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Entries Tagged ‘Michigan’

No Offshore Drilling #7

As long as we’re on the subject of drilling and oil, take the time to read and/or view Obama’s energy speech in Michigan. Despite the best efforts of our mainstream media to frame it badly, there were some progressive, aggressive ideas in it that deserve sunlight.
I also believe that in the short-term, as we [...]

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Memo to Lanny Davis

The answer to your question about fighting over 4 delegates is this: It wasn’t just 4 delegates. It was an effort to claim the MI popular vote as all yours, with none to Obama. It was counter-Clinton spin.
But you knew that.

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Florida and Michigan Analysis Done Right

Required reading. After researching the issue myself and getting ready to write about it for one last time, I found this post by poblano on Daily Kos, which has so excellently set out all of the arguments for how the Michigan and Florida delegates could (and should) be seated, that I abandoned mine and [...]

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Pugnacious Hillary Clinton

This is the picture that keeps coming into my mind whenever I hear about Hillary Clinton’s self-proclaimed battle for the Michigan/Florida delegates. A Google search on the combined terms “hillary pugnacious” yields over 35,700 results, so I guess I’m in good company.
What she’s doing now is worse than pugnacious. How is it [...]

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