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Daily Archives: May 10th, 2008

Back to Basics-why Clinton lost

Saturday, May 10, 2008

Every once in a while, the conversation gets back to basics. Via Suburban Guerilla, I found myself at the American Prospect, where we find the following observation: Admittedly, this is the kind of counterfactual that’s impossible to prove, but my guess is that if she had voted against the war Clinton would be the Democratic […]

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Architectural treasure in Groton

Saturday, May 10, 2008

In its endless front page pursuit of the trivial, the Hartford Courant today ran a front page article on the outhouses of Chester, a posh community in Middlesex County. Since this is considered critically newsworthy by so august an institution as the nation’s oldest newspaper can anyone criticize me for taking up the subject. It […]

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Boring convention

Saturday, May 10, 2008

I was a delegate to the State Convention in New Britain this morning, at which we chose members of the DNC and the presidential electors who will cast the formal votes in the Electoral College in December. Short report: nothing happened.

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