Friday, May 9th, 2008
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Beth Martin Birky teaches women's studies and English at Goshen College in Indiana. She recalls vividly her sixth-grade entree into electoral politics: "I remember my first voting booth: a cardboard refrigerator box in the hallway of Oak Street Elementary school in Orrville, Ohio." Birky's been a dedicated ...
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Thursday, May 8th, 2008
See the periodic table? [Mike Mertz / Flickr]
A group of scientists, educators, and business leaders is calling for Science Debate 2008, and thousands of people have signed on in support. The goal here is to convince the 08 candidates to debate big scientific issues -- issues that affect America's national ...
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Thursday, May 8th, 2008
Tory, a spunky young English major from the Chicago 'burbs, assumes different personas to ask: is America ready for a woman in the Oval Office? She plays with common objections. It's a clever piece except for the gratuitous insult towards the end (thanks, Ann Raber):
On the name-calling: Tory herself points ...
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
Telluride's Free Box for free trades
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Republican, corporate lawyer, and Cubs fan Pat Allen feels that John McCain -- unlike his two potential Democratic rivals -- has shown admirable consistency on free trade (thanks, Ann Raber):
During the Ohio primary last month, Senators Obama and Clinton were in a race ...
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
Hillary Clinton won the Indiana primary yesterday, but her margin of victory was small, and her defeat in North Carolina was quite sound. So with things not looking as rosy for her campaign as they might, how does she feel this morning? Is she flagging (thanks, James Mills)?:
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Or ...
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
The delegate math is looking tougher than ever for Hillary Clinton after the Indiana and North Carolina primaries. This barbed advice on how she might rejigger the numbers was found by our very own John Barth. The video was made prior to the Pennsylvania primary, so a few of the ...
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Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
Democrats in Indiana and North Carolina voted today after days of rallies and knocking on doors. (Republicans voted, too, but...) These two pictures are from the last couple of weeks on the campaign trail. In Indianapolis, Brian Bruner captured what may be the best Hillary hat of the entire election ...
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Friday, May 2nd, 2008
This sarcastic engineer is armed with a calculator, and he's no fool. He tells John McCain that his proposed summer "gas-tax holiday" (which Clinton supports and Obama opposes) is ridiculous. The engineer figures it will save each American a grand total of 30 dollars. Which, compared to what we'll be ...
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
Hillary Clinton doesn't just get to vote; she gets to ask for votes. Thanks in no small part to the suffragettes who won women the 19th Constitutional Amendment in 1920 (after the birth of many grandmothers alive today!). The amendment guaranteed women the right to vote. Also, by extension, the ...
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Monday, April 28th, 2008
For a light start to the week, some fantastic election kitsch. Londoner fintag, who writes a hedge-fund blog, took this photo on the streets of NYC (thanks, Ann Raber). It's hard to believe it, but they actually exist: electric sconces decorated with pictures of McCain, Obama, and Clinton... and a ...
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Friday, April 25th, 2008
This short piece was made by young European filmmakers who documented nonvoters around the US. In it, New Orleans resident Donna, who lived through Katrina with her son Dante, explains that she has "no faith whatsoever in politics" after the way the hurricane was mishandled. She hasn't voted since the ...
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Thursday, April 24th, 2008
Next up for the Democrats: Indiana and North Carolina on May 6th.
Litandmore -- Chicagoan, teacher, and library student -- has attended a bunch of Hillary rallies and appears to be fired up to take the fight to Indiana. Here he is on his way there before Clinton even won in ...
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