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Obama's Touch of Class

Posted by Jeff from Wall Street Journal

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: "The landmark political fact of our time is the replacement of our middle-class republic by a plutocracy. If some candidate has a scheme to reverse this trend, they've got my vote, whether they prefer Courvoisier or beer bongs spiked with cough syrup. I don't care whether they enjoy my books, or would rather have every scrap of paper bearing my writing loaded into a C-47 and dumped into Lake Michigan. If it will help restore the land of relative equality I was born in, I'll fly the plane myself."

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"Slash-And-Burn" Vs. "The Kitchen Sink"

Posted by gmc1 from Huffington Post

The final push is on before Tuesday's presidential primary in Pennsylvania. We have two different campaign tactics at work among the Democratic candidates. Who's got the edge?

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New Pa. poll has Clinton holding lead

Posted by Jeff from Firstread.msnbc.msn

The poll of 625 likely Dem primary voters was conducted Thursday and Friday and showed Clinton leading Obama 48-43%. Considering the 4% margin of error, it means Clinton's lead is inside the margin.

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The ABC News' Debate's Missed Opportunity for a Real Hit Job

Posted by Villagenyc from politicalcortex

What many appeared to be most miffed about was the unusual barrage of seemingly un-important salvos leveled by moderators Charles Gibson and George Stephanopoulos at Senator Barack Obama.

The truth is, voters should be upset, because if the moderators were looking to perform some sort of hit job on Senator Obama, they could have at least attempted to aim above the belt and attack issues of substance and relevance.

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New Obama Endorsements - Reich, Boren and Nunn

Posted by Jeff from Thecaucus.blogs.nytimes

The endorsements keep rolling in for Barack Obama, who now can count on the support of former Labor Secretary Robert Reich (from the Bill Clinton White House) and two popular former senators - David Boren of Oklahoma and Sam Nunn of Georgia.

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The Obama "mistake": Breaking the taboo on discussing class in America

Posted by Sandyenglish

Over the past five days, media commentary on the US presidential election campaign has focused on the supposedly disastrous "gaffe" made by Democrat Barack Obama in his comments earlier this month at a San Francisco fundraiser, where he remarked on the mood of anger and bitterness in small-town and rural America, and how this was expressed in various political and ideological forms.

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Poll Shows Erosion Of Trust in Clinton

Posted by Jeff from Washington Post

Clinton is viewed as "honest and trustworthy" by just 39 percent of Americans, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll, compared with 52 percent in May 2006. Nearly six in 10 said in the new poll that she is not honest and trustworthy. And now, compared with Obama, Clinton has a deep trust deficit among Democrats, trailing him by 23 points as the more honest, an area on which she once led both Obama and John Edwards.

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