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Politics at the Five-and-Dime

FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich. -- Pam Fleck has just finished vacuuming and scrubbing her mobile home into potpourri perfection when her phone rings and it's her sister, Sherry. Sherry lives over in Brighton. She drives a school bus, likes to hunt and votes Republican.

Posted to washingtonpost.com (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-04-2008
U.S. Fiscal Crisis Seems to Have Altered Political Map

The faltering economy has left Sen. John McCain on the political defensive, altering the landscape in many of the most important battleground states and providing a series of avenues for Sen. Barack Obama to claim the 270 electoral votes needed to win the White House in November, according to pol...

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GOP Strategists Whisper Fears Of Greater Losses in November

With the party already struggling to generate enthusiasm for its brand, Republican strategists fear that an outpouring of public anger generated by Congress's struggle to pass a rescue package for the financial industry may contribute to a disaster at the polls for the GOP in November.

Posted to washingtonpost.com (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-03-2008
A Political Debate With Two Scorecards

From the barking heads to the boisterous bloggers, from the Beltway elite to the heartland newspapers, a grand consensus quickly emerged about Sarah Palin's debate performance: She wasn't awful.

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Clinton Sells a Bailout

Hillary Clinton stressed the importance of Congress passing some kind of bailout legislation on a conference call with reporters today. In making her argument, Clinton connected the crisis on Wall Street with the effects of a poor economy on the average person. “It sounds dire," she said before...

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Rangel Insists Ethics Tumult Will Pass

This is what defiance looks like: a figure in a dark business suit, gold pocket square and silver pompadour, refusing to be driven from the job he loves.

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For Obama, Dialogue Drove Week's Work

When the news first broke on Wednesday that Sen. John McCain had suspended his campaign, a wave of distress rippled throughout the Obama campaign -- from the Chicago headquarters to the traveling entourage on the ground in Florida.

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Succession at Treasury Emerges as Key Question

The Bush administration's proposal to give the Treasury secretary broad discretion to spend $700 billion to rescue the ailing financial system comes with a hitch: No one knows who will be asked to succeed Henry M. Paulson Jr., the plan's architect, on Jan. 20.

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Clinton Says Bloomberg Is Good, But Manhattan is Full of Experts

Hillary Clinton just held a press conference on Maiden Lane in the Financial District, where said she’d like to see “sweeping intervention” by the federal government to help people in danger of defaulting on their home mortgages. Clinton said she’s joining Representative Barney Frank in calling for the...

Posted to observer.com (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-22-2008
At Women's Rally for Obama, No Sympathy for Palin

New York City women who support Barack Obama held a rally at City Hall yesterday, ostensibly to counter the post-Palin storyline of female voters moving to John McCain. At the end of the rally, I asked some attendees if thought Palin was being treated fairly during the campaign, or if, as Hillary Clinton...

Posted to observer.com (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-22-2008

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