Money politics.
The problem with campaign contributions, from the Democratic standpoint, is that they're regarded as voluntary by Democrats. Consider: one way or another, Bush will find a way to get his hands on about...
View ArticlePlea for Becky Miller contact info
Does anyone know a reasonably direct way of contacting Becky Miller, the now-infamous conservative Oregonian who wrote a positive review of Franken's book? There seems to be no easy way even to contact...
View ArticleThe "Hillary for President" meme and the IEM
As most of you know, there's been lots of loose talk from the right wing about a Clinton run at the presidency. We know better, but how to explain what's going on at the Iowa Electronic Markets? See...
View ArticleVoice vote trickery.
I'm sure you've all seen the news about the $87.5b appropriation vote for Iraq being done by voice vote, and with only 6 Senators in the chamber to boot. I realize this means that there won't be any...
View ArticleCheney on gay marriage: a speculation
Dick Cheney said today he'd support a gay marriage ban, which surprises exactly no one, including his gay daughter--although it is a little surprising he'd put her in the position of having to react to...
View ArticlePlea for Pollkatz (-esque) info
Just a quick plea for anyone with information either on the status of Professor Pollkatz, or on the whereabouts of a similar chart-of-polls, to let us know about it in a comment to this entry. I've...
View ArticlePLEA FOR INFORMATION on Bush's schedule
Just a quick cry for help: does anyone know where I can find a copy of Bush's schedule, insofar as it's publicly knowable, for the next week? There doesn't seem to be anything on the White House site...
View ArticleHave the Republicans handed us a valuable legal tool?
This is ripped straight from my own blog, in the hopes that the dKos community might be able to shed some light. So, according to the NYT, back in 1996 some private citizens made an illegal recording...
View ArticleSomething we can do RIGHT NOW to boost registration.
By now everyone here has heard about the Cleveland Plain-Dealer's reprinting of the federal Election Assistance Agency's generic voter registration form. When both Atrios and a disenfranchisement-happy...
View ArticleElectoral-vote.com projection: Kerry 538 Bush 0! (True, kinda.)
Well, I suspect there might be just a WEE bit of statistical noise or something at work here, but good old electoral-vote.com has, at this moment, a projection of a unanimous Kerry landslide, winning...
View ArticleLegal/political question about Gonzales. Help!
So, by now we've all heard the news that Alberto Gonzales is going to be Dubya's nominee to replace Ashcroft. If you ask me, it's great news, if only because he couldn't possibly be any worse than...
View Article10,000 hours of community service
By now we've all read the anonymous Congresscritter's memo calling for some sort of gratuitous (but feel-good) slap at the worst offenders of the bailout crisis--a moment in the public stocks....
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