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Palin's Emergence 
(unknown author) via Marc Ambinder on Fri, 14 Nov. 2008
A strategist for a rival potential presidential rival e-mails to express amusement with Gov. Sarah Palin's come one, come all PR strategy:"Fine with us. Let her be the sacrificial lamb for 2012."Which means: a lot of the folks who you'd think are angling to run in 2012 are certainly preparing to do so, but they're looking to and thinking about 2016....
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The Make-Believe McCain Adviser
(unknown author) via The Jed Report on Thu, 13 Nov. 2008
The NYT chronicles the adventures of Martin Eisenstadt, a fictional McCain adviser who managed to create quite a name for himself.
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Chimp-n-Tiger Blogging
(unknown author) via The Jed Report on Thu, 13 Nov. 2008
From a cute segment on CNN this morning:
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Trail's End
Karen Tumulty via Swampland - TIME.com on Wed, 05 Nov. 2008
This is a photo that Barack Obama took with his traveling press pool yesterday in Indianapolis, shortly before his
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Restraint
hilzoy via Obsidian Wings on Mon, 03 Nov. 2008
by hilzoy
Here's an interesting piece by Jay Newton-Small at Time:
"Almost two years ago, in the first months of Barack Obama's campaign for the presidency, whenever the Illinois senator would get crowds going he would intentionally dial it down a notch. I remember seeing him in Co
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Phonetics & politics
(unknown author) via James Fallows on Tue, 28 Oct. 2008
As previously noted, foreign names and nouns often suffer badly in the transition into Chinese characters, mainly because Chinese phonetics has no way of rendering a number of sounds common in English and other Western languages. For instance: no good way to render a string of two or three consonants in
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BUMPS.
(unknown author) via Ezra Klein on Sun, 26 Oct. 2008
Michael Crowley calls this "America, 2008":
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If you want an indication that the McCain camp has conceded...
(unknown author) via James Fallows on Mon, 13 Oct. 2008
.... listen to this interview, from today's NPR Morning Edition (audio available after 9am EDT). In it, Renee Montagne questions Steve Schmidt, famed tough-guy, gloves-off strategist for the McCain campaign.
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Obama's Ghostwriters -- ObWi Exclusive!!
publius via Obsidian Wings on Sat, 11 Oct. 2008
by publius
Andy McCarthy has a major scoop today — he suggests that Bill Ayers not only knows Obama, but that he actually wrote Obama’s book. I was understandably skeptical that Ayers would ghostwrite a book about growing up fatherless and black in a white comm
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I will always find this topic interesting (language dept.)
(unknown author) via James Fallows on Thu, 09 Oct. 2008
Air China night flight, Beijing to Seoul. Air crew is Chinese; passengers, mostly Korean. And the language I hear around me, as the flight attendants yell "You must sit down! Our airplane is taking off!" or ask "Do you want rice, or noodles?" ?Often those very words, in English. Chinese and Korean are both "hard" languages, with limited overlap in writing systems and virtually none in gram
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DCCC Bait
Bob Brigham via Open Left - Quick Hits's R on Thu, 02 Oct. 2008
GOP Congressman in drag for a prison visit but it is the explanation that is when weirdness takes over...
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More incoherence
(unknown author) via Ta-Nehisi Coates on Tue, 30 Sep. 2008
Good God. Watch this clip. Let's leave aside the fact that at eight, she almost certainly had no idea who Joe Biden was, the attack is little more than a half-ass passive aggressive jab on Joe Biden's age. Lemme get this straight: 1.) We know seniors vote. 2.) We know John McCain is older than Joe Biden. 3.) We know John McCain really needs seniors to be for him. 4.) We know young people are for O
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McCain Is Stuck With Palin
Nate Silver via FiveThirtyEight.com: Electoral on Mon, 29 Sep. 2008
Commentators on the left, right and center, reacting with near-horror to Sarah Palin's interview with Katie Couric, have each suggested that John McCain ought to put Palin on the next
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Debate Highlights, In Song And Dance
(unknown author) via The Jed Report on Sat, 27 Sep. 2008
I've got no idea who created this video, but it's just so goofy that it's kind of cool. The juxtaposition of this music with McCain is simply marvelous.
(Also posted at HuffPost. h/t: piktor.)
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On strategy and tactics
(unknown author) via James Fallows on Sat, 27 Sep. 2008
The least self-aware moment for John McCain in last night's debate came at the half-way point, when he said, "I'm afraid Senator Obama doesn't understand the difference between a tactic and a strategy."In a sense McCain was sticking to his battle plan in saying this -- the plan being on-message hammering-home of the "Obama doesn't understand" theme. In another sense, he lost his way, since
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I guess it's commenters day
Ta-Nehisi Coates via Ta-Nehisi Coates on Sat, 27 Sep. 2008
Here's another good one from a reader:mr. coates:I am a regular reader of yours and I am surprised and shocked that
after your excellent discussion about why "uppity" is a problem and
your popularizing the piece about "white privilege" you aren't talking
about McCain's unwillingness to look at Obama while they were talking
or look at him when they shook hands.Y
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I took a million notes during the debate....
(unknown author) via James Fallows on Sat, 27 Sep. 2008
... but let me boil it down to this:When the details of this encounter fade, as they soon will, I think the debate as a whole will be seen as of a piece with Kennedy-Nixon in 1960, Reagan-Carter in 1980, and Clinton-Bush in 1992.In each of those cases, a fresh, new candidate (although chronologically older in Reagan's case) had been gathering momentum at a time of general dissatisf
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SUSPENSIONS.
(unknown author) via Ezra Klein on Thu, 25 Sep. 2008
Looks like McCain has started a trend:
The fact tha
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Sooner or later we'll all see who the prophet is
Ta-Nehisi Coates via Ta-Nehisi Coates on Wed, 24 Sep. 2008
I'm going to go out on a limb here and do something I try really hard to never do, make a prediction. Sarah Palin is the nail in the McCain campaign's coffin. No Vice-Presidential nominee--not Vice-President--can be this much drama. Constantly defending old girl's record, having to expend resources to shut down investigations in Alaska, and having to actively shield her from reporter
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