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Presidents (And Near-Presidents) Have Unoriginal Names

Barack Obama and Joe Biden were both named after their fathers. John McCain was named after his father (who was named after his own father). George Bush was (obviously) named after his father. Even Bill Clinton was born William Jefferson Blythe III.
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This. Fucking. Election.

This fucking election is almost over.
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Obama Will Win. Probably. Very Probably.

Here’s why the polls might be wrong and why they are probably not. Of course, if the trustworthy polls continue showing Obama ahead and McCain wins, it would be a monumental failure for political scientists, reporters and pollsters alike — an indictment worse than New Hampshire, worse even than 1948. I think the quality pollsters have [...]
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President Bush Is Clearly Not Brain Dead

PolitiFact tracks the truth + lies that politicians tell. For instance, John McCain has racked up 6 “Pants on Fire” grade claims. Neither Barack Obama nor Sarah Palin have been that egregious (though Obama does have a number of “False” and “Barely True” claims). I was very curious to check out what Joe Biden’s two [...]
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Why the Campaign Is So Nasty

John McCain tells us whose fault it is that his campaign is nasty, two-faced, and built almost entirely on utter horseshit: He also said the campaign’s negative tone “would have been very different if Senator Obama had accepted my request to appear in town hall meetings across America.” It’s Obama’s fault.
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Wrestling for the Presidency

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CNN Hurts John McCain’s Feelings

Oh also: the McCain campaign canceled a spokesman’s CNN interview after Campbell Brown stepped all over his spin about Palin’s “foreign policy experience”.
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John McCain Doesn’t Know What Circular Logic Is

In defense of his own executive experience, Barack Obama pointed out that his campaign is a larger organization than the Anchorage suburb that Sarah Palin was mayor of. John McCain’s campaign called this circular logic. The McCain campaign, happy to talk about Obama’s experience, calls his using his campaign as an example “desperate circular logic” and [...]
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