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Thursday, January 11, 2007
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Daily Kos: "[President] Bush has already promised a veto, so the battle lines are drawn but this time reconfigured with the new Democratic majority in Congress. The legislation passed today by a 253-174 vote would loosen restrictions on stem cell research (with 37 Republicans voting for it). Unfortunately, the House vote doesn't constitute a veto-proof margin, but a bipartisan group of legislators are coordinating across the House and Senate to steer the issue."
"2008 pres"
8:15:53 PM 
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News & Observer: "North Carolina Republicans are divided over who should be their next presidential nominee, but Democrats like home boy John Edwards, according to a new poll. Edwards, the former Tar Heel senator, had the support of 29 percent of Democratic voters, according to a survey by Public Policy Polling of Raleigh. Edwards is followed by New York Sen. Hillary Clinton (16 percent) and Illinois Sen. Barack Obama (15 percent), with 40 percent saying they would support another choice.
"The former mayor of New York, Rudy Giuliani, had the support of 30 percent of GOP voters, followed by former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (29 percent), Arizona Sen. John McCain (22 percent) and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (6 percent). The remaining 13 percent supported someone else."
"2008 pres"
6:02:37 PM
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Big news for election junkies across the west. The 2008 Democratic National Convention will be held in Denver, according to the Denver Post.
For all of you movers and shakers in the Democratic Party; please put in a kind word for a press credential for the Ol' Coyote. 
Update: New West: "Jubilant Colorado officials and Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean today portrayed the selection of Denver as the host city for the 2008 Democratic National Convention as a deliberate effort to capitalize on recent electoral gains in the region - and showcase what Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper called 'a different way of going about things' in the Rocky Mountain West.
"Dean, whose once-controversial '50-state strategy' was hugely vindicated in November, said in a conference call with reporters Thursday that the political opportunity Democrats see in the West was what 'tipped' the decision to Denver. New York was the other major contender."
"2008 pres"
3:26:48 PM
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Political Wire: "News is sweeping through Connecticut Democratic circles that Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-CT) will launch his presidential campaign on the Thursday morning's Imus in the Morning radio program, carried simultaneously on MSNBC...Dodd will speak to a group of state supporters in a conference call Thursday at noon. Many despair that the campaign will require them to raise money in what feels like a hopeless bid rooted more in vanity than logic."
"2008 pres"
6:46:52 AM
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Captain's Quarters: "The upcoming presidential election will hinge on the use of technology and the rapid response to potentially damaging imagery. When a video clip from Mitt Romney's debate with Ted Kennedy in 1994 got YouTubed, opening another question about his pro-life credentials, Romney turned to Glenn Reynolds and a Podcast to set the record straight."
"2008 pres"
6:35:34 AM
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Left in the West: "Sen. Ted Kennedy has a health care plan to offer -- a remarkably easy-to-understand one to boot: Medicare For All."
"2008 pres"
6:26:44 AM
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Here's the text of President Bush's speech about his new Iraq strategy, from the Denver Post.
Andrew Sullivan: "The premise of the speech, and of the strategy, is that there is a national democratic government in Baghdad, defending itself against Jihadist attacks. The task, in the president's mind, is therefore to send more troops to defend such a government. But the reality facing us each day is a starkly different one from the scenario assumed by the president. The government of which Bush speaks, to put it bluntly, does not exist. The reality illumined by the lynching of Saddam is that the Maliki government is a front for Shiite factions and dependent for its future on Shiite death squads. U.S. support for the government is not, therefore, a defense of democracy in a unified country, whatever our intentions. It is putting the lives of American soldiers in defense of the Shiite side in an increasingly brutal civil war."
"2008 pres"
6:02:07 AM
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