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Earlier I wrote "it's hard to see how Barack Obama could defeat a candidate with the experience, credentials, and mainstream appeal of John McCain or Rudy Giuliani." A reader challenges Rudy's credentials: Pray tell us the experience and credentials of...
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One of the Democratic strategies this cycle is to flood the zone with partisan and suspect polls showing as many House races as possible in play to piggy back on the national generic polls that show legitimate bad news for...
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Here's the score from the new batch of Mason-Dixon Senate polls: Republican incumbents Santorum, DeWine, Chafee, Burns, and Talent currently trail. There's your five seat pick up for an evenly divided Senate. Corker has moved slightly back ahead in Tennessee,...
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Harold Ford, Jr. is on a bit of a streak at the moment, and it's not the favorable kind. His press-conference crashing stunt last week seems to have backfired. He's also now involved in a war of words with Steve...
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In our opinion, Brad Coker at Mason-Dixon continues to do the best state polling. Today he has released a basket of eight Senate polls for MSNBC in the competitive Senate races that will determine control of that chamber (Maryland is...
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Yesterday, along with four other journalists, I lunched with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Gen. Peter Pace, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. We had a wide-ranging discussion on North Korea, Iraq, and the reports that there was a...
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Harold Ford, Jr. tries to stop the bleeding over the question of the Playboy party with a very straight answer - maybe a little too straight, in fact....
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You've probably heard about the Michael J. Fox ad on stem cells that aired on behalf of the McCaskill campaign during the World Series the other night. Here it is: And here's the response ad:...
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The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review just released some polling data on PA 04 -- a suburban Pittsburgh district that features incumbent Republican Melissa Hart and Democratic challenger Jason Altmire. The results were somewhat surprising, giving Hart only a 4% lead, with 11%...
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Barack Obama says he'll "consider" running for president and the national media gets the vapors. Granted, he said it on Meet the Press, which is not quite the same thing as telling a college student who asks you to run...
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This morning I was shocked to stumble across the rarest of things: a negative press clip of Barack Obama. Actually, it's not even that bad, but it is markedly different from the universal gushings we've seen recently. Jon Friedman of...
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Yesterday, just two weeks before the election, Rick Renzi in AZ-1 hired a lawyer after reports surfaced that the feds are looking into his involvement in a land swap deal from a couple of years ago. Renzi's new lawyer, former...
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I think one of the reasons many in the press, political analysts included, buy into the theory Republicans will get wiped out this year is they look at the deteriorating situation in Iraq and think: "How can the Republicans not...
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Another thought to frighten Republicans this year: if Democrats take control Baghdad Jim McDermott will be Charlie Rangel's right hand man on the House Ways and Means Committee, responsible for crafting U.S. tax policy. The 10-term Congressman from Washington's 7th...
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Karl Rove on "All Things Considered" yesterday speaking with NPR's Robert Siegel on the elections in less than two weeks: Rove: I see several things; first, unlike the general public, I'm allowed to see the polls on the individual races...
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Shots for Avian Flu
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Zagat Guide for Hospitals
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Vitamins for breast cancer
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Should you eat fish?
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Flu shot shortage?
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Debunking DHEA
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Ipods and hearing loss
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Curing tennis elbow
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Statins and smoking
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The Zocalo in Mexico City is a huge, paved square at the center of the nation's traffic-clogged, smoggy capital, surrounded by government palaces and other official buildings...and, just a few yards away, improbably the partly excavated remains of a structure...
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