin in four to six months. Speaking to the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, Obama envisioned a flexible timetable for withdrawal linked to conditions on the ground in Iraq and based on the advise of U.S. commanders. He also called for intensified efforts to train Iraqi security forces, U.S. aid packages tied to Iraqi progress in reducing sectarian violence and new diplomacy with Syria and Iran."
Thanks to Oliver Willis for the link.
"2008 pres"
6:06:58 PM
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Iraq
Don Surber: "George Packer in The New Yorker smacks the president upside the head for being pragmatic about Iraq, calling such a plan Unrealistic. I agree...
"George Bush may have sent the troops to Iraq, but Congress authorized it. The vote in the Senate was 77-23. The rhetoric about WMD from Kerry, Rockefeller and even Byrd (who opposed the war) was even more alarmist than the administration's. I do not want to see America throwing away 3,000 lives again. Stay. Fix the nation. Make every life sacrificed - American, Iraqi, Pole, Brit, Aussie, Dane, whomever - count."
"2008 pres"
6:00:46 PM
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Did weblogs influence elections this year?
Captains Quarters: "Jon Henke, one of my earliest friends in the blogosphere, spent the last three months trying to rescue a flailing George Allen campaign in Virginia, landing himself in the middle of one of the biggest mud-flinging campaigns of the election season. Having had that kind of experience, Jon had a unique vantage point from which to see the interaction between political parties, voters, and the blogosphere. He's written his post-mortem, in which he congratulates the liberal blogs for their impact."
"2008 pres"
7:10:14 AM
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McCain for president?
Daily Kos: "There go your reproductive rights. (If 'moderates' are suckered into voting for McCain.) John McCain believes that the state gets to decide when, where and under what circumstances you will reproduce. This morning on Stephanopoulos, McCain says: 'I Support the Supreme Court Overturning Roe v. Wade.'"
"2008 pres"
7:07:40 AM
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Arkansas Valley reservoirs filling
Officials in southeastern Colorado are letting John Martin Reservoir fill along with others in the Arkansas Valley, according to the Pueblo Chieftain. From the article, "Valley reservoirs are starting to recover a bit from lower levels caused by five years of drought, but the extent and duration won't be known until spring. As of last week, about 444,000 acre-feet of an estimated 1.4 million acre-feet of storage space in the valley's primary reservoirs was filled, according to Water Division 2 Engineer Steve Witte. Almost three-fourths of the water is stored in large federal reservoirs on the river, and much of the increase in storage comes from the winter water storage program and filling of winter accounts under the Arkansas River Compact. Many of the valley's agricultural reservoirs remain at extremely low levels, despite above-average rainfall that came too late in the growing season to improve the storage picture. Storage levels of large municipal users - Aurora, Colorado Springs and Pueblo - are all near target levels set by water managers. John Martin began filling Nov. 1, as provided by agreement of the Arkansas River Compact Commission, Witte said...
"Lake Pueblo also is filling as the Bureau of Reclamation moves water out of Turquoise Lake into Lake Pueblo in anticipation of next year's supply of Fryingpan-Arkansas imports. Water is moved from the Hunter-Fryingpan basin into Turquoise through the Boustead Tunnel. It will be allocated by the Southeastern district next spring. Transmountain diversions into the basin have been at or above average in the past two years, after suffering from Western Slope drought from 2002-04. Snowpack in the Arkansas River basin is about 144 percent of average, according to the Natural Resources Conservation Service. However, it is too early in the season to make projections, since the heaviest snowpack won't come for another four to six months."
"colorado water"
6:53:18 AM
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Climate change
A plan to mitigate climate change will be the subject of a meeting today in Denver, according to the Fort Collins Coloradoan. From the article, "Climate change has left Colorado vulnerable, and Mayor Doug Hutchinson will be among those trying to insulate the state. Hutchinson is one of 10 directors of the Colorado Climate Project, an initiative of the Louisville-based Rocky Mountain Climate Organization. The group will hold its first of six meetings Monday in Denver. Modeled after similar efforts in other states, the project's goal is to produce a state plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and protect Colorado against climate change. The state's water supply, for example, could be at risk if mountain snows dry up, as some have predicted. The project's goal is to deliver a set of recommendations to the state Legislature and soon-to-be Gov. Bill Ritter late next year. Hutchinson called the project unique because it combines leaders from government, business and advocacy groups who may have different views about climate change, its impacts and potential solutions...
"The project is based on similar efforts by other state governments, including Arizona, New Mexico and Montana, but is the first privately initiated attempt to create a state plan. A lack of federal action on the issue is one driver for the efforts. The Arizona panel recommended earlier this year reducing greenhouse gas emissions to 2000 levels by 2020 and then to half the 2000 levels by 2040. To do that, the panel identified emissions cuts by agriculture, forestry, transportation and land use, energy supply and fuel use. Of the 49 policy recommendations in Arizona, 45 were unanimously adopted and the other four received majority support. Colorado emits more carbon dioxide than 174 of the world's 212 nations, according to the Rocky Mountain Climate Organization. 'What we do matters,' said Stephen Saunders, president of the RMCO."
"2008 pres"
6:42:27 AM
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