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During National Character Counts Week, Bush Stumps for Philanderer

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Independent Voters Favor Democrats by 2 to 1 in Poll

Washington Post
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Iraq War Cited Most Often As Top Issue for Elections
Two weeks before the midterm elections, Republicans are losing the battle for independent voters, who now strongly favor Democrats on Iraq and other major issues facing the country and overwhelmingly prefer to see them take over the House in November, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.

The new poll underscores how much of a drag the war threatens to be on Republican candidates in competitive races. With debate underway in Washington about possible course changes in Iraq, Americans cite the war as the most important issue in determining their vote next month more often than any other issue, and those who do favor Democrats over Republicans by 76 percent to 21 percent.

H.L.s Take:
The only thing that can stop the Democrats now is Diebold, and as I said here the other day, If Democrats lose any of these elections it will be thier own fault for refusing to mention it for the past 6 looonng years. I will be the first one to get up here and say so after it happens.

Cubin tells challenger, ‘I’d slap you’

Casper Wyo. Star Tribune
Excerpt
Libertariain Candidate for Wyomings lone house seat Thomas Rankin said Cubin approached him after a campaign debate on Sunday and said, “If you weren’t sitting in that chair, I’d slap you across the face.”
The Cubin campaign did not deny the remark, but a spokesman for the six-term congresswoman said Rankin started the exchange.
“He misrepresented her and insulted her integrity during the debate,” Cubin spokesman Eric Cullen said, reading from a prepared statement.
“When she approached him after the debate about it, he said something not very complimentary. She responded. It was a private conversation. She’s over it.”

H.L.s Take:
She’s over it, I love that. Everytime the Republicans pull another atrocity and people complain, their response: Get Over It. Stolen elections? Get over it. 600,000 dead in Iraq war? Get over it. Pay cut? No Heath Insurance? You live in New Orleans? Your Veterans benefits got cut? The U.S. Treasury has been looted?, Why can’t you just get over it, they have.

Victoria Wulsin is running in Ohio’s second district against Jean Schmidt. You remember Jean, she is the one who attempted to smear a decorated Vietnam war veteran, and U.S. Congrerssmen as a coward, because he (John Murtha) objects to the way Bush is running the Iraq War. Check out her latest campaign ad.

Is Ken Mehlman kidding? We should ask Harold Ford

Crooks and Liars
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Republican National Committee chairman Ken Mehlmen a guy who isn’t afraid to smear people with racism. He’s a rich white guy who can spot insanely offensive racism instantly—except when he has a hand in it. He only pays the bills after all–why should Kenny boy be responsible for the content?

America’s Middle Class Has Become Globalization’s Loser

Speigel Germany
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But there is a flip side to the coin. First, Americans are so optimistic that they often blur the line between optimism and naivete. Public, private and corporate debt far exceeds any previously known dimensions. Forever piously trusting in a future rosier than the present, millions of households are borrowing so much money that they end up endangering the very future they’re looking forward to. The lower and middle classes have practically given up on putting aside any savings. They’re going into the 21st century like a poverty-stricken, Third World family, living from hand to mouth without any financial reserves whatsoever.

Second, globalization is striking back. The United States has promoted the worldwide exchange of commodities like no other nation, and the result is that their local industry has begun to be eroded. Some production sectors — such as the furniture industry, consumer electronics, many automobile part suppliers, and now computer manufacturers — have left the country for good. In the recent past, free trade has primarily benefited the very rival states that are now mounting an economic offensive on the United States — and which have cut off a large slice of America’s global market share for themselves.

H.L. is proud to welcome Bill Winter for Congress, as a new sponsor.