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Entries Tagged ‘campaign finance’

If You’re John McCain, Cheating the System is Okay

Jun.23, 2008 in Barack Obama, Election 2008

For all the public posturing that’s gone on over the past few days over Barack Obama’s wise decision to forego public financing by the McCain campaign and enabled by the press, John McCain has been given a virtual pass on his own cheating of the public financing system.
For starters, he opted into public financing for [...]

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Take the MOMocrats $27 Challenge

Jun.23, 2008 in Election 2008

MOMocrat PunditMom put out a challenge awhile back, and now the MOMocrats are throwing it down to the rest of us.
Here it is, in a nutshell:
Several months ago, I read Melinda Henneberger’s book, If They Only Listened to Us: What Women Voters Want Men to Hear. As she was promoting her book, Henneberger quoted a [...]

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