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Readers will know that I'm not exactly completely convinced by the candidacy of ex-Congressman and CO-Sen GOP candidate Bob Schaffer. This is mainly because I believe that Colorado is a state that is rapidly heading blue, and becoming less across-the-board conservative (see Sen. Wayne Allard's not-exactly-resounding 51% victory in 2002, Democrats' defeat of Republicans to take control of the state legislature in 2004, Republicans losing the 2004 US Senate race and the CO-3 House race also in...

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My hometown paper has a funny story up today. Or, at least, I think it's funny.

So, the well-respected Republican who was appointed to replace the well-loved King County prosecutor and (!elected Republican in King County!) Norm Maleng (who died) is doing so well that in order for one of his Democratic opponents to challenge him, the dude is basically making things up.

He's saying he's the "only courtroom prosecutor" in the race. In other words, in order to beat a Republican in...

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Little more needs to be said than this:

There's never exactly a convenient time to have one's house raided by federal agents. But for Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) the impolitic timing Tuesday was exquisite: One day after the feds rummaged through his property on a corruption probe, he threatened to try to kill an ethics reform package.

Oh, yeah, guess what? Trent Lott is planning on voting against cloture on this bill-- and the bill itself.

If Lott is opposing this, my...

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In a blog that appears here, the WaPo's Ed O'Keefe reports in relation to the GOP YouTube debate:

Romney was particulary concerned that one of the user-submitted questions (on the environment) came from a snowman. But now Romney is in discussions with CNN about attending. Rudy Giuliani has expressed similar concerns, and has suggested he may also snub the debate.

O'Keefe is right in terms of his reporting on Romney. But, he seems to have completely screwed up in implying that...

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Something is up at the Washington Post this morning.

In addition to screwing up some reporting in relation to the YouTube debate, they're also running what I can only describe as one of the most asinine pieces in history, on the subject of Brown and Bush, which states this:

But it is Brown's association with Shrum that has provoked perhaps the most murmuring in British political circles. Shrum's background as a more traditional liberal, closely aligned with Ted Kennedy, has been...

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"A Hillary Clinton presidency promises to unite Madeleine Albright's zeal for using bombs in pursuit of liberal ideals with Dick Cheney's vision of the president as emperor. Won't that be fun?"

Er, maybe not. But, Steve Chapman, who penned this line, has managed to put his finger precisely on why Hillary Clinton scares me. She is a perfect combination of Madeleine Albright (who I have always reviled and distrusted) and the bad aspects of Dick Cheney (and yes, he does have good...

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I can't even begin to think of anything clever to say about this, so I'll just reproduce the great bits of a post at Democracy for New Hampshire:

I would not have imagined that my thoughts would have turned to the Velvet Underground while watching an ad for Mitt Romney's presidential campaign. But there I was, staring blankly at the TV while Romney's newest ad ran, musing about how, 40 years ago, the Velvet Underground knocked off an experiment in sound echoed decades later by the Romney...

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I'm pleased to see that one of my favorite Members of Congress, Rep. Judy Biggert, who is pretty much one of about five leading lights in the entire US Congress where the environment and energy policy are concerned, has gone ahead and endorsed Rudy Giuliani. For those who don't recall Biggert's record on the environment fully, she's the one who introduced a bill in the last Congress that would basically dramatically increase incentives for production and use of new energy-efficient, and...

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Apparently, had it not been for a scheduling conflict, Giuliani might have.

Lefty publications seem to have gone ballistic over the Manchester GOP doing a fundraiser where people pay $25 to get in and then rent guns like Uzis to fire. So, of course, that Giuliani might have attended, had he not already been booked out for that day, is big and scary news for them.

I raise this subject principally because after days and days of coverage regarding the fundraiser, it seems to me that...

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From my hometown paper:

Among 1,204 Republicans and those who lean Republican, former Mayor Rudy Giuliani leads former Sen. Fred Thompson (29% to 19%) in a national primary. Among the 480 who attend church every week, Giuliani edges out Thompson 24% to 20%. Among the 420 who seldom or never attend church, Giuliani leads 33% to 18%.

At some point, this poll, and the trend it represents, which has been shown in other polls, is actually going to get noticed by pundits who claim that...

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