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Anil : What Sarah Palin Is Saying - Sarah Palin has been unsurprising in her criticisms of Barack Obama's credentials and policies, fulfilling the traditional role of the vice presidential candidate being the most aggressive and pointed rhetorical attacker in a campaign. But a closer look a
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Andy Baio : Newsweek's exclusive Election 2008 report, embargoed behind-the-scenes story from both campaigns - they were given major access on the condition nothing would be released until today
philgyford : Barack Obama: How He Did It | Newsweek Politics: Campaign 2008 | Newsweek.com - A series of seven articles about the campaigns. Worth a long read. (via Kottke)
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Rod Begbie : John McCain's concession speech - A genuinely gracious and powerful speech. "I urge all Americans who supported me to join me in not just congratulating him, but offering our next president our good will and earnest effort to find ways to come together, to find the necessary compromises, #
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Anil : What Sarah Palin Is Saying - Sarah Palin has been unsurprising in her criticisms of Barack Obama's credentials and policies, fulfilling the traditional role of the vice presidential candidate being the most aggressive and pointed rhetorical attacker in a campaign. But a closer look a
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Anil : What Sarah Palin Is Saying - Sarah Palin has been unsurprising in her criticisms of Barack Obama's credentials and policies, fulfilling the traditional role of the vice presidential candidate being the most aggressive and pointed rhetorical attacker in a campaign. But a closer look a
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Andy Baio : Lexical analysis of the 2008 presidential and VP debates - word usage statistics and clouds, with parts of speech and word pairs; Atom feeds available for the whole dataset [via]
Rod Begbie : Lexical Analysis of 2008 US Presidential and Vice-Presidiential Debates - Who's the Windbag? - All manner of interesting statistics and visualizations drawn out of the presidential debate transcripts. [via] #
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1 month ago
Rod Begbie : McLobbyist - Another focused attack site funded by the Obama campaign. I wonder how the return-on-investment compares between these and running 30 second commercials. [via] #
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1 month ago
Rod Begbie : Keating Economics: John McCain and the Making of a Financial Crisis - The Obama campaign aren't resting on their current lead in the polls. This shows promise that they intend to keep fighting all the way to election day. [via] #
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1 month ago
Rod Begbie : John McCain's Record - Another "attack" site from the Obama campaign. Wish there was a bit more hyperlinkage for sources. #
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2 month ago
Rod Begbie : If politicians were operating systems… - Origin unknown. [via] #
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2 month ago
gleuschk : Stumper : The Politics of Stupidity - Years from now presidential historians will look back on Sept. 9 as the day the 2008 campaign got completely and utterly stupid.
Rod Begbie : Stumper : The Politics of Stupidity - "Years from now presidential historians will look back on Sept. 9 as the day the 2008 campaign got completely and utterly stupid." I felt massively depressed on Wednesday, as the pig/lipstick and kiddie-sex-ed trains swiftboated on. [via] #
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6 month ago
Andy Baio : Things Younger Than John McCain - I didn't realize he'd be the oldest US President ever [via]
adamrg : Things younger than Republican Presidential candidate
Rod Begbie : Things younger than John McCain - The state of Alaska, the polio vaccine, and both of Barack Obama's parents are younger than John McCain. [via] #
jcgregorio : Things younger than Republican Presidential candidate (oh, and did I forget to mention “war hero”?) John McCain - List includes the Golden Gate Bridge.
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