Talking Points Memo: By Joshua Micah Marshall
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Debate Thoughts
via Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall by Josh Marshall on January 15, 2008
With all the commotion and Mittmentum last night I didn't have a chance to register any general views about the debate. As others have noted the big news was the across the board attempt to lower the temperature of the attacks and potential racial division -- something that whipped up like a brush fire late last week and quicker than I think anyone could have predicted threatened to do...
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Joe: GOP Good for the Jews
via Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall by Josh Marshall on January 16, 2008
From the Miami Herald ...Joe Lieberman, the one-time Democrat who narrowly lost the vice presidency, stumped in South Florida for a Republican presidential candidate this evening, putting his former party on alert: The GOP is after the Jewish vote.Lieberman told about 200 Republican Jewish activist
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Today's Must Read
via Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall by David Kurtz on January 20, 2008
Freedom's Watch, the billionaire-funded "grass-roots" effort, looks to change the landscape of the '08 elections with a paltry $250 million.
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Down, Down, Down
via Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall by Josh Marshall on January 22, 2008
Any guesses?The Dow? The value of the Dollar against the Euro? Nope, the last four months of the Rudy Giuliani presidential nomination contract at the Intrade predictions market website. Spent most of a year around 35% chance of securing the nomination, climbed up over 45% before a catastrophic Shagborne panic set in.
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You Call That a "Testy Exchange"?
via Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall by David Kurtz on January 22, 2008
Late yesterday, ABC News posted a story online about a supposedly "testy exchange" that Barack Obama had with a New York Times reporter on a ropeline in South Carolina. The story made it sound like Obama had lost it. It fit right in with the meme-of-the-moment being pushed by the Clinton campaign: Obama is frustrated.But if you take a look at the video of the exchange, it's hard to see what...
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Gettin' Sad
via Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall by Josh Marshall on January 22, 2008
Okay, we've got another Rudy ad out and it's reaching the point of true pathos as Rudy tries to extend his 9/11 brand to anything else that is actually relevant to voters' lives. In his latest attempt, which you can see below, Rudy explains how among the Republican candidate only he's brave enough and tough enough to come out for a national catastrophe fund ..."Some say that we...
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Noted without Comment
via Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall by Josh Marshall on January 23, 2008
TPM Reader AK ...I've been more than a little saddened by the way that you've "gentlemanly" sat on your hands and (for the most part) reserved extensive comment on the venom Bill Clinton has been unleashing on his wife's behalf. If Hillary wins this nomination in this fashion, the Democratic party will be destroyed. After seeing this side of the Clinton machine, I have zero interest...
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Blood Sport
via Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall by Josh Marshall on January 23, 2008
TPM Reader RA disagrees (with AK)Politics is blood sport, it is about the lesser of two evils, and it was ever thus. I am sure the Romans and the Greeks and the Sumerians had this exact same conversation. Bill and Hillary are not going to destroy the Democratic party. In fact I would argue Clinton is more suited than either Obama or Edwards to take on the Republican machine. She seems to be...
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David v. Goliaths
via Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall by David Kurtz on January 23, 2008
Is Obama succeeding in making the Clintons' ganging up on him into the campaign narrative of the moment?
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TPMtv: Sunday Show Clinton Pile-On
via Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall by Josh Marshall on January 27, 2008
Coming off Saturday's South Carolina blow-out, the Sunday shows were a wall-to-wall Clinton pile-on. In today's episode of our weekly Sunday show roundup we bring you the high/lowlights ...Watch this episode on YouTube.
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