McCain/Palin: Dream Ticket (2)
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My God, this Palin for VP thing is like those mint M&Ms at Christmas: I just cannot stay away. And the more I think about it, the happier I am. There is no upside for McCain in this. Here's why: First, McCain's VP pick was going to dominate yesterday's news no matter who got it, so all the grudging praise being heaped on McCain for managing to upstage Obama's speech is misguided. Upstaging Obama's acceptance ...
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Jon Host said:
the point about token minorities being considered fungible is dead on
NOTABLE QUOTABLES. (3)
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Ezra Klein (23)
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Karl Rove: With all due respect again to Governor Kaine, he’s been a governor for three years, he’s been able but undistinguished. I don’t think people could really name a big, important thing that he’s done. He was mayor of the 105th largest city in America. And again, with all due respect to Richmond, Virginia, it’s smaller than Chula Vista, California; Aurora, Colorado; Mesa or Gilbert, Arizona; north Las Vegas or Henderson, Nevada. It’s not ...
Is UCLA Illegally Using Race-Based Affirmative Action in Admissions? (3)
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My friend and co-author Tim Groseclose, a professor of political science at U.C.L.A., thinks so. Groseclose was a member of U.C.L.A.'s Committee on Undergraduate Admissions and Relations With Schools until yesterday, when he resigned from the committee in a very public way and released an 89-page report documenting what he calls "malfeasance" and an "accompanying cover-up." The [...]
ORTHODOXY. (3)
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Ezra Klein (23)
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As far as I understand it, conventional wisdom on the right and the left are that the following vice presidential choices were nixed by the McCain campaign because they were pro-choice: • Tom Ridge, the popular former governor of Pennsylvania. • Joe Lieberman, the heretical Democrat. • Kay Bailey Hutchison, otherwise a down-the-line conservative senator. • Jodi Rell, arguably the most popular governor in the country. And so instead we got Sarah Palin. Sometimes I ...
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Ross said:
thats the only thing that matters to them. and of course gay rights.
YIKES. (3)
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Ezra Klein (23)
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Sarah Palin, a month ago: "As for that VP talk all the time, I'll tell you, I still can't answer that question until somebody answers for me what is it exactly that the VP does every day? I'm used to being very productive and working real hard in an administration."So I guess we can presume that someone answered her question? Maybe someone in the press should make sure.
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Couldn't have happened to nicer guys.DENVER -- Though it was high in shock value, the Palin pick left bruised feelings among the short-list contenders who were not picked -- and infuriated some Republican officials who privately said McCain had gone out on a limb, unnecessarily, without laying the groundwork for such an unknown. Two senior Republican officials close to Mitt Romney and TimPawlenty said they had both been rudely strung along and now "feel manipulated.""They ...
Annals of the National Political Media (1)
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Here are some things I've seen in the last 24 hours: Yesterday afternoon, McCain aides announce that he's selected a VP. It is a transparent attempt to divert attention away from Obama's speech, but CNN is feverishly covering it anyway, with Dana Bash in Dayton, Ohio standing around and reporting nothing. At one point, she reports that Mitt Romney hasn't been told that he's been selected. A minute later, Wolf Blitzer says that CNN doesn't ...
Sarah "Hunting Wolves From Helicopters for Sport Is Fun!" Palin? (1)
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You're on your own (1)
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Megan McArdle (13)
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That's Obama's sound byte to cap the standard litany of Democratic hard-luck stories. I think Peggy Noonan nailed my dissatisfaction with the mythic, put-upon heroes of both sets of convention speeches:Another problem with the Michelle speech. In order to paint both her professional life and her husband's, and in order to communicate what she feels is his singular compassion, she had to paint an America that is darker, sadder, grimmer, than most Americans experience their ...
Generation Gap (1)
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There’s a tendency to assume that the age polarization in elections basically just reflects stylistic considerations. And clearly there’s something to that idea. But look at the end of this op-ed on climate change by Carlos Pascual and Strobe Talbott: Many Americans will accept that logic, and make real changes, only if they believe greenhouse gas emissions will affect them personally. Today’s adults, even if they will not be around at mid-century, must think about ...
PARTY UNITY -- BUT DON'T TELL THE PRESS. (2)
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I was talking to a CNN researcher last night who was agog at the coverage the convention was receiving on her channel. Here on the ground, where she was filing reports to the higher-ups at the network, the conventon seem united and smooth. On her network, it seemed like a civil war. Similarly, Mark Schmitt and Harold Meyerson both filed piece on their travels around the hall. Mark finds that the various constituency tracks are ...
How Important Are The Next Eight Years? (2)
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How Big of a Deal Is Income Inequality? (15)
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Retired neurologist William Bernstein is probably known for his investment books The Intelligent Asset Allocator and The Four Pillars of Investing. His two latest books, A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World and The Birth of Plenty, deal with the history of world trade and economic growth, subjects he has agreed to blog about [...]
Kay Bailey Hutchison on economics (4)
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Here are some of her votes. Her ACU voting lifetime record is 91 percent. She is strong on free trade and seems to be a relatively conservative and corporatist Republican on economic issues. She's way up in the betting markets for the Republican VP spot, about 30 percent last I looked. Note that she is not pro-life according to conservatives. She has been very pro-drilling and very active on energy issues. Since picking Mitt Romney ...
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Jon Host said:
if I'm McCain, she's my pick
MCCAIN AND CHELSEA. (1)
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It's sort of odd that in all the coverage of McCain's deep and abiding respect for Hillary Clinton, no one has mentioned this classic McCain moment: "Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father is Janet Reno." Charming.
NYC Tap Wins Best in H2O (2)
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Photo: istockphotoNew York’s beloved tap water may have placed dead last behind five other cities when the magazine conducted a taste test, but according to Newsday, it was redeemed at the New York State Fair when it beat out 150 other communities. Granted, those other communities seem to have been solely in New York State (Albany won last year), so we’ll never know how we fare against Chicago, but hey, it’s something. N! Y! C! ...
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There are two articles in today’s New York Times that you should read. First, Matthew Wald discusses the limits of our current electric grid: The dirty secret of clean energy is that while generating it is getting easier, moving it to market is not. The grid today, according to experts, is a system conceived 100 years ago to let utilities prop each other up, reducing blackouts and sharing power in small regions. It resembles a ...
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Is it Quayle season? Dan Quayle, that is. Anybody know a reason to think that Sarah Palin would make a good president?Shared by Jon Host (0)Contribute commentTechCrunch (5476) permalink
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