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The CTBlue Presidential Endorsement

Friday, October 31, 2008

Yes, it’s that time of year again. All the newspapers endorse this time of year, and from what I’ve been reading on Editor and Publisher, Barack Obama is getting the lion’s share of endorsements. My readers have been literally (well, not literally…come to think of it, not even figuratively) swamping me with requests that I […]

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What it’s all about

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Via digby. Okay, I admit it, I’m a softie. But this video illustrates a larger point as well. On the one side, it really is about hope and optimism. On the other side, division and fear. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TW-6DpC-mj8[/youtube]

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A word of warning

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

via Americablog, from the Obama campaign: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Xnk9aqih8o[/youtube]

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More false equivalency

Monday, October 27, 2008

From the Times: With heavy voter turnout expected on Election Day, both parties are amassing thousands and thousands of lawyers to keep an eye on the polls. Senator Barack Obama’s campaign is expected to send at least 5,000 lawyers to Florida alone. The first recruitment e-mail message the campaign sent out nationally received 6,000 responses […]

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Patriots in Indiana

Monday, October 27, 2008

Indiana is not a very enlightened state, but it leads the nation in one respect: robocalls are illegal. If you want to spread slime, you have to hire real people to do it. The only trouble is that real people, even the poorly paid folks who really need the money they make in what must […]

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A bit of detail on some right wing nonsense

Sunday, October 26, 2008

Yesterday, I posted about my foray into the world of right wing radio, and my astonishment that in these critical times, the intellectual underclass is more concerned about Obama’s birth certificate than financial meltdown, imperial madness, health care, global warming, or even their own pet causes like abortion. I confess that the issue took me […]

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Some thoughts for the homestretch

Sunday, October 26, 2008

Frankly, I’m getting tired of reading about the election campaign. It’s actually beginning to look like opinions have hardened. Unless modern day polling techniques have gone off the rails, or the Republicans manage to steal it again, Barack Obama will be the next president. All we have to do is endure another week or so […]

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Still seething

Saturday, October 25, 2008

The story begins Thursday evening, at the Groton Democratic Town Committee. Our esteemed chairman announced that she had been approached by Anne Buonocore, host of a weekly radio program on WXLM, out of New London. She hosts a show that is normally dedicated to “the celebrity in ordinary people” or some such thing, meaning she […]

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Opie, Andy and the Fonz

Thursday, October 23, 2008

How can we lose? See more Ron Howard videos at Funny or Die

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13 days and counting

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

These should be the best of times for a political blogger, but lately, and oddly, it seems that there is not all that much to write about. We are in the middle of what may be the most important election since 1860. The fate of constitutional government may very well hang in the balance. Yet […]

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