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Friday, October 13, 2006
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NewMexiKen's best line of the day so far, "Okay, so you're going to tell me that professional baseball is no longer pure - that players make too much money, owners rip off the fans, and there's drug use. Yeah, well, the same is true for Congress, but I still vote."
"2008 pres"
6:08:56 PM 
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Political Wire: "The latest Granite State Poll finds that the 'largest group of New Hampshire Republicans is supporting Sen. John McCain, with 32 percent,' reports the AP. 'Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani is next with 19 percent, followed by Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, with 15 percent. Ten percent said they would vote for Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Two percent favor some other candidate and 14 percent are undecided.'
"Among Democrats, Sen. Hillary Clinton was 'the favorite, with 30 percent choosing her. John Edwards is next with 16 percent, and Al Gore is at 10 percent. Sen. John Kerry is the choice of 9 percent of Democrats.'"
"2008 pres"
6:05:34 PM
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U.S. Senator Barack Obama was just on the CBS Evening News trying to get voters to incorporate the move to alternative energy, along with energy independence, into their decisions this fall. Good idea.
Coyote Gulch thinks a Richardson/Obama ticket would be killer. That would really raise the bar for 2008.
"2008 pres"
5:55:29 PM
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Matt Singer (via Left in the West): "There's been a lot of back-and-forth over libertarian Democrats. I've said it before. I'll say it again. The West doesn't have a libertarian streak. It has a 'f*ck you' streak. It's the streak that gives us the people in bars who hate their boss for telling 'em what to do, their union for taking part of their paycheck, the government for taking part of their paycheck, the church for judging 'em, the schools for telling their kids what to think, and on and on and on.
"It's called populism. And it's a cousin (by an on-again, off-again marriage) of libertarianism, but it's pretty damn distinct. It's also an extremely confused, often contradictory, deeply cynical ideology that isn't always political."
"2008 pres"
5:37:14 PM
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Denver Post: "Denver's bid for the 2008 Democratic National Convention got endorsements Thursday from 47 members of Congress representing 24 states. Colorado's own Rep. Diana DeGette sent a letter, with the other members signing on, to Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean, noting a political shift in the Rocky Mountain region. 'Although once solidly a red portion of the country,' DeGette wrote, 'Colorado and the Rocky Mountain West are rapidly trending blue ... The Democratic Party must seize the opportunity and take advantage of the changed political landscape of the West and take back the White House in 2008.' The list of representatives signing on includes Reps. John Salazar and Mark Udall of Colorado. Perhaps most notably, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chairman, Rahm Emanuel of Illinois, also endorsed the letter."
Here's the coverage from the Rocky Mountain News. They write, "Representing states as far away as North Carolina and California, the members said that to win the presidency back, Democrats must 'focus long overdue attention on the West.'"
"2008 pres"
6:07:36 AM
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The Denver Post is reporting that some scientists think the effects of global warming are more pronounced here in the west than elsewhere. From the article, "The globe is warming, but the American West is really cooking - hotter and faster on average than the rest of the U.S. and the world, a leading climate researcher said at a conference here Thursday. 'The West is warming dramatically,' said Jonathan Overpeck, director of the Institute for the Study of Planet Earth at the University of Arizona. 'Things are just going to get hotter. You can bet the farm on it.' It's not just the farm and shorter irrigation seasons at stake. It probably means shorter skiing and rafting seasons but longer droughts, worse floods, sweatier summers and more dead trees. The West is already 2 to 3 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than its average annual temperature, calculated using more than 100 years of records, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Most scientific studies peg the rise in the Earth's average temperature since 1880 at 1 degree Fahrenheit, making it the warmest it has been in the past 400 years."
"2008 pres"
5:18:07 AM
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