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Monday, October 30, 2006
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Juan Cole: "I don't take any pleasure in having been right about Iraq when they were wrong, or that they are they now are admitting it. I wish we could have avoided so much bloodshed and horror in Iraq, for our own troops and for the Iraqis. But I knew they weren't right, three years ago. I wish the Bush administration had paid more attention to the costs of the war it planned in 2002, costs that I foresaw."
"2008 pres"
8:56:58 PM 
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Bull Moose: "The Moose luxuriates in the ascendancy of the center. Election day could be a very, very important milestone for the insurgent middle of the American body politic. That is because it is very likely that a whole new group of Blue Dogs and New Dems will be coming to Congress."
Bull Moose: "The Moose wonders whether there is a special unit in the GOP to smear Vietnam Veterans."
"2008 pres"
8:37:28 PM
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Josh Marshall: "Finally. Some comic relief. Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) is forming an exploratory committee to run for president. Possible slogans: I managed to avoid getting indicted in the Cunningham probe. I can keep the country out of trouble too."
"2008 pres"
8:35:41 PM
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AP/AOL poll: "The number of people who go online for political news is rising, with more than one-third saying they check the Internet for such information. This group is more likely to be younger, better educated and male than the population in general, an Associated Press-AOL News poll found. While 35 percent say they check the Internet for political updates about campaigns and candidates, that number grows to 43 percent of likely voters and they tend to be more liberal than conservative. With the Nov. 7 elections nearing, the online audience is getting deluged with e-mail and election updates from news, campaign and political Web sites. People who use the Web point to the convenience, the variety of information and the range of intense emotion available online."
"The poll found: four in 10 men search the Web for political news, compared with three in 10 women; about four in 10 of those under age 50 search the Web for political news, compared with fewer than two in 10 of those 65 and over; more than half of those with college degrees look to the Web for politics, compared with one-third of those who have some college, and fewer than one in six with a high school education or less."
"2008 pres"
6:54:57 AM
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The Los Angeles Times looks at Nevada and the state's new found national focus in determining the eventual Democratic nominee for president in 2008. From the article, "Iowa and New Hampshire, with their largely white, rural populations, don't represent the Democratic Party or the country any more, party leaders believe. Those states have played an outsized role in selecting the party's presidential nominees, some of whom went on to disastrous defeat in the general election. Party leaders sought an early caucus state that was Western and diverse, and the finalists were Arizona and Nevada. The Mountain West is all the rage in Democratic politics, and not without reason. As political scientist Thomas F. Schaller argued in his recent book, 'Whistling Past Dixie,' once the Democrats surrendered on gun control, they put the West back in play. There are fewer white evangelicals in the West than in the South, and traditional Western libertarians have rejected the Republican culture wars. With Republicans divided, Democrats such as Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer have captured the center. The West is also growing and changing rapidly with the influx of Mexican and other immigrants. Nevada's population, now at 2.4 million, has more than doubled since 1990 and is 20% larger than just five years ago. Latinos, Asians and African Americans make up 36% of the state's population, according to 2004 census figures. Democrats figure that if those voters aren't already voting Democratic, they hope to bring them into the fold quickly, assisted by Republican demagoguery on immigration issues. Although unions are on the wane nationally, they still have clout in the Democratic Party, and labor leaders were eager to see the caucus go to Nevada, where the labor movement is growing both in absolute numbers and in percentage of the working population. Membership in the Culinary Union, which represents workers in Las Vegas Strip casino hotels, has increased 20%, to 60,000, in the last year alone. Overall union membership in Nevada has grown from 12.5% of the working population in 2004 to 13.8% today."
"2008 pres"
6:11:54 AM
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