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Name That Tuesday!

[ Posted Tuesday, February 7th, 2012 – 15:55 PST ]

Today is the first multi-state event in the 2012 Republican primary schedule, and I am shocked -- shocked! -- that the punditocracy has miserably failed to come up with a cutesy-poo name for today's voting.

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GOP PUMAs?

[ Posted Thursday, February 2nd, 2012 – 18:17 PST ]

The thought which keeps flitting through my mind is whether the Republicans are going to face their own "PUMA" problem this fall. For those who don't remember the term from 2008, PUMA stood for "Party Unity, My Ass!" and was the rallying cry of the non-existent hordes of pro-Hillary Democrats who were reportedly going to cause major disruption at the Democratic National Convention, and then throw the election to John McCain in the fall.

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Predicting Iowa

[ Posted Monday, January 2nd, 2012 – 16:20 PST ]

I realize everyone is probably already sick of hearing predictions about the Iowa Republican caucuses, and if this does indeed describe you then you should probably go watch a football game or something -- because that's exactly what we're going to do today: throw prognosticatory Hawkeye darts at the wall, and take our chances as we may.

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From The Archives -- Candidate Speech Series: Mike Gravel

[ Posted Wednesday, June 8th, 2011 – 12:00 PDT ]

[Program Note: While I'm on vacation, I thought it would be fun to jump back about four years here. Because the 2012 presidential campaign is not going to be very interesting on the Democratic side, we're going to take a look back at when it was a real race, last time around. For [...]

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From The Archives -- Candidate Speech Series: Dennis Kucinich

[ Posted Tuesday, June 7th, 2011 – 12:00 PDT ]

[Program Note: While I'm on vacation, I thought it would be fun to jump back about four years here. Because the 2012 presidential campaign is not going to be very interesting on the Democratic side, we're going to take a look back at when it was a real race, last time around. For [...]

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From The Archives -- Candidate Speech Series: Hillary Clinton

[ Posted Monday, June 6th, 2011 – 12:00 PDT ]

[Program Note: While I'm on vacation, I thought it would be fun to jump back about four years here. Because the 2012 presidential campaign is not going to be very interesting on the Democratic side, we're going to take a look back at when it was a real race, last time around. For [...]

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From The Archives -- Candidate Speech Series: Bill Richardson

[ Posted Friday, June 3rd, 2011 – 12:00 PDT ]

[Program Note: While I'm on vacation, I thought it would be fun to jump back about four years here. Because the 2012 presidential campaign is not going to be very interesting on the Democratic side, we're going to take a look back at when it was a real race, last time around. For [...]

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From The Archives -- Candidate Speech Series: Barack Obama

[ Posted Thursday, June 2nd, 2011 – 12:00 PDT ]

[Program Note: While I'm on vacation, I thought it would be fun to jump back about four years here. Because the 2012 presidential campaign is not going to be very interesting on the Democratic side, we're going to take a look back at when it was a real race, last time around. For [...]

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From The Archives -- Candidate Speech Series: John Edwards

[ Posted Wednesday, June 1st, 2011 – 12:00 PDT ]

[Program Note: While I'm on vacation, I thought it would be fun to jump back about four years here. Because the 2012 presidential campaign is not going to be very interesting on the Democratic side, we're going to take a look back at when it was a real race, last time around. For [...]

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From The Archives -- Candidate Speech Series: Joe Biden

[ Posted Tuesday, May 31st, 2011 – 12:00 PDT ]

[Program Note: While I'm on vacation, I thought it would be fun to jump back about four years here. Because the 2012 presidential campaign is not going to be very interesting on the Democratic side, we're going to take a look back at when it was a real race, last time around. For [...]

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