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Lancaster, PA, USA. Pennsylvania is arguably the largest state in the union to produce the fewest number of presidential or vice presidential nominations. This indisputable if unpleasant legacy cannot be far out of mind for the thousands of state GOP delegates and supporters who gather in St. Paul for the 2008 Republican National Convention.
There, once again, as occurred in Denver during the Democratic Convention and as has occurred with numbing monotony throughout American history, no... |
August 29th, 2008
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Lancaster, PA, USA. "Let’s remember this moment," Pennsylvania’s Governor Robert P. Casey told his wife Ellen, as they sat dejectedly in the bleachers of Madison Square Garden in August 1992. "One day, it’s all going to come back around."
The politically prominent governor, national opponent of abortion rights, and leader of an electorally critical state, repeatedly had been denied his request to address the national convention. Who denied him was never precisely cle... |
August 21th, 2008
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Lancaster, PA, USA. It has all the elements of a sensational fiction thriller — an allusive title, Bonus Gate, cold cash in the form of illicit bonuses handed out to both witting and unwitting accomplices, titillating sexual encounters, dirt surreptitiously uncovered and used on political enemies, and all mixed well with a cast of unlikely characters and comedic hijinks worthy of Hollywood’s finest.
Are we describing the latest crime novel published just in time for summer reading ... |
July 21th, 2008
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Lancaster, PA, USA. John McCain is winning — and winning handily. This is from the latest Franklin & Marshall College National Poll of 1,501 registered adults conducted in partnership with Hearst-Argyle.
McCain is cleaning up more than 3 to 1 among voters who think the country is headed in the right direction, he’s ahead 20 points among voters whose personal finances are better off compared to last year, he’s clobbering Obama 4 to 1 among voters who think family values are... |
July 12th, 2008
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Lancaster, PA, USA. Independence Day is our leading national holiday. It has no equal or rival in its prominence and popularity. But maybe it should.
To be sure, the Fourth of July commemorates a crucial moment in national history; that decisive point in time in which the Second Continental Congress declared, formally and publicly, American independence from Great Britain. That day together with the written Declaration of Independence itself comprise the single most familiar day an... |
June 28th, 2008
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Lancaster, PA, USA. On the campaign trail, one of Hillary Clinton’s favorite quips was the one about it taking still another Clinton to clean up the messes of yet another Bush. John McCain, who will soon be running hard in Pennsylvania, isn’t known to seek advice from Hillary, but he might well adapt her tidy formulation to his uphill race in the state. In McCain’s case; however, both Hillary’s logic and her phrase are reversed; for McCain it won’t be another Clinton cleaning up the problems of a... |
June 11th, 2008
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 | Washington, DC, USA. Now no longer the center ring for the traveling Democratic presidential nomination circus, Pennsylvania’s inventive political community has discovered a new favorite political parlor game to while away the brisk springtime evenings: will Chris Matthews, the irrepressible host of MSNBC’s Hardball, step down from his pundits perch to run for the US Senate against Arlen Specter in 2010? To a remarkable degree, speculation abounds over this possibility in the Keystone State.
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May 3th, 2008
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 | Washington, DC, USA. To everything there is a season, and for a couple of million well-seasoned Pennsylvania voters, it can not come soon enough. After six weeks of candidates, commercials, and controversies, they are finally going to get to vote. But precisely where are Pennsylvania voters as they prepare to vote on Tuesday, April 22nd (2008)? In the glare of more national attention than any primary in the state’s history, what are state voters thinking? What are they likely to do?
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April 21th, 2008
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 | Washington, DC, USA. To adopt a technical term widely used in Pennsylvania politics, Democrat Barack Obama "stepped in it" last week during a talk in San Francisco.
He did so when he described working class Pennsylvanians as a "bitter" lot who "cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who are not like them." The longer passage from his remarks gives the full flavor of them.
"You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a ... |
April 15th, 2008
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| Washington, DC, USA. Pennsylvania Senator Bob Casey has finally entered the high stakes game of presidential endorsements after months of studied neutrality. And he did it with some uncharacteristic pizzazz.
The endorsement, much coveted by Obama and much covered by the state press, was delivered last week in Pittsburgh. Since then it has been analyzed closely for why Casey did it. Perhaps too closely!
Indeed much attention has been paid to why Casey endorsed, but little attenti... |
April 5th, 2008
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| Washington, DC, USA. If you are Barack Obama, does enough wiggle room remain in Pennsylvania to make a primary win even remotely plausible? Madonna and Young tackle the issue. In Pennsylvania the springtime weather often changes suddenly. Humorist and satirist Mark Twain was describing New England, but he could have been talking about the Keystone State when he quipped, "If you don’t like the weather … now, just wait a few minutes."
Presidential aspirant, Barack Obama, might be ... |
March 29th, 2008
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| Washington, DC, USA. David Plouffe, campaign manager for Barack Obama, recently shared his views about the upcoming April 22nd Pennsylvania Primary.
He called the Clinton campaign “the prohibitive favorite,” who “should win by a healthy margin given where they start … We’ll try and get as many votes and delegates as we can, but our campaign will not be defined by Pennsylvania … ”
Translation: The Obama campaign marks its chances as slim to none in Pennsylvania — the state b... |
March 29th, 2008
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| Washington, DC, USA. Against all odds, contrary to most plans, and confounding to many politicians, it has happened. Pennsylvania is about to play a role in determining the presidential nominees. It’s been a while. For the Democrats, the last time the state even remotely mattered was in 1984 when the reform candidate Gary Hart battled Walter Mondale for Pennsylvania support. But for the first time in at least 25 years, the Keystone State again matters.
Between now and April 22nd, the stat... |
March 20th, 2008
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| Washington, DC, USA. The presidential nomination contests are now winding their way to a conclusion.
Shortly, serious attention will turn to the selection of running mates. Already breathless speculation abounds in both parties.
For Democrats, will it be Obama-Clinton or Clinton-Obama? For Republicans, will McCain pick Huckabee to assuage the conservative wing of his party?
Soon other names will be added to that list. For months between now and the convention, the pres... |
March 2th, 2008
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| Washington, DC, USA. One definition of crazy is to keep doing diligently the same thing over and over when it’s not working.
By that definition America’s presidential primary system is seriously loony, for with respect to developing a democratic process to nominate candidates for president, we have been doing the same thing over and over again for more than 60 years and it’s not working.
The glaring evidence of that failure looms before us as the nation awaits the imminent Iowa ... |
January 6th, 2008
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Confusing gender with sex is willful ignorance; confusing them for personal gain is amoral and typical of political activists.
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Crazy Sexy Cancer. This is the trailer for a documentary film by Kris Carr about her cancer adventure. It premiered on TLC and Discovery Health (Fall 2007).
Kris also authored two books, Crazy Sexy Cancer Tips and Crazy Sexy Cancer Survivor: More Rebellion and Fire for Your Healing Journey.
Profound thanks to Kris Carr.
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