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nelson : Bad ballots - Great examples of the kinds of things that go wrong in election ballots
Rod Begbie : MPR: Challenged ballots: You be the judge - Good overview of the kinds of mistakes on ballots that are being challenged during the Minnesota recount. [via] #
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Greg Storey : Prisoner #74-29AC73 has been defeated. - Alaska has much to celebrate.
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deusx : Why Obama Should Keep His BlackBerry - BusinessWeek - "Obama comes into office as the first President both knowledgeable about and comfortable with the technology that runs today's world. This is actually an important and promising development and the worst thing we can do is try to force him into
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Linkorama : The Wild Wordsmith of Wasilla - Dick Cavett Blog - My concern has been the atrocities there in Darfur and the relevance to me with that issue as we spoke about Africa and some of the countries there that were kind of the people succumbing to the dictators and the corruption of some collapsed governments o
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Linkorama : The Moose Stops Here - Though the exciting Obama-McCain race is over, the cockfight among the losers has only just begun. The conservative crackup may be ugly, but as entertainment, it’s two thumbs up!
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Greg Storey : Um, can we get Obama a better background please? - It looks like he's on the set of structured settlements and annuity payments commercial.
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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 : Yo Mama's So Fat... - I've long been a fan of playing the dozens, as is to be expected from anyone who loves language. Last night, in a fit of my usual insanity, I thought it'd be fun to throw out some "Yo mama" snaps themed around this year's election on my Twitter account:
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10 days ago
nelson : No on 8 SF protest - Nationwide protests against the gay marriage ban planned
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gleuschk : Ed Norton is making a documentary about Obama's campaign - want
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wearehugh : A Fake Expert Named Martin Eisenstadt and a Phony Think Tank Fool Bloggers and the Mainstream News Media - NYTimes.com
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Greg Storey : President-Elect Obama collects Spiderman and Conan the Barbarian comics. - Click for forty-nine other trivial things about Barrack.
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10 days ago
Andy Baio : Videos of CNN's election-night countdown globally - the collective response was spontaneous and virtually identical around the world [via]
Greg Storey : Reactions to CNN's announcement of election results from around the world. - I don't know why but I never thought to countdown.
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wearehugh : The End of Wall Street's Boom - National Business News - Portfolio.com
Jeremy Zawodny : The End of Wall Street's Boom - The End of Wall Street's Boom: an excellent piece by Michael Lews on the mortgage crisis and wall street... it's a must-read
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veen : lancearthur.com: Voices of the Peoples - "Marriage in the United States shall consist of a union between one man and one or more women. (Gen 29:17-28; II Sam 3:2-5) Marriage shall not impede a man’s right to take concubines, in addition to his wife or wives. (II Sam 5:13; I Kings 11:3; II
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Greg Storey : The first first one hundred days. - Oh FDR, we can't quit you.
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Greg Storey : Diatha D. Harris should be fired on the spot. - There is no good reason, at all, for her antics in the classroom.
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wearehugh : Sarah Palin blamed by the US Secret Service for death threats against Barack Obama - Telegraph - "The revelations, contained in a Newsweek history of the campaign, are likely to further damage Mrs Palin's credentials as a future presidential candidate." You must be new here.
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Greg Storey : Obama and the dawn of the Fourth Republic. - An interesting look at the cycles in American politics.
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nelson : Prop 8 funding - Database of who funded the anti-gay measure
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deusx : Obama Election Ushering In First Internet Presidency -- Barack Obama Internet -- InformationWeek - "The 2008 presidential election marked two great changes of the guard. The biggest immediate change, of course, was the election of an African-American Democrat as the next president of the United States. But perhaps a bigger change over the long te
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16 days ago
deusx : 1226003760919.gif (GIF Image, 320x288 pixels) - part of the primaries and the election as an RPG encounter
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deusx : GOP Knives Come Out; Palin Gets Filleted - "Now that the defeated team of Sen. John McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin have gone their separate ways, the knives are out and Palin is the one who is getting filleted. Revelations from anonymous critics from within the McCain-Palin campaign suggest a n
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Andy Baio : Mark Newman's 2008 election maps and cartograms - weighted by population, fun to compare to the 2004 election
Rod Begbie : 2008 Electoral Cartograms - Remoulding the US electoral map based upon population, rather than geographic, size. [via] #
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