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    I'm in no position to assess whether financial reform or health care reform is more progressive.  But not only does…
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    • Brendan, I can see your point.  However, I think Booman's larger point holds too. The DNC (or RNC), the President,…
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    • It makes me long for the days when Democrats like Rep. Jack Brooks of East Texas roamed the land.  …
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    • True.  Rick Pearlstein's work (Before the Storm, Nixonland) is a great overview of how the Republican Party transformed itself.  It…
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    • "How do you talk about something like gangsta rap from a conservative perspective?" he said. "Are you going to critique…
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    • I think Obama campaigned on health care, energy and education as his three domestic priorities for building a "new foundation"…
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    • From what I remember of his statement, it sounded like the biggest immediate factor was the Senate's failure to act…
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    • After only 16 months, Obama's first term has been the most successful and consequential of any president since Reagan, and…
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    • We're all understandably jumpy about the state of the country after the last few years (decades?).  In particular, those of…
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    • near the end of the Clinton administration, "you got to dance with them what brung you". For us progressives, Obama…
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    • Second, it's not two out of five; it's one out of five for many of the people listening to DeMint's…
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    • used to say "in primaries, vote with your heart; in general elections, vote with your head" (paraphrasing).
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    • Good point Booman.  I'm at something of a loss to know how to talk with and about today's Republican party.…
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    • As you can see from my post above, I think there's a pretty straight line that can be drawn from…
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    • Agreed---particularly about the slow motion flip only now nearing completion. I think (and hope) that we are in fact at,…
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    • How did we get here?  The End of Apartheid:  The 1965 Voting Rights Act, as LBJ predicted, accelerated the mass…
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    • I think I'm right in asserting it's an unintended consequence of the Electoral College.  (Other views welcomed.) Many delegates to…
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    • So true. George Will had the misfortune to grew up in the wake of the racist 1924 immigration law that…
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    • Sorry for the doom and gloom, but as long as unemployment is around 10%, voters---especially in an off-year election---are likely…
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    • Olympia Snowe was re-elected in 2006 with 73% of the vote. Susan Collins was re-elected in 2008 despite facing a…
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