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More Subprime Analysis

By Karoli March 30, 2008 Domestic Policy No Comments

An excellent post on the relationship between the ballooning interest rates, mortgage defaults and adverse selection: …when the major cause of large-scale defaults is not the fecklessness of the borrowers…

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More Texas Liveblogging

By Karoli March 29, 2008 Election 2008 No Comments

At Burnt Orange Report Also Twitterer @marlaerwin and @lonesoph1st Update: For Travis County updates, follow @lnewcomer and @MikeChapman on Twitter. (h/t ChristianBurns) Technorati Tags: texas county convention

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County Conventions Liveblogged on Twitter

By Karoli March 29, 2008 Election 2008 No Comments

Today are the Texas and California county Democratic conventions (with one Texas exception, happening tomorrow), and some of my twitter buds are liveblogging via Twitter. Here’s an excerpt from @lnewcomer‘s…

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What Part of Unconstitutional Doesn’t the Press Understand?

By Karoli March 29, 2008 Election 2008 No Comments

Listen up, press corps! When a Federal Court declares an election unconstitutional, it means the election results don’t count.. What that SHOULD mean to you is that you quit yammering…

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Obama Works – Imagine the Possibilities

By Karoli March 28, 2008 Barack Obama, Election 2008 No Comments

This is what I imagine when I think about the Obama campaign and what they have accomplished in terms of grass-roots participation. Tons of energy is being poured into voter…

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The Pattern

By Karoli March 28, 2008 Election 2008 No Comments

This just dropped into my inbox from the Clinton campaign: Have you noticed the pattern? Every time our campaign demonstrates its strength and resilience, people start to suggest we should…

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