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House to boost GI Bill as it passes war funding
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 AP - President Bush wants more money for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. House Democrats are making him pay for a price — increased education benefits for veterans of those conflicts — to pass his long-stalled request.
| Obama, Clinton surrogates stump in Puerto Rico
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 AP - Two prominent surrogates of Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton stumped for the candidates Wednesday, a sign of how important this U.S. island territory's primary next month has become.
| Today on the presidential campaign trail
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 AP - Edwards gives long-awaited endorsement to Obama ... Obama tries to build support with working-class voters in key swing state ... Clinton says she won't quit race before primaries end June 3 ... McCain's wife sells more than $2 million in Sudan-related investments ... Clinton pledged delegate switches to Obama in Maryland ... Obama, Clinton sign joint fundraising agreement with the DNC ... Obama picks up endorsement of abortion rights organization
| Dems raise money together
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 AP - Democratic presidential rivals Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton can agree on one thing — they want their party to have more money, no matter who is the nominee.
| House looks at phone jamming in N.H. election
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AP - A former Republican consultant who served three months in prison for his role in the Election Day 2002 phone-jamming operation against New Hampshire Democrats said Wednesday he knows of no connection between the White House and the plot. | Senate Democrats reject taxing rich to boost GI Bill
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AP - Senate leaders are rejecting a plan by House Democrats to add a surcharge on upper-income taxpayers to a bill providing $163 billion to pay for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan into next year. |
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| [This news feed is not available due to an error. We will try to resolve the problem as soon as possible.] | Military Strategy for Democrats – part 4 – The Republicans do have a military strategy – it’s called “Divide and Rule”, it takes at least 50 years, requires lots of casualties and - the half-hearted way we’re doing it - almost never works.
Print Version The 2003 invasion of Iraq was not the first time in history that a western army won decisive military victories in the Middle East and then found itself bogged down in a tenacious guerilla war. As the military... | Military Strategy for Democrats - Part 3 – The surge isn’t “working”, it’s just “postponing” -- and in the long run it’s making things worse
Print Version During his opening remarks at the recent Senate hearings on Iraq, John McCain described the situation as follows: At the beginning of last year…full scale civil war seemed almost unavoidable… (But) since the middle of last year sectarian... | Turnout Scenarios to Beat McCain
Dems interested in the outcome effect of voter turnout scenarios for key constituencies should check out Josh Kalven's excellent summary of an interesting study by "Poblano" an anonomous statistician/analyst who blogs at FiveThirtyEight.com. Kalven's Progress Illinois post describes Poblano's study... | Diverging Realities, One Clear Win
The best comment I heard on television last night in the wake of Hillary Clinton's victory speech in West Virginia was MSNBC's Keith Olberman, who observed that the Obama and Clinton campaigns has embraced "different realities." In Obamaland, the nomination... | Military Strategy for Democrats - Part 2 – Iraq is not a “classic counterinsurgency”; it’s a full-blown civil war
Print Version On the November 27, 2007 Charlie Rose Show, John McCain said of Iraq: "This is a classic counterinsurgency we are engaged in right now. This is not a new strategy. General Petraeus has updated it, but the fact... | The Piece Still Missing
It's anybody's guess at the moment whether Hillary Clinton still really sees a path to the Democratic nomination, or just wants to pick up anticipated wins in West Virginia and Kentucky to increase her convention and general election leverage and... | Increasing Political Enclaves, Sharper Partisanship Challenge Campaigns
William A. Galston's and Pietro S. Nivola's Sunday New York Times Magazine article, "Vote Like Thy Neighbor" notes an interesting demographic development that should have significant implications for GOTV campaigns and political advertising: Our research concludes not only that the... | Military Strategy for Democrats – Part 1 -- How the Democrats Can Argue with McCain and the Republicans about Military Strategy and Win
James Vega is a strategic marketing consultant whose clients include major nonprofit organizations and high-tech firms Print Version I. Understanding the "pro-military, but anti-Bush's war" voters Because of the number and variety of questions they ask on a single topic,... |
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